Eva Destruction

The devs should improve the inf > prestige conversion ratio so people who decide they want a base can get started quickly. We no longer have to worry about a disparity between level 50 heroes with stockpiles of inf and poor lowbie villains. We no longer have to worry about disparity between a level 50's ability to contribute to an SG and a lowbie's (since lowbies can make just as much inf as 50s by playing the market). We do still have to worry about inflation and another voluntary inf sink is still a good idea.

We've been asking for this since AE went live. No dice so far.
If you want to use those mobs and make sure they show up you'll have to set your arc to be level 10-20, which means you won't be getting a lot of plays until the shininess of Praetoria wears off. If you want a demon, the Demon summoning pets may be available as boss or ally/captive details (they would be under the Pets enemy group), and would allow you to make your arc level 5-54, if you're using CoT as the main enemy. If you want to make a higher level arc you can use the Infernal demons, but that'll limit it to high level only.

We got doppelgangers (a fun toy, but of limited use), the designated helper (a definite improvement to people who want decent rewards and like to use allied critters), and a lot of developer silence.

We got a UI improvement? When did this happen?

This could be the number one most useful game element I never used. I don't really look at the Control tab (except to turn off screen shake, another useful game element I didn't use until recently)....until now. I just turned my turn speed up to 560% or so, and it's working out quite nicely. Thanks.

This. I unbind a lot of keys (the tray swapping ones in particular, I don't swap trays, ever.), and set R to "target nearest." What do I need autorun for? So I can accidentally press it at the most inconvenient time? Target nearest, on the other hand, I do need readily available, since tabbing through all the enemies doesn't cut it, and whenever I try to mouse-click on an enemy someone/something else always seems to get in the way. I actually started using it when I was playing Blasters a lot, and the nearest guy needed a Bonesmasher to the face, NOW.

I can tell they have a base with empowerment stations if they're in my SG. I can tell they have a base with empowerment stations if they're in an SG I team with frequently and whose base I have visited. They still don't use empowerment buffs.

Your tirades about the problems you have with SGs and bases are off topic. Your posts about mouse-look are completely on-topic, I'm just explaining why I personally don't use it.

To the people complaining about teammates not using inspirations: I didn't use a purple when the Longbow ambush hit us because I'd used them all up. [Insert tirade about Longbow.]

To the people complaining about teammates not using temp powers: I didn't pop a Shivan for the tough AV fight because I didn't have any. [Insert tirade about PvP zones.]

Tirades about Longbow and PvP and bases have nothing to do with complaints about people with a FULL INSP TRAY and A WHOLE BUNCH OF TEMP POWERS and A FULLY FUNCTIONAL BASE not taking advantage of those things.

It's kinda hard when you use the arrow keys to steer so you can use your left hand to activate powers. I honestly have no idea how people manage to move with WASD and still attack.

Because it seems a lot of people are about speeding through things as fast as possible and getting as much XP as possible in the minimum amount of time. That....doesn't really work with AE. Authors don't necessarily follow the devs' unwritten rules for mission creation (Anything important is at the back. Objectives are marked as "Defeat bad guy" and "get the thing" in the nav bar. "Seek clues" and "get the thing" means a blinky. Reading anything is unnecessary, the mission is idiot-proof.) The newer missions we get in Praetoria and tips break those boring old rules, but AE authors were doing it first. Plus you get no mission complete XP and no patrol XP.

This doesn't matter if you're 50, since tickets are a constant, steady source of inf; to (mis?)quote Nethergoat: AE allows you to print your own money. This does however require that you have some idea how to spend those tickets and how to use the market.

And we come to the last hurdle: Unless you read the forums or are a member of the MA Arc Finder global channel, finding good arcs to play is a massive pain. You find something that looks interesting, click Play, and it turns out it hasn't been updated in a year and you get creamed by the named boss and his five clones in the first room. Or it won't even start. Or the author has no idea how to design a custom group balanced for the arc's level range (tip: If you see "level 1-54" and "Enemy group: custom" in the same arc, skip it) and you die horribly on the first spawn. Or the author has taken lessons from the crappy, outdated i0 Dev content and the first mission is a lead-out on a four-story lab map with multiple elevators. And you only get that outdated, poorly balanced, poorly thought out arc after sifting through four pages of farms, spelling errors, Extreme everything, one mission one-note jokes that aren't funny (usually containing the aforementioned 1-54 custom group) and "look how cool me and my SG are."

tl;dr version: Playing AE = effort, Path of least resistance = paper or Council Empire farm.

