no one is playing why the nerfs to xp

LIES! no-one plays :P

No you don't exist, you are a figment of my imagination.

I think it's a case of you being disconnected from reality.
What the heck are you babbling about? What nerfs are you talking about?

There are so many things wrong with these statements... I wont even bother to feed the troll.

This game is NOT hard, it's easy to the point of being boring at times, hence my major Altitus.

I get invited to groups all the time, on Freedom, I see people looking for groups all the time, TFs/STF's ect. ect. all the time, many times a day, do you have your chat windows turned off? I could get ANY badge I wanted (if I cared about it) with just random looking for groups, try joining RF2009 or other popular chat channels.

They have done some of that already. But then again some badges are supposed to be hard, some you get for doing nothing but walking into the right area of the map.

The market is a funny thing, RMT's have made INF meaningless for some folks so the prices can be sky high, I would like to see purples a little easier to get myself, but I don't claim to know what mechanic to use for this.

The point is that this game has gotten easier and easier not harder, the only thing really nerf'ed (other then ED, DOH) is AE and that was never meant to level you that quickly, someone discovers a bug that lets you gain XP fast, people use it for a while, the dev's catch on and fix it, it will continue to happen.

You know, TopDoc once stated a truism. You are only entitled to the purples that you earn, any more than that, and you need to purchase them from other players. Other players can be unreasonable.

If you want more purples, start defeating mobs. It is only about 3k+ mobs per purp on average.

It seems kind of a waste to point out that my post was meant to be irony, except that in pointing out that I shouldn't point it out, that's irony as well.

I think the most important thing to note here is that we have no idea what you mean.

What has become hard about the game? Trust me, it's a lot easier than it was when I started playing it, so I'm extremely curious as to what nerfs in particular you feel have made the game too hard. Please, quoting from patch notes where possible, confirm which changes to the game have made it "like totally impossible" to get badges and XP.

Since I play on the EU servers, I have no idea what it's like on Freedom, however my own personal experience on Union, which is nothing like as populous as Freedom, or Virtue (or some of the other US servers, according to some people), tells me that it is actually easy to get a team to undertake almost any task that exists. Further, there are precisely zero exploration badges in the Shadow Shard, so I'm not quite sure why they would be hard to get. I can get them all without even going into the zones.

They recently amended many of the badges to lower the requirements to get them, making them a lot easier to achieve. So they've already met one of your requests. They either did it by acknowledging some time ago that certain badges are unreasonably hard to get, or they read this thread and used their time-machine to go back and fix things.

Why do you want to get Purples? I've had the grand total of three drop for my toons. I don't need them. I want them, sure, but I understand that I either have to defeat more mobs to do so, or I have to pay through the nose on the Auction House. It sounds to me as though you want to get the proverbial "Purpled out Warshade", which, so that you know, is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that anyone willing to devote the time and energy to getting one has to really put some effort into it.

Purples are Ultra-rare enhancements. They are not, and never were, meant to be available in significant numbers to casual players (which I count myself as). If you want purples, and if you want more than a few purples, put the time in to get the inf, or put the time in to get the drops. Take your pick.

You can get a team on any server by putting your LFT flag up and joining an appropriate global channel. Also by attempting to spell words correctly.

The only nerfs that ever made this game significantly harder took place back in 2005. Nearly every change since then has made things easier for the players. I could see them raising the drop rate for purples at some point in the future, but I wouldn't bank on it. Ultra-rare is supposed to mean ultra-rare.

And the game is very easy to play without them.

and

*sigh* Can't believe I never did this earlier.

/ignore

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

My, what a profound statement. That really makes your point. Well done.

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I had heard the CO was fun but it looked cellshaded when I checked the cover and my all-consuming hatred of cellshading has only ever been overcome by one game, Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. Other than that I heard that everyone plays cookie cutter tank mages and secretly plots to destroy the world from their parent's basement.

I think they are referring to the AE.
It appears they have a disconnect from playing the "the actual game" (aka "anything but AE missions") - none of which has taken nerfs to xp or drops.

I think what they meant to say was ::
"Me AE baby. Mean DEVs am make me cry. Why am DEVs so mean!?"

There is a world outside of the AE. HELLO! You can even leave Atlas! *gasp*
Really. You won't fall of the edge of the game map if you try to leave the AE building or Atlas!!!

I think the sad part of the original post is that there are probably far more players that are/will be glad about the changes to the AE (or don't care at all) than those that are going to be getting upset that their exploit-train has been derailed again.

Seriously, I don't know what the exploiters have to whine about. They will have a new way to exploit the changes probably the day that i17 drops.
Oh, wait...I guess they will have to take time to figure out their new exploits -

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I'm so sad for them.
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I have no compassion for the players that play only to exploit the game.
I don't want to team with them and I would really prefer that they found another game to abuse.

Be a hero. Go fight some crime.

Or so it would have been, if certain modern theories concerning the shape of the game world had not proven to be disastrously wrong.

Blasphemer! If not for the fact that I'm sure I'd fall off the map if I left Atlas to do it, I would gather a horde of Luddites from Cap au Diable to burn you in effigy for that statement.


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Their animated hair technology is especially awesome, I thought.

Did you ever entertain the notion that maybe people don't want to team with you?

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