AE Removal?

Let the Noobs leave the The Game, AE Noobs either will leave or Adapt, The ones that leave can find another game to Exploit. The Ones that Stay will learn how to finally play the game the right way............................. by farming once again in PI Farms.

Wounder how many New AE farms are going to Come out once, when I19 hits with the Praetorian Villains.

Honestly, players who power-level will find ways power-level. If you were to close AE, you'd only penalize those players who use AE for legitimate reasons.

AE is designed to be a player-driven story-telling device. The fact that it's exploited by a subset of players to powerlevel their characters is irrelevant. Take a quick look at the sheer volume of stories in the mission browser. If you removed AE, you'd destroy all that content, sending a message to all those who had invested so much time into creating it. Sure, you'd stop the powerlevelers from using AE for that purpose, but they'd just find other ways to power level. So what would you have accomplished, aside from alienating all those players who had created all that content in AE?

I might even go so far as to hypothesize that in eliminating AE, you'd encourage powerlevelers to actively seek out new ways to powerlevel. It's the way they prefer to play; and if you take away their chief means of playing, they'll just look for another way to do it.

I like saving the world and clicking on bombs.

Don't remeove the AE. I use it to create my own custom foes and stories for my characters to run. So yes it has become my own personal holo-deck.
I've given up on creating content for others. Now I just use it for myself

Good to see folks are suggesting things that will never happen.

AE is staying and so is the xp in it.

Get over it.

You want to know how to really help?

If you know the number of an exploit farm, REPORT it and move on.

BMWing on the forums helps no one.

Now in all fairness the poster didn't put anything out there I couldn't have gathered from AP in like two minutes. But it was new info to me, so I was curious.

I would utterly hate that.

Look, call me naive if you want. But for months I thought the people looking for AE teams were doing story arcs and wanted to have people along so they could roleplay.

I love the stories. Go play Two Tickets to Westerly. Play through the Do It Yourself Moonbase. Heck, play everything @Twoflower's written, and @PW, and a bunch of other people. Go play those, then try to tell me the game would be better without them. You will not be able to do it convincingly.

Look, I know powerleveling leads to idiots. I got grouped with a fire/dark corruptor who did not use any of his secondary powers except tar patch. When I commented that most /dark corruptors used their heals when people were low on health, he said "guess im different lol". He had the powers you would get if you levelled to 24 taking powers from your primary when you could and something from the secondary the rest of the time.

But you know what? I know people who have a militant anti-PL policy in their group who are also hopeless. I know people who levelled on sewers who are hopeless.

In another game I played, there was really no powerlevelling. No sidekick/exemplar, so you had to move onto new content to gain levels. And you know what? It changed nothing. You still met people at the level cap who did not know how to use their classes. You saw people doing something roughly equivalent to using a power that gives you better recovery but half damage, and using nothing but brawl. For an entire mission.

The problem is not that AE allows people to be stupid. It's that it allows the stupid people to get high level characters, and frankly, I don't care -- they'd be able to get high level characters anyway.

I think the AE is one of the best features of the game - but it needs some way of filtering out the farms and exploit missions.