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Originally Posted by Evangel_NA

imo there are two answers to this one, one of which is sort of obsolete today.


1. Farming in general - not just AE - in the sense of PLing is (or at least used to be) detrimental to the game because it leads to the potential of creating lvl 50 players that have absolutely no idea how to play their toon and therefore cause a lot of grief on trials and TFs and teams in general. You see it a lot - a person PL'ers their emp def and then when they run a TF at lvl 50 their idea of "healing the group" is auto-clicking Heal Aura and putting the tank on follow. That's not healing, that's not playing your defender properly. The point of spending the average of 80-100 hours lvling to lvl 50 is to learn how to actually play the powersets you've chosen. It's called experience for a reason. So farming XP in AE or any other mission to PL potentially creates a lot of lvl 50s that are worse teammates than a lvl 1 "noob".

Now this is somewhat obsolete in the fact that a large amount of PLers nowadays are people who have played various powersets and characters and have multiple 50s and understand the game - and are simply just lazy and don't feel like working up to 50 the traditional way. There is a whole debate within a debate about whether or not that mentality has merit but that is neither here nor there. BUT with the game now opening up to a wider market and potentially getting more players to upgrade to VIP and such, there is potential that a lot of new players could come in and see this PLing method and we could see a lot of high lvl "noobs". I've personally already teamed with a lvl 46 player that had just the rookie vet reward, and who stated he had only been in the game for a week. And needless to say his skill on the team was far less than impressive...

2. The second answer is the cheesy canned answer but still the valid point for the devs. Farming, by its definition, does violate the intended route of the game's experience. XP is not meant to be earned at that rate. Inf and Prestige is not meant to be earned at that rate. Salvage is not meant to be that readily available on the market (economy 101 teaches us a little thing about the importance of supply and demand). And AE is not meant to produce farming, it's meant to produce storytelling by the player-base. Now again, there are multiple debates within this debate on the merit of these claims, but the fact is the claim by the devs that "AE farming is not the intent of AE" is valid - as creators of the system they have the right to punish those that - whether rightfully or not - exploit their system to earn rewards at a rate not meant to be achieved.

I'm not taking a side on either of the points but the answer to why "farming is bad" really boils down to those topics. If you spend hours, months, days, and years developing a system with an intended rate of return and someone comes in and exploits it - whether its your fault in poor programming or not - you do have the right as the owner of the system to change things in an effort to realign the reward rate to the original intent of your design.

Originally Posted by Nox__Fatalis

Great guy, great genius, all that.

But...

Originally Posted by Durakken

Of course in reality the app store is just the digitization of a mall and itune initially started off as a digital music shop that then expanded into other areas... just like a ton of other electronics shops...