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In the "Power Suggestion Thread" stickied above should already be a suggestion or two for a staff-style fighting set.

I'd imagine that the nine powers would include:
Mostly Smashing damage (a frequently resisted damage type).
Stun or Knockdown components in many of the attacks.
Slightly-longer than normal range for a melee attack.
Incompatible with the Shields defensive set, due to being two-handed.
Build Up.
A PBAoE "foot sweep" kind of thing for knockdown.

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You guys didn't let me finish, I was going to say Magic Ducks

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Wrong. Magic attempts to duck, but fails it's Defence Roll. Magic takes 2d6 damage.

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Dear Devs,
As the heroes have had Shields for quite some time, we would like to respec to also take advantage of this relatively new defensive powerset. We feel that it would go well with our concept.
As a faction that has been active in this game for quite some time, we feel that a little Dev love would be nice. Maybe an expanded role in slightly higher-level story arcs?

Signed,
The Warriors.

P.S.
Nerf Freakshow!


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(Responces to this post on the NPC's Forums led to responces of "You can't switch powersets in a respec, noob", "re-roll a Cimeroran AT" and "Lol @ concept-characters, LARP'ers, meet us in Talos for more beatdown.", mostly posted by Freakshow.)

It's certainly one of the more interested, although convoluted ideas for curbing PL'ing via the AE.
Instead of calling for bans on farmers/farms/farming, you look at reduce the rewards for doing so, towards making it unprofitable.

I thought it went to Hogwart's.

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You are posting exploits.

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Whoosh! That post went right over your head, didn't it?

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I can raise/lower the volume on my headphones, but it doesn't change how loud the game is in respect to Ventrilo, as I usually can't hear my friend if I'm in-combat.

Meh.
I don't quite get all the Anti-Nethergoat'ing in this thread. I guess I just haven't seen the right threads.
*shrug*

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ANOTHER [censored] THREAD?!

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Well duh. Starting your own thread gives you the maximum amount of lewt!

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I'd team with you, but I mostly solo.

Yep. There weren't enough of them.

You have some interesting ideas to reduce/remove the farming problem. I just don't agree with all of them.
Perhaps a few major revamps are in order, because the minor steps they have already taken have proven as succesful as spitting in the river to watch the tide rise.

Remove the AE altogether? No, I'd rather not see the baby thrown out with the bathwater. Selfishly, I'd rather not have wasted the time I spent writing, editing and re-writing the stories I published.
I was unhappy about the "X number of players have rated your arc" badges getting pulled, but they did that already.

Remove XP/Inf/rewards from the AE? Not if they want anyone to use it, other than such a tiny amount that it wouldn't be worth it. It's supposed to be an alternate method to level to L50. Not L1-L50 in a few hours, but eventually.

Crack down on AE farming by banning? If they are doing to do another round of bans, then they will have to do a lot of banning, or don't even bother.

I was expecting something more Part_Troll style, but congratulations to the OP on his evening. Clearly, there is more going on at the AE than farming.

Is "Safe Mode" still an option?
There was a time when I had to play that way, until I upgraded my RAM.

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Actually, the Devs should develop a special datamine filter that evaluates a Story Arc and apply double XP weekend bonuses only to those Story Arcs that are definitely 100% non-farmable.
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Thanks for reading.
LX

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Every mission is farmable. Even paper missions. Even contact missions. Even 'dev choice' missions. Even impossible missions. Everything is farmable. Everything.

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But what is going to be farmed unless it has a distinct advantage of some kind?
Missions with the best rewards/hr ratio will be farmed.
Rewards, in this instance can be XP, Inf, drops or badge credit (7th gen PP's in Founders comes to mind), depending on the mission and the characters running them.

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Evidently just now lol.

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I'm assuming for quite some time if I've been put on ignore for it. I'm just not sure when that happened; I've never done any real farming; I think I've been on a doorsit farm 3 times my entire gaming history here. They were, for me, pretty boring. I just sat there and read my books while others took down the TV Nemesis crew. I've since quit from other farm teams when I find that they're AE Farms. I mean, if that's what you wanna do in the game, have at it; I don't find it fun myself, but others do.

I'm just curious about when I was considered a farmer and why.

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Who knows?

Alt_oholic takes the position of "I don't like what farming is doing in this game" a bit farther than most.
I don't like some of the results that exploitive farming of the AE has resulted in, but haven't placed more than three people on forum-ignore. One or two were rick-rollers, and offhand I don't remember what the other one was.

You can always join a global channel for your server and run with them.

