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I always thought they were a bit too long, myself.

Or it could be that Vanessa became disturbed with the two different mindsets of the Resistance (one to freedom, the other to anarchy) and branched off on her own to loosen the hold of Mother on the seers.

The mask, however is not non sequitor at all. It's a symbol that Mother a) has become well acquainted with and b) is greatly disturbed by. What better icon for your faction to wear.

No, but it is against the EULA (that you and every player agreed to when you joined, I might add.) to exploit a bug in the system. Which AE ExFarms are created with the express purpose of doing. It's cheating, plain and simple.

It's much like playing backgammon (or most any other dice-using game) but instead of rolling the dice, you simple set the dice down to whatever you want them to read each turn. Sure, the dice don't prevent that action, after all its just "using the tools you were given." But, do that with any player, any organized league, whatever and you'll be asked stop or to leave. Why should cheating be dealt with any differently in this case?

... and you'd be wrong. It *is* exploiting. Why, because the devs specifically say that it is. I'm sure the term has roots somewhere, most do, but this is a specific conversation about a specific cheating issue that is considered a violation of the EULA of the City of Heroes product.

They aren't and they've said so many many times. What they are against is people cheating. Farming isn't cheating, exploiting a bug is.

Actually, it is.

There are people that specifically look for game issues and then report them. These people are called are troubleshooters (as well as other flattering terms)... they even get a badge for that in CoH. Many honest fun-loving people with an interest in the game proudly wear the "Bug Hunter" badge.

Then, there are the others, people that specifically look for game issues and then instead of reporting them, use them to circumvent the established function and format of the game. These people are called are cheaters (as well as other not-so-flattering terms), and it is very much their fault. Theirs and whoever in their formative years never impressed upon them that cheating is wrong.

Mores that pity that many of these people tend to use the "we're just using the tools" argument to justify the cheating. It ranks right up there with "Honey, she meant nothing to me," "I didn't realize I'd had that much to drink, officer," and "I was cleaning it and it just went off.... 6 times"

Yes, what they have in common is that the examples you gave aren't exploiting a bug in the rules. Some people may feel they don't like that method of leveling, but as far as the devs are concerned it's all good. if not, they'd have patched those by now.

No... you're examples don't. However I noticed you left out any past AE Exploit issues. I think you did that because you know those things do actually affect the way we all play the game, in this case using AE. We don't get rewards in AE like we used to because of the Exploiters. We're also limited to many options because of those very same cheaters and thier innocent "don't-hurt-anyone" Exploit Farms.

Ah. Now you're just being silly. It sounds like somebody needs a hug. We'll all be dancing underneath Atlas when you want to collect.

If you do it within the rules, not at all have fun... it's your legitimate mission arc after all.

But...

If while making your super-de-dooper custom you use an exploit to make it work faster and better, instead of reporting it in a petition so the issue can be resolved, then a resounding yes... you should get a reprimand, a strike, banninated, tarred, feathered, spackled, scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, peppered AND capped.

I agree

Again, I agree. Nip the problem in the bud. Don't remove the rewards... remove the cheaters.

But that's just my opinion, you're welcome to yours. Isn't this a great country or what!

*freeze screen*

Damn Skinjobs, now there even screwing up my MMORPGs...

Did you hear? It's not Skiffy killing SG:U it... well "US" acordingin to James Rundle: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/opini...hing-universe/

See... it's all our fault for liking the past show's fun brain-candy escapist approach (and approach that kept the show going strong for 10 years, and only stopped because they Skiffy got the award and then canceled it.) instead of the new direction into the lost hopelessness-ness of the darkness of the agony of the souls of the doomed, struggling, horny novice crew?

How could we possibly like the upbeat, slightly pulpish, optimistic casts of SG:1 and SG:A more than such a panoply of such eyerollingly damaged, caustic, back-biting, untrustworthy, immature, banal, and thoroughly uninteresting manikins of the Destiny?

Who needs, super-science doodad equipped, technobabbley, tongue-n-cheek snark-powered daring-do adventure on alien vistas when we've go a ship full of... well, ship. Oh... and maybe another ship. And a deserted planet here and there.

See... it's all our fault. 8P

Seriously, you'd think with the ratings scrubbing like they are, that someone higher up would have looked down by now and said:

"Hmmm... you know all that gritty artistic humanity you were gonna interject into the new series? Well, dip-****... it's not called 'Battlestar Destiny' and it's not working. The mid-season breaks coming up... Fix it! If you're not sure how, here's Ben Browder and Claudia Black's numbers, find a way to get them on-board. Somebody head down to the bar and get Chris Judge... or and break glass and let Richard Dean Anderson out again. I wanna see Aliens, Zats, and an Tel'tak on the shuttle pad by the spring return or we're firing the lot of ya!"

Personally, the only reasons I continue to watch at this point is to a) give it to the mid season as I promised some friends of mine, b) heckle it a bit (Frikking Chloe...), and c) to see what shenanigans Doctor Smit... err... Rush is going to get up to this time. Unless they have something so bang-pow-zing coming up, I'm gonna free up some more time on the old DVR soon.

Make that "3" who liked it. 8D

Epic Win!