The Mission Architect is a real frustration for me. To my way of thinking it has just about killed the rest of the game. It is very hard now to find regular mission teams and task forces. It is difficult to make money outside the architect because prices are way down on items because no one is buying since they can get them in architect. I can no0t make enough money anymore to even buy enhancements. It is like the outside AE has regressed back to before the wentworth's system came in. Worse. Many, many of the AE missions are not well balanced for the players abilities and seem to just be some one trying to go power crazy and beat up on other toons, but, until you try a mish you do not know if it is balanced or not so there is a lot of time wasted. I am sick of AE and I am not sure I can see a future in this game to keep my interest for me to reach my 5 year mark.
[b]I couldn't agree more with you halfthief. The real game itself is nearly gone. Most people flock to AE now and there isn't any real community on the maps any longer. That's part of the charm of the game is to see other toons flying around and joining real mission teams and task forces. With no one around, it feels like I'm playing a single player game. Hardly mmo. I and a friend (on another account) have been playing for over 2 years but we're going to cancel in a couple of weeks and go to try out WoW. It's a shame...CoH/CoV is such a great game and the AE is a great idea in concept...but the devs dropped the ball in implementation for the last time for us. 2 more gone. [\b]
