American_Angel

Signed.

While we're at it, would it be possible to get a $sex one too, to show if a toon is male or female? Not a big deal, but it would be a nice option.

Merge them.

But as far as the reason they are not merged...Influence transfers. At one point they were merged and the players used it to tranfer influence from blue to red.

Which really shouldn't matter. Shared slots at a bank are a good thing. But we'll never see this feature either.

How about adding a popup, similiar to the one you get entering missions, to the base? Leaders could have a special message there.

Example:
"Teleport Room is to the South" - for new members.

See now? I knew someone would play the denial game

Newsflash...I was a beta tester on this game and have played since. I know how the game is played, and I've run 2 successful supergroups. I know how to team.

I know what zones are best for what levels.

I have toons maxed out on badges.

The. Players. Simply. Are. Not. There. Anymore.

I hate to say it, but the Developers have been making AE more and more unusable.

They've nerfed so many groups (and maps???) that it's ruined nearly all of my arcs...actually, now that I think about it...none of my arcs are functional.

The thing I liked best about AE was the ability to create massive, deeply thought-thru 5 mission task forces. I'm a comic book geek, and have even been published in the field. I was looking forward to the opportunity to create original, comic book-style epic arcs.

And that ability was there at first....sort of.

The space limitation prevented the use of entirely custom-created enemy groups. The fact that some members of certain groups needed their own individual groups consumed additional space, and soon, you were halfway through mission three and suddenly needed to find standard groups to replace key characters.

But this isn't even about that.

This is about the nerfing of content.

Now, I can understand the desire to nerf certain things (Hami's for example), but lets see...what about the Battle Maiden enemy group?! I had a fully thought out 5 mission arc exploring BM and placing her and her group in a detailed story, and because people had created FARMS using that group (which is readily available in PI), suddenly my story is totally worthless, just as I was about to finish it after months of working on it.

Another example...what happened to the burning warehouse (or office building; I forget which) map?!

I had developed another arc that had 5 missions...sure enough, I get to the 5th mission after working hard on the rest, and the mission called for that map, which had been there before, and now it's gone.

The whole premise of that story was an enemy that had actually been testing the player, and in the final mission, the player had the option of saving the enemy or not...which would...well, I guess it doesn't matter now, does it? Can't save the enemy from a burning building without a burning villain, can he?

The point is, because the devs do not want a farming situation, we have all suffered.

Really.

And is farming so wrong? Who knows? Who really cares?

The theory just a few months ago was that if you remove the farming, things would return to normal and we would be able to find teams again. Since the nerfs, guess what?

Freedom server is no longer as busy as it was. The place is a graveyard most of the time now. Virtue? The same way.

Champion? Totally dead. The only people left on hte lesser populated servers are those that don't wish to lose their SGs or that can't aford transfers.

Doing away with farming in AE? Killed this game.

And I don't even make farm missions in AE! I just want to develop quality arcs for my friends and I to play...however, most of those friends have now moved on to either CO or Aeon (or however it's spelled).

I run one of hte top 20 SGs on Freedom. We use to be completely filled, with only a few spots opening per week. Since the nerfs, I have almost no one left. I've lost 3 of my 7 leaders to other games.

And the AE Farming? Sure it's no longer an issue...but there's another factor that contributed to the ae farming...summer break.

The devs left that stuff in there throughout summer break for most kids. They were the AE Babies. The players that PLed because they knew they would only have the accounts for a couple months.

Now they are gone, but so are an awful lot of long-term players. Why? Because they feel stabbed in the back.

The devs may as well NEVER RELEASE GOING ROGUE because they've now aliennated so many people that hardly anyone wishes to play this game anymore.

Sure, there's us homers...the players that have been here since day 1 and keep coming back, but even amongst us, the numbers have dwindled.

I was a beta tester for Champions Online. I hated that game.

I know people mostly don't care for it in it's current state. Yet thousands have left this game to play it. Why? Because they feel the devs have stabbed them in the backs in one way or another.

As for myself? I don't quite feel that way. I believe the devs are trying to make things better. But the plain and simple fact is this...you can't let the cat out of the bag, and expect him to climb right back in.