Or, if you're dead-set on teaming, start your own team from people hanging around the AE and run story (non-farming) arcs. There's quite a few decent storylines in there.

With all the people complaining that there's no one running non-farms, you should be able to find people to team with.

Personally, I run Scrappers and Brutes, with the occasional Blaster, Corruptor or MM thrown in, so I don't really get the allure of teaming. But hopefully you will get whatever will make you the happiest.

I always suggest getting out of Atlas Park ASAP. Start in GC and head for higher ground as levels permit.

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How about removing the fall damge from Super Jump it is kind of silly to take damge like you do when you fall from a high point when using super jump.

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Let's say that you have Super Jump because of Super-strong leg tendons, or powerful pnematic shocks in your boots.
While they are super-powerful enough to give you a pretty good leap, they aren't unlimited in power.
If you try to exceed thier limits, there will be damage.
There won't be as much damage, (compared to someone without them) but there still be some.

It happens.
Not always at the same level range, depending on many factors.
I recommend taking a break to play an alt for a while.

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So i know i said i wouldn't post any more but i decided to give it one last shot. I had an idea today i thought was pretty neat so i thought i would share it with you guys. I know so many people want a moon base and heck i do to, but maybe this could be put in game alongside the moon base.


Under ground city

-lvl 45-50

Creatures/bad guys

-Igneous
-maybe a new faction ... the mole men! XD
I was reading fodder for the cannon (the manticore thread) and he said something about the igneous had many tunnels under the city (not sure how accurate that is, my memory of it atleast). but i think it would be neat if there was an underground city


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Redside needs more zones more than blueside. IMO, Blueside needs a makeover of some of it's exiting zones, particularly the Hazard Zones.

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it would be immense and would have the possibility of renting (or buying as a temp power) vehicles to transverse the huge cavern that is the underground tunnels of paragon

tell me what you guys think

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Vehicles? I already have an invisible boat-mobile. You just can't see it.

I could see the value of this in a way.
You could decide whether to run to the Market or the Vendor first.
You could quickly see the market value of something when deciding to delete something mid-mission.
And it would help those with burning curiosity that must be quenched immediately.


But unless you are full of inventory and still mid-mission, it would just be better to go to the Market first (there's a day job teleporter for just that! ), evaluate there, sell the good stuff, head to the vendors to sell the rest, then hit the missions again.

After buying and selling for a while, a player will get a 'feel' as to what is vendor trash and what isn't.

I'd rather have a remote terminal in my base. Just a little "E-bay" terminal with a mailing tube shute attached.

Sounds like having the stock ticker.


Ragnarock 85m, ^5%....Crushing Impact 2.3M, v3%......Trap/Hunter lol ^4%......Thunderstrike 1.3M ^7%.....

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What if there was a setting that made it so that when you have cleared a map completely of enemies,and after killing the last enemy,the map resets itself,ready to be farmed again with all enemies reappearing on the map?You wouldnt have to leave and reset the mish at all!

The end : )


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Sounds dull, but that's opinion-based, so I won't dwell upon it or use it as the basis for disagreement. It shouldn't be that hard for the team leader to get everyone to exit, then run a few feet and grab the same mission.
Without getting into the pros and cons of Farming, this falls under "Not Needed". It wouldn't cause any great detriment to the game to skip the 30 seconds or so of reseting the mission, other than to facilitate farming.
Question: mission complete bonus would ding with every reset?

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P.S.To all those people who wish to ban farming,and then whine,complain,and resort to farming to level up like a couple of snake-in-the-grass hypocrites because they cant find teams to level up with,this one goes out to all you people....
*smashes your heads with his stone hammer*

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Bolded section indicates false assumption. Leveling without farming is quite easy, teaming isn't that hard to find and teams aren't needed to level.

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OP's hyperbole notwithstanding, restrictions on who can send mail will never work. The reason they won't work is because they essentially say "You can send mail once you've done XYZ", and spammers always have the means and motive to do XYZ.

Giving the players configurable filters (set by default to only receive mail from friends and SG/coalition members) would remove all control from the spammers, because then there would be nothing that they could do that would give them the ability to send mail to everyone they see.

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I agree.

I support reciever-side filters.

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I think I did once. It was back during i3 though. There's no way I'll remember who/what about though.

How about have you ever sent one? I don't think I have.

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Last month, I sent four Emails to a friend. He had an arc in the AE that had a LOT that needed fixing, so I divided the critiques into four sections. He later fixed most, but not all of the problems. He still has "Two and Half Men" where it should read "Two and a half men", for example, but oh well, it's his arc, not mine.