Eva Destruction

I'd pick the two in my sig...but most of us vets would get more than two if our subscriptions lapsed anyway. I'd get at least 12 with vet rewards and purchased slots.

Dear devs:

Twoflower and others want to give you money. TAKE THE DAMN MONEY.

I honestly don't see why they had to wait two years to take your money.

You don't just pull 400 million out of thin air. You take it from the hard-working casual player. So people who give away lots of inf are still ebil, because they have to be in order to be able to afford to give away said inf.

The only thing I dislike about the design of Atlas and Galaxy is that the run-down areas are too close to the shiny starter area. You would think that area would be clean. So I'd make the city "core" nice and shiny, with older, slightly run-down buildings and gang-ridden parks toward the fringes. I would remove the warehouses and low-rent highrises entirely.

The starter contacts would give out actual arcs introducing new characters to the city's lore. One arc for each origin, one for each villain group with Magic origin characters being introduced to the magical artifact trade through the Hellions and hints at the CoT, Tech characters dealing with Clockwork, Natural dealing with Council and 5th, Science dealing with Vahz, and mutants dealing with the Superdyne trade since we've already got Science covered. There would be Skulls in the starter area since there's supposed to be a gang war going on but the Hellions and Skulls don't even hang out in the same territory....well except in Perez, but people tend to avoid going there and what gangs are going to fight over a park that civillians avoid and that is overrun with villains more powerful than they are?

I would also have "fed-ex" quests acknowledge the existence of Galaxy city, instead of going to Azuria all the time, and double up on services such as the cape and aura mission.

For a villain starter zone, I would do something more like Port Oakes and less like a giant pile of burning garbage. Make a new player's first impression of the Rogue Isles that of a place a villain might actually want to hang out.

Best wishes to you and your family WN.

Maybe we should only nominate arcs that have been broken by the filter. Imagine how annoying it must be to select arc after arc only to find that they're unplayable....oh wait, I don't have to imagine.

The filter is not fixed. Fix it please. Finish one thing before moving on to the next.

I'm sure there is a certain subset of the playerbase that apparently loves to do everything, judging by the number of achievement badges they have.

Further wild speculation:

Battle Maiden came to Steel Canyon FROM SPACE.

Anti-Matter has a lab IN SPACE.

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, and it is very cold IN SPACE.

What does that last one have to do with anything? Doesn't matter. SPACE.

Dude, have you looked at the Brute forums lately? Yeah. Now that Burn no longer sucks, Fire Armor just melts enemies....of course it's also kinda squishy, except against Fire damage.

I think it's perfectly ethical to 1-star your average "XP/ticket farmz" mission with poor spelling, no capitalization and no text beyond "kill stuff." They're not what AE is intended for and anything that gets them off the first few pages is ok by me.

As for the farms that make an attempt at a thin disguise, you can at least go in to confirm it's essentially a farm before you 1-star them. If you still have quibbles about ethics, grab the blinky and complete it. If you STILL have quibbles, aggro a mob, note how they all use Firey Melee, with a suspicious lack of any Fire Control, Fire Armor or Thermal powers (which a non-farm fire-based group tends to include), then go look at the Brute forums and note all the threads about /FA and farming, then one star it.

As for why do I care, go back and reread the bit about farms on the first few pages. Then go look up all the "why don't you use AE?" threads in the general forums that complain about AE being full of farms. Then go through a few of these farms and notice that they are all pretty much exactly the same. Just for giggles, try to find a short arc that isn't a farm, and see how long it takes. That's why I care. I don't care if it matters to a farmer, the farmers are irrelevant, it's the farms themselves I want off the arc listings. And if someone's first AE attempt is really so bad as to be mistaken for a farm, then frankly they should be discouraged.