They created a system that allowed people to farm. I really don't care. I see nothing wrong with farming. I even have a farming toon, but I've always prefered PI over AE for it.

Oops...shouldn't have said that...now the devs will nerf the PI map...from pi!

FARMING IS GOOD FOR THIS GAME
Think of it as a gateway drug, for example. People come to the game, and yeah, they farm. So what? Eventually they either move on or decide they want to explore the game in more detail.

And that leads to commited players.

WITHOUT IT?
Look at the results. Graveyards. Whereas nearly every day hit a peak, now we're LUCKY if a weekend does!


I know the "elite" and "homers" will shoot this post down. I don't really care. You can all expect to see additional services being charged for soon...or maybe content updates will start coming for a price.

They may as well merge some servers, because that's the only thing that will make things active again.


Anyone that doesn't think things have gotten worse is lying to us and themselves.

That's right. You just go stand in Atlas for 6 hours. In fact, just like the old days, create an SG and see if you can recruit there. All that's left are the people who use broadcast to chat. AE is almost never used anymore.

The only reason any of the zones see action is the events. What happens when THEY ARE GONE?

Nothing.

Just like we've been seeing.

Absolutely nothing.

I could care less about farming, truly. But everyone here has to admit that at least the servers were busy with it there.

And finally, one other thing to consider
AE Votes.
No one can get in the upper rankings any more because not enough people play AE. So the ones at the top are there to stay.

The nerfs have ruined this game. Totally.

AE was the addition that was supposed to save it. But thanks to the nerfs, it's now spiralling away into oblivion.

No way to do the double doors yet, if ever again. I really wish they would re-add them also, as I've had to remove a few of mine to rearrange rooms.

No annonced base loving coming our way either, but they always seem to squeeze a little something for us into each issue...lately:

• Storage Items individual permissions
• New pathing rules

Thos are pretty big things they've given us...but we're still not given enough love.

I suppose they don't consider we base builders important enough. My base building is one of the main things keeping me in this game after playing since beta.

If only they would give us an entire issue of attention. New items, new base designer. New building abilities. I personally don't think that's too much to ask, considering how large a portion of their subscribers are base builders needing a loving touch

|While doing Citadel:

You get to a certain point, try zoning into one of hte missions, and the game crashes...then your whole team has to restart game, and when you log on you are inside a mountain in south Talos.

It TOTALLY SUCKS!

Tried restarting 4 times so far.

Apparently it is happening to people not on the TF also.

1) Tintable/stackable Building blocks of various sizes

2) Add a center button to the floor leveler so we can add 2nd levels, and ramps/steps to match

3) Better/More Tech Items, especially Telepads because the ones we have are butt-ugly!

Great job!

BTW...the store is down for me too, but ALL of my slots are still available...even the added empty ones.

Not sure why...

See my post above. The Beacons are acquired by entering SG Mode and travelling to different badge locations in each zone.

Badge-hunter.com will give you the badges locations and links to maps of the zones.

to get your location ingame, type /loc

this will give you the number coordinates of your current position ingame.

Face one of the 4 directions and scoot left or right, and hit /loc again...this will help you learn how the numbers change to get where you need to be. On of the numbers is your height.

A good location bind is:

/bind L loc

I would think the nature areas would be fairly easy...

...and there are several base designers hee that have made giant creatures in their bases...so a few dinosaurs might just be possible.

And now, in 10 minutes the servers are going down anyway.

I DID NOT get enough of my daily fix! grrrr.

Not to mention the servers come down in 4 hours ...

The stupid page has been showing servers as down all day, so I naturally assumed such was the case. After hours of time wasted, I check the forums for this long "maintenance" and no one is complaining. So I decided to launch the game and see if it let me log on.

It did.

So thanks to a faulty Server Status page, I've wasted half a day.

You will also need the exploration badges for each zone you wish to assign a telepad to, and each telepad will contain only 2 zone "Beacons" at a time.

badge-hunter.com is a good source for finding the exploration badges, but make sure you are in SG MMode when you go get them, or your sg will not get credit.