Question For Farmers

Why?

Don't open that door . . . you may not like what you see.

You feel like growing your own corn?

Why not look at all the other threads to find out.

Question for PK: Why?

I wanted to unlock the Rularuu broadsword.

What the heck, I'm in an answery mood.

I just hope I answer the correct question.
Why farm?

• To provide food for those with insufficient space to grow it themselves or who are not able to farm for themselves due to specialisation in work or time constraints.
  
• And yeah, it's an easier way to get influence/infamy/levels.
• A person might be aiming for pvp, or end-game content and not need to work theirn way through the regular level method.
• They're leveling a particular archtype for their supergroup as there are no characters in the supergroup of that archtype which are high enough level/online/available/willing.
• Because people are willing to pay them real world currency for the online representation of ingame currency and so they can turn a profit by this method.
• Because they may not want to pay 1,000,000 infamy for a piece of rare/uncommon salvage, instead choosing to purchase it from AE by paying 540/80 AE Tickets.
• Because they hate you and wish to annoy you. Yes you, Westley.
• Because they have friends/supergroup members who farm and so choose to help the aforementioned friend/supergroup member.
• Because they want to try out a particular power, and don't wish to wait until they gain the appropriate level through normal leveling.
• Seriously? What is normal leveling anyway? Is it solo or teamed? How many people in the team? Streetsweeping or missions? Taskforce or story arcs? Architect Entertainment or Ouroboros?
• What the hell is wrong with you?
• Why do bad things happen to good people?
• A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.
• Because it's there.
• Because they choose to, as is their right as paying subscribers.
• A player might have already gone through the early levels several times and is only interested in higher level gameplay.
• A friend/associate/supergroup member is a higher level than them, and they wish to play with them without having to be mentored. (Of course this aspect should be largely moot once supersidekicking comes in.)

Ei Ei O?

Another reason to farm is that certain organizations support agriculture and like to pay farmers some extra for their... Well, farming. And on top of that you can also sell the products your farm produces!

Fascinating responses. I could say more, but, nah.

I do it for different reasons.

1) to get stuff that i dont wanna pay for in WW. (farming WW is boring, imo too) i'd rather farm for a couple days and see if it drops before pay people prices for some pieces. usually it drops for me. having 3 accounts helps odds too though.

2) because at level 50, you kill so fast that running 15 door missions get just as boring. and i don't have to try to blaze thru caves.

3) to PL alts for myself, wife, cousin, and SG members.

Let me ask a question to "non farmers". With drop rates being soooo low, how would you really expect to get recipes and salvage without people farming? Play for months hoping to get 1 piece? It would really take years on one toon to get a build doing missions alone. Unless you just use SO's, then what's the point of WW?

Because your E-***** is only as large as your e-wallet.