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They can't both go off at the same time at the moment. If one is going on the other won't start until the first one has ended.|
Originally Posted by Tripp_Hazzard
Eh, I'm not terribly surprised. Double XP is Double XP. Now if I could just figure a way to trigger a Rikti Invasion and a Zombie Invasion in Atlas Park at the same time, that would be fun to watch.
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I saw this happen in the Rikti Invasion weekend. A Zombie Apocalypse ended and as soon as it ended the Rikti invaded.
I did think that this was a pretty cool idea as well though. I was talking to someone about all the zombies and Rikti spawning around each other in order to fight each other.
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Or maybe you're just bitter and angsty because the devs have never taken an anti-farming stance, only an anti-exploiting stance and you lack the validation you need for your moral crusade?
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Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
They weren't.
Epimetheus strikes again! [ http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanEpimetheus.html ] I'm looking at the reaction to the abuse/exploitation of the MA/AE and then this goes on. Seriously, it is like them telling you not to eat some cookies from the cookie jar before dinner because they will make you sick and then force feeding you the whole jar. It makes no sense. I won't be farming either way. I won't be playing with players that make a point of announcing they are farmers, etc. if I can at all help it ...I'm actively 1 staring them and putting them on gignore. Honestly, it hasn't hurt my play experience at all. It has improved it. I haven't run into a single player that I have one starred on any of the teams that I have teamed with. All this farming in the AE has pretty much driven me out of it, which is a shame since I think it is such a great idea from the player-generated creativity level. Well, to get back around to the point of the thread... It's pretty silly to reward the people that the DEVs themselves have indicated are abusers/exploiters/cheaters but there they go doing it ... maybe they are trying to sucker them out for a mass banning?  |
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I expect to make a killing off of the impatient AE players this weekend.
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It seems dumb to me too.|
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I really do not understand why they merged the two unless they are emphasizing something that will upset some people.
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One defense of it may be that the Inventions forum had a really anemic post rate. But still, the two topic areas were really very separate in terms of the discussions that happened in them.
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Come on, did the fact that AE would give double XPs really surprise anyone?
I mean, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth and tugging at bodices if it didn't?
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I was expecting it but not expecting it, if you know what I mean. I just find it incredibly interesting given the massive XP/inf gains that the MA makes possible, and the official viewpoint of such gains. It's like being told "you can't have any candy or you're grounded" and then having it force-fed to you.
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Since you can't use patrol XP in MA? Yeah, it kind of came as a surprise.|
Originally Posted by Jet_Boy
Come on, did the fact that AE would give double XPs really surprise anyone?
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To respond to other posts, people here aren't mad about MA teams, they're surprised that slightly bemoaning the fact that some of their investment predictions were incorrect. So stop suggesting they go start normal mission teams. That's not the point of this thread.
I really hope the market forum doesn't devolve from this merger with the inventions forum. I liked coming here to read about market speculation, prices and trends.
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Originally Posted by Soul_Fane
I really hope the market forum doesn't devolve from this merger with the inventions forum. I liked coming here to read about market speculation, prices and trends.
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Originally Posted by Jetpack
It's inevitable.
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Its plain and simple.
Double xp is a switch. A very small piece of code, to be used only 2-3 times per year.
Making it not function on Ae will be contraproducent. It would need a lot of programming, and it would open space for much more bugs and problems than needed.
I much like want the devs working on something that goes year-round.
And I was certain that there would be forum tamtruns... Fun Fun Fun
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Originally Posted by KayJMM
Its plain and simple.
Double xp is a switch. A very small piece of code, to be used only 2-3 times per year. Making it not function on Ae will be contraproducent. It would need a lot of programming, and it would open space for much more bugs and problems than needed. I much like want the devs working on something that goes year-round. And I was certain that there would be forum tamtruns... Fun Fun Fun CRY MORE, PLEASE! |
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Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
They weren't.
It makes no sense. |
It makes business sense.
Farmers pay their subs just like you.
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Farmers are bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by MunkiLord
Farmers are bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Uh, farming in the AE is an exploit per the DEVs.
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Originally Posted by Cavatina
Or maybe you're just bitter and angsty because the devs have never taken an anti-farming stance, only an anti-exploiting stance and you lack the validation you need for your moral crusade?
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Originally Posted by Jet_Boy
Come on, did the fact that AE would give double XPs really surprise anyone?
I mean, can you imagine the gnashing of teeth and tugging at bodices if it didn't? |
If it didn't have double xp, then players would have been forced to *cringe* play normal content for double xp?!
How horrible!
I think it would have been a good thing.
The DEVs could have done a lot of data mining of the XP growth of players in the AE that are farming/pl'ing in it and double xp in normal content - with the player groups that were playing both.
I think it would have yielded some good information for them.
If we keep going down this road I'm all for the DEVs just letting people make 50's if the want. They are pretty much meaningless as a sign of game experience at this point.
The whole thing kind of leave a bad taste in my mouth about even playing normal content during double xp weekend. Maybe I'll just PvP in the market and make alot of loot, but sometimes I debate the necessity to do even that any more.
Oh, well. I'll just go enjoy what the game is supposed to be about. I'll be a hero fighting crime. And there is plenty of crime happening in Paragon City.
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Er, no. they said that they didnt encourage farming. It being an exploit would mean it completely ignores risk/reward. IE mito farms or comm officers.
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Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
Uh, farming in the AE is an exploit per the DEVs.
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Originally Posted by KayJMM
contraproducent
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Contraproducente, though, is apparently a real word in Portuguese meaning, "In contrast to the expected effect, which reduces the productivity." Close enough!
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Quote, please.|
Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
Uh, farming in the AE is an exploit per the DEVs.
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Otherwise you stand accused of talking out your <bleeeep>.
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Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic
I'm over it.
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Obviously, you are not.
Duel me.
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I learn new words all the time in my line of work.|
Originally Posted by Brawlnstein
This is a rad word, I wish it was real and English, or at least latin!
Contraproducente, though, is apparently a real word in Portuguese meaning, "In contrast to the expected effect, which reduces the productivity." Close enough! |
Precludious: "They cut my electric off without giving me more time. Their action was highly precludious."
Dispostional: "I thought the police officer was being highly dispositional with his attitude."
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Epimetheus strikes again!
[ http://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanEpimetheus.html ]
I'm looking at the reaction to the abuse/exploitation of the MA/AE and then this goes on.
Seriously, it is like them telling you not to eat some cookies from the cookie jar before dinner because they will make you sick and then force feeding you the whole jar.
It makes no sense.
I won't be farming either way.
I won't be playing with players that make a point of announcing they are farmers, etc. if I can at all help it ...I'm actively 1 staring them and putting them on gignore.
Honestly, it hasn't hurt my play experience at all. It has improved it. I haven't run into a single player that I have one starred on any of the teams that I have teamed with.
All this farming in the AE has pretty much driven me out of it, which is a shame since I think it is such a great idea from the player-generated creativity level.
Well, to get back around to the point of the thread... It's pretty silly to reward the people that the DEVs themselves have indicated are abusers/exploiters/cheaters but there they go doing it ... maybe they are trying to sucker them out for a mass banning?