Kitsune Knight

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It is becoming pretty clear that the infestation in the AE is so bad that the whole building needs to be come down and be rebuilt to get all the bugs out ... or in this case exploitative "farmers". I tend to think that all farmer are exploiting the game, but the ones in the AE are far worse than "normal" farmers were before the AE release.

[/ QUOTE ]Wow, you're giving me flashbacks to TOTALITY. All you need to do is attempt to start your cult, and you'd be there!

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It is bad for the longevity of the game if they are only joining because they know that they can abuse the game.

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, I'm sure that's why they're joining *nods*

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Once again, Epimetheus in prime form.
http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanEpimetheus.html

[/ QUOTE ]Ah.. there we go! You've already made the first steps! Now claim you're the savior, and you'd be Totality.


For some odd reason, I bet you refuse to play a Villain as well

I recently conducted a national survey on this very subject, and in this shocking exposé I bring you the truth!

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you can still go from 1-50

[/ QUOTE ]No you can't! For every one level you gain via AE, you'd have to already done 4-6 levels outside AE! That's not an alternative leveling path at all.


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plus, if it makes it harder to level lower characters fast, then it IS doing its job correctly...it pushes new players out of AE (experienced players know how to go from 1-12 in a day anyway)

[/ QUOTE ]It doesn't make it "harder to level lower characters fast", it makes it impossible to "level lower characters". Period.

The reason I like the AE most is that it's an alternative from having to do the same exact stories arcs I've been doing for years yet again- or more likely, just grind the same damn radio/newspaper mission over and over again for hours (or like a lot of teams do, just farm one!).

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also, i thought the whole thing was rather reasonable...obviously a few of you feel differently...i dont think any normal player is going to be restricted by this (though, i am used to leveling defenders solo...never played a FOTM scrapper, so maybe they might get slowed)

[/ QUOTE ]Yes they will. I've been doing normal AE teams for several nights now running various arcs. I wouldn't have been able to do a single one of them because of this change. It's gonna become hard as hell to find people for an AE team if they have to fill up their little magical AE bar that they can't even see! People will just end up assuming you don't get XP in AE, and will shun it because of that.

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on a side note- i felt that this system made AE feel more like an actual game inside of the city...i mean, the heroes have real stuff to do and cant spend their whole day playing...

[/ QUOTE ]So it's "heroes should go back to PI and go back to just ignoring the thugs they see on the street"? Like its been since launch?


In sum, I hate this idea. It's a needlessly complicated system that'll only kill what the devs said they wanted AE to be (ya know, to solve the issue of the content crunch- where the devs spend months creating a couple story arcs, then the entire playerbase finishes it all in 45 minutes and asks for more?), while still allowing people to farm tickets just as easily as ever.

Actually, there was another option: Use a second Scrolls of Icarian Flight on your way down. The scrolls worked exactly the same as Super Jump, except it only lasted for about half the duration of your travel, so on the way down it had worn off

/signed

The timer should be shown in all the places. It's annoying having to dig around in the power's window.

That's way too low. How much ram do you have in that system?

You could try running C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityofHeroes.exe -project coh -console (assuming you installed it to the default location) and watch the output from the COH Console and see where it gets stuck, and tell us here (unfortunately, you can't copy the text from it, you'd have to manually re-write it).

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I love that we get to pretend that it's the AE's fault that there are some newbies that don't know what they're doing. As if my entire playing experience hasn't been filled with these people.

[/ QUOTE ]No! AE has changed EVERYTHING! Don't you understand, man! Before AE, like, everything was radical, man! None of these square new players, cramping my style! Back in my day, noobs weren't allowed! If we saw one, we'd beat 'em, man! MAN!!!!!!!
/old-hippie


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Just be glad the game has some new blood and quit your whining.

[/ QUOTE ]People seem to forget how they were like when they were new I nearly had a 30 when I found out you could put multiple of the same enhancement in a power! And I was told that by somebody I got into the game (of all people! ). Although, when they first started playing the game they probably knew everything.

I'd vote for Portal Corporation to get destroyed, again by the Hamidon.



Oh, we were talking about the type of farming done by the plebes, not the elites

I spent most of the today writing my first real AE arc (ID#259862), and then tonight I formed a team to run it!

