Overheard in Atlas AE

Sorry, this was just so poetic I had to share:

Player1: hello guys
Player2: hi
Player3: hey there
Player1: what are you guys up to?
Player3: im just acually reminising wit Player2 lol
Player2: lol good times
Player1: lol
Player3: we were talkin bout how the game was so much better without ae
Player1: yeah it ruined the game
Player2: alot better
Player1: for sure
Player1: it messed up the economy and got people spoiled to power lvling
Player1: its hard to find the balance between the two.
Player3: yea its like a drug
Player1: it sucks
Player1: well im off to power lvl my friend lol
Player3: lol wanna join ou tam
Player3: our*
Player3: team*
Player1: what are you farming?
Player3: 2012 - speed run but i can do somethin else
Player2: lol it would be nice if we could get enough people to petition i would love it gone
Player1: im doing robots
Player1: im kind of down to do a real farm
Player3: we should do smackdown
Player2: my fav
Player1: which one is that?
Player3: by princess
Player3: the one with the chicks
Player1: hows the xp?
Player3: boss chick
Player2: troopers mish
Player3: its a real farm
Player2: great exp
Player3: yea
Player2: but its really hard lol
Player1: okay can i lead?
Player2: sure
Player1: okay

(Actual names have been changed to protect the hypocritical.)

We hates the drug, but we needs it!

There are times I miss the AE farms, only if for the mad leveling in the low to mid levels. I have a scrapper that REALLY needs to be in Cimerora for storyline purposes, but I'm still two levels away from getting there. And I have a level 12 Corruptor that is really, really squishy. But I'm hanging with doing things by the book redside since I've never really been over there before. But man, my AR/Traps Corr does get chewed up pretty often.

The new breed of AE farms are a joke compared to the old ones. They can almost be left in place. I only see good level gain before lvl 20 so I use them to PL my alts to Stamina, but the high-level toons advance about as slowly as ever.

The only good thing about the speed runs is that anyone can do them, even a mere lvl 1 scrapper can start powerleveling himself (which feels WRONG!), making sewers runs obsolete again (but still fun)

Still amazes me that the henchman thing is allowed to go on

You know, I just tried one of those "speed runs" last night, because I was all curious about them.

I actually found it fun! It didn't take itself at all seriously. And the NPC hero costumes were cool. It almost felt like a parady of the actual game; a satire on its repetitive nature. I actually found it refreshing.

Are they only changing the mastermind exploit? (Which I hadnt even heard of until yesterday)

I hope they leave AE alone otherwise. I have some big outdoor maps filled with CoT and other Canon foes (for full XP) that I do regularly when I just want to mindlessly beat up stuff and earn tickets.

I hope that will be unchanged.

Lewis

Glad to hear they are on it. In the meantime, I learned that it was fairly good for getting my lowbie alts to the mid-teens in 1-2 runs, so now I have much more toons to play, which will not help my altitis

Is the samurai farm still around on test?

I've used the speed runs to get a few characters past the really early levels. And to put a level or 2 on characters that don't solo well (pre level 32 Illusion/Force Field controller anyone?)

My only reaql problem with them is that very seldom does anyone even attempt to give them a plot. By far, the most epic fail on writing a plot I have seen yet was "...". That was it, that was the ONLY dialog anywhere in the mission. Yes, it's an exploitive farm, but at least have some fun with it!

During the heyday of the comm officers I had one in which the contact berated the characters for being a dirty farmer. It was amusing as hell. But not nearly as amusing as the feedback I got from it. I had numerous people that were extremely offended because my contact was giving them grief for being a farmer. These same people ran my arc numerous times.....which just means my contact was absolutely correct.

I don't create any exploitive arcs anymore (unless you count the one that was designed for my spines/fire scrapper with nothing but fire-wielding enemies in it), but when I did, at least I had a sense of humor about it.