This is my first post ever, so forgive any mistakes I may make.
I must agree with many of the posters above. I've been playing this game nearly 4 years and been through a lot of 2xp weekends. This was the first time I have ever seen Freedom not get gray and locked out, Virtue barely seemed to reach yellow, and all the others seemed to stay green all weekend.
I fear that we may be seeing the fruits of some shortsighted decisions by the dev's. The game seems to be populated by more powerlevelers than ever, and there are fewer and fewer people with anything over 6 months of time in the game. Many of the people who were loyal players seem to be leaving because of changes to way the game is now played. I did not join the City of Farmers.
I don't want to slam AE, so just let me close by saying it seems that the overall population in this game has begun to drop signifigantly. Freedom hero side used to have 250-300 heroes online at prime time, now it usually tops out at about 150. I really would like the dev's to put out maybe a quarterly statement about the state of the game. After all this time and money, would hate to get that dreaded email these games give shortly before they shut down.
Here's hoping going Rogue will salvage some things, but i fear it may be too little too late to save a game that has so much promise, but seems to only worry about pleasing short time players that come and go, and will not be there when things start to go fall apart.
