Attention Matt Positron Miller and DEVS

Happy Birthday, Frostdrake!

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Hey that wasn't there when I replied!

Happy birthday!

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Have a happy one, Frostyman! o.o

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Funny, a Moderator has already been notified. Why does it always say that when I click Report?

Also: Quick Reply addressed to the thread's very existence.

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Funny, a Moderator has already been notified. Why does it always say that when I click Report?

Also: Quick Reply addressed to the thread's very existence.

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Something must be broken Sam, I often get the same message.

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I have been playing for a year now and worked really hard and still do not have a 50

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I just finished soloing a toon to 50 in about 5 months by playing, on average, 5-7 hours a week. All i did was run story arcs. The XP rewards, specially with XP smoothing, are MORE than enough.

If 'Farming' was against the rules, then enemies shouldnt spawn in groups of more that 2. Ever. Since i kill Romans on the wall in Cimerora over and over and over again, does that mean i should have my account suspended for being a farmer?

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Okay first I took over 2 years to get my first 50 level (Altitis the only reason) but when I got my 24 month badge I decided it was time to stop messing around and get a 50. Six weeks later I had one .. that started as a 1 level. I teamed when i could find one, soloed when I couldn't, did TF and trials, and YES a little farming along the way.

Now lets discuss FARMING (not in great detail) As I mentioned I have joined farms and there are GOOD ones.. Team leaders that insist EVEYONE will help out and run a good organized team. All you are doing at that point is putting together 7-8 people running a mission on INV (level 5) and reaping the benefits of the XP that creates. Frankly I never do it for more than a few bars to get to the next level because doing the same thing over and over.. is BORING! But that isn't much different than any 8 man team setting the difficulty to 5 and running into an AV mission, knocking off the AV, and clicking whatever glowie(s) the mission requires and then heading off to do it all over on the next mission. What I never liked was the farm with that 1 or 2 PLer on board. My worst experience was on a Freakshow farm in PI. Six of us headed off to battle huge mobs of Freaks while Mr. PL and his bridge sat at the entrance collecting XP for doing NOTHING. To make it worse Mr. PL is running off at the mouth the whole time.. "Kill faster I can only stay for another half hour and want a few more levels before I go" Half way through I sent him a tell basically saying since all he had to do was sit on his BUTT while I was working mine off earning him XP. INF and levels he could SHUT UP or I was leaving. Mission ended and I quit the team.

I have run badge farms.. Ghosts are THE hardest thing to get in Croatoa since there are only 2 door missions involving them. On nunerous occassions when I get one of those I have gone to the badge channel and offered anyone that wanted to join me and we'd farm the mission for the badge. Take out all but one mob, go back outside, reset and repeat. Beats the heck out of chasing them all over the place with a scrapper. I have done the same with Paragon Protectors and helped out several friends running a Illusionist farm. The Devs KNOW these types of farms have existed almost as long as the game and have no issue with them

The problem with the recent MA Farms was they were offering up extremely inflated XP and people were BRAGGING about making 50 level in an hour or two. Now while there are PRO "Farmers" out there that keep saying SO WHAT? Lets look at what this does.. From NC Softs standpoint if people start making multiple 50s in a few days how long will it be before they become BORED with very little to do and decide to go elsewhere and play another game... Say what you want but while its a game to us it's their BUSINESS and losing clients means losing income.

From a player standpoint a new player that got sucked into that whole MEOW mess and came out a 30, 40, or 50 level in a matter of hours is a menace. When they have to ask how to get to Steel Canyon cause they want a new outfit, have no clue that a Safeguard mission actually conains a signature villain that you need to defeat (that's a personal experience from a few days ago BTW), and in general do things once they finally leave the AE building and join a regular team that get team mates killed .. they ruin the game for others. Ruin the game, players quit and move on... go back to part 1 where NC Soft doesn't like losing MONEY.

Legitimate farming will never be an issue but exploiting things to gain outragious amounts of XP, INF, or Prestige will and has in the past .. or have we forgotten at one point a player could join any team without an SK and sit at the door while the STONE Tank pounded everything into little bits and collect XP, etc. Super Groups used to do this all the time to boost their prestige and created a ton of Idiotic players that didn't have a clue what was going on. NOW if you are more than 5 levels lower than the highest member on the team NO XP, NO INF, NO anything. Of course the PLer found the way around that and Anchors and Bridges were born.. But saying that NC Soft or Cryptic, before they sold out and left, have never even tried to curb Exploits just isn't true.

I have no issue with legit farmers Not something I do a lot of but they are NOT hurting the game. 50 levels with NO Vet badges, and a grand total of 18 or 20.. most of which are from AE missions.. DO. I like the AE it adds a lot of entertaining and funny content and the ticket system is great.. I have completely enhanced characters without spending a cent of influence. I'll mix a certain amount of contact missions with some radios, a TF or two, and then if I am a bar or two from leveling I will go find a few good AE missions that sound like fun and level up. THAT was what it was intended to do. People have been screaming for new content for years Now they have a ton of it. But instead of running well written missions by players that enjoy the game and love adding their ideas to it.. all anyone wanted to do was see how fast they could get to 50. WHY? After that all you have left is radios, a few TFs, and maybe a few Mothership raids or Hamis. The FUN is getting there after 50 I semi retire a character and create a new one to try out different powersets, AT, ect. If all you want to do is stand around in Atlas Park with your 50 showing and brag to the new 2 levels coming out of Outbreak you don't need an MMO .. join the IRC and go BS there.. please you'll cut the lag tremendously.

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I expected this thread to be more amusing....

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I totally agree to what you said and that was kinda the point of starting the thread. its not the farm for a bit to finish of a lvl or get a badge its the ones who run those stupid missions with little to no point like kill the Comms officer get the glowie.

This game is about having fun. Fun with friends, fun in an SG and some good solid comic based gaming.

But we something needs to happen regarding this whole situation. Because before AE most servers were really close to ghost towns most of the time. Maybe a couple hundred per server in total. After AE we saw a giant bumb in online players. Now it feels like even less than before.

I hope the find away to get more players to sign up cause this is a really fun game.

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