Eva Destruction

Fixed. All the wanna-be, "I can't just use someone else's farm, I have to make my own, identical farm" exploiters leave their missions up to clog up the search long after they've become unusuable.

Ah I see. So you believe that higher rewards than dev-created content should be possible in AE?

You also run into another problem: the system would need to quantify difficulty on the fly.

Really? Thank you, I had heard rumors of these "Task Force" things but had never believed them before. Some guy I know also heard from his cousin's boyfriend's roommate that they award badges! Is that true, is it?

All this depends on how you define "high rewards." High by what standard? High rewards proportionate to time invested, or proportionate to risk?

If you're looking at high rewards proportionate to time spent, that's already been addressed. The all-boss and all-lieutenant groups that did away with all those time-wasting minions have had their rewards reduced. Enemies that give bonus XP outside of AE do not do so in AE. The only advantage AE has in this case is that it allows you to choose a map with little downtime and fill it with an enemy that is weak to your damage type.

As far as high rewards proportionate to the risk, well, isn't that what the ally patch was supposed to take care of? So you are suggesting charging influence to play an arc such as "Teen Phalanx Forever," which has multiple allies in every mission? Charging people to even try out your arc would be even more detrimental than reducing the XP.

So how would you quantify "risk vs reward?"

MA is certainly used for inf farming.

Regular content farming does generate quite a bit of inf from kills. Threads on the subject have quoted amounts in the range of 20-30 mil, just from kills and vendoring.

Purples and other good drops are where the real money is but there is quite a bit generated from kills. Inf badges don't lie.

So....what exactly are you saying? That story and rewards are mutually exclusive (the flies are really buzzing around that one)? Or are you saying that you should be able to use MA to create farms that give more XP than standard missions?

Selective quoting is selective.

I love how everyone keeps beating the "remove rewards" dead horse even after an announcement has been made to the effect that they feel the current reward structure is unfairly low.

More importantly, who will care about AE when there are new shinies to play with?

Huh? Day one had all kinds of available mobs that shouldn't have been there. They were specific mobs created for specific content and balanced around their inclusion in that content and should not have been released for general use.
Because it was a temporary quick fix and it was far easier to code the reduction to apply to anything tagged as "allied" is my guess.
Like it was on day 1? Full of Meows and Dolls and boss farms? (Yes, I know the Malaise lunatics that were used are no longer farmable. There are plenty of other bosses that can be used if you're tough enough.)

Why do robots need to have human-looking faces? I'm guessing it's to make them more "approachable" and "friendly" to the population of Praetoria (although really they end up looking creepy), so if you're going to make them human-like, you would include both genders.

And, Anti-Matter is a robo-perv.

Rewards are reduced. Right now. Obviously the devs feel this is unfair, or they wouldn't be working on a fix.

Well since our devs can't pull the "work for us or go to jail for the rest of your life" card, and they can't pay people a ridiculous amount of money to find exploits, I have to ask...what incentive is there for these people who have repeatedly exhibited selfish behavior and unwillingness to abide by the rules to do the right thing and help out the game as a whole?

Again, that horse, so dead. Starting to smell.

It did usually...like on the first load in. At one point it let him play all day though.

Well he hasn't crashed since that last post. Neither have I. And he learned a valuable lesson: no matter how many diagnostic programs tell you it is fine, pop the ***** chips out to make sure. And then I hit him.

Well some Sleep IOs ARE hard to come by redside. As in, the last 5 goes back to 2009 in the case of some pieces of Call of the Sandman. So are a few pieces of Malaise's Illusions and Glimpse of the Abyss...why yes, I am trying to IO a Mind dom at 35. Sucks to be me.

Yeah, now we're getting into stuff that neither of us has any idea how to do, we'll probably destroy the card trying, and will cost money to do anyway. Which leads to.....

^^This. They're about $50 here too. Might as well get a new one, which will fix the problem, than throw money at breaking the old one worse.

The "people are stupid" explanation seems the most likely. There are plenty of very useful pool Cs that sell for less than that one, especially considering that Gaussian's is effectively a unique set.

150 mil? Wow. A few weeks ago I bought some for 50 mil or so.

Fewer people doing AE and generating the things would be my guess.

I think he tried something like that, the problem was he has no idea what is supposed to be normal.

When I say he took apart and cleaned everything, I do mean everything. The dust colony in the power supply was on the verge of developing sentience. Of course we unplugged it first.

Everything has been taken apart, cleaned, and put back together. He also tried opening it up and pointing a floor fan at it. Didn't really help.

That is what we were afraid of...

Are we screwed?