Brillig

Yes, the window sticks around, but it's annoying to have it floating around all the time - and it re-centers everytime you zone...

Don't forget you can speed-run the first SSA twice, as you have the first-time bonus.

Ok, trying one last time. Here's an analogy.

You're eligible for a bonus program at work. You can either get $1,000 a week, or $36,000 a month.

Your argument is the same as saying that you want the $1000/week because you "get money faster."

Well, either you're benefiting from a bug in your favor, or you're remembering incorrectly.

If you don't have AM from other sources, I believe the current max you can have is 7.

This is only true in the case where you have only one character, an absurd assumption.

168 hours/week / 7 hours * 3.5 AM = 84 AM/week

168 hours/week / 10 minutes * 1 AM = 1008 AM/week. (Which is admittedly impossible, since the character slot cap is 768. So then you end up with 40 hours a week to do something else.)

Tell me again how 768 is less than 84.

The first time you run a given SSA arc, you get a 'first-time only' reward where you can pick from the table.

After that, you can only get a given reward 1/week.

So after SSA4 rolls out, you can get 5 AM the first week (4 bonus + 1 normal), then 1 AM/week after that.

How fast is it to do tips? The figure I usually hear is about an hour.

When you can explain how 1 hour is faster than 10 minutes, then you'll have a point. Until then, no, it's not "still quicker."

The relevance is this - you seem to be asserting that an AM is useless on a level 10 character. PVP-IO's show that this is wrong.

And a level 50 is not preferable for AM farming in the post-SSA world. You can get an AM through SSA in less then 10 minutes. Sure, you can only get one a week, but you can replicate this across a hundred characters. So while a 50 might be better for farming AMs serially, that's no longer competitive with massive parallelization through level 10's.

PVP-IO's go down to level 10.

That sounds like their criteria isn't working. Bug it.

The bigger problem is that there's a 2-day lead time to doing the morality mission, (or 1 day if you group it). Which means that you can't just log in planning to run the SSA, open the powers menu, find you need a morality mission and fix it - you have to plan ahead. Which means logging in all the characters and checking their alignment status. Trivial on one character, but with login/logout times, as much as a minute per character.

If you had 300 characters, that'd be 5 hours of logging in/out and writing down the alignment status.

I don't think that's most people's idea of a good way to spend their leisure time. I've only got 40-ish characters, and I'm mildly peeved already.

Yep, same here.

It's a player intelligence test.

Yes, you should throw away that account, there's no way to fix that really.

Separately, you can have as many accounts as you like under your NCSoft master account.

Rise of the Phoenix.

No, that statement is 100% correct. When the devs said that SO's were sufficient, they were referring to base difficulty.

Now just because SO's were sufficient for +0/x1 doesn't mean that characters were unable to complete higher difficulty content on SO's. That doesn't mean that you can complain that IO's aren't optional because you can't do +4/x8 on SO's.

The statement that SO's were sufficient for all content in the game only applied to +0/x1

+4/x8 is in no way "end game" play, it's people turning the dial up to 11 because it's possible to overpower our characters to a truly sick level once you start using IOs and Incarnate powers.

It's a pity in a way, because it ends up trivializing so much of the old content.

Because you're incapable of contributing to a speed run? And you prefer doorsitting to quitting?

Okaaaay.

This problem is trivially solved by starting your own group.