Me thinks that would be a good reason for less stars!
You could always get them back by tagging your story arc as a farm. 
Karl
thank you, you don't know how much that has defused my annoyance...
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I understand the point of putting up a farm arc to run it.
I don't understand the point of putting up a farm arc thinking its a good way to earn tickets or get HoF. Its not going to ever get HoF and the tickets are much easier to get actually running the farm...
I absolutely do not understand trying to draw in people to your farm by tricking them into it, what do you have to gain? It seems to me that tagging you farm with an SFMA tag will just invite people to use the report button to make the GMs aware of your farm. So, you're increasing your risk for virtually no reward. What kind of farmer would do THAT?!?
Agreed. If you find a blatant farm abusing our beloved [SFMA], report it immediately. Get that crap kicked out of here. SFMA should be for, y'know, STORY Focused Mission Arcs.
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Putting the tag mostly used by the sort of people who are likely to report farms... on a farm. Brilliant!
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Agreed. If you find a blatant farm abusing our beloved [SFMA], report it immediately. Get that crap kicked out of here. SFMA should be for, y'know, STORY Focused Mission Arcs.
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Let me fix that for you:
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If you find a mission you don't find aesthetically pleasing using our beloved [SFMA], harass the authors by reporting it immediately. Get that crap kicked out of here. SFMA should be for, y'know, STORY Focused Mission Arcs - and if you don't like their story, screw 'em - get 'em in trouble with the devs! Go us!
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Fix't.
After all, why hide your light when you are so obviously better than everyone else different from you?
Here's a different thought though - everyone who *thinks* their mission is STORY based should feel free to use the tag, even if not approved by this guy?
Unless differences of opinion are VERBOTEN.
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Aw, sorry to hear that, Cat.
My stuff is properly tagged! ...though most of it's for lowbies or mid-carders.
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My arcs: Dream Paper (ID: 1874) | Bricked Electronics (ID: 2180) | The Bravuran Jobs (ID: 5073) | Backwards Day (ID: 329000) | Operation Fair Trade (ID: 391172)
I use tags mostly to identify the arc categories, rather than anything specific about it - things like the leve range (in a lvl XX-XX format), and some general pointers like "TF". Since the enemy groups are already identified in the description, I figure that (for example) this makes it easier on people looking for a lvl 40-45 arc, a Rikti arc, or a TF arc...well, if the search function worked better. 
That last one generally turns up every arc with a word containing tf in the title, description, author, atc.
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Fix't.
After all, why hide your light when you are so obviously better than everyone else different from you?
Here's a different thought though - everyone who *thinks* their mission is STORY based should feel free to use the tag, even if not approved by this guy?
Unless differences of opinion are VERBOTEN.
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**shrugs** Take your chances. You should know if it's an exploit farm or not, if you made it. Twoflower DID say "blatant".
Dec out.
...and I trust that calling a mob to arms will work out *just* fine...
what could go wrong?
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...and I trust that calling a mob to arms will work out *just* fine...
what could go wrong?
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Angry troll is angry...and he's going to show it with sarcasm! 
Blatant farms are easy to pick out, no matter how much story you throw on them. If they use exploits such as hundreds of defendable objects or only mobs that give 2x xp, they should be reported as such.
And what is wrong with rating an arc low that falsely advertises itself? If you slap a "Short Stories" book cover on War and Peace, I'm going to be pissed when I get through the first couple pages and realize it's not a short story. How is it my fault for not enjoying that? The author lied to me. I'm not going to rate it as a novel because that's what it is, I'm going to rate it as a short story, because that's what was portrayed to me. As far as short stories go, War and Peace sucks. 0 stars.
Since when is effectively making a point trolling?
Oh, when you don't like that point, got it.
Have to say, I did "tee hee" a little at being called a trol by someone named Karl Rove Man, heh heh.
Like I have said before, if people want to make their mission reward based, but fly under the radar by slapping a SFMA tag on it, just spend an hour coming up with a halfway decent story and go ahead and do so. Just don't make the story part lame or obviously a paint job.
Then if people have a problem with your use of the holy SFMA tag, the have to pick one of the following two:
a) They don't like your story - which will lead them into the possible truth that only stories *good enough* qualify for the SFMA tag - and they want to be the one that decides which is "good" enough, or 2
b) They think your story is fine, but they can't stand the SFMA tag being used if the XP rewards are too nice. Which will be admitting that the SFMA tag in their eyes is NOT about story at ALL, its about making sure they don't feel dirty by playing in an numerically effective mission.
On the other hand, you could dare hope that instead, option C happens:
c) these folks would NOT have a problem that your mission uses the SFMA tag and produces awesome rewards, given that a decent story is within, and instead would be quite pleased at the idea that even so-called "xp" mission might be being influenced to have decent stories themselves.
Wouldn't that be cool?
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I judge a mission solely by how much I enjoy it. Sometimes its the story that draws me, sometimes its a really well designed custom group, sometimes its using a combination of former groups to come up with something new and cool. Sometimes its just a great and exciting series of non-stop challenging, but not completely overwhelming, battles that makes it fun.
I ran into a mission yesterday that was a variation on what is currently one of the more popular 'farms'. The map was different, the objectives tweaked, but essentially, it was the same. The major difference was that there was indeed a story behind it. It was a fairly good attempt at a story as well, though slightly forced. Not saying it was the best story in the world, mind you, but it was more than just a quick whitewash. I gave it 3 stars because I felt the author deserved some tickets for making this work.
Oh, just FYI, this one was not tagged SFMA, but I would not have taken points off if it had been. There was effort behind the story.
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I judge a mission solely by how much I enjoy it. Sometimes its the story that draws me, sometimes its a really well designed custom group, sometimes its using a combination of former groups to come up with something new and cool. Sometimes its just a great and exciting series of non-stop challenging, but not completely overwhelming, battles that makes it fun.
I ran into a mission yesterday that was a variation on what is currently one of the more popular 'farms'. The map was different, the objectives tweaked, but essentially, it was the same. The major difference was that there was indeed a story behind it. It was a fairly good attempt at a story as well, though slightly forced. Not saying it was the best story in the world, mind you, but it was more than just a quick whitewash. I gave it 3 stars because I felt the author deserved some tickets for making this work.
Oh, just FYI, this one was not tagged SFMA, but I would not have taken points off if it had been. There was effort behind the story.
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Awesome 
Perhaps if stories can attend to both nice rewards *and* a good story, it can be win-win for everyone.
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Sorry for this, but it was a long day at work and I wanted to kick back with a beverage and enjoy some interesting MA stuff.
If your are going to use a [tag]
DO NOT try to claim your farm is story focused.
DO NOT claim to have an in depth plot in your description, then be a durn Rikti comm officer farm with one unique character
IF you want to be left to your farms, do not try to pass em off as something else. If you are so durn sure that your are not exploiting and shouldn't be locked/deleted, then why go to the [censored] effort to pass yourself off as something else.
This rant brought to you by a very annoyed at having wasted my time zoning into several maps that were not what they claimed to be kitty.
Go about your business and Hai Mod8, lock this if you feel it is too ranty.
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Not yet, however I'd advise against substituting letters in swear words in the future -Mod08
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