AE farming now OK?

You guy are off just a tad. 17 is kind of low.( well, i guess depending on which map) I can PL to 26 in 1 run at +4x8 in a huge map. (about 40 min or so) Not an ambush. In an ambush i can cap 1500 tickets in less than 3 min at 0x8. I pl whoever asks in the server chat and i don't charge anything. I do, though, take offers if they are made.

Someone said AE isn't worth their while because it don't drop purples. Well, it does drop Regen Tissue + Regens, Perf Shifter +End, Kinetic Combats, Oblits, Steadfast Uniques, -KB recipes, and plenty of other recipes that you may never get farming. At 1500 tickets every 3 mins = 9999 is about 20 min. That's more recipes than i get farming in PI in 20 min and baring getting a purple, it'll be worth a ton more influence.

Not only is it OK, clearly they are some of the best arcs in the system. At least it appears that way looking at the top rated arcs and HoF, I can only hope that someday I create something as good that is deserving of HoF so I can get another arc slot. A girl can dream, can't she?


WN

I have said, numerous times, that while I have nothing against using AE for leveling, that is not the way to understand the mechanics of the game...

I think my diatribe is as follows:

"Before you do ANY sort of leveling in AE, you should get at LEAST 2 characters to 50 via content. On hero and one villain. As a matter of fact, since I am old-school, 4 would be awesome (one hero AT, one villain AT, one EAT and one VEAT). After that, PL away to your hearts desire, don't complain about how much inf it may cost, and use those tickets wisely. Nothing makes a sad Panda more than seeing a lvl 50 who has no idea how to get to Croatoa."

The first 10 50s I made were through content exclusively. I never even THOUGHT about AE, and then I saw the tickets I could use for rare salvage for my IOs... Now, it is a part of each of my characters to generate a bit of inf or salvage for the odd recipe here and there.

I wonder if it would be possible to "game the system" .... write a farm mission, advertise it to farmers, get it up to around 990 plays, then suddenly replace the farm mission with a real story, and try to pick up 10 more plays in order to cross the line into Hall of Fame. It's bait & switch, sure, but like farms, it isn't explicitly forbidden....



[EDIT: I'm just kidding, of course. If I were willing to do this sort of thing, I would be out there offering to pay 1 billion inf to each person willing to 5 star my arcs.]

Sneaky sneaky, PW.

Probably not the fault of the AE system, but more of the exemplar system.

I logged in tonight, just now, hoping to see some tickets to claim or something for the first time in a week or so.

Nothing.

So I opened up the AE system to see where I stood on ratings.

One of my arcs, formerly at page 3 middle, is now page 4 middle, so I wondered why.

There are two, potentially three, farms in the Hall of Fame on page 2 of a default search alone, just going from their descriptions. The majority of arcs on page 3 seem to be obvious farms based on their descriptions. Barring unique offerings like Crafter's Cafe (an excellent concept well executed, I might add!), players have to get to page 4 of a default search if they want to see what arcs are available that aren't Dev's Choice, Hall of Fame, the biggest and hottest farms, or a very few exceptional standouts.

This isn't me trying to gripe about Dev's Choice, Hall of Fame, or arcs in front of mine on the list. . . but it is frustrating to see farms, which supposedly aren't what the AE is for, getting the attention of players looking to use the AE for quick levels while simultaneously dropping the reputation of AE creators, players, and missions among non-AE players. I, too, have experienced what Zamuel mentioned about having to specify that not all of AE is about farming and that my arcs that I'm dying to get people to try out aren't farms.

It's a sad, sad state of affairs.

You would not believe it. I used to have to filter through all the dev's choice arcs, and Hall of Fames before I could find a farm.

Write for your audience. If the audience is all farmers, and you want free tickets, write a farm. Farms only getting the hof's? and you want your extra arc slot, write a farm. make it a good one. make it the best.

Or keep up the whole starving artist thing. Everyone hates a sell out.