Clave_Dark_5

For me it was getting my first purple drop. I sold it, raked in some cash and then started looking at the Market forum for tips on how to grow that in the market. I'm a lazy marketeer, not-so-ebil and lazy, and yet my main market toon has been so near the cap a couple of times that I've had to send money to another toon so she could claim sales from the market. In the meantime, I've also spent some tidy sums (nothing outrageous, just tidy) on IOing out some toons.

Here's another non-farm way too: tip missions. Do ten, cash in on a random roll and craft and sell. That's about the easiest way in the world to start making inf in this game.

I was thinking just this the other day after reading this thread. And then had a laugh as I saw them trying to plan it out:

"Okay, so we need to hire a security force, right? So we all pitch in say a million bucks each month and --"

"Hey, I came here to get away from paying taxes!!"

I've only been here four years, but that bit I highlighted there sums it up for me pretty well. I've only played ONE tank up to anything past tenth - did you know tanks are hella fun?! I sure didn't... There's a lot more stuff in here for me to look at and I'm sure most of it's going to be fun with a capital FU (much like my MA/SR scrapper).

And conversely for driving up the prices of purples and other really rare items.

Farmers are neither our glorious saviors nor our evil demons.

Seconded, as someone who sometimes only plays perhaps four hours a week.

I've been wondering if this actually happens or not. It's enough of a gray area that the AE story-people are running a nice long thread debating what the dev's take on AE farming is over on that forum. Have you some experience with seeing thus happen/not happen? If so, that could help us figure it out since apparently no dev will ever tell us.

In regards to that, then my two mentioned arcs are just fine as I think there's only one custom foe per. All the other foes are dev-made.

From the chatter I've seen on the forums, I can't imagine any of our serious arc creators ignores this issue with foe creation.

For what it's worth to anyone, there's four or five maps available in the AE that all start out with that grave portal, but I forget what they're filed under. I used one in my most recent arc. I also seem to recall having seen it in a Sharkhead mission set in the graveyard area to the north east (iirc). Then again, I was PUGing when I saw it so it might have been that tip.

Sad but true.

For time, can't beat a stalker, you can breeze past most of the foes in a mish, click the glowie and save the world toot sweet.

The X-Men had their Danger Room for training, for example.

Fixed.

I've considered trying to split the difference by writing a good story farm... but I don't know much about farms really. Maybe I should just try selling my award-winning custom design skills to make other people's farms pretty - any takers?

This I canNOT agree on!

I don't know why the devs aren't going DC-crazy with all these good arcs we've tossed at them - have they played one yet that wasn't worthy of a DC? Wouldn't it behoove them to build up as large a DC-arc library to try and show people "good arcs that aren't broken or give less than stellar XP because they were never updated"?

Do that, change up the search window some and you'd have a chance to pull the AE up out of the 'only good for brute's farming' tailspin of ignorance that the majority of players are stuck in.

Then again, we know where the devs' real love lies right now and probably will for a long time : 'end-game content'. This is why I'm glad to even have mere bones tossed our way, things could be worse, they might not be throwing anything at us at all.

Yeah, there are a ton of good arcs out there and not all of them are by WN.

Big big thanks for spelling that out for us.

I agree with all of that except... they haven't really spelled out for us what they're doing.

I recall some talk about 'building up a backlog of DC-worthy arcs as a bank for later', so that could mean they're making a list (and checking it twice?) of arcs they wanna DC, but only DCing one per month to give them breathing space for times when their other workloads get to be too heavy ("Can't get round to it this month with Freedom breathing down our necks, good thing we have five arcs on our list already that we want to DC!")(personally I find that silly - why wait? but que sera, sera). But that's just conjecture too, we won't know until we see what happens down the line.

Or, you know, they tell us!

You so totally, totally should, your arc broke the DC drought!

Totally!

Not even gonna touch that.