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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--performance-rewards
type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--performance-rewards
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title: Performance-based rewards
summary: >-
  Reward amount or composition depends on observable performance rather than
  completion alone.
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  https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--performance-rewards/
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tags:
  - RPG grinding
  - Delivery and distribution
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  - id: source-b53d4143633e26ea
    title: Final Fantasy XIV
    url: 'https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/'
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  - catalogId: rpg-grind
    id: performance-rewards
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Performance-based rewards
    description: >-
      Reward amount or composition depends on observable performance rather than
      completion alone.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-restoration-37.webp
      width: 640
      height: 506
      game: Final Fantasy XIV
      sourceUrl: 'https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/'
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      credit: Square Enix; official guide screenshot
      rights: >-
        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
        and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: Rewards rise with the item’s collectability
      alt: Rewards rise with the item’s collectability
      markers:
        - x: 28
          'y': 84
          label: The table links turn-in quality to the reward
    tips:
      - Show quality thresholds before the attempt begins.
    examples:
      - title: Final Fantasy XIV
        url: 'https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/'
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provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Performance-based rewards

id: rpg-grind--performance-rewards
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--performance-rewards
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--performance-rewards/

Reward amount or composition depends on observable performance rather than completion alone.

## At a glance

![Rewards rise with the item’s collectability](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-restoration-37.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. The table links turn-in quality to the reward

- Show quality thresholds before the attempt begins.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/)

## How it works

Reward amount or composition depends on observable performance rather than completion alone.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="performance-rewards-options"></a>

- Reward speed while preserving required conditions. <a id="performance-rewards-option-1"></a>
- Count preserved resources or allies. <a id="performance-rewards-option-2"></a>
- Give a separate bonus for an optional objective. <a id="performance-rewards-option-3"></a>

## Design example

Preserved caravan crates increase the escort payout.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/ishgardian_restoration/) (id: source-b53d4143633e26ea)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors