AE stopping the farming

There will always be unintended use of the game system, this is not exclusive to CoX. They have never supported farming and power leveling, the long list of things they have changed over the years prove that. You are misguided to think they actively support farming and power leveling, or did you miss Positrons rampage the other month? Several people were banned and characters were either rolled back or lost because of exploits.

There are plenty of people in this game who are more than willing to help out new players, it's up to those new players to speak up if they're getting the wrong impression. As a Veteran of this game, I still ask questions from time to time about things I'm not sure about, it's not hard to type a question.

I'm not taking a side here (it looks way too dangerous both sides of this fence I'm perching on!) but if you wanted to stop (or at least deter) farming how about this:

Limit the max amount of inf a player can earn within a 24 hour period on any ACCOUNT (rather than toon). Note I say inf not XP. I think there's a subtle distinction between PL-ing toons (which doesn't really harm others) and farming for inf / drops, which does harm others as it is adversly affecting the in-game economy.

As to what this limit should be - high. I'd suggest the Devs would work out the amount a player could theoretically earn by "normal" playing say 20 hours in a day (got to allow for the obsessives), multiply it by 1.5 and that's your cap.

I am now retiring to my fence.

some people would hate 2XPW yeah yeah, it's only 6 days out of the year, but still >.> you can earn crap tons of money by regular gameplay, believe last 2XPW a friend spent it being exemplared to his wife's characters...he made quite the bank roll.

that feature will be fun, I like to see how much my Fire Tank can take before she keels over :3

If you love to RP, that's fine, but why do you care if others powergame/PL because they want only to PvP/play endgame/ collect 50s/whatever other reason?

Also 10x faster leveling than traditional PL is a gross exaggeration.

PS, when I read Felonious's posts they sound like David Tennant, that happen to anyone else?

There is not role playing in MMO's, hence why I never use RPG in the name. MMOG is what I call them, cause even if you are "IC" most everyone else is not. The first time someone asks for an insp (how do you give or use tangable insperation which is an idea, to have limited time physical affect on someone?) or calls for a reset, talks about slotting powers, etc, RP is lost. Even the attitude of "i got self rez, so i can die" is not RP. Even Wolverine cares about the pain, at least a little.

As for looking at badges, I have a few "character concepts" built around never leaving the MA building except to level. One of my MM's back story (I look at RP in CoX kinda like Oots, a bunch of characters that know they are in a game or fantasy world) is that he is a decker (in the shadow run sense) and uses bots/traps as his programs to kill the security programs (enemies). He wont ever get badges outside of MA, Vet, VIP, VIP Gold Member, and a few other account wide ones. Heck I accedently got a exploration badge, and decided to delete since he shouldn't have one.

As for MA ruining the game, it comes to this: Eaither you play inside MA and level like crazy. You play outside MA and enjoy old content, as well as TF's. You play both, and get the best of both worlds. You throw a hissy fit and leave, which our community doesnt need people throwing hissy fits, its jsut a mood breaker. Or you work for the competition, and slander the game that they orriginally made, and are trying to remake, trying to take customers from us over there, because CoX is just too strong for them to actually have a chance. Personally I assume anyone that starts Doom and Gloom, or yet another complaint thread that has been seen a million times before, to be working for, or with the other company. Being in their beta, then coming over here to complain is what they want you to do. They want unrest to be brought upon the titan that is CoX cause they know they don't have a chance otherwise. If you don't believe CoX will continue standing, then why are you here.

Simply put, Get over it, Get on with your life, play how you want and understand some people want to play otherwise, or Get off CoX and go play with the other turn coats. I've played the game since just after issue 8, and honestly, i quit cause I had no job right around Issue 11. I came back just after Issue 12, and played until the game became a boring grind-fest before I14. I had done just about every TF, played boths sides, Played mishes, radios. It was all getting quite old. So I quit. I tinkered around with MA a bit when it came out.

Then I got the going Rogue and Issue 16 notifications. I started playing. Now I am having fun again. MA is like playing roulette, or you can have favorate ones and play them out. My SG runs TF's every 2 weekends. I am playing the best of both worlds. If i get bored with an Arc, I can put it's ID aside, and play some other ID. I am having fun. I don't care about other people. Me, my wife, our roommate, and our SG runs togeather. If we PUG, we boot or quit if people are ruining it for us. Noobs are only a problem if you stay with them, and they refuse to listen to the party. We were all noobs once, if not to this game, some other. We only learn by someone helping us out.

Gratz if you read the wall of text. I will put the most pertinate line from it down here since for most people they only read the first few and last few lines: Simply put, Get over it, Get on with your life, play how you want and understand some people want to play otherwise, or Get off CoX and go play with the other turn coats.

I'm not leaving either. I actually started enjoying bringing out my Lv50 TriFormPB and building a team of low-level characters and taking them on AE Boss-farms. It's just a different way to have fun.

You see, each character on the team, as long as they're near me — not matter what level they are — contributes to my inherent buff, Cosmic Balance, just by standing there!

If I'm lucky enough to have low-level Controllers and Defenders who use their control, buff and debuff powers allowing me to tank — and the team to defeat — two (or more) groups at a time, I do just that, and the whole team may actually learn a thing or two about how valuable a "support-role" can actually be.

If just one out of those 7 with me starts asking questions about the game, about my character, about building advice, as long as what they're looking for is honest answers, and not someone who'll build their character for them, I help as much as I can, which sometimes includes running a Respec TF so build "mistakes" can be corrected.

So, I thank the Devs for AE, for double-XP in AE and for finally helping Kheldians show exactly what Kheldians were always meant to be... Elders teaching the young.

Thanks to AE flooding the game with inexperienced high-level players, the bad-team-experience rants used to start out with "I was on my lowbie in the hollows when..." are now commonplace at lvl 50. Yay.