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A Modest Proposal

Lazarus

By Lazarus,
Posted on: 2010-12-24 14:55 in Mission Architect

 

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*don't eat the babies*

Ahem.

What's the likelihood of getting a ticket price drop on rare salvage at the ticket vendor? All the auction house prices yo-yoing as a result of the recent AE adjustments seem to have taken a turn for the worse. I don't think my play style hasn't changed much in the last couple months, but I'm sure crafting a lot less than I did.

In general, I tend to avoid AE. I'd rather get a pick-up team together for a task force and I'm one of those people who hates getting pick-up teams together. I don't know why I don't play more AE. The infinities of missions to sift through? Waiting for ages for a team in the wrong zone's AE building? Lack of apparent rewards? Seems like in general we used to get more tickets, then those numbers were reduced because of exploits, but now there are fewer exploits and we don't get more tickets?

Shoot, let us make story arcs that drop specific rare salvage (or make regular/radio/tip missions that do this). I need Platinum to make a recipe, mightn't I know exactly the mad scientist (or legal science lab) to roust to get that Platinum? Crey Labs, those guys must have tons of the stuff, right?

Thoughts?

Mostro - Mr Methane - Beast Lightning - Akrasia - Contraindicator - BattleBomb - Norsewind - Poundy Hammer - Fatron - Mysteriesque - Chiisai Tora - Goth Claw - Mach Barrier - Bearly Human - Prototype Alpha - Crabbly - Puffy Morpheus

 

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Originally Posted by SoyLeyenda View Post
Seems like in general we used to get more tickets, then those numbers were reduced because of exploits, but now there are fewer exploits and we don't get more tickets?
Actually, when they introduced the ability to control what powers your custom characters have and therefore increase/decrease their reward values, in general rewards went up. I know most characters in my arcs are at 90-100% when they used to be set at 75%.


WN

Check out one of my most recent arcs:
457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story

 

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Originally Posted by Wrong_Number View Post
Actually, when they introduced the ability to control what powers your custom characters have and therefore increase/decrease their reward values, in general rewards went up. I know most characters in my arcs are at 90-100% when they used to be set at 75%.
It's quite easy to get custom Minions and LTs up to 100%, but still near-impossible to get Bosses to 100% without giving them powers that your average AV doesn't have. Very few powersets (generally "weaker" ones) will give a boss full XP without making them overpowered, which is rather silly that an easier boss can be worth more XP than a tougher one.