BeornAgain

Okay... I forgot. Downloading is the FIRST part... Now, there is the actual update.

11:27 a.m. Pacific Standard... 32% updating City of Heroes...

I added the bold for emphasis...

Well, that pretty much sums up the devs' thinking.

It was fun while it lasted.

what do you think?

They swear this is only for something like defeating every mob in Perez Park at once, or one-shotting the freedom Phalanx...

Still... I don't know... This looks bad.

And I have 3 claws/elec brutes now, and they are all fun (different servers)

This ^^^ ALL of This (italics and bold added by me for emphasis)

Last night I decided to start the process of getting my lvl. 50 elec/elec brute from rogue to straight up hero.

I chose a hero tip mission and went inside...

And the door was hot. It looked like there were Nemesis everywhere!
I waxed everyone relatively easily, and then, out of curiosity, I looked at my diff setting:

+2/x8

I was running some content earlier with a PuG and we needed a challenge and I forgot to change it.

And that brute is not all tier 4, but rather tier 3 incarnates.

The progression of those of us who remember how things were prior to enhancement diversification (slotting the heck out of something and how it all got "nerfed") and then to the IOs, then to Alpha slots and now the incarnates... We are becoming "super".

When the film The Watchmen came out, one critic stated that only one being was truly a "super hero" (Doctor Manhattan) and all the rest 'merely' heroes. Well, we ain't there yet, but we're much closer than we were issue 1.

No, not at all. But, sarcasm is sometimes hard to read with no vocal inflection. I'm not offended, I was just curious how you felt.

Pity about the miscommunication, my apology.

And, yes, the threads often do spiral woefully downward.

And happy Sunday to you as well!

@Acemace - Would you care to elaborate about the filthy cheat part? Freedom is THE farming server. Other servers have farmers and farming, but Freedom is KNOWN for it server wide. Been that way since AE.

@UberGuy - I'll get to your boggling noggin in a moment, but you are correct that it happens far less obtrusively elsewhere.

@Techbot Alpha - Yes, Union too. There are some SGs on Union who have a designated "farmer" who has the (un)enviable task of PowerLeveling alts for the leaders of the SG, or as rewards for getting to a certain amount of Prestige. My main on Union IS a farmer.

@MAD UMLAUTS - This... Simply this.

TL/DR
I wasn't always a farmer. As a matter of fact, I looked quite skeptically at the notion. I had 10 50s before ever I set foot on Freedom. ALL through Content. Heroes, Villains, Rogues, Vigilantes, Praetorians, Peacebringer, Warshade, Bane, Widow, Crab; all leveled to 50 via content. I wanted to see the content red side versus blue side, the different arcs for the different EATs/VEATs.

And I did.

When late April rolled around and they started talking about the stress test for Freedom and the BIG MEGA ULTRA SUPER-MAX Praetorian Invasion, I realized I didn't even HAVE a character on Freedom. So, I rolled up a tank, but one I'd never played before but saw some on the Freedom chat boards: A Fiery Aura-Electric Melee tanker.

I went through the tutorial, picked Atlas and I zoned, trained with Ms. Liberty, and immediately got a tell from someone asking me if I'd like a free farm.

I said sure, they said come to AE. 2 runs later I was able to slot SOs.

And free. No costs. That farmer has farmed me since, sometimes for inf, and sometimes not. I would always offer.

Well, Electric Briquette was 50 before the invasion, and even slotted credibly enough for the fights (I was in Talos and Peregrine for most of the Invasion).

I got my global badge, I had a new server I had made friends with... now what?

The first time someone asked me for a farm, I said no, not because I didn't want to (as I recall I was standing around the Merit Vendor at WWs), but because I wasn't IOed enough to stand in the middle of a bunch of fire-breathing cyborgs or cat-people or zombies or whatever.

I do farm folks for inf sometimes, usually I run a trivia contest broadcast and the first 4 who answer correctly get a free farm or two (or three).

Some of the people who beg for farms (which annoys me as well) didn't set foot one outside AE except to train. The first time I had a lvl 50 ask me where Cimerora was, I almost spit my coffee onto my laptop. HOWEVER, many who pay for farms have already leveled several characters to incarnate status and want to try something new. Nothing wrong with that.

How else do you think a lvl 2 Ill/Rad troller has 100 million inf in the first place?

Mark my words, with the advent of CoH:F, we will see decidely fewer farmers for a while. The new content, the new arcs, the new trials and TFs, and the new paradigm of who can and cannot do what with whom and where will put a serious damper on the "PL me NAO, plz?!" syndrome we all view with equal distaste.

We USED to be able to say, "I pay my $15, I play my way." Well, we can't say that anymore. Not sure WHAT the mantra will be, but I think for Content-driven folks, the changes are for the better.

When Daddy played, she wanted to play too. And she could, but she wanted, mostly, to sort of follow along and help every so often. She said she wanted to be invisible. Was the only AT at the time that could be invis at lvl 1.

This... I would like the answer, and I must have missed it.

And, for the same reason.

Cheers! And YAY!