Doctor_Gemini

You are taking some of the jokes too seriously. Although I personally, think they don;t go far enough. If we were to look at it from a Darwinian point of view, someone who sends a "hi sexy" tell to someone else in a game simply because they are on a female toon should probably not be allowed to breed for the good of the species.

Last weekend I was on my Col. Liberty toon (I have both male and female toons), a female who is completely covered in a Justice outfit, with a stars and stripes motiff, with the default sliders for Athletic build, and someone sends me a tell saying "mmmmm....Hi Sexy"

Now, maybe the guy had a flag fetish, I don't know. I'd have found it less creepy had he said it in local rather than sent a tell. At least in local I'd have taken it as RPing his character. Sending it in a tell my reaction is instead to feel sorry for the guy, but not sorry enough to demand mandatory sterilization for him.

Those are compliments. After all, people wouldn't be saying that if they weren't jealous of your skills.

I'm jealous that you had time to ever do any of the videos you've done. I fooled about with it a bit after watching your how-to videos and quickly realized that I already have too many time-consuming hobbies and I don't dare start another one.

While fine sentiments that I tend to agree with, it's not quite so simple as "live and let live".

The problem is, it's a shared game. Everything people do affects other people's games. Reporting farms affects the farmers enjoyment of the game when their farms are locked. Making and running farms (both on AE and in the regular game) affects the play of non-farmers when the devs take steps to limit a farm or farming in general.

So, it will never come down to letting people play as they wish. The best you can have is to come to some sort of compromise, which would be impossible in a game like this and neither side would do so in any case.

People don't say AE is not meant for farming, the official position from it's release is that AE is not meant for farming.

Now, semantics can be argued over and over, but, the fact is that the people who create farming arcs and the people who run them know they are doing so.

So, it comes down to intent, which is not a good thing to make a rule over. So I'm not defending the devs for this rather nebulous rule.

The only reason I bring it up is because those who defend farming usually admit to farming on the AE or admit to creating farm arcs, and act like they're not breaking any rules.

Your last sentence is why I wouldn't help the devs police AE. I do think it's rather hypocritical, however, that the same people who want to be able to do whatever they wish in spite of the rules, feel the need to harass someone who wants to help the devs enforce them. (that's a general statement, not directed at the person I'm quoting)

The start of I16 closed beta was also posted here with the start of a thread on it. Castle posted here also about the character creator.

Now, whether the info was posted on Twitter or here first I don't know.

There is nothing that says AE farm = exploit, but, the I14 patch notes clearly state that AE is not to be used for farming, which is what people creating these farms continually ignore.

Personally, I only have one beef with farmers on MA. When I search for a story arc, having to wade through a hundred thousand versions of the EXACT SAME FARM!!

Those are the ones I report, just to cull the list. Just because one farms buff NPCs have different costumes than anothers does not make it any different. Having the exact same map, exact same enemies, etc... c'mon people! I don't report them because they're farms, I report them because they're spam


If not for that, I couldn't care less at this point about AE farms.

You also got negative reputation today, probably from the same thread, for claiming your unsupported opinion = proof, which I signed. That brings me to why I like the system as it is. If I neg rep someone like Tony, I can sign it because while they might decide to find something to neg rep me for in return they're not going to spam me, troll me on the boards, or spam me with PMs.

On the other hand, if I neg rep someone because they are a troll, I fully expect that without anonymity, they'll do any or all of those things, because that is what they're on forums for in the first place. Without anonymity it would not be worth the hassle to neg rep a troll.

Personally, I don't care one way or the other if they remove the reputation system. Given that it can be turned off, I don't really see any reason to remove it. You may still get comments if you turn off the indicator, but you have to actively seek those comments to even read them.

What I find hilarious here is about our only use of metrics is bottled drinks. You get 2 liter bottles, but 12 oz. cans.....

Nor I, metrics is evil.

Dang, I better get to posting then.

I meant number of posts, not number of licks...

How many thousand before you're allowed to?

Yes, I declined to mention it since I've never seen that use on these forums.

Actually, I thought it was going quite well. We seem to have found some common ground...

The French...

Can I have your stuff before you get banned?

I always thought the tongue-poking one meant you were poking fun, either at the subject, the poster, or yourself, depending on what you had posted.

I would have sworn that said "I would love to see more videos OF myself."

Maybe it's just your avatar...

I've always understood the wink as meaning either what you are saying there, or as flirting, depending upon the context of the post (and the supposed gender of the poster).

I must say, I find this sequence of events very disturbing....