DemonOutlaw

I wholeheartedly agree. Please remove AE from the game. Updating the low and mid level content would go a long way in improving the game. More missions and contacts through all levels and more meaningful content not just "go kill 10 skulls". "Ok good job now go talk to Jose". "Fantastic, now go kill 10 more skulls".

The way mission architect has changed the game makes it hard to look forward to Going Rogue. Since AE, it's become a chore to find even a simple mission team and one can all but forget about finding or putting together a tf unless it's a speed ITF. Even running an AE arc or even a single AE mission that isn't a farm has become next to impossible. What happened to these farms being cracked down on and removed from the game, their creators and biggest abusers stripped of their rights to create missions or having their accounts suspended? People blatantly advertise "ae boss farm" or "ae farm mish" in broadcast and nobody cares! Why is anyone going to care or pay for an expansion when what seems to be a vast majority of the playerbase isn't doing anything but AE missions? AE has even made its core idea obsolete. There seems to be no point in spending time to make a great story arc since nobody is going to play it unless they can use it to get to lvl 50 in under a day.

2 billion infamy/influence instantly, legal and free all you have to do is

My lvl 50 eng/eng blaster was good before IO sets but now that I have all his primaries slotted out he's great. I've took every primary power except power push and slotted them all with lvl 50 red IO sets (decimation,devastation,sting of the manticore,positrons blast). He is the best blaster for me. I've learned to control kb to the point where it's an artform for me, and the chance to hold procs on 3 of my powers (15% chance to hold every time I activate the power) give me a decided advantage. I took my time creating his look, all of his costumes, writing a short bio for him and picked powersets that I wanted to play and I thought were fun. Do the same, spend time creating the look you want and pick the powersets that you want to play and he'll be the best blaster for you.

Damn it! A week ago I finished an AE arc called Malaise's Protoge where heroes could go rogue. Rob a Jewelery store, break out of jail, fight other custom villains in the Rogue Isles, fight the Vindicators in the future, then fight the Freedom Phalanx in a graveyard. "50 levels of villainy in 5 missions." Sorry a little harmless self promotion there but this sounds fantastic. If the expansion is one we have to buy I'm going to preorder it asap.

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Start submitting your questions for me here. I am going to take a good sample of the more popular questions and answer them in a future update. After that, you will see other developers bios and a thread where you can ask them questions. The bios will help you ask appropriate questions of the appropriate developer. That way you don't ask Jay about what %'s Invented Enhancements give and you don't ask Castle why the Witch Hat has no hair.

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And we will not get specific answers on either until after said enhancement is put into the game for us to see for ourselves or the witch hat not having hair all of a sudden has hair.
From what I read in the interviews with any dev, we are just given the typical "no answer" answers we always get.

Interviewer: Could you tell us about the inventions system?

Dev: It allows you to invent things.

Interviewer: What kind of things?

Dev: We're not sure yet but it's going to revolutionize your character.

Interviewer: In what ways will my toon be revolutionized?

Dev: We're really excited about this.

Interviewer: So what else can we expect with the release of I9?

Dev: As always we have added new rewards and goals to the game such as badges and what not.

Interviewer:Ok thank you very much...informitive as always?

We're not asking for the entire cake...just to lick the spoon. Just an idea of what we will be getting, not what we "will" be getting. Throw us out some hard numbers on one enhancement, one costume piece, one idea that is definitely going to be in the game come I9. Like this.

Interviewer: Can you give me an example of what the inventions system will allow me to do?

Dev: Yes. By collecting salvage items A, B, and C and paying D in Influence/Infamy you will be able to create an enhancement with W, X and Y capabilities with Z % of increase to the power.

I'm not asking for a complete and accurate list of everything that the system is going to do. I'm asking that some blanks be filled in.

Smack in the middle of Perez, Demon Outlaw was in for what he thought would be an unpleasant trip to the hosptal via a purple Death Mage standing in front of him. The Mutant Tank had been isolated in Perez and had no idea of the Poweoutage. Staring down the Mage, War Mace in hand he readied himself for a beating. Yet as the Mage closed in he noticed something peculiar. It's aura was non-existant and he was walking instead of floating

"Is this some kind of trick?" Demon thought to himself.

The Mage pointed his hands at Demon and...nothing. Demon saw the confused expression in the Mage's face and swung his mace with all his might, sinking the spikes into the Death Mage's chest, and dropping him to the ground instantly. Horrified by what had happend Demon Outlaw dropped his war mace and stubbled backwards. The Mage now lay on the ground infront of Demon, his ribcage shattered and gasping for air.
Demon Outlaw stood for a second, puzzled at what had happened.

"This Mage should have fried me" he said outloud, though nobody was around to listen.

After regaining his composure, Demon leaned down to pick up his mace and heard footsteps behind him. Turning around, with his mace drawn back ready to unload on whatever poor felon was trying to sneak up on him, Demon saw Darkgun and Coldfire, two fellow heroes he recognized from local news.

"I just killed a Purple Death Mage with one swing" he said slowly. "Someone tell me what the hell is going on."

Since it will be almost a year if not a little more till I9 or whatever the $$expansion will be called, we have plenty of time to save our pennies. Is it that hard to put back $5.00 a month for 10 months? Also who are we to say that "the content better be for lvl 40- 50 or it won't be worth it." These updates aren't just for the diehards who have been playing since day one and have a server full of Keldians...they will be for the newbies and the lowbies as well. I'm sure there will be a fair balance of content for everyone, but even if it does lean toward the sub lvl 20 crowd, we all have to start our alts there. It's just amazing to me how fast in these threads we all went from praising the Devs for two great years (5 months for me I started in November) to [censored] and moaning about money we won't have to spend for another year! As someone said earlier "let's burn that bridge when we come to it" and worry about our FREE I7 and I8.