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D'oh! Thanks, Cat..

Agreed. Let's get this show on the road.

Well, they did make the comment a few months ago when they deleted all the AE badges, that they were planning on adding more challenging badges...

I can vouch for that. My wife uses that frequently on me.

Cable uses guns.

Deadpool uses guns.

Nick Fury uses guns.

The Punisher most certainly uses guns.

There are plenty of other comic book heroes that do.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if your goal is to get drops, running on a team of 8 is not the way to do it. Every time an enemy drops something, it goes randomly to one of the team members. So essentially, by trying to farm on a team of 8, you've cut your drop rate to 1/8th what it should be. On top of that, the level of the enemies has nothing to do with the % chance of drops. You would be much better off running solo, set for +0/x8, or even -1/x8, provided you have a build capable of handling that.

[Inigo Montoya] You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

No, what I think is that there is a certain minority of people (yourself included) who love to cry doom at the drop of a hat, and in the pursuit of said doomcrying are more than happy to wildly exaggerate, speculate and offer opinions with very little basis in fact or reality. For every one post whining about the 'dead servers', there are 10 or 20 replies contradicting it.

Or, to paraphrase your own statement: "Gee ya think peoples are just posting 'server populations are fine' to mess with you? No they are posting it because this because it is true."

There have been posts on this forum since I first started playing screaming & crying "the game is dying", "the servers are empty", "no one will play with me! wah, wah wah!"

You know what? I see no fewer players now, than I did 18 months ago, accounting for normal seasonal variations. Every time I pull up the team search screen, I look at the total number of players, and that number averages no more or less than it ever has, in my experience. There has never been a time when I have not been able to form a team or get involved in some type of activity when I wish to.

Ah, I see we have another "OMG! Teh servers R dead!" post. Typically, like all the others before it is filled with much speculation, opinion, doomcrying and very little truth.

I believe it is.

The rep system lost all its entertainment value with the removal of the comments. Big thumbs down to this change..

But I expected the whiners with their bruised egos would get it shut down eventually. Oh well.

Add me to the HELL NO train...

Well, let's fix that right up, then!

In essence, yes, there is nothing for a new player to learn from a farm. What precisely are you going to teach them? And more importantly, how are you going to do it without also PL'ing them? That is the crux of the problem.

I have no problem with farming. I have a heavily IO'd fire/rad troller built for it. I have two other toons built for solo speed running Posi for merits. I'd happily help a more inexperienced player with builds/advice/tactics/etc. for that type of activity if they expressed interest in such activities after learning the basics of the game.

What I am adamantly opposed to however is rapid PL'ing of players that are new to the game. There is no place for powerleveling in a concept like we are discussing here.

Keep in mind, I was not suggesting anyone EVER tell another player "no, this is bad, you shouldn't do this." I simply don't want to see brand new players being PL'ed to 50 overnight, out of someone's misplaced idea of 'helping' them.

Good points. Plus the potential presence of heavily-IO'd 50's may give new players the wrong impression that IO'd builds are 'required' to enjoy the game.

As far as the PL'ing issue, while I have no issues with players who PL, farm, etc., I'd like to suggest that any PL'ing of newbies be 100% prohibited for any mentors involved in this.

Personally, I won't invite anyone to a team that advertises themselves as a "healer". Too many bad experiences, so I just avoid the potential headaches now.

/e facepalm

That would make way too much sense!

Agreed. In fact, I think it's critical to the long-term success of a project like this to allow the students to stay on as members if they feel they've found a 'home' and want to stick around.