It was a bit harder forming the team tonight, but it still didn't take long. I ended up with 6 people all between 9-14 (I had written my arc with a minimum level of 16, intentionally so I could get anyone 16 and under for the team ). When we entered the first mission we were greeted by the sight of a rather large group of Wyvern. And as the Masterminds were setting up, a nice patrol decided to wander in, and sit right in the middle of the first group (ugh!)... we waited a bit and the patrol just stayed there, and kept taunting us like they were gonna walk a few more feet and aggro on us... but they stayed still.

We decided to eventually try our luck, and we went in- I was smashing anything I could see with my mace (might have clipped a zombie or two's heads ), and I was went through my entire tray of inspirations (mostly purples). We had nearly defeated the mob+patrol, but with about 5 heavily wounded agents left, they were able to finish our group off. Not a great start, for my team and my arc!

Being the brave little villains that could, we went to the Hospital and regrouped, easily killing off the few remaining Wyvern! From that point on the missions went much better, although still had several close calls. Eventually we got to the final mission in the arc, and the chaos of the last mission was simply awesome!

Leading the team again tonight was loads of fun (again ), and I learned quite a bit for my arc- I'm gonna rework a lot of the text to sound better (reading it while playing it is quite a bit different than reading it in the Architect UI!), I'm also gonna tone down most of the missions, and definitely tone up the last mission (3-way battles are a bit easy, although awesome to experience ).

I recorded a demo of the last mission, but unfortunately it craps out right before we get to the final room (with loads of ragdoll glitches along the way... and also custom colored NPCs don't have their custom colors )... plus recording just that part alone is 3.9 gigs in fraps! I should probably lower my resolution

Check my youtube profile for a video of it

Ah, that makes sense. I was wondering what'd happen if I just used /architect to start the story arc as well

Ah... forgot about that...


So, yet-another faceless Arbiter clone? Eh, don't really see the point honestly.

1.) If someone doesnt' respond in 5 seconds like I bet they will, you can ask in the Virtue section of the forums.

2.) Some, but AE is also popular at all levels.

3.) Run story arcs, AE story arcs, and some newspaper/radios. Remember, this game is more so about getting to 50 than being 50. Enjoy the journey

What? There's not a Hero trainer in Pocket D, either... so I'm not sure your point?

Say I start an AE team in Port Oakes, and part of the team is in Mercy and Cap Au Diable... Could they just go to the AE in the zone they're already in (i.e. not cap) and enter the data stream in that zone?

Because Elec's Single Target damage sucks so hard?


But elec/elec is a really good build, it's all focused on AoE, though.

We're good at entertaining ourselves

Too simple to be a Nemesis plot...


Unless his goal is to actually open a pet store.

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It's a bit depressing how that warning has to be made

[/ QUOTE ] It's even more depressing that you know it's true. lol

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, cause I've told people to type something, and to show them what to type I put it in quotes (" not [quote]) and then they typed it with the quotes...

New with i15! Pets are also shown... it's really quite a lovely improvement.

Sorry, meant that as a QR to the OP, I edited my last post to show that now. My bad.

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This'd severely neuter casual uses of AE that aren't farming/PLing. Last night I gained 4 levels on my Brute playing story arcs in AE... which started at level 6. Under this system, I would have maxed out at 1 level (which doesn't take that long to get through at these levels), and the rest of the time would have been largely wasted (not to mention, the team would have likely disbanded in the middle of the story arc).

I gotta /unsign this, it's far too heavy handed, and wouldn't impact the farming at all (PLing it'd kill, because it'd kill all leveling... and back to PI/Grandville that'd go!).

IMO, better solution is to just fix the level 54 trick and the 1-rank only trick... and then AE is very similar to the standard farms w.r.t. performance. I don't want to see the people that are using AE as the Dev's intended being shafted because some people over react about every change.

It's a bit depressing how that warning has to be made

See, folks! That's why you steal ideas from CoX in your AE arcs!

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Am I the only one who uses the Actions menu?

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I didn't know it existed and it took me a while to find it. Is Follow and Info all it offers? If so, I can't say that I'd find it particularly useful.

[/ QUOTE ]The Actions menu is the same menu you get if you right mouse click on the target (so the options depends on the target). I prefer just using the RMB