What's the big deal? Powerleveling and the AE "nerf"

So, how do we tell which EXP belongs to us and which EXP is off limits?

And how do we take it out of the game?

See, because I pointed out that my analogy was also flawed, just less so than yours. Which means I realized that real world parallels to virtual world behaviors are necessarily imperfect, rendering your nit picking superfluous.

The exp you get from doing something you were asked by the staff not to is off limits.
This is taken out of the game by bannings and level resets.

All of the above.

well, if you're playing a drinking game, I'd say you've got a shot at remaining drunk all the way up to Issue 20.

done poorly you may go crosseyed and break your wrist. i suspect the headdesk is the crucial element.

Serving up some completely anecdotal "evidence":

Last Saturday, at noon, in the middle of double XP weekend, there were two teams in the RWZ AE building. Mine was full, the other one looked like a very large team as well but admittedly I didn't stop to count them. Double XP was not in effect in MA missions. This was on Triumph.

So basically what we had here was about 15 people on one of the "dead" servers deciding that the "dead" MA provides more fun than the double XP of regular content. Just imagine what it would have been like if the game wasn't dying!

They can still level-grind, you know. They're still doing it. They're not herding helpless custom-designed foes who can't fight back, but the level-grinders are definitely grinding somewhere, somehow. They keep telling us that the Devs stopped them, but the Devs just stopped them from getting it for free.

I was wondering how to combine them! /em rollingfacedesk it is!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Totally agreed. I pay my taxes and why should I be allowed to do 70 mph in a residential zone?

Oh, yeah, it's not without risk, but then, nothing truly great ever is.

And you're right about the headdesk. It's absolutely critical that you've finished the facepalm and your hand is no longer in front of your face when your head hits the desk. But at the same time, you can't wait too long or it won't be a proper combo. It's tricky but very rewarding.

Cause you might miss your turn?

I guess I did. Which is good, I guess, because I rather like being able to hear myself think as I look through the list of playable arcs, and move around at a frame rate greater than about 5 FPS, neither of which really works out when a huge mob of player characters is about.

See, it's funny how different players' experiences will differ. What you just described is kind of the ideal way something like this should work from my perspective - so what you think of as AE being "murdered", I'm seeing as AE being made worthwhile. I can't abide great teeming mobs of PCs and being invited to team up with strangers every 36 seconds. It's one of the several reasons I'm not enamored of that "invasion" business. If the Architect buildings were still like that, I'd never go near the damn things. Actually, I wouldn't be able to go near them, on account of the aforementioned framerate issue, but I digress.

(This is where someone - maybe the OP, maybe just someone who can't resist putting the boot in - will look at me archly and go, "You do know you signed up to play a massively multiplayer online game, yes?" If you are that person, then, in advance, kindly go soak your head. A desire to be one of the extras in the stock exchange scenes from Wall Street is not a prerequisite for MMO gaming and you know it.)

That issue never affected me. As there is a room that cancels out all powers in the AE. Thus I could form teams in that room and not have the frame rate drop . . . back when I had the desire to use AE.

Now I just set my difficulty to x8 and solo farm. And now I get purples.

Issue 16 was full of win.

I'm not even talking about people spamming powers, I'm talking about there being so many characters to draw (and so much chat traffic) that the system just grinds to a halt.

Sam, I think the proper order would be...

*rolleyes*

*headdesk*

*facepalm*

As for the OP. With the AE fix, I can now put broadcast back into my chat, and I'm now willing once again, to enter Atlas Park.

Angel Red
"We're heroes. Fighting injustice is the thing we do." ~Rebel Scum

No, the crime was a result of people taking something that didn't belong to them.
If I neglect to lock my car door, and someone takes my car, they're still guilty of stealing my car. A failure to secure against theft does not legitimize theft, neither ethically nor legally.

Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

Agreed!

Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

Do the exp's we're not allowed to have come with dye packets that explode once we level, so the cops can bust in the door and arrest us?

'cause one exp looks just like every other exp to this longtime player.

And if the AE didnt have rewards to begin with, it would have been dead on the first day it launched instead of waiting until 2 issues later.

With the new SSKing system and difficutly system, they should have just left the AE alone until they came up with ultimately what would be the xp system for it. Much of the out of hand leveling would have been curtailed with the simply forced level 49 already.

Um.. wow, thanks. Usually I just get neg rep'd in these sort of discussions.

I agree that fast leveling really doesn't hurt anyone, so long as the risk is equal to the reward. It's the exploiters that the devs don't care for. Glad we've come to an understanding

Try as I might, I can't parse this sentence, particularly the part after "curtailed".