anything constitutes a farm. The anti farm idiots can point at radio missions to TF's and call them a farm and most certainly have.
The only thing in this game that an anti farm idiot will not call a farm is any mission they created themself.......sure logically thier mission looks exactly like any other mission....but the anti farmer is not known for anything but a rabid frothing at the mouth, subtle lack of IQ and loss of touch with reality.
Just make your arc the way you want to and don't worry about what other people (including the developers) might think. These days, you can make an AE mission consisting of hundreds of Rikti Monkeys and some idiot will report it for being a farm.
Sadly, when you combine developer fearmongering (mission deletion and suspension) and a small amount of over-zealous (or self righteous) playerbase, this is the kind of paranoia which results. Basically when the system is out of whack, just ignore it and go about your business the way you see fit. Otherwise you'll just keep looking over your shoulder which pretty much takes out of the entertainment value of an MMO game.
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Actually, on an outdoor map, this would not be a farm but rather a sanctuary and rehabilitation center for Rikti Monkeys orphaned by poachers.
A little known fact of CoX cannon is that the Rikti use those monkeys as bushmeat, and the entire species is now endangered. Protecting the wild Rikti monkey population is part of the great work done by the Jane Goodall Institute.
Remember, you heard it here first. 
Your arc is fine.
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This is over the top mental slavery.
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Actually, you mean his arc is not a farm. Whether his arc is fine or not can't be determined until he publishes it and someone actually plays it. 
The arc I'm working on is taking me close to a month to develop...partly because of SG (leader) duties, but mainly because of the massive amounts of detail.
It's one mission away from completing (finally) and yesterday I just dropped random text into the error fields in mission 5 so that I could test it.
In the first mission, the mobs are 1-54, set to easy. The mobs all have detailed descriptions, and the entire arc is purely story-driven.
So yesterday a frein and I tested the first 2 missions. He was on a scrapper, I was on a Fire/Kin.
I died on the first mission, twice. No biggy. Mostly because I hit the wrong buttons on my keyboard.
The map was the forest map. The mobs ranged from SS/Invuln tank to Electric Blaster...and a healer. It didn't seem farmable to me, but if two Fire/Kins teamed up, or a Fire/Kin and Archer/Psi did...I think it might be farmable.
The electric blaster holds...I did that to offset the farming.
With just two of us, the mob groups were 5 strong. All LTs (if I remember right).
The second mission exempted us down to 46 (boss is a standard longbow boss who is 46 I think).
My goal for the mission is a task force style arc. I'm at 97.23% atm, but all my mobs are dropped into mission 5 already, so all that's left is the huge amount of text (grumble).
My concern though is that one of the missions could be viewed as a farm. The first two missions are Ally's. The 3rd is defeat all. 4th is collection. 5th is defeat all.
Don't know what other info to provide other than it's not published yet...waiting till all is done, then will seek feedback.