No, it's not against the ToS.
The tedious and unfun part is personal preference.
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This is possible with regular (and Ouroboros) missions as well. People used to simply stop at a particular mission in Unai's or Maria's arcs and save the mission forever, never completing it. Several different missions were used for different characters. The Warwolf missions were so widely abused that the devs put timers on them. There was a level 45-50 Family mission with a bunch of glowies that Fire/Kins used to farm: this made the devs reduce the experience for high-level Family. Freakshow xp has been similarly tweaked up and down a couple of times. The mission with Battle Maiden's minions are easy for several kinds of tankers, the Infernal dungeon is trivial for Fire tanks, the Hequat mission (with all Mu mages) is trivial for /Electric brutes.|
Originally Posted by seebs
Never mind the question of whether it's "fun" (it's boring). Is it against ToS to create a mission with custom enemies tuned to be easier or harder than normal? For instance, in a not-at-all-hypothetical case, say you have a dark/fire brute; is populating a map with enemies that do exclusively pure fire damage attacks, and have no resistance to fire or negative, considered cheating, or is it merely tedious and unfun?
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There are some whole TFs that are fairly easy for certain tankers to do (Electric armor does well against Rikti, for example). It's not cheating for your tank to repeatedly run that TF, so in the grand scheme of things it's not cheating to choose to do content that is easier for your particular tank.
Now that it's possible to abandon radio/paper missions, you can get defeat Council and Freakshow boss missions on demand without ever setting foot in the AE building, or having to zone in and out to get a new set of three radio/paper mission choices. (I'll pull this trick sometimes to get an easy mission that will quickly drop a tip. But a steady diet of the same trivial mission is kinda boring.)
The introduction of Ouroboros signaled the devs' acceptance of the infinite repeatability of content. TFs are also intended to be repeated, but only once per day.
As long as there's no exploit involved, it's not cheating. The devs don't encourage doing the same content over and over because it leads to burnout, but they can't condemn what they themselves do.
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A farm is a farm, whether they're custom critters or not. No, it's not an exploit, any more than it's an exploit to fill the map with behemoths. But it's still a farm, so if you do it and it gets reported and taken down, don't complain.|
Originally Posted by seebs
Never mind the question of whether it's "fun" (it's boring). Is it against ToS to create a mission with custom enemies tuned to be easier or harder than normal? For instance, in a not-at-all-hypothetical case, say you have a dark/fire brute; is populating a map with enemies that do exclusively pure fire damage attacks, and have no resistance to fire or negative, considered cheating, or is it merely tedious and unfun?
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Now if you have an actual story....say Bubbawheat's Matchstick Women arc. The custom group has a fire theme. They all do fire damage. This makes sense in the context of the story. They would be stupidly easy for a Fire Armor character. But it's not a farm and it's not an exploit and it won't be taken down.
tl;dr: It's not an exploit, but could be a farm. Exploits are against the ToS, farms aren't but they can still be removed from mission architect. Oh, and a lot of people don't like them cluttering up the search interface.
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Never mind the question of whether it's "fun" (it's boring). Is it against ToS to create a mission with custom enemies tuned to be easier or harder than normal? For instance, in a not-at-all-hypothetical case, say you have a dark/fire brute; is populating a map with enemies that do exclusively pure fire damage attacks, and have no resistance to fire or negative, considered cheating, or is it merely tedious and unfun?