AE ticket revamp

Hi:

With all the changes, AE has fallen in disfavor by many players and is hardly used anymore. It is a truth at its hight of popularity it was really utilized as an exploit device for quick leveling, but it still has many honest and sincere good missions that are fun to do and explore.

The problem I see with AE is that it fails to produce or have a good reward system. I frankly find going out into the streets and just mogging mobs to yield better drops and wealth than the AE ticket system. Doing level 50 newspaper missions, in simple mode, has gotten me purples, something I can not possibly hope for in AE.

So the question at hand, is can the ticket system be revamped, upgraded, to be more appealing? Such as it the merit reward system.

The first problem with revamping the ticket system, is too low quantity of tickets one may store 9999. Perhaps if it could be increased to 99,999 a greater span of choices could be offered.

The second problem with tickets, is that you can not specify the level of recipe from a random roll, if you are 50, you will always get the highest level of the recipe yuo rolled for. Since I often do Positrons, I have a second build specifically with low level IOs to ensure the benefits are there for me when I get level nurfed. Unfortunately AE random ticket is useless for this purpose.

The third problem with tickets, is that you can not choose the recipe at all, you are limited to random rolls; sadly if you want a specific IO recipe type, say Level 20 Miracle heal, the odds of you randomly getting it are just too cruel to be practical.

Like the merit system, you cant roll for purples or buy either. Perhaps a way to get AE back to the mainstream is to be able to randomly roll for a purple, but I would suggest that it should be possible after the ticket limit has been dramatically increased. Say it takes 50,000 tickets for a random purple roll.

I would think using 10,000 tickets as a base cost for common recipies could be used, with an increase of 10,000 per scarcity of recipe type and an added 10K tickets for uniques.

Any thoughts of what the ticket for recipe exchange should be?

Stormy

Working as intended no reason to change anything.

You really can't fix that. Being creative takes time. Throwing up an exploit really doesn't.

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The whole idea is to make AE better and encourage fine mission development... It would be nice if we used our energies to achieve that, than simply nitpick the suggestion.

A somewhat good observation, is that any improvements would result in a direct increase in the proportion of farm missions. Is there a way to achieve making the AE system better and not have farming directly associated?

Another player did indicate, and credibly so, that using the bronze random roll could yield a disproportionate amount of wealth. While that has never been the case for me, not even remotely, I can see how it could be for other, obviously lucky, players.

I could pragmatically see where a change on how the ticket system works would be needed. In fact make it work like the merit system. If one looks at the merit system, the cost in merits for recipes are fixed, 125, 175, 200, 240, etc. Based on their rarity or what not. Also the random merit roll is quite expensive, and it does resemble more like a lotto win to get anything worhtwhile. So perhaps the bronze, silver and gold rolls can go away; the range of tickets that can be saved be dramatically increased and a ratio of ticket to merits be agreed to. Say 1 Merit is the same as 100 tickets; thus any recipe you choose would have a direct correspondence to the merit system cost values. So a 100 merit recipe would cost 10,000 tickets, while a 240 merit recipe would cost 24,000 tickets. The random roll for tickets would cost as much in its own relative scale as the merit value and the availability of recipes to be acquired via random roll would be the same as the merit system. Thus addressing the concern about random bronze rolls, and also allowing for level choice of the recipe.

Oh Penny, you ask for numbers... When is the last time you walked inside an AE building? When is the last time you heard repeated broadcasts for folks recruiting into an AE mission? If you where to pay attention, you may find your number question irrelevant, kinda of not seeing the forest for the trees situation.

But I see a common denominator into the rejection to the suggestion, that is a phobia of farming. As a response to this phobia I am reading the "Dev Said". "Working as intended", "Give me hard statistic" type excursions.

Perhaps part of this thread should be focused in improvements to AE that could be done with out encouraging farming, or at least make it less exploitable.

On the other hand, good, bad or indifferent, farming in its many manifestations is part of the territory; can't be avoided. Its like crime in America, should we not stay inside our houses and never exit because someone may mug us?

To be sincere, I feel the devs has done an outstanding job in preventing farming and exploits in AE. That there are some exploits out there, probably, after all there some very smart people out there.