By the way, to anyone reading this who wants to try AE anyway, there is a newly stickied thread in the MA forum, "A Contact Tree for MA Arcs (by level range and theme)" A lot of those arcs are really good, and none are farms or badly written and plagued with typos.

This could be offensive to some. Not everyone who plays the game is American. There's a reason they moved the Patriot badge away from the American flag to in front of the statue of someone who is an honorary citizen of every country on earth.

Yes, Paragon City is in the US, but not everyone in Paragon City is American either. Some of them aren't even from this planet.

You will still have to pay rent on storage and medical items even if you don't have an empowerment station.

Yes, I agree that it is a PITA. Mine lapses all the time, and we do have quite a few active members. None of them ever remember to pay. Then I have to go do it myself. All for one mission's worth of rent. But that's a different issue for a different thread.

I use bees! I love bees! I threw bees at Ms Liberty just because she was annoying me with her Unstoppable, and I threw bees at the Rikti on the Mothership just because. I've thrown quite a few bees at Longbow Ballistas because I hate them. Note to self: Get bees before next CoP trial. Throw bees at the Aspect of Rularuu.
Fireball for a Tank/Brute/Traps Corruptor to pull.

3 decent Scrappers on a team. Carnage is more fun when we have witnesses.

3 decent Blasters on a team. Everyone else is life support.

3 decent Corruptors on a team. Everyone else just needs to gather stuff into our debuffs and AoEs or keep it there.

Or, you know, you can form a team of anything and crank the difficulty so that everyone else can actually contribute. Preferably without a bunch of stupid shovy pets getting in the way.

I use them for every EB fight on my squishies who have them.

What's this "and?" I'm on a pretty crappy computer and I'm totally sober, unfortunately.

Considering how annoyed I get at the lag my crappy computer sometimes causes me, I often wonder how those with computers crappy enough to be unable to handle Speed Boost manage to play at all.

Like a pile of Freaks in an i3 Burn patch?

So what about the people who are in an SG, with a base and both empowerment stations, and who are defeating high level foes at a rate that generates tons of common and uncommon salvage that sells for 1 inf on the market, and still never use the empowerment stations?

Are you...seriously using SG base rent as an argument against adding an item? Do you not have time to run one mission a month in SG mode to pay the rent cost of such a useful item?

I use them at lower levels for the recovery. At high levels they die too fast to be worth bothering with. I know I can just resummon them, but the time spent resummoning is time not spent killing things.

Malta at least aren't that bad. Sapper, meet KO Blow. KO Blow, meet Sapper. Sapper's skull, meet ceiling. Sapper's limp and broken body, meet floor.

I realize it's somewhat psychotic to take such glee in pulverizing another human being to the consistency of chunky salsa (at least, that's how it plays out in my head), but 1: I'm a Brute, not a Tanker, so "Pulverizing" is my other inherent, and 2: I remember one time my /Regen Scrapper doing the "I'm sapped" dance for fifteen minutes straight.

Don't feel sorry for Rico-X. Everybody quitting means more bad guys for him to kill.

We need multiple sound options to choose from for the Taunt powers. I do not support sound customization to the extent we get power customization (if you think Quills is annoying now....) although it would be nice to at least get a few different sound options to choose from for our powers. Taunt though, is a special case, as it's the only power that actually gives your character a voice. Even if you mute it for yourself, everyone else can hear that voice, which may very well be completely unsuited to the character. That bugs me.

Can I have yours? I love that one on my DM/SD Scrapper.

In and of themselves they're not that tough. One debuff that you can get out of, a gun, and a stupid beanbag. My squishies can be hit with that beanbag from a +1 Nullifier and will still be alive when it wears off....if it's just the Nullifier.

The problem with Nullifiers is that the sonic grenade- and beanbag-spamming little ***** are the ONLY lieutenant Longbow have. If you're facing a decent-sized spawn and you're not a defense set the Longbow Burst-spammers will quickly strip any defense you've accumulated from inspirations, set bonuses, and most team buffs, your resistance will be in the negatives, and the Beanbag stacking will probably overcome your mez protection.

What makes their sameness even more annoying is that the devs went out of their way to design 50 million bosses for Longbow. Bosses that you'll hardly see unless you're on a decent-sized team or higher difficulty. Nullifiers, you'll go through multiples even solo on base difficulty. Stupid, boring, lame Nullifiers.