Draeth Darkstar

What, the completely and totally arbitrary sorting with only the very most basic concept of shoving vaguely related badges close to each other isn't good enough for you?

I actually make a mini-game out of it myself, of collecting as many badges adjacent to one another as possible... which sounds much more insane than intended when I read it back to myself.

I'm developing an idea...
An AE arc featuring Arcanaville as the world's first silicon-based life form (which is so brilliant it invented itself. Maybe in The Future.) who secretly pulls all the strings behind Paragon City, the Rogue Isles, Praetoria, the Rikti, the Battalion, and everything else...

...wait, does that make Arcanaville the Well of the Furies, and the Well of the Furies a sentient machine...?

...This is actually the plot of the Incarnate Trials! GASP!

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm done.

This poster has broken the glass ceiling. I never thought I'd see the day.

Congratulations, you are officially more ridiculous than Golden Girl.

Good luck if you bother to continue talking sense to these people, Bill. You'll need it.

Wow.

Get real. If anyone on the development team had half as big a problem with farming as some of you do, they would have made much more drastic changes than they did, and they sure as PANCAKE wouldn't have waited for literal years to do it.

The only game that I can think of that has actually attempted to literally force-implement something like this has been nearly universally panned (being Final Fantasy 14).

There's... you know, gosh, just something that people don't like about paying for something on a monthly basis and then being told that you're only allowed to play it X each day.

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Yes. Mass bannings that affected a whole bunch of players that weren't involved, thank you for bringing that up.

Seriously, you're trying to justify openly attacking people based on how they play the game?

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I certainly did.

I just wanted to emphasize this point. Story almost never trumps gameplay. Many of the greatest games of all time have vapid if any story elements and ar sold completely on the back of the gameplay. Many, many games with great stories are lost to the ages because the gameplay is mediocre, and some games never even get off the ground even with a fantastic story, because of downright poor gameplay.
A direct skewing of risk-vs-reward in favor of risk is always a bad gameplay decision, even if this specific instance is relatively minor. The tragedy is that it's something that has been done before and will almost certainly be done again, without so much as a thought to the consequences.

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Why would you even bother responding to a post of that incredible level of gall? That was, for me, the post that finally convinced me that Golden Girl's inanity isn't entertaining enough to leave her off ignore any longer. Her attitude is downright elitist and contemptuous, and it disgusts me. What a hypocrite.

As a roleplayer and an occasional farmer I am so many contradictory stereotypes that this thread should have been consumed in the black hole I ought to have exploded into on page one.

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So... even more arbitrary restrictions that really do nothing but cause unnecessary irritation to players? Good Lord am I ever glad you're not a game designer.

This.

At least a few people around here can read.

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Mobs are invulnerable for several seconds after rezzing, until well after the animations have played out, et. cetera. They can attack you a fraction of a second before you can even target them. They are no more easy to defeat than they were the first time you hopped into them with a taunt aura, gathering them in a second or two, and dropped a burn patch or whatever have you on them. This is ridiculously faulty logic.

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You are correct about the intent of the argument, as I mentioned in the original content of this post. The basis of it as a valid argument is from the mouth of the development team.
During the I21 beta, one of the Devs (I forget which one, sorry, feel free to check the digest) mentioned that the primary reason that the new low level Atlas Park mission arcs avoid actually giving you an instanced mission map in every circumstance where they could reasonably do so is because each instanced map created by the mapserver contributes to the server latency experienced by every player on the mapserver (read: anyone in any instanced mission or supergroup base), which is compounded dramatically by how frequently low-level players acquire missions.
Farmers banging out missions in 2-5 minutes for hours a day is going to have an impact. I obviously can't even guess how much of an impact as I have no idea what percentage of instances created are done so by MA farmers, but I can venture to say it won't be a statistically insignificant number just because the behavior is so prevalent, and potentially upwards of doubling the speed this type of gamer generates new maps is not going to be totally without consequence.

I almost cried I laughed so hard at this (disturbingly accurate) depiction of Golden Girl.

Best I've seen since the Great Forum Merger.

Edit: Thank you for the new signature, Beef Cake.

Everyone gets an equal share of server-side lag.

It will also help her experience more lag during her regularly scheduled play as the mapserver will be bogged down with more instances per hour (potentially approaching twice as many as previously) for AE farmers!

Edit: I forgot my snide emoticon since I'm talking about GG.

Emphasis mine.

Edit: For anyone foolish enough to believe this will actually dampen ticket farming rates at all, here's a fact: This will just lead people to farm mobs that don't self-rez, and since you don't need to clear anywhere near the total amount of mobs you get on an x8 ambush farm to hit the ticket cap with mission complete, this will not change ticket farming rates in the slightest.
What it will do it reduce the total experience and influence possible in a MA map, but that doesn't really mean anything to the powerlevelers except for an additional, perhaps, minute delay added to their schedules as they leave and reenter a mission more frequently.

There are some sets that have extremely meh powers for both their first picks (hello Storm). I'm 99% certain it would never happen, but what I'd personally love would be if the power level options were changed to something like:

I'd also like to see the requirements for Pool Powers and Ancillaries changed to:
None
None
None
1 Pick
1 Pick

the limit of 4 pool power sets abolished entirely or raised, and the 3rd, 9th, 15th, 21st, and 29th levels grant 3 slots instead of 2.

As I said though, I'm relatively certain this would be viewed as too drastic a series of changes for the game to undergo and would probably be considered too large an increase in character power.
If I had to pick a change to fight for, I'd go for the pool power limits.

Just at a cursory glance I can already tell you some of those are wrong. If you'd like assistance tracking down any errors, I'd be happy to when I have a minute.