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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU

I just thought of something - ITFs will still be 10+, because Montague Castanella won't give you the Midnighter entry arc until you're 10.

Originally Posted by Soulie

Genius I say. Now you may see far less AE spam in Atlas.

Originally Posted by Rodion

They'll be bannable, but I doubt it will significantly reduce their numbers. My guess is that they're using accounts paid for by stolen credit cards, which means they don't care if they're banned.

But these changes will democratize the whole leveling process to a certain extent. People with two or three accounts won't be able to use perma-46s to level characters any faster than players with single accounts playing with friends. Which means RMTers will lose an important advantage.

This along with the ability to set team sizes will encourage players to run regular missions instead of AE, which will increase the supply of salvage and purple recipes. The removal of exploitative influence rewards from AE should also ease inflation on the market.

Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain

Please tell me that one of the QOL features being added to this issue is:

If the team leader of a TF/SF Crashes/DCs whatever... That they have like 3 minutes to relog and will still retain the star???

Same as if someone goes AFK from TF/SF you can KICK them from the team if they are afk longer than like 5 minutes...

Originally Posted by Nights_Eclipse

Not that I really care, but I am going to put this out there. Did you take into consideration AE currently cuts out the need to bridge? This will effect a lot of people with in AE who are using the AE mechanics to be the 'bridge'. I'd be willing to bet that if you looked at the numbers just before i14 and architect came out, you'd see that they were a lot larger.

Even look back to when the first Double XP was (can't remember, that was awhile ago. . .). While we didn't have the ability to freeze XP to bridge back then, several people would get to 46 themselves, then shoot up to 50 REALLY fast, because they bridged. On the server I play on at least, that was pretty much accepted, and people were excited when they could finally be asked to bridge. Most would put it in their search comment, as would the few that didn't want to.

So I guess my question is this, how is it going to effect the AE missions? Are you also eliminating what I'm going to call the "System Bridging"?

Originally Posted by Lady_Sadako

Looks like it's going to auto SK to mission holder's actual level, not their level -1.

Originally Posted by Leese

Maybe I'm missing something here... I don't farm or PL, so I'm not completely familiar with the mechanics, but the impression I had was that part of the reason (discounting exploits) why AE was a PLers dream was because it auto-SKd lowbies up to the required level. You're planning on doing this to the entire game?

I hope I have the wrong impression, as I love the sound of it otherwise. Removing the last of the restrictions around teaming is going to be a HUGE help. I just hope it can't lead to another AE-sized mess.

Originally Posted by Positron

we’ve added new features to the in-game Email system to either shut it off entirely, or only receive emails from people on your friends list and/or people in your Supergroup. Another step in the battle against annoying in-game spam.