Folonius

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Cancelled about three or four years ago after CoV released. Am coming back for no particular reason. Maybe I'll stay for a while.

Couple of questions: What does redside mean?
Do people still team up, or is the population bad?
What server has the highest pop?

Also, if there's anything else you think I should be 411'd on let me know here please.

Thanks.

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I suggest you start on Virtue. It's the RP server, but they are a decent group of people there. If not Virtue, then Justice would be my second suggestion.

Oh No! Spiderman will be sad!

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Who is the guy that gave it to you?

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Yes, I believe the name of said stalker was Who.

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I think he was asking you the persons name. Do you know who?

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I run farms on a 3 man team, myself, and 2 others. I could care less if the other 2 people participate or not, so essentially, they are getting a free ride.

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Out of curiosity, what are you farming for? And I'd be interested in seeing your technique (willing to pay, of course) - what server are you on?

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I'm on Virtue, farm lvl 52 lt's, the rest of the people that are lower than 46 sk up to 46, and I use lots of defendable objects because of the ambushes. I also use destructable objects guarded by EB's that are Ice/FF.

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/signed for apartments, but they would probably have to be shared among all your toons. Otherwise it may get out of hand.

One Man SG's are great if your a hermit. I enjoy diversifying myself in several SG's.

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Charging a fellow level 50 or even 40+ characters for MA runs is pretty ridiculous given that they could very well contribute to the team. However, I have no qualms about charging lowbies (level 20 and below) for MA runs *if* I even allow them to get on my team in the first place. To put it bluntly, a level 20 character is not going to bring nearly enough to the table to be worth the spot they're occupying. Of course there are exceptions to the rule such as the lowbie is someone's alt or friend and such. Still, as a general rule of thumb, I don't dish out charity to those who do not need or deserve it.

Edit: As a side note, letting lowbies into any AE farm is a privilege, not a right. Too often I see lowbies screaming and moaning on broadcast about how no one is inviting them to their AE farm. Why should people doing 52+ AE boss invite the lowbies? It's not like they're going to contribute much. They're just there leaching exp/ticket/inf and that's it.

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Um... am I missing something here? Why doesn a 20 need to join a team of higher levels when he or she will make exactly the same number of tickets (or more) simply by taking on a farm of their own level?

If someone pays you, they should have their toon head examined.

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Because they won't earn the same number of tickets or more on a farm of thier own level.

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Has anyone else seen anything like this? Who would pay for an MA run?


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I run farms on a 3 man team, myself, and 2 others. I could care less if the other 2 people participate or not, so essentially, they are getting a free ride. My farm mission gets a toon from level 1 to level 22 in two runs. I then realized I was possibly participating in leveling complete noobs and aiding in the ignorance level 50's now have. So now I charge 2mil a run for anyone under level 45. If they can afford 2mil per run, then they aren't really that new. I've also started a new toon recently, and played AE thinking I could PL him up through AE again. Boy was I wrong. You still need someone who knows how to PL. A team of lvl 1-20 isn't going to pl someone. I'd pay 30mil to get a toon to level 22, so 4mil to me is a huge bargain.

but . . . .

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Trying to charge a level 50 with a vastly better build for an MA run? Priceless.


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That is funny ....

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Someone said on another forum that the way the extra buyable slots had been implemented would mean an increase in story arcs, changing the ratio if story arcs to farm arcs in the MA.

I'd like to ask any farm map creators out there if they'd be likely to buy any more slots. Would a farm arc creator feel the knees to make more than 3 different farm arcs?

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Yes ... Despite what many people think, a farm can contain a viable story and be a farm at the same time. I have about 4 other farm/story arcs I don't have room to publish. I may buy 5 more slots to fit them.

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I'd liketo play your farm/story hybrid arcs. If it is possible tomake creative works that also give out higherthan normal rewards, they might be a good way to get more plays from both camps. How do I find them?

Eco

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Try A Day at the Farm: 52701
The first mission is farmable, and is on a farm. It used to be a defeat all, but was extremely annoying, so I did away with the defeat all, which made it to easy, so I got rid of the minions, and made it an all LT/Boss map. That boosted the rewards significantly. I suggest having a tank with good fire and smashing resist. It's a 4 mission arc, the last three missions don't give decent rewards though. If I can find a way to maximize the rewards for those missions without making it to hard, I would. But this arc was mainly my attempt at story content.

Also, A Cold Situation: 197126
I strongly recommend two tanks for this, one should be an ice tank. This is either a hit or a miss. You need people to pick up alot of ambushes so I'd have a scrapper or two in addition to the two tanks. If the tanks are REALLY good, two tanks may be enough. The most ambushes you'll have at any one time is 3 if played right which would be 6 groups total. If you take out the minions quickly, the tanks should be able to handle agro control on the rest. You could have up to 6 ambushes at once though. Every time I play this one, I find that either it takes 10 to 20 minutes to complete or you won't complete it at all because of team wipes. You really need to be organized for this mission. This is a one mission story arc, and is my fav to play of my hybrids.

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I wouldn't know as I always 1 star Defeat All containing arcs. That's a hint.

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That's pretty idiotic, really, considering a ton of maps have 12-8 spawn points or less for mobs. If that's too much for you to handle on occasion...

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I 0 star them ...

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That's pretty sad, but whatever floats your boat I guess. If that's what you have to do to get your kicks in game, well, I suppose you gotta do what you gotta do.

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Yeah, it's sad ... I cry every time I give out a 0 star vote .....

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I used to be annoyed at your