What I don't like about AE and why I don't use it is its Ticket system, I simply do not like the lame random roll part.

Stormy

Tickets are still rewarding enough that its still full of farm missions.

If its fallen out of favor its because of all of the collateral damage to the general playerbase in having to make our arcs compliant with the latest AE changes.

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Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA Hi: With all the changes, AE has fallen in disfavor by many players and is hardly used anymore. It is a truth at its hight of popularity it was really utilized as an exploit device for quick leveling, but it still has many honest and sincere good missions that are fun to do and explore. Any thoughts of what the ticket for recipe exchange should be? Stormy

It's retarded when a game promotes Farming..

Farming should not be allowed.

Going into a mission level 1 and walking out level 10 should not be allowed, especially when your killing 20 mobs to do it.. And then repeating this same process another 10x to get you to level 30.

It's a shame to think the whole point of playing is to have some interaction with other players and what not.. Instead your resolved to what AE gives you..

Might as well just get rid of all the zones.. Make the game one giant AE mission.. Want Ritki, Bam punch it up and jump in.. Want freakshow, Bam punch it up and jump in.. Want to do a TF/SF why run to the zone for the contact.. Punch it up and your good to go..

You know when it comes down to it.. They should just set a price on a level 50 toon and be done with it.. Since you can just go to one spot and level to 50 and Farming is okay..

You might as well just charge people 50 bucks for a level 50 toon with the players choice of IO placements.. I just don't see any difference at this point.. Heck charge them 100 bucks for Purple IOs.. If your gonna just give it all away might as well go big..

AE is not working as intended.. It was suppose to be a tool for players to create there own stories for other players to enjoy. A place where players could create the stories they always wanted to try out. Not a place to make 20 purple clown elite bosses that give you 1 level of experience per kill..

OH and btw, so people know what some players are doing.. What is happening now is players are making some very nice high end farm missions. And then they make them public to run them once or twice and then they remove them.. This way it is not played by numerous people and it stays off the Dev radar..

How do I know.. Simply someone wanted me to kin for one these missions.. level 54 bosses dropping 30 or 32 tickets.. Similar to the TV Farm layout..

The tip in the navigation bar.. Simple.. Count your tickets.. Remember 750 is the max before reset..

People are saying that is working as intended ? I doubt it highly..

AE tickets are working as intended no reason to change anything.

Not sure why people are not interested in improving the reward system of AE. As it stands now (being a casual player), the best use of my AE tickets is getting salvage.

This may be as intended;
by making tickets more random to

A) encourage people using the system to explore and create unique content,

B) help provide market commodities more than personal commodities.

But personally, I am rather disappointed in the chance of getting something randomly. So much so, that I spend more time in the regular game doing TF, Story Arcs, etc.... to have more control over my rewards. Not only can I control my rewards better in the regular game, I can make MORE influence because of PURPLE recipes.

If this is working as intended, who am I to complain. AE is still a place to make and explore interesting content. And the place I go to get specific salvage.

Two things that would make me enjoy the reward system better is simply having more control over the reward.

1) Let me choose the level of the recipe. I also run story arcs quite often, so its very important to have control over the IO recipe level.

2) Make it less random. Perhaps allow you to pick the IO recipe category like Melee, Defense, Resistance, Healing etc... This has the potential of increasing the ability of farmers to get their hands on specific recipes, but it would also LOWER the cost of those same recipes due to more folks being able to get the recipes on their own.

Seriously 4000 tickets for a CHANCE at LoTG +rech by choosing "Defense". Thats still pretty difficult. Heck, even if you allowed a person to choose specifically by Set Name, Thats a 1 in 6 chance with 4K tickets. How many times on average would you need to click that to get a LoTG +rech ? Thats 16,000 tickets for a 50-50 chance at LoTG +recharge

My suggestion brings the Gold Defense choices up to 15. So for 4K tickets a 1 in 15 chance for LoTG +rech. Thats 44,000 tickets for a 50-50 chance at LotG +Recharge.

This illustrates why I use Merits instead. I simply dont play enough hours in the week to consider "Random" rolls.