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So here is our list of, well desires, not demands, but desires:
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I'm as "Old Guard" as you, and I'm not part of your "our", so these are your requests, not "ours".
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1. Keep the Servers UP!
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Servers always go down a lot when a new issue is being released. It's almost like they won't go down as much a month from now. Like after every other major issue.
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2. Enough with new Currency... in fact roll Threads and Shards into the same thing and let it drop like Shards do. The Empyrean Merits, and Astral Merits are crap too.
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I agree with this. It's not good when the Devs' approach to loot is becoming a running joke about what ridiculous new currencies will be introduced next.
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3. Enough with the Farm Hate. Yes I understand Time/v/Payoff, but the farms are driving the economy for your game and without us it would be very difficult to keep things rolling. Not to mention while your trying to punish illicit behavior, a lot of players getting caught in the crossfire are innocent of any wrong doing. How is the Market a mini game, as has been cited by the devs, and the Farms aren't. Each takes a specialized set of skills, patience, long term planning, and both reap in game monetary benefits for the character. The market benefits a player MORE then the Farms if your looking at Risk v Reward, (lvl 2 player can sell his Tutorial Inspirations, use that as capitol and get over a billion in a week, it's been done on the market forums).
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The market will never get a player to 50 faster without them selling influence (a violation of game rules). The devs don't care how rich we all get. They only care that the players don't use their view of exploits to level faster than they feel is appropriate.
As for whether farming is a mini-game, it is. It's the mini-game of you vs. the devs. The catch is that you always win. The rez change was a joke because you can just remove that power and get right back to work. It's barely a blip in your farming radar. If the devs truly despised farms, they'd make every mission timed and do away with XP in AE. They haven't. In years of combating farms, they haven't gone that extreme. So just farm, know that your farm won't last forever, and learn to adapt.
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4. We are living in a time of low economy in the USA, and Europe, your prime playerbase, so Enough Micro-Transactions, VIP Players shouldn't have to spend money for what would have been free content in issues 1-19. New costumes, new powersets, all that should be VIP Content automatically. If you want to Micro-transact the f2p players, fine, that's what they get for not subscribing. Micro-Transactions should NEVER EVER effect content for VIP Players. We already pay for our content, please let it reflect that.
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Go visit the thread with people complaining about not having access to Incarnates on their premie account. Or not having access to global channels. Or SGs. Or any of the other things you get access to as a VIP. Just because *you* don't realize all the extras you get for your $15/month doesn't mean they aren't there.
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5. No more mixed signals. Farms should be ok. Even farms where we have resurrecting enemies. Yes we figured out ways to build toons to stand up to it. But now we have Incarnate Trials we are basically required to farm day in day out if we want the shiny armor, and powers locked behind Empyrean Michael and Astral whatsherface (I don't know cause the Servers are Down!). One minute your encouraging us to repeat content as much as possible the next we are being told that isn't ok.
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The devs have always encouraged you to repeat content. TFs, make new toons, badges, etc. It's no more confusing now than it was in i4. They're not going to stop combating farming to some extent (seriously, again, the rez change was a joke, you're really gonna get all butthurt about *that*?), but they've become much laxer on it than they used to be already.
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In closing, please keep the Old Guard happy, we're your steady paycheck, your solid gold, and this flash in the pan from the Micro-transactions are just that, fools gold, cause they won't last, but we Old Guard, if you keep us happy, we would love to stick around for years to come.
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I've been hearing how farmers are going to quit this game through ED, taunt changes, aggro caps, Burn changes, IH changes, Comm Officer changes, pet changes, RV heavy changes, and a whole list of other ones I can't even remember now. Each change was met with wailing and gnashing of teeth how the "Old Guard" (surely this term is trademarked by now, no?) and farmers were the game's only real customer base and how the devs needed to appeal to them more and how they were being run off. Look, I'm just as much a member of the "Old Guard" as you are, and this game has become outstanding compared to what it used to be.