AE Experience Drop

Permit me to point out that this thread, and several others like it, were started by exploiters "crying" about the change, not by team players crying about exploit farms making teaming impossible.

Understand. My heart bleeds for the exploiters.

Its kinda like getting free cable, and when the cable company corrects it, people ******** that they dont get free cable anymore(You know they do!). If peeps can do it more than once, they feel entitled to it, as if its the norm, and how it should always be. Well, its not.

Saying its wrong, and are glad it was fixed because its wrong and an exploit is fine, even commendable. Complaining that you couldn't get a team is just whinging. I just created a chat channel "Non PLing Teams" My gift to the world. Its better than a Hot Lunch!

Don't you love when people think that what they do doesn't affect anyone else in an MMO?

I'm afraid, but compelled to ask: What does Meow mean anyway? Seen it tossed round a bit. Missed that time period of COX.

Kind of a random codeword for the uber-PL exploit farms from the early days of AE. It's linked somehow to the first big exploit farm mission that was created, though the details escape me at the moment. It was a mito farm, as I recall. I -think- the mission name, details, etc all only said one word in each field: "meow".

Level 54 Comm Officers from the Rikti Mothership raids. They gave extra XP over normal Rikti and have crappy weapons since they are portal openers. But the Portal Summon is interruptible so any AOE would render them pretty much harmless. I remember an all Rikti Lieut exploit as well, using the same double XP Mothership Rikti too.

I thought the Mitos were "Bubble farms"?

Different name, same thing. I think "Bubble farm" was just more specific. "Meow" refers to the uber farms in general.

Perhaps there *MIGHT* be some *SLIGHT* truth to that on the lesser population servers. On Freedom, though? Uh-uh. Tons of teaming going on (especially if you accept blind invites), be it sewer, radio, badge hunting, giant monster teams, or just standard missions. Plus, of course, AE farming, though most of that disappears once you leave Atlas/Cap, as does the spam from people begging to be power leveled.

Really, if you can't find normal teams, it's your own damn fault (especially if you're aware of the existance of global chat channels).

There are other missions that will get you past the first 20 levels in about an hour. Easy enough to find them as well. I would say more but there are people that resent anyone having access to such things.

I well remember the comm officer fever. I saw people I hadn't seen in forever playing the game and usage was at multiples of normal.

You may well be correct when you apply "here" to your statement, but that is only because what is here is what's left.

Edit: Just a counter data point

If so many people were using and enjoying the fast leveling that this gentleman couldn't find teams its pretty substantial evidence that a majority were enjoying it. Now you can go into the wisdom of removing features that your customers like and use, but cost you nothing but that is a different discussion.

No not really... it's only affects you if you let it!

People play this game for many differnent reasons, and it is what it is, and if things are changed because of certain things people do, the choice is simple you either deal with it or find another game to play or complain about it on this foum, forgot about that

Oh, right, it's MY fault those 3 clueless level 50 n00bs who PLed their way to 50 using exploits ruined my TF.... Gotcha...

Yep, filter better. This is no different from any other MMO. Just because someone is max level does not mean they're knowledgeable about the game or their class/AT. Especially in this day of 'solo to level cap' gameplay, that clueless 50 doesn't have to be an AE Baby. They could very well be a casual type who leveled to 50 over the last four to five years and just doesn't know what "common knowledge" at their level might be (though it's more likely to be an AE Baby, admittedly).

Then again, I'm an old vet from the EQ era where people at max level knew their (stuff) and heck, even being present in some zones suggested you knew more than Joe Casual (had to raid to get there and had to be competent to get into a guild good enough to do those raids).

But seriously, who doesn't at least check the badges on potential groupmates. That's no guarantee either but it's a lot easier to see an AE Baby coming by doing so. That "everything you do in an MMO affects everyone else" line of thinking is a slippery slope. When exactly does it end? Does my selling a ceramic armor to a QM/NPC hurt the populace by depriving the market of supply? Is my soloing depriving the populace of people available to team? Exploits are bad, no one's arguing that. But not everything is an obvious exploit. Demon missions on a fire tanker or brute, exploit or smart gameplay? I am SO banned if that's a 'sploit.

Life is like a pug tf...

I've had more "Vets" remind me why I solo, than nubs.

...and I'm supposed to know how well they play their character before I've ever seen them play? Golly, I didn't know psychic powers were a requirement for playing this game!

The way I play is FOR ME. Not anyone else. If you're letting stuff other folks do in this game affect you......then perhaps you need to take a step back, smell the fresh air and do some outdoor things.

It's a game. Get over it.

Actually, it wasn't the fact that the portals were interruptible (although maybe the mothership versions lack this) so much as Comm officers of the same spawn only summon one portal between them. So people would have pathetic, minion-classed NPCs in huge groups with no real attacks. If the portal was summoned, it goes down easy.

Even after the Mothership Raid versions of the Rikti were removed, regular comm officers were used to do the same thing, as to make up for no XP on the portals, comm officers give Lt. XP.

I know plenty of people that are deathly afraid to start their own teams, and joined those do to "lack of other teams". And they hated it.

I was always able to find a team, make one if need be, during that mess. And not just because of RO, but because if there isn't a team and I really want to team, I'll put one together.

And they'll continue to insist it's not an exploit and their $15 entitles them to do absolutely ANYTHING they want long after it gets changed.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Ok let's use your logic, Do you have any proof that those 3 clueless n00bs used exploits? Maybe they paid to get pled by people that use non exploit farm missions Let's not forget the otherside fo the coin, those people that you get that think they know everything! They think they are never wrong, like they are experts on everything having to do with this game, these people are just as annoying on a tf or whatever mish!


The truth is, you have a choice as to who you play with, if the noob index is to high you can always quit the team... when you join a random team you get what you get... To avoid this, form your own team or join an sg and play with them, play with friends if you are low on friends join virtue and I'm sure you can find people to role play being your friend, then play with them...

for the record there are plenty of people that have level 50 toons that have never gotten pled and still have no clue how to play their toon.
it's just something you have to deal with when you play any mmo

Very true and like with any exploit in this game people will use it and it will get poular and the devs will take out the nerf bat and wack it
that's just how it is

/signed