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I would say it's pretty obvious that AE votes are meaningless at this point. About all you can conclude from them is that people started the arc. We don't even know whether they ever entered a mission, I don't think.
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Not to mention that it takes 5 minutes (tops) to finish a farm mission while a good story arc can take up to an hour to complete. So naturally farms will get more plays and ratings. Even if somehow a story arc was able to provide the same rewards as the typical farm they would still take too long to finish. One player could only play 5 story arcs in the same time that they could finish 60 farm missions.|
Originally Posted by seebs
I would say it's pretty obvious that AE votes are meaningless at this point. About all you can conclude from them is that people started the arc. We don't even know whether they ever entered a mission, I don't think.
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Again it's obvious why story arcs and farms shouldn't compete for the same search engine real estate in the AE.
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I don't think so, my Broot lives in the AE except for doing trials. I spent a good amount of time with tickets or just chatting in channels because farms bore me, and it's always empty except for fire armors (and other farmers but fire armor reign there).|
Originally Posted by Aneko
Maybe they were all roleplaying in missions. They wouldn't be exiting every two minutes.
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That's the Cap Au Diablo AE, the most crowded one. Of course the Freedom Atlas Park one is worse and there's farm broadcast all the time, and I don't have many heroes on Virtue so I can't say if the AP one is like that, I can only say there's not a lot of broadcast on AP, but otoh on the 'old days' Freedom was always full of farm broadcast in PI, Virtue almost nothing but they did farm a lot - I guess broadcasting is a Freedom thing from what I've seen, and most people who move from other servers to Freedom get annoyed with that (I don't because I started there so I got used to).
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Actually, voluntary voting is not a true random sampling. It is a biased sample much like the polls typically seen on websites. The results are unscientific and can not reflect a true representation of the entire population of CoH players. Secondly, the voting caps at 999 which further limits its reliability as a true measure.|
Originally Posted by Mr_Kingkillaha
It is as reliable as any other random sampling of a population. Depending on the sample size, it can be very reliable.
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Using that kind of biased data one could reasonably conclude, for example, that War Mace / Energy Aura is the best powerset combo since sliced bread based on a long running thread on this forum. It is strong and pretty in any case.
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