Double XP An Closing of AE

You know with the upcoming Double XP Weekend an all it would Do My Old Timer heart Good to see Them come up an Close the Doors on AE,All you see now are High lvl chars taking over atlas,An Steel. All the content that was Pre AE is going to waste as hardly no one will leave Atlas or steel. , I mean why should they when they can stay in AE all day an go from 1-50.it's the wrose thing the Devs could have ever done to this game, They should put a Big sign up saying going out of Business on that place an get everyone back intot he other content, I mean lord i had 2 lvl 50's ask me yesterday how to make a Enhanment, an the other asked where he could put his wings on his suit, I mean damn wake up an see what that place is doing to the game, it's NOT HELPING AT ALL DEVS

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Even though im from Liberty Server

I would agree with most of that & yeah your gonna be hard pressed to find anything but AE to do that weekend. I won't even bother logging my Stone Brute out of fear of the tidal wave of PMs. For all the nerfing they do in the name of game longevity, they sure shot themselves in the foot with this one. I know why they created it, and I have played some pretty cool player created Arcs, but they knew damn well and good that farming is what people were going to do with this.

Devil's advocate:

Closing AE closes off mission avenues that many other players engage in for valid teaming. The OP's argument falls as such:

1. There are cars on the road.
2. A minority segment of the populace uses these cars to speed and cause accidents.
3. Therefore, get rid of the cars.

I can't agree to that. There's no valid reason to suspend double XP opportunity for one facet of the game, especially when there are years-tested alternatives. Suspending double XP for AE won't stop the farmers. It will just tick off regular players.

Now, I WILL say that I think the AE building in AP needs to disappear. Keep it in Kings Row. Unless the player's an utter twit, they can hoof it to KR to get to AE if they wanted to, and considering that a player can hop into a sewer team at lvl 1, and emerge at lvl 8 30 minutes later, it's not exactly a "nerf" more than a quality of life control.

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

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I would agree with most of that & yeah your gonna be hard pressed to find anything but AE to do that weekend. I won't even bother logging my Stone Brute out of fear of the tidal wave of PMs. For all the nerfing they do in the name of game longevity, they sure shot themselves in the foot with this one. I know why they created it, and I have played some pretty cool player created Arcs, but they knew damn well and good that farming is what people were going to do with this.

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My quick tip for everyone that hates blind invites and PM's:

type /hide into your chat box. The "Hide" menu pops up, select "Hide from Searches". That will instantly stop most of your blind invites and PM's, while leaving you still visable to your friends, chat channels, super group, etc. As soon as I create a toon, I go into hiding.

Luna

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My quick tip for everyone that hates blind invites and PM's:

type /hide into your chat box. The "Hide" menu pops up, select "Hide from Searches". That will instantly stop most of your blind invites and PM's, while leaving you still visable to your friends, chat channels, super group, etc. As soon as I create a toon, I go into hiding.

Luna

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I've lived in /ghide ever since the feature came out.

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

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My quick tip for everyone that hates blind invites and PM's:

type /hide into your chat box. The "Hide" menu pops up, select "Hide from Searches". That will instantly stop most of your blind invites and PM's, while leaving you still visable to your friends, chat channels, super group, etc. As soon as I create a toon, I go into hiding.

Luna

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I've lived in /ghide ever since the feature came out.

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There is currently a slight problem associated with using ghide Turg - right now, it can occasionally be difficult inviting to teams off of an @global tell - not sure why - seems to be a bug that sporadically occurs since I-15 launch - that is why I asked you to unhide last night, the invite didn't go through & I hate trying to type out character names...

I'm exactly the opposite. I like to type "/i NAME" so I know the name of whom I'm talking to right off the bat.

(lol nubs)

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

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I'm exactly the opposite. I like to type "/i NAME" so I know the name of whom I'm talking to right off the bat.

(lol nubs)

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...and the person you are talking had sent the message via global from @NAME & is also on /ghide how do you know who to /i NAME without going the extra step of /getlocalname @NAME?

I am definitely too lazy for all that work... /r unhide to get your invite

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I'm exactly the opposite. I like to type "/i NAME" so I know the name of whom I'm talking to right off the bat.

(lol nubs)

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...and the person you are talking had sent the message via global from @NAME & is also on /ghide how do you know who to /i NAME without going the extra step of /getlocalname @NAME?

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"/t @Mr E-Man, Toon name?"

That method works just fine for me.

@TURGENEV - Freedom Server / IRON / B.A.N.E / HORDE

Turg Fiction: Ghost in the Machine Acts III & IV coming 2012!
Turg Fiction: IX is now LIVE on Architect Entertainment!

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I would agree with most of that & yeah your gonna be hard pressed to find anything but AE to do that weekend. I won't even bother logging my Stone Brute out of fear of the tidal wave of PMs. For all the nerfing they do in the name of game longevity, they sure shot themselves in the foot with this one. I know why they created it, and I have played some pretty cool player created Arcs, but they knew damn well and good that farming is what people were going to do with this.

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My quick tip for everyone that hates blind invites and PM's:

type /hide into your chat box. The "Hide" menu pops up, select "Hide from Searches". That will instantly stop most of your blind invites and PM's, while leaving you still visable to your friends, chat channels, super group, etc. As soon as I create a toon, I go into hiding.

Luna

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Luna, you are my new goddess. Even with putting myself to "not accepting invites," I still get invites. Even putting "send tell first" gets me a tell, then an instant invite. It's been driving me batty!

