Chad Gulzow-Man

I think this is actually true as well. You're limited to three tips total (not counting special ones like this year's new Halloween tip), so if you've already got three, you'll need to delete one before you can get your morality mission.

That doesn't keep you from testing. It certainly limits the rate at which you can test and makes things more of a headache for you (which is, truly, very unfortunate), but it in no way blocks you from doing so.

I understand what you're saying, though. If I couldn't bring over my level 50 characters, I wouldn't particularly want to spend the time and effort of getting a new one up there on the test server, where he/she could be deleted or locked away behind another closed beta without any notice.

Okay, then set a one-time payment, via PayPal, to add the one year + 2 months next week. That is, if you want to pay for it now.

Otherwise, set it next week to the one year + 2 months setting, and you'll be charged for it when your next billing cycle occurs in February.

It also sounds like a NASCAR track, and the audio seems to play over every other sound in the game and gives me a headache. I try to avoid teaming with KM users for that reason.

Visually it's very good, and based on the numbers, performance is certainly adequate, but the sounds... ugh.

If your current subscription is going to end before Nov 29, you can pay for one month now to keep your account active, and then pay for the 1 year + 2 months next week once the promotion starts.

Y'know, it is freely available to test, right this very second... You could pop on over to the test server and correct whatever misunderstandings you might still have.

It also says this on the back of the Architect Edition game box.
So true, and the farmers looove to ignore this fact. (As I stated in my last post, I don't particularly care if they reduce the overall rewards of the Mission Architect to make it less attractive to PLers, but they can't set it to zero.)
I'd be lying if I said I didn't also do this on occassion, both in and out of the AE building. But I, at least, prefer to play socially; I'd almost always rather run a good TF with a team than a farm by myself.

The "five levels a day" thing isn't perfect as-is, but it's a step in the right direction. It would really need some kind of scale... it'd just be annoying from 1-10, which you can get in just a few hours. And it'd be too lenient between 40 and 50, in which 5 levels a day would be a ludicrous levelling speed. I'd actually scale it like thus:

Levels 1-10: no limit on levelling
Levels 10-20: 5 levels per day available in Architect
Levels 20-30: 4 levels per day available in Architect
Levels 30-40: 3 levels per day available in Architect
Levels 40-45: 2 levels per day available in Architect
Levels 45-50: 1 level per day available in Architect

"Five levels a day" may be unrealistic for those that aren't the power gamer sort, but you could achieve this by running 2 TFs and a handful of missions.

You can also farm developer-created content for five (or more) levels in a day. Hop in a Demon Farm in PI and go nuts. They've said that they don't care.

But before the Mission Architect was released, they made it very clear that it was absolutely not to be used for farming, and that abusers would be punished. Unfortunately, fighting those that abuse the system has caused the developers to close many doors that legitimate storytellers would have preferred to keep open to see their ideas flourish. It's also taking resources away from other areas of the game, as the fixes usually require the assistance of the programming team.

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Additional thoughts are as follows:

1) I do not like the idea of trading tickets for experience. It takes what is supposed to be a tangible commodity (at least in-game) and turns it into a figurative one. No, a big part of the Mission Architect system is supposed to be that it can be thought of as a wayto run simulations or "training programs," so it needs to grant experience. (It does not, however, necessarily need to grant exp at the same rate as one would get outside the AE building.)

2) I'm not opposed to the idea of Diminishing Returns on Mission Architect rewards. 100% rewards for the first hour spent in AE missions, 85% for the second hour, 50% for the third hour, 20% for every hour beyond four. This would affect all rewards: experience, inf and tickets. The timer would reset on the same clock used by TFs for Reward Merits (is it 18 or 20 hours?).

I just pulled those numbers out of my rear, by the way; nothing says the degrade has to be based on single hours or use my proposed scale.

I meant as a secondary. I think it'd be pretty rad to stroll around with a Plant/Poison Controller. It just seems like it'd be a good alternative to Radiation Emission for a debuff Controller, while maintaining (as you pointed out) a weak single-target heal and a rez power that makes your teammate barf after 90 seconds >_>.

The henchman-infecting power will have to get changed to proliferate the set, anyway. Defenders and Corruptors don't get true pets, and the power doesn't work on other people's pets.

I don't think there'd be too much of an issue with Controllers having Poison Trap--it's more situational and less abusable than Rad's Choking Cloud, which Controllers have ample access to--but you may be right, and Paralytic Poison might have to get changed out for a new power as well.

You forgot Controllers. I'd expect to see it on Controllers before Defenders for sure.

That was a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Our targetting computers are much newer.

Besides, X-wings flew hundreds of miles a minute; you can only fly at a maximum speed of what, 58.3 mph?

You can... just roll a new Tank or Brute.

I'm with Bill on this. I think GG was the first person who proposed the "5 levels of AE XP in a day" (at least that I saw), and in the past I would have been annoyed with such a solution, but at this point, after everything else the AE has gone through, it's about the only thing left that makes sense.

I'm tired of watching precious developer time go towards cleaning up exploits, but at the same time, we cannot (and should not) remove XP from the architect system. This is time that Dr. Aeon could be using to write more content and introduce new architect features, and the programmers could be using to fix bugs like those that delayed the launch of i19.

Can you actually do stuff like this in the AE now?

The Party Pack isn't going to be half off.