AE HAS RUIN THE GAMEPLAY OF CoH/CoV!
By
7thCynic,
Posted on: 2009-06-30 14:07 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
lol, whatever. I wish I could play cox all day, I'm lucky to get 3 hours in if I stay up all night. Sometimes AE is the most I can get out of the only 45 min I have in a day to play. It's not all about your needs.
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All you have to do is ask people around your level if they want to run some mishes. When I don't feel like AE I can get a decent sized team to run some paper/contact mishes in like 5-10 minutes.
In the last week, I've done the following teams, other than AE farms:
- 1 STF
- 2 sewer teams
- 2 ITFs
- 2 Respec Trials
- 12 scanner missions and ~3-4 safeguards
- Midnight Squad to Cimerora
- 4 Cimerora missions
- a number of Hollows missions
- Killed 2 GMs in Croatoa
- lowbie AE story arc (about 5 mish)
- a number of other misc. missions for other people.
Was going to get an Eden TF going, but that didn't work out, sadly.
The game lives. You just have to get out of the AP /broadcast and make an effort.
Oh, and yes. "Your daily dose of DOOOM(tm) brought to you by the OP"
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Last week...
3 itfs.
1 abandoned sewer trial
2 edens.
1 Sara Moore
1 Faathim
Midnight Arc to Cimerora (Red and Blue Side).
2nd Respec (blue side)
3rd Respec (blue side)
Ahh... no AE mission this week... but i like those too...
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In short, as a summary to all the responces here...
The problem is not the game, it is you.
I feel the same way the OP does to an extent. PuGing has been slower for me and I find myself playing ATs that are better suited to soloing.
I liked the concept of AE and supported the idea. I don't like the resulting change in how my playstyle has changed.
Oh well, if my feelings don't change (because the game is not going to regarding this) I'll have other super hero MMo options in the future. 
I love the AE the way it is now.
And I had no problem finding a team to run the new TF... funny but I saw at least a dozen of ppl near Kahn waiting to join a team and it seems new teams were forming very regularly (on Freedom).
Being as stating something along the lines of obvious troll is obvious is deemed unconstructive. I will most definitely not say that.
Can you guess what I am thinking though ?
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I feel the same way the OP does to an extent. PuGing has been slower for me and I find myself playing ATs that are better suited to soloing.
I liked the concept of AE and supported the idea. I don't like the resulting change in how my playstyle has changed.
Oh well, if my feelings don't change (because the game is not going to regarding this) I'll have other super hero MMo options in the future.
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I perfectly understand your point. Different playstyles I guess... and still, I love PuGing too !
I could test the "future super-hero MMO options", and for me it was like : What, no mission architect there ? Just doing generic "WoW-like" quests all the time ? Well back to CoX, this game is definitely not for me 
The MA is one of the reasons I play this game now, and probably the reason I dont plan to leave it any soon.
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Ever sence AE has come out, no one does regular missions, or TFs/SFs anymore, can't even get a team to do the new TF/SF that came out today!! The devs need to make a way that AE doesn't become the end of the rest of the game, because that is what is happening on victory atleast... everyone just sits on there butts in AE all day... granted I do missions in AE sometimes, but not ALL DAY!
Who here agrees with me?!
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Obvious Troll, plus a duplicate of about 80 other threads right now. Could we just lock this one too?
Devs, maybe we could have a designated "I'm sad that AE is so awesome and everyone's having a wonderful time but me" thread?
We have one for farming, and that gets linked a lot.
If we're still seeing stuff like this a month from now I'll bring it up again.
Just something to think about.
[Edited to use less harsh language. I acted rashly. Sorry.]
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I perfectly understand your point. Different playstyles I guess... and still, I love PuGing too !
I could test the "future super-hero MMO options", and for me it was like : What, no mission architect there ? Just doing generic "WoW-like" quests all the time ? Well back to CoX, this game is definitely not for me
The MA is one of the reasons I play this game now, and probably the reason I dont plan to leave it any soon.
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Ehina, you are great.
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You know what I hate? Those stupid hazard zone street sweeping teams. Just going around the same two or three blocks over and over and over. Never wanting to do missions or task forces. Don't they know you get more debt when you die outside a mission? Also, it totally screws up everything for people looking to "Kill 10 This" or "Defeat 30 That". It's just sucks!
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Ever sence AE has come out, no one does regular missions, or TFs/SFs anymore, can't even get a team to do the new TF/SF that came out today!! The devs need to make a way that AE doesn't become the end of the rest of the game, because that is what is happening on victory atleast... everyone just sits on there butts in AE all day... granted I do missions in AE sometimes, but not ALL DAY!
Who here agrees with me?!
[/ QUOTE ]I don't. I run regular missions for salvage and drops as well as MA.
Don't worry about AE getting the spotlight atm.. When Going Rogue comes out, EVERYONE with a lvl 35 and up will be in the new Paetoria zone trying to get their brutes, MM's and doms over to hero side. Maybe a tank over to Villains, but what would be the point. :P
I can't feel my legs..!
I agree with the author. I hate AE farms, but all people do is farm. I suggest dropping AE to no xp. I know that sounds dumb, but think about it. AE is meant for the players to make story arcs that are fun/challanging/ expand on their characters. It would make become more like it was meant to be played.
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I agree with the author. I hate AE farms, but all people do is farm. I suggest dropping AE to no xp. I know that sounds dumb, but think about it. AE is meant for the players to make story arcs that are fun/challanging/ expand on their characters. It would make become more like it was meant to be played.
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It's been said before and over and over again.
Taking exp out of the AE is a BAD IDEA. The last things the devs want is the huge majority of AE users to leave the AE and then have their latest innovation mostly abandoned.
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I know that sounds dumb, but think about it.
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I thought about it, and it's dumb. People before you or me thought about it, and it was dumb when they thought it, too.
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AE is meant for the players to make story arcs that are fun/challanging/ expand on their characters. It would make become more like it was meant to be played.
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What's the point in being "more like it was meant to be played" if it's only experienced by the ridiculously tiny portion of the playerbase who are willing to play content for no reward?
That would amount to a complete failure on the part of the devs. There is simply no value in the tremendous amount of time they spent developing and improving this feature if it's only used by a tiny percentage of their subscribers.
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I agree with the author. I hate AE farms, but all people do is farm. I suggest dropping AE to no xp. I know that sounds dumb, but think about it. AE is meant for the players to make story arcs that are fun/challanging/ expand on their characters. It would make become more like it was meant to be played.
[/ QUOTE ] It was also meant for people to be able to level all the way to 50 using AE. So how would removing XP accomplish that?
YOU RIGHT, VadMac41! [censored] AE! [censored] CoX! LET'S START REVOLUTION.
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lol, I'll be serious now. I honestly am tired of doing the same [censored] farms over and over. It isn't that I am unable to choose what is happening, it is actually the following...
I do one random pick up group and quit. I join a different PuG and quit. I repeat this my entire night.
How often do I find a team doing something that isn't a farm in AE? There are no "normal mission" teams in AE doing something that isn't a farm with drastically differing leveled players to the point where I'm PLing someone each time because they are all lv 7s-25s.......
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YES, I could start my own team and do things NOT a farm, but there will be one or two people that will quit the team, if not more, once they find out that it is difficult.
Now for my personal opinion: If XP rewards in AE were to be lowered and not removed, maybe people would play the game for reasons other then Power leveling.
Lots of edits in that one. I think I'm done though, hehe. 
You can't even find good AE farms anymore. Most teams seem to spawn 51 maps full of random bosses or lts and repeatedly teamwipe.
Then again I only join them when I'm REALLY bored. Most of the time I reply "No, I prefer to play the game."
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It was also meant for people to be able to level all the way to 50 using AE. So how would removing XP accomplish that?
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Well, they could always remove XP as a requirement for levelling....
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AE HAS RUIN THE GAMEPLAY OF CoH/CoV!
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No, it hasn't.
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the only thing i notice is all the random "spamvites" are for AE instead of normal content, but when i look for a team i usually dont have a problem finding one.