AE stopping the farming

I said my part and now I am leaving this alone...

I'm still of the opinion that AE should have a required tutorial that is, in itself a story arc that allows the new players a chance at dev created content, gives information and tutorial-related information while intergrating the funnest part of RC. Then, once they finish the story arc, they have the choice of AE or RC.


I am a farmer, I farm MA, I farm RC, when I factor in purple drops, I find running RC farms more profitable, but more unpredictable due to the "Am I going to get a hecatomb? or a fort hypno?"

Seriously. yell more, I want to read more raged and stupid altoholic posts, he's my favorite poster due to the utter lack of logic and reason.

Square peg, round hole bright, square, round, it doesn't work, I've tried. It just ends up with me on alt's ignore and him continueing to spew utter nonsense.

If I can deviate for a second....

I got one of those anonymous remarks you can give now that deal with reputation or something. Apparently for the post I made where I illustrated some game concepts a new player wouldn't intuitively know (how enhancements work, positional versus typed defense, etc), I received the following remark:

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An opinion backed with facts that are nothing more then more opinions and false facts is indeed false. I would prefer an uninformed answer then an wrong opinion. Stay out of threads if you haven't left AE yet, stop farming, AE Noob.

Uh.... are you sure you were directing that to the right person? I rarely use AE, don't farm it when I do, and I've been playing for over five years. I'm definitely not an "AE Noob". Whoever you are, there's no reason to be rude just because you can do it anonymously (that's a poor character trait), but if you positively must, then at least direct it to the right person.

I dont like the anonmous(splol) part of it, i sign mine -Epsilon, cuz i aint afraid of u ethugs! :P

K, I didn't bother to read all 16 pages, but to put it simply, if you wanna stop people from farming in AE, limit them from getting any rewards after they've earned 10 bars worth of XP (even at 50, count up what it would be for 10 bars), and then cut them off from all rewards... no XP, no Inf., no Tix, nothing... well, they can still get inspirations I guess. Then, reset this counter once per day, at an arbitrary time. If people decide they want to farm, then they're done in half an hour, and have to leave the building if they want to make real progress, or wait until the next reset time.

Something like this would cover all the marketing points on the box on shelves in stores: a player could still level from 1 to 50 using only AE, and they can still use it starting at level 1.

IF that's too harsh, give "double-XP" credit similar to Patrol XP (could even have it stack with patrol XP-- giving 3x XP... normal once, patrol second, AE bank third) after the cap has been met for the day (but still no inf. or tix). I'd say this doubleing effect could count while earning real XP in while playing in AE, but the doubled part should count against that day's cap before they just start earning more banked XP again (so theoretically, if someone spends 30 minutes hitting the cap one day by farming, then keep farming and earn another 10 bars of banked XP, then come back the next day and farm again and do the same farm, they'll actually be done farming in 15 min before they just start banking XP again).

The idea here is to discourage the ridiculously fast XP/inf. gain and promote playing actual story arcs, which is what the AE was meant for. Typically we don't gain a full level by playing 2-3, even 4 arcs, depending on the level of the arc, especially with no end-of-mission bonuses, so it really won't hamper people who are creating/playing real arcs.

To balance all this, lower the price of tickets needed for rolls as people would be getting fewer per day.

NExt person who deviates from this threads obvious topic of the discussion of silly lolrep comments is going to get sum srs bad lolrep rage comment.