Calash

...ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

If it does not make sense, then it is a farm. The defence rests!

Because AE introduced a method of customized farming. If you can customize it you can min/max it. In that it has attracted a large amount of famers and in doing so drawn new players to the same area to ride along.

Auto-exemping is not helping ether.

I agree with you however. I have made more money farming RWZ for purples than at any time in AE. Close second is ITF farming where I gathered merits for LOTG.

I have seen this as well. I tend to solo against large groups so I assumed it was AoE cap. I will double check against smaller groups and see if I get the same effect.

When did the definitions of farming, power leveling, and exploiting get all merged into one heaping mess?

Farming is not bad. It is a staple of any crafting based MMO. Heck, it is the basic action we all do in CoH/CoV. It is the fundamental function by which we advance our selected characters, learn new powersets, and increase wealth in the game.

Exploiting is just what it sounds like, exploiting a bug. Just because people put exploits into a farm does not instantly turn every single farm into an exploit.

Same goes with Power leveling. The action of farming is the fastest method of Power leveling, but that does not make every farm a power level fest, or every farmer a evil Power leveler.

The only two negative effects I have seen are teams and the market.

Market is a result of inflation, accelerated by the increase in farming. It is not the result of farming directly. We are likely due for a crash at some point, when the people with all the money get bored and move on the greener pastures.

Teams I can see the effects to a point. However most of the people who are drawn to AE are the ones who would bring a PUG down. Better they stay there than causing me debt.

We have truely gone to amearicas...

These are the end days my friends. Watch for the jerk hackers and pray that our profit will find his way to the new forums.

Fair enough. Thanks for the review.

Your assessment of the motivation for the balancing in the last act is however incorrect. The ambush encounters are designed to give the player something to do besides "target the big bad guy and mash buttons until dead." The mission offers a couple of different options to deal with the situation. The simple solution is to kill the droids before they reach the EB and eliminate the potental for regen buffing. You can also make use of optional allies, some that have -regen, to help. This takes a bit more time to setup.

It is a different mechanic and some people seem to enjoy it while others do not. My hopes are that we will have better mechanics to work with in the future to get around such things by allowing ambushes to be disabled for example.

There are mods that allow the end user to change it. They have records so you can keep track of who was who at what time.

The problem is that they do all sorts of nasty things with the way vb indexes. On a forum this size a single name change could take hours and soak up a ton of resources.

At least that is how they explain it on one of the tech forums. To be honest I never played with any of the mods myself.

Herding is one the the negative buzzwords that popped up over the years. What I think we need to make sure of is that we never return to the near 0-Risk super herding we had. Sure it was fun but not really good for team dynamics.

If that is the case and Hunting vs Farming is the difference between Active and Passive then EVERY single AE farm mission is actually a Hunting mission until it is used in this mysterious "Passive" way.

I have had similar thoughts myself. If you leave in the target cap as you suggested but ether drop the Aggro cap or increase it to a higher number it may bring more value to tanks on a team.

The down side is that it would reduce the additive value of multiple tanks on a team even lower than it is now. It also encourages herding rather than progressive mission advancement (Moving from one spawn to another).

I think it would be worth wile to at least test and see how it impacts the game.

Updated the final mission to add additional objective tree. Only two steps but if you need additional help it is now possible to get it. This is partly in testing for larger objective branches for a story I am working on.


On a side note, in case people have not noticed, we now can edit our posts no matter how old they are. With this I have cleaned up this thread and put all my updates into my first post. I hope they let us keep this ability, at least in this forum.

Nothing really that cool yet. Just made one of the armors for my main tank a bit larger since it adds extra bulk. The effect is very nice if a bit subtle.

Once we get demon summoning I am planning on a villain who is a possessed child. This will make good use of transitioning between the small child form and a large evil creature.

Farming is the act of repeating any specific content repeatedly with the purpose of gaining a reward.

You can farm for tangible rewards such as tickets, influence, and other drops. You can also farm for less tangible rewards such as level progression and improving personal knowledge and/or skill.

At a basic level we all farm just in our natural actions of playing the game. MMO's are built around the very action.

Oh noes.....faaAAArrrrming!!!


:P

Fire/SS/Pyre makes a good build for Solo and Team farming. With some IOing it also makes a decent 8 man mission tank, giving you the option to pick one or the other.

Great idea.

Name: Heart of Stone
Arc ID: 979397

A good story mixed with interesting and well balanced custom mobs makes this for a fun 4 four missions.

Reason why I will not play any of the other games?

They offer me nothing that CoH/CoV does not already offer, and it does so in a supirior way than any other game I know.


But that is just me.

I played with the Quarry GM in a for fun mission a while back. They do not scale down and are quite powerful.

One Quarry smacked around 5-7 Lord Recluse AVs with Bane ambushes. Was fun to watch

My god...it's full of stars....

If you turn off your rep, and I give you rep.....does the universe implode...or would that be explode?

Did they install the Miserable Users hack?