Am I the only one confused by i16...

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What's a Meow Farm?

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Meow teams, meow missions...whatever the code word for 'farms' in the MA was.

All I remember as a bunch of people standing around in AE broadcasting "Meow?" "Meow?" "Meow LFM!"

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*shudder*

As if role playing catgirls didn't freak me out enough already... seeing that spammed everywhere would have driven me to hide under the desk in a fetal position for a month.

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I was playing Crazy Old Cat Lady a lot during the Meow madness. Man, I had so much fun messing with those Meowers in broadcast...

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However, I do feel they're much less likely to make radical changes or delete characters that have been power leveled anywhere outside of the mission architect.

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And why does deletion need to be a punishment that's on the table at all? If there is an exploit that is that egregious, fix the problem instead of fixing the player, unless they've been using it for months and months and trying to hide it from everyone. The idea of deletion should always be one of last resort instead of some knee jerk or scripted solution.

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And why does deletion need to be a punishment that's on the table at all? If there is an exploit that is that egregious, fix the problem instead of fixing the player, unless they've been using it for months and months and trying to hide it from everyone. The idea of deletion should always be one of last resort instead of some knee jerk or scripted solution.

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Pum, please take your logic where it's wanted.

The meows were fixed at 42 comm officers, minions with lt xp, like other said. However, they had double normal xp. Several people set up maps that had an animation which interrupted comm officers casting portals as well.

IMO, the biggest problem was that this and several other exploits were known and still allowed to run for close to 3 weeks for whatever reason. There was a publishing blackout, but it came after this had been going on for a week or more, and frankly, it was serious enough to break a blackout if you don't want your new (steam, shelf-space architect box) players immediately getting shuffled into farming content. Saying "There may be repercussions" a couple weeks after its been going full tilt, when the servers are more populated than they have been in a very long while and the heavy majority of people are engaged in such activities just isn't going to cut it.

i type /ac level_up_toona and get free levels all the time, just saying

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Publishing blackout doesn't explain why no comment was issued on the official forums regarding warnings about exploits.

The retroactive measures and the deliberate obfuscation are the hardest part to understand and makes people extra paranoid.

I think the whole thing can be summed up by the staff's amazing lack of mental flexibility. From Posi's posts, to shockingly treating the blackout time (which wasn't even admitted to until after it was over) as sacred despite what reason would suggest, to the total lack of preparedness with their public venues, it seemed the whole time like they were reacting, rather than acting.

A lot of what I would say has been well said already.

I expect to use this feature when soloing high level characters to make things more interesting.

I expect to also get a lot of use out of the new feature with my SG. We usually team in groups of 4 or 5, and most of those teams could handle spawns for a team of 8.
I've been known to "accidentally" aggro additional mobs because we weren't being challenged.

One thing I noticed about the new "sidekick" system is that the level caps have been removed for the hazard zones. I'm sure this question has been asked, but I'm feeling lazy right now.....what if you're solo? Does it automatically bump you up to the minimum level? For instance: New character, level 1. If I go to PP, does it automatically put me at level 7 (or whatever the minimum level is)?

" is that the level caps have been removed for the hazard zones."

Purple farms in Perez in I16, you heard it here first.

I wanted to get my newer spines/FA onto test to try out the new difficulty slider, but the copy tool wasn't working at the time, so I ran with my old fire/kin, poorly slotted, and specced for ice mastery (had been just trying different epics out for my ill/storm waay back in the day) and i did 1/2 the old demon farm map 3 times, and got 2 purples, and they were the same one, ragnarok, i think dam/rech, but I may have forgotten. I just thought it was odd, and instantly thought back to

To the anonymous coward who neg repped me with "A sadly useless post..." in reference to my pointing out that Hellsminion had answered his own question, I'm very sorry that you lack the reading comprehension of even a second grader. It also appears that in a life-or-death situation requiring you to excercise your intellect, I personally would place my bet on the fruit fly that would be competing with you.