Marc

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You know with the upcoming Double XP Weekend an all it would Do My Old Timer heart Good to see Them come up an Close the Doors on AE,All you see now are High lvl chars taking over atlas,An Steel. All the content that was Pre AE is going to waste as hardly no one will leave Atlas or steel. , I mean why should they when they can stay in AE all day an go from 1-50.it's the wrose thing the Devs could have ever done to this game, They should put a Big sign up saying going out of Business on that place an get everyone back intot he other content, I mean lord i had 2 lvl 50's ask me yesterday how to make a Enhanment, an the other asked where he could put his wings on his suit, I mean damn wake up an see what that place is doing to the game, it's NOT HELPING AT ALL DEVS

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DXP has always been advertised as "Get out there and level" by the devs which translates to some players as "Old MacDonald had a farm eeeiiii eeeiiii ooooooo......and on this farm we have DXP......"

I doubt AE will close, but I haven't heard yet if DXP applies only to the normal content or the AE as well.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

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I would agree with most of that & yeah your gonna be hard pressed to find anything but AE to do that weekend. I won't even bother logging my Stone Brute out of fear of the tidal wave of PMs. For all the nerfing they do in the name of game longevity, they sure shot themselves in the foot with this one. I know why they created it, and I have played some pretty cool player created Arcs, but they knew damn well and good that farming is what people were going to do with this.

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My quick tip for everyone that hates blind invites and PM's:

type /hide into your chat box. The "Hide" menu pops up, select "Hide from Searches". That will instantly stop most of your blind invites and PM's, while leaving you still visable to your friends, chat channels, super group, etc. As soon as I create a toon, I go into hiding.

Luna

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Luna, you are my new goddess. Even with putting myself to "not accepting invites," I still get invites. Even putting "send tell first" gets me a tell, then an instant invite. It's been driving me batty!

Marc

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Glad I could help! The general opinion from the forums is that people who are guilty of blind invites, don't take the time to read anything you post in the search box.

I'm not a fan of PUG's, but I have a lot of friends I like to play with. So by hiding from just searches, no one bugs me but the people I want to bug me

Luna

I don't think the double XP will apply to AE missions. Patrol XP doesn't get counted.

Has there been any behind the scene discussion if the Freedom Horde will participate as a group during this event??

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Well, as you may -or- may not remember, last DXP weekend I ran the "Come Crash with Mr E" series of TFs/SFs - I have not broached the subject with my wife...as of yet, but I think you can plan on seeing me to post something up.

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Has there been any behind the scene discussion if the Freedom Horde will participate as a group during this event??

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Well, as you may -or- may not remember, last DXP weekend I ran the "Come Crash with Mr E" series of TFs/SFs - I have not broached the subject with my wife...as of yet, but I think you can plan on seeing me to post something up.

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And depending on what E has going on, I might post up something for the time period he's running his Static Team. I'm already planning on taking that Friday afternoon off, just for the ability to play before it gets too laggy.

Luna

All they have to do is move AE to a high level hazard Zone such as Rikti War Zone and remove all the low level ones. Problem solved. Half your time is spent doing pre i14 content and the other half is in AE. Everyone wins.

I prefer the "do X amont of Dev content, get Y number of AE passes for AE content" fix someone came up with in another topic. You'd have to do developer content before you could do AE content, and you couldn't just park a toon in an AE building from 1-50. Make them untradeable and it gets even better.

AION Beta Event 4 is that weekend. I know where I will be. Farmitecht is killing CoX.

I've been playing AION beta as well. It looks very nice.

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Has there been any behind the scene discussion if the Freedom Horde will participate as a group during this event??

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Well, as you may -or- may not remember, last DXP weekend I ran the "Come Crash with Mr E" series of TFs/SFs - I have not broached the subject with my wife...as of yet, but I think you can plan on seeing me to post something up.

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And depending on what E has going on, I might post up something for the time period he's running his Static Team. I'm already planning on taking that Friday afternoon off, just for the ability to play before it gets too laggy.

Luna

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I took off that Friday as well. I'm sure that Long-Shots and I will be around. It would be great to get him in on a TF with some Hordies ... He'll probably bring his lvl 50 IO'd emp/dark 'fender Robot-Officer to whatever party you guys are having.

I've got some other stuff to bring including a new 'bout-to-get his-IOs-Fire/Kin. Might be cool to try and get some accloades or badges.

Here is a suggestion....Why not remove any XP for AE missions completely, keep the ticket drop, influence and prestige.

Cause aren't the AE mission suppose to be virtual mission for entrainment, so why have it awarding real XP?

Rednames said they want players to be able to level 1-50 in AE. They would need to change their strategy to remove the XP.

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Cause aren't the AE mission suppose to be virtual mission for entrainment, so why have it awarding real XP?

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This thinking is flawed. Think of any sport. Teams practice. This isn't the "real" game but players still improve from the practice. And, I'm sure it has already been said, but the Devs said they want people to be able to level 1-50 in AE.

Farms aside, I like the AE. I've played most of the story arcs to death. And I like having something else to do. Plus, I have small children and they want to play CoH with their dad. So when they get to play, I can make sure it is on a simple map with nothing but minions. That way they don't just get stuck because they don't have the motor skill to get through a door and they aren't just laying dead all the time. And they really like helping me "pick out the bad guys' clothes."