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(I've started turning off XP every other mission, and deleting all drops from those, just so it won't look like I'm leveling too quickly.)
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Wow. You must be a super stud of power levelling if you really think that that's necessary.
Either that or you're overreacting.
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I have many friends from a former supergroup, when MA started, they made supergroup themed story arcs, highlighting their own characters origins, with fiction surrounding the formation of the supergroup itself. Not a farm by any definition. These friends, however, have been decimated with bans, both permanent and temporary. I know these folks, I know how they play, if what they were doing is a farm, then there is a great chance that other "regular" folks are doing so too. The devs refuse to define "exploitive" saying only "we'll know it when we see it. They didn't farm, but they were accused, and banned first, without any questions asked. Many are not bothering to re subscribe. Of a supergroup with 122 members, (that's members, not alts), there are only 26 left, all because of the overzealous ban stick.
I have about 19 alts, spread through the servers, I'm only up to the 39th month veteran badge and I have two lvl 50s. (one hero, one villain). Since the devs won't say exactly what exploitive behavior is, I have no way of knowing if I might cross that line. turing off XP and deleting drops is the only way I know to make sure I don't cross the invisible line.
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The Devs never intended to have Rikti Comm Officers act the way they did, it was a complete oversight on their part, when the "Special" versions were included in the MA. That was their fault, as they should have realized the differences in the Spawn of that Critter.
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Not true. Before alot of you started playing, Rikti Comm Officers gave normal xp but the Rikti Portals and minions also gave xp. The portals gave ridiculous amounts. People were farming the Comm Officers for the Portals. When they nerfed it, they increased the XP of Comm Officers.
If I recall, the other NPC that got nerfed around the same time were the BP Death Shamans.
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I dont recall the summoned rikti giving xp but i know the portals gave large xp up untill very recently when they took all XP from portals but gave comms rikti LT xp but minion HPs. Reason being in the RWZ people were running around tagging the portals and running off, after a while they despawned and the free xp would flow.
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This goes way back a few years...
The rikti summoned through the portal would give xp.
One person would sit in a map with phase shift on (before it became timed....)
THe entire room would fill with summoned rikti. You can fit a whole bunch of rikti in a room if you sit for 24 hours. This is also when critters could stack an infinite number onto one spot.
This is also before the aggro cap of 17.
This is before the max target limit of 17.
Now that the room is filled with rikti... one Invuln tank would enter and aggro the entire room of thousands of rikti. One blaster would pop reds... Aim... and Build-Up... and defeat everything in the room.
The level 1's sk'd to 40 would instantly level to 30. (this is also before the 5 level limit on side kick's.)
It took a tad bit of planning but it was not hard to do at all.
This explains the phase shift nerf, aggro cap, max number of critters damaged cap, xp nerf on summoned critters, and sk level range nerf all in one fell swoop.
YMMV---IMO
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The Devs never intended to have Rikti Comm Officers act the way they did, it was a complete oversight on their part, when the "Special" versions were included in the MA. That was their fault, as they should have realized the differences in the Spawn of that Critter.
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Not true. Before alot of you started playing, Rikti Comm Officers gave normal xp but the Rikti Portals and minions also gave xp. The portals gave ridiculous amounts. People were farming the Comm Officers for the Portals. When they nerfed it, they increased the XP of Comm Officers.
If I recall, the other NPC that got nerfed around the same time were the BP Death Shamans.
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I dont recall the summoned rikti giving xp but i know the portals gave large xp up untill very recently when they took all XP from portals but gave comms rikti LT xp but minion HPs. Reason being in the RWZ people were running around tagging the portals and running off, after a while they despawned and the free xp would flow.
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This goes way back a few years...
The rikti summoned through the portal would give xp.
One person would sit in a map with phase shift on (before it became timed....)
THe entire room would fill with summoned rikti. You can fit a whole bunch of rikti in a room if you sit for 24 hours. This is also when critters could stack an infinite number onto one spot.
This is also before the aggro cap of 17.
This is before the max target limit of 17.
Now that the room is filled with rikti... one Invuln tank would enter and aggro the entire room of thousands of rikti. One blaster would pop reds... Aim... and Build-Up... and defeat everything in the room.
The level 1's sk'd to 40 would instantly level to 30. (this is also before the 5 level limit on side kick's.)
It took a tad bit of planning but it was not hard to do at all.
This explains the phase shift nerf, aggro cap, max number of critters damaged cap, xp nerf on summoned critters, and sk level range nerf all in one fell swoop.
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Overkill and then some. But getting it right isn't on the priority list.
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I'm personally still stumped as to why they were called "meow".
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Rikti Com officers resemble cats, due to their masks , is another reason I'd heard.