Zamuel

I've been thinking, the push for getting 5 stars is a side effect of the simple and understandable desire to simply get plays at all. Even counting 5 star ratings, there's some really weird calculations going on for how the system chooses what arc comes sooner.

Link? Not asking you to start back or anything but this sounds kind of cool so I'm just wondering if you had a thread or anything.

I...think that actually would make me run in the opposite direction. I already somewhat dislike teaming with MMs and I figure that's going to be a ton of lag for me personally. And noise...because at least one person is going to pick Demons. I would be interested in seeing what challenges an all MM Sewer would present considering the stray aggro and limited navigation if someone opted to record it.

Besides, I don't even have any blueside MMs.

I have three questions about this other game:

• Is it actually an MMO?
• How large is the general number of plays/rates?
• Do the devs police it in any form?

The first two questions are the one's that interest me the most. I'll explain why after I find out your answers.

To my understanding, the "please don't vote" is a holdover of people's fear about Positron's I14 speech. The "problem" is that the current farms aren't actually exploits so their probably all 100% safe.

I'm thinking this is a perfect example of farms advertising themselves just by sheer virtue of existence. I mean, there is a very valid "we lost" vibe among the story building community because after I14 ended we didn't stand a chance. There's also the aspect of caring. Farmers (not you Necro) don't care about the system as a whole nor their own arcs while story writers have to be burdened with asinine "fixes" breaking our arcs and trying to deal with the fallout from a system that's more or less a landfill.

Well, I think the big million ticket question is, what exactly would be constructive and actually likely to work? SFMA and other tags have already failed.

I think this is a major point that I don't think gets acknowledged nearly as much as it should be. I mean, it's why farms are simply able to do better if all other factors were equal. Story arcs have to fit so many different criteria for whether or not entirely different people view it as good. Farms just come down whether or not you got xp/tickets regardless of anything else with the design. This also affects advertising. With subjective views out of the way, it's pretty easy to just sit in Atlas and broadcast easy xp as opposed to looking for someone who has the same tastes in story and mission design.

I think shortsightedness seems to be a very large portion of the problem regardless of whether or not their views are sexist. It's bad they didn't give female characters coats (despite it being requested repeatedly) yet they also didn't give male characters the gloves or belt. I think they have a bad habit of being stuck with massive tunnel vision for viewing sets as a set as opposed to viewing them as individual pieces. There also seems to be a major problem of missing the "obvious". Let's take the Mutant pack. Many people made a point that claws would make more sense for someone who has mutated but a sword was chosen. That's fine since it was their design choice. However, it didn't make any sense that a sword was designed without taking into consideration Katana users.

Another major problem seems to be incredibly short testing periods that don't give enough time for the changes/fixes to be made while the pack is still on Test. Pretty sure these issues could be better addressed. I can point out how the Animal pack didn't get fixes until after release. As a counterpart, during the I15 open beta people commented on the color setup for Scientist Double. Jay took an impromptu poll and due to feedback it got adjusted before it went live which led to more options and even the devs using it themselves for the Praetorian university instructors.

I'm curious to why you feel they aren't. They have limited levels, set goals, and numerous other things that make them like TFs. Plus, the respec trials were eligible.

Pretty sure it can be done if you pace yourselves. Obviously, the difficulty will vary based upon team makeup. With the Titan, make sure you stock up on the special insps dropped from the spawns near the acid lake.

Fixed.

I'm still hoping the Ouro Task Forces like Mender Tesseract SF, Twilight Son TF, etc eventually get added to the rotation. I've been a little curious on why they haven't yet.