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This just occured to me, does repeating the same arc as opposed mission count as farming? Not like I'm going to do it or anything, just curious.
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Oh yes, another terrible crime that is.
Ban it.
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Oh yes, another terrible crime that is.
Ban it.
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Oh ^This, for sure... 
Edit: As a SRS rply to the SRS question, I repeated "The strange case of Benjamin R Decker" in Ouro over and over and over for the Ouroborous badges. It's either that, or you try for the badges, restrictions on, against an EB, or with some Defeat Alls added in, for the sake of telling your conscience that you're "not farming".
Don't think it really matters, chap...but then again, that's my view on farming anyway
Thanks for clearing things up, prefer doing arcs once anyway I don't like knowing what's going to happen
If you want to know if something is farming you just have to ask yourself "Why am I doing this?"
Are you a bit slow and unable to understand the story of the arc on the first (and second and third...) go? No farming.
Is the arc still work in progress and you are basically beta testing it? No farming.
The mission or arc gives stupidly high amounts of rewards for how easy it is? Bingo.
It does not matter if it is one mission or five that you do over and over again.
Now, if farming a certain arc can be called abusive that is an other kettle of fish, but again, the same criteria as for single missions apply.
Personally, I do not farm at all because I can not stomach the sheer boredom of it, but I do not mind others farming unless it becomes abusive, i.e. it affects the economy and/or community negatively.
If it has eyes, you can blind it, if it has blood, you can make it bleed, if it has a mouth, you can make it scream.
I'm the same about farming, Sitriel, I was just wondering that because it just randomly popped into my head.
I share the same position.
I am an advocate of farming. It creates positive supply and demand for the economy, which redside needs. The more inf going in, the better!
For the veteran players it's great.
For newbs, when you see a lvl 50 who doesn't know what grandville is, it sucks. But you CAN just teach them. And as vets, i should hope everyone else can forgive noobs too.
The farming is cranking up the prices blueside, which is what I'm currently playing. Can't afford the Set IO's I need because the fluxuating prices cause me to lose out on inf when I go to sell anything.
farming = more disposable inf = 100 mill lvl 10 IO recipies
only way to afford it is to ... farm...
they need an inf cap. Perhaps if you complete a mission you've already completed you start to earn inf on a sliding downward scale (Yay Heroguy beat nemesis! cool. heroguy beat nemesis again! guess what, heroguy beat nemesis yet again. oh, shock, there goes nemesis, yeah yeah heroguy is wonderful blah blah blah. You know what, maybe nemesis isnt all that bad and heroguy is just a bully....)
1. this would encourage players to try new content and not just repeat the same arcs ad nauseum
2. it would reduce the inf flood and let market prices drop without necessarily cutting off the supply of goods to the market - farmers could still make inf selling to the market but at a lower rate as the buyers might not be out there
3. cut inf reward for MA missions completely and in conjunction with this you'll get a lot more PUGs willing to actually play arcs belonging to the team members - arc holder benefits by advancing his/her story experience , farmer benefits by playing a new arc and earning more inf.
Farming also means more drops and with more inf you sell those drops cheaper, so there's not such a big impact on the market as you claim, while they CAN buy YOUR recipes for a rediculous price. The more stuff on the market, the better for everyone.
The big problem is a lot of people got a lot of inf way before ED, market etc entered the game and that still shows, and the fact villains don't make quite enough merits (= recipes that can be sold) etc. I'm not telling you to go grind a farm, but if people wanna do it, let them because they're more likely good for the game than bad.
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The farming is cranking up the prices blueside, which is what I'm currently playing. Can't afford the Set IO's I need because the fluxuating prices cause me to lose out on inf when I go to sell anything.
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No its not, farming is supplying the market blue side aswell, its supply/demand.
Less items with more demand means that prices rise.
More Items with less demand means prices drop.
You want to blame anyone for the prices rising in WW it's those people who get a recipie and place it on the market at a higher value than last few sold and leave it there for a month to get the extra inf.
I'm more of a GIMMIENAO !!! type gal, so i always sell low, and bid high.
Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
I hate peoples views on farming.
And some of you guys on the forum make me laugh.
Farming is the best thing to do on COH with the way WentWorths is.
Let me explain why (for those that think farming ruins the economy)
We earn influence and recipies at a faster rate than anyone else in the game.
We usually (speaking for myself and the farmers i know only) put any drops we get on WW regardless of what it is.
We'll also usually put it on quite a bit lower than the last bids too. We wanna farm more we don't want to sit there waiting for it to sell just to put the rest in.
So more recipies at lower prices? How is farming like that a bad thing?
The next time you complain about farming you should look at your build. See if you brought any IOs from wentworths, and then think, well i better not complain i probably brought it from the farmers.
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I would say that MA farming is hurting the salvage and purple prices. Basically because if your farming MA, they don't drop. But farming MA you get buckets-o-inf so you can pay high prices for those that are for sale.
If everyone went back to farming PI portal style again the prices would slowly come back on the items which drop there.
I'm not for or against. I farm a bit, I tf a bit, I mish a bit. As long as it's fun/interesting.
This just occured to me, does repeating the same arc as opposed mission count as farming? Not like I'm going to do it or anything, just curious.