Does anyone use AE anymore?

I was away for a long time, and now im back and it seems that MA has fallen flat on its face. I understand the need for farming nerfs, but now we are in a position where its hardly ever used.

Custom mobs give heavily reduced experiance at a significant difficulty increase. More powers, player levels, and 75% experiance for standard. Hard and Exrtreme are not even remotly worthwhile.

Mobs have their experiance modifier cut to 1.0 even if its over it.

This is back to news/radio being the prefered leveling method. The only people that ever use it anymore are hardcore Rp's telling a story and those people farming tickets.

But even with that most RPers tend to avoid it since it results in slower gain.

So Im wondering whats the point of it being here at all if its so rarely used, and if its so rarely used doesnt it need to be looked at, or is all the devs care about right now Going Rogue?

well, there is the fact that it's a boxed edition, so if people bought it, but it was removed, people would be pretty pi**ed.

The xp is still ok, there's a new samurai farm in it that's pretty popular...my latest lowbie gained about 10 levels in it. Can still see it being a pretty long grind for a lvl 34+ tho.

If you don't use custom mobs, your XP gain will be identical to a normal mission if you have a minion, lieutenant, and boss in your group.

I agree that custom enemies does need to be looked at again.

I dont want it removed, just fixed so its not garbage.
There is no good reason why custom mobs should be harder and worth less.

Its not bad if you use existing mobs, but that kinda ruins alot of arcs.

I know I wont do custom mobs till they give something decent, either in mine or ones im doing. And if I do one, I start by knocking 2 stars off for poor rewards. And yes I put that in the feedback, poor rewards.

I agree. There's no reason why customs cannot be treated just like the givens, is there?

Yes I did, probably the biggest and most in need of fixing is Custom mobs being worth 75% experiance.

Its not if it aint best its broken, if its not acceptable to the majority of the games population its broken.

If all MA missions gave no experaince, no inf, no tickets you would agree its broken?

If you agree with that on principle, we are just discussing whether 75% or 100% is more palatable.

No Im not saying it didnt need reduction.
And yes, I still see people doing council ticket farms.

And no I rarely see anyone do stories because of the poor rewards if they put custom mobs in, and who wants to tell a story with standard mobs, some do, but most dont.

I said this very clearly, FIX custom mobs experiance.

Honestly dont you get tired of doing the same damn news/radio missions over and over and over and over and over and over and over. But its all teams will do because its the best reward for leveling in the game at the moment.

Yes, lots of people still use AE. I've actually noticed an increase in activity in the past week. The problem isn't that nobody is playing AE, it's the fact the since there's an AE building in every friggin' zone that all the players are spread out. This gives the illusion that all the AE buildings are empty.

Plus, what do you mainly do in the AE buildings? Play missions. People are still using AE, but you just can't see them.

I really don't like how spread out the buildings are, though. I would say have only a few for both sides. For heroes, have one in Atlas Park, Steel Canyon, and Peregrine Island. For villains, Have one in Mercy Island, Port Oakes, and Grandville. It would make the AE building a more universal place to gather, and would make it easier to get a team for AE missions.

Yes but you choose to put them in there knowing they are bad rewards.

We can judge by whatever criteria we see fit.

And poor rewards is a valid reason for a low score, and no you cant differentiate custome enemies from custom packing of standard mobs.

Also if designers get pissed they are getting bad scores for poor rewards it only adds to the people yelling at the devs to fix it.

I'm just going to repeat what je_saist said, seeing as you won't listen to reason.

Get over it.

I usually play an arc or two each time I'm on.

The truely sad part is, the die-hard farm population still use AE as the prefered farming location. For a variety of reasons, some of these reasons so obscure and forgotten, the devs would have a hard time noticing them, if it even occured to them to fix them.

Personally, I'ld use AE to PL and farm for the simple reason that I can farm in cappie and Atlas rather then G-vill and PI. If the decline in play has been from farmers or average players in a larger majority, is hard to tell, but AE simply isn't as used as it should be. Considering how wonderful it has the potential to be.

They need to buff MA and simply resign to the fact that people are going to farm it regardless of whether the xp is equal to or more then average content simply becuase of location and the elimination of the repitition of dev created "farm maps"

A ceaseless war against farmers is the same thing as waging a war to rid the world of ants; if you succeed, it isn't going to be in your life time, it won't be worth it, and you will regret it soon.

IMO of course, rage at me if you wish, I got my popcorn ready.