OK enough is enough, I would like to ask the Devs a few things about AE:
Why was AE released to the community, then when the community used it to their benefit it was constantly nerfed to try and stop the power-levelling?
Now this is like giving someone a Christmas present, then saying a week later you want it back whilst scolding them for opening it in the first place.
AE WAS released first on the test servers right? Did the devs not realise that missions would be published in order for players to power-level?
Mellee critters getting ranged attacks? Come on WTF??? Seriously, is this the only way that DEVS can think of making farms harder so the player base is less likely to use said farms?
I think there are several problems with the AE system that need addressing right away:
1. Remove xp from ALL AE missions. Why I hear you say? Well the AE missions are ruining the rest of the game, seriously has anyone done paper missions with a full group since AE was released? I state my case!!
2. The economy has been turned upside down since AE, don't believe me well check out the prices for platinum (a RARE salvage item) before AE it was selling for 2-5mil each, since AE 250-600k each. Now add to that the increase in common salvage prices (because nobody does standard missions anymore) and the whole rare/common tags are now meaningless.
3. Rewards for AE Tickets should be changed to remove the ease of buying rare items, rare items should be rare.
4. Change the drop rates in standard missions to increase the likely-hood of getting rare salvage & purple recepies, give players a reason to want to play normal missions again. Since AE I started a character and only did 2 missions from Mercy, the rest was AE achieved.
5. Disable ability to use all aoe's in AE Building, this just causes lag
6. Make it possible to enter an AE mission using any AE building in any zone, so that if one person is in mercy, 1 is in port oakes and the rest in cap then they can all enter a selected ae mission from where they are. This would hopefully reduce the amount of players in Cap
these are just a few suggestions/comments, I know alot of these will annoy players, some will like the ideas some will hate them but seriously we all have to agree that something has to change or we loose the rest of the game over AE
/discuss please