Ukaserex

Here is what I did, just to see if I could. I made an account, created a toon, and dual-boxing, invited that toon into my sg. No problems at all.

This could have been due to the old accounts being reactivated as premium - but there were no toons at all on this account until I made one.


As for having people "wreck your SG" - - I promise you, that I've assisted friends and strangers alike in getting their alts into their SG. Before I got my second account, strangers helped me also. (as well as in-game friends)

So, send me a PM, tell me what server you're on, I'll make a toon and will stick around for the time it takes to invite all your toons, no problem. (unless I"m already on a taskforce)

Honestly, I don't think anyone would "wreck" your sg - by and large, people want to help. It's a simple matter to invite your alt, promote as high as possible and wait for the next toon.

Sorry, this doesn't seem true for everyone. My Galaxy beacon still goes to Galaxy, but then it zones me into Atlas park.

That "bug" you refer to about the storage containers is WAI. If you notice, they're in alphabetical order.

Umm...a hero/villain merit is equal to 50 reward merits, not 100+.

If you think the 20 merits is not as good as a hero merit, you'd be right.

The moral is: Be a hero or a villain.

Why a rogue or vigilante can't get 50 reward merits is probably because if that was a choice, than a hero or a villain would be able to choose the same option- which is essentially getting the same reward twice within the 7 day time frame. (the 1 hero merit, then the 50 reward merits. )

Could they design it so there was a different reward table for rogues and vigilantes - maybe. Will they? I dunno.

More than likely, they'll stop giving us a choice and just give the 2 merits once they see how many hero/villain merits are being earned.

Do the sig arc for 20 merits.

The menu says 4 times the normal reward, which is 2, but I made the mistake of running it once too many times today and chose the 4Xmerits and got 20.

But - I was never specifically told not to.

Let's clear something up.

About MARTy

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=271317
Quoted from Zwillinger "It is important to note that MARTy is not aimed at one specific playstyle or Mission type. The threshold at which MARTy is triggered is such that, through normal, or even aggressive, gameplay, a player should never be impacted by any penalties. We have been vigorously testing MARTy against live server and Beta server metrics and have ensured that even the most aggressive normal gameplay will not be impacted."

If you read this important note from Zwillinger, or even better click on the link to refresh your memory, it should be clear that not even the most aggressive play would incur the wrath of MARTy.


You may very well view farmers and PLers as disobedient children. And some may in truth be disobedient. But, they are not your children.

You are, of course, allowed to say you don't agree with the way people play. However, an intelligent person would have a reason for their views. They would be able to clearly show why something was good or bad.
All you seem to do is delight in taking up a contrary position.

I am really, seriously trying to understand what has you so upset about the "ebil farmers/pl-ers ".

Is it this supposed lag that the running of their missions cause? Because if they weren't in AE, they'd be somewhere else using just as many server resources.

Is it because people are satisfied with these silly, farms instead of well-planned, beautifully written stories?

I remember back when they nerfed burn, because some of the players had felt it unfair that one toon could do the work of 8 just as fast as 8. (well maybe almost as fast, maybe faster, depended on the 8 and the tank)

Defenders (in general, certainly not all of them) seemed to be the ones with the biggest problem because they weren't needed. When this happened, a lot of fire tanks got shelved.

So, are you just feeling left out, unappreciated?

See, I wasn't here when the devs mentioned that they would "frown" upon farming in AE. If Matt Miller were in my presence now, I would have told him that he might as well be putting a carrot before a horse with a statement like that. That's similar to telling my daughters to avoid dating guys with earrings and long hair because of my unfair personal biases. One might obey, but the other might do it just to see what my reaction would be.
Or maybe, it's because rules without relationships reap rebellion. You tell someone they can't, well that just makes some of them want to. Especially when they cannot see how what they're doing has any impact on anyone else.

I seriously don't understand all this fuss about how I spend my time in game-- or is it just coming across like that? Am I being too defensive? Maybe. I doubt it, though.

May I suggest you file a petition. If in fact the leveling pact you had with your girlfriend was broken before this Tuesday morning, I would think that's NOT working as intended.

But, that does you little good now, I'm afraid. I would send a PM to Avatea or Beastyle and ask them what's what.

I'm sorry, but I rarely search for things the devs have said, could you provide a link to where a dev has made this opinion public?

Let me begin with a few statements.

First, I think that little comic you made was great. Really, I did enjoy it.

But this statement about PLers - there is in fact a problem here.

I have taken an Empath defender to 50. I know struggle. I know strategy. I have well over a dozen level 50s and the trek to 50 is now easier than ever before, even if AE was not even in the game. Power leveling to 50 is not really a good idea for the person that's playing the PL'd toon, nor for anyone that person may team with- if in fact that person doesn't have a basic understanding of the game or how it's played. I can certainly agree with that sentiment.


But to take an action that impacts people that do not PL is an annoyance.
To read a comment such as yours - with the silly emoticon - that's about as close as you can get to trolling, wouldn't you think? I mean, what is your desired result with this comment?

GG, try to realize that there are people who know how to get to 50 without PLing in AE that use AE to aid in getting hard to get recipes. I even turned off xp on my toon. If the devs didn't want the farmers to do this, they'd take away the tickets in the first place.

Attacks on the player base at large, or farmers in particular, or PLers has no place in the forums. You can argue semantics all you wish, but you've made your position clear - clearly mean-spirited.

Shame on you.