Shadowstepper

*Crawls along floor behind Knight. Ties a roll of blackcats to his bootlaces. Lights the fuse and runs*

Muahahahahahahahahaha

You seem to be laboring under the assumption that any use of the architect is more valid than any other, something I firmly disagree with.

As for voting....Voting, as has been said many times, is nothing but a beauty contest. You will very rarely have a mission that satisfies enough of a majority of the population to surpass those who don't like it...hence why you see so many 3 and 4 star arcs. You CAN get 1 starred just because people didn't like it.

As far as separating out mission types, they are bettering the search tool with i15. There is also the many markings listed in this very forum to aid in your searches until you do. There are also numerous ways to increase your exposure for your own arcs including forum signature, several threads, private channels, self made posters. I'm sure the city scoop has a section too, or will soon. If you don't put forth the effort, your arc is destined to remain lost in the land of obscurity.

I recommend continuing this discussion in the "Official Farming Discussion Thread" Located in the City Life OR in one of the Posi Letter threads located in the Developer's Corner section of the board as Mod8 is soon to come along soon and lock this one.

*Notices Kheldarn standing around looking puzzeled and blasts behind the ear with a pressurized air can turned upside down*

Actually I am serious about both the post and the signature

I personally built for some resistance increases to smashing and lethal and increased regen and it serves me well.

Would I start doing challenge missions again if there was no reward?

Yes.

Do I run them now? No, not worth the risk to publish one to have someone report it for a violation of their artistic standards.

Any creative use of letters, numbers, and symbols to bypass the filter is a punishable offense.

*Pulls silly putty off face and throws at Mr. Squid*

"INCOMING!!!!!!!"

*shoots silly string at Mirravin to plaster feathers to her*

Before the MA hall monitors came into existance, I would read the mission summary and the technical details. If it looked like something I might enjoy, I played. If not I moved along. Once in the mission I am all SMASH and don't stop to read anything other than the mission objectives in the compass window.

*Hops out of the dish. Takes featherbomb and begins putting feathers back in. Looks at Zacharov.... *

*Puts on red and brown hunting cap and ***** shotgun.*

"looks like its wabbit season" *shoots wildly around the room*

Sigh, ok, I'm not gonna debate forum rules with you. Enjoy.

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I have to agree. I avoid the MA now for fear someone with my brute may level too quickly and trip some datamine. I will stay with dev sanctioned or dev created content. If you want hard rules, there are none. I recommend taking this discussion to the official farming thread in the City Life section of the boards.

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So one can post in another thread that anyone with any real power/ability to inform us, can ignore and not post in?



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Well, this one will soon be closed anyway. There is a reason that is the official one. It was created by the moderators in what they felt was the official section, to stop the multitudes of posts just like this one from springing up all over the place.

*Hits the deck avoiding EG while tossing out a handful of caltrops and ball berrings at TPBM's feet*

I have to agree. I avoid the MA now for fear someone with my brute may level too quickly and trip some datamine. I will stay with dev sanctioned or dev created content. If you want hard rules, there are none. I recommend taking this discussion to the official farming thread in the City Life section of the boards.

The bullet disolved into a gooey mess of genetic soup that started oozing towards the forensic tech. And then...

Or you could put the lvl 54 AV as a captive/ally that runs to the door. Then you would have 54 mobs without needing to actually kill the 54 AV.

Light Rum VS Dark Rum

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The fact is we all know what "exploit" actually means, just like we all know what "torture" really means.

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The only practical definition of "exploit" I can think of: "Exploit" means whatever the devs want it to mean.

It's a more useful definition than "statistical advantage" at least.

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Exploit:
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1 To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one's talents.
2 To make use of selfishly or unethically: a country that exploited peasant labor. See synonyms at manipulate.

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We're going with #2. Just because we don't know the precise point at which leveling speed triggers the devs' scrutiny, that doesn't mean it could be at any point at all, and since Positron used the phrase, "worst of the worst," it's probably a good deal higher than anything you've achieved outside the MA.

The prevalence of bipolar thinking is getting to me. I think I have to accept that people are just steamed up and not willing to acknowledge a middle ground right now.

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The analogy brought up in the farming thread communicated it pretty well I thought.

There is an arcade. The arcade has a game that gives out tickets that can be redeemed for various prizes. Everyone is playing the game. One day, someone figures out how to cheat the game. Everyone wins lots and lots of tickets by doing this. The Arcade owners fix the machines overnight and post a sign saying People may be kicked out of the arcade for getting lots of tickets. The only criteria for identifing the offenders is via how many tickets you get.

No one reasonable is arguing that the machines shouldn't have been fixed. The problem is the people who are on the High Score section are worried about getting too many tickets for not only themselves, but also for the guy playing the 2 player Co-op beside him from his football team, even though he isn't nearly as good.

Substitute Exp, merits, tickets, inf, prestige, or whatever other reward you want into the above and it will still work just fine.

Comics had their fun police for years and years.

CoX got our version with the MA

Welcome to the side effects of the over eager Fun police in the MA.

Lol, those would be the magic questions mate. Noone with authority is awnsering. All you can do is put it out there and see.

it is significantly lower than some of the missions I have run.

I was regularly seeing 9000 tickets for large kill all missions.

Some of the bosses in the random may not have the same bracket as your minions so it creates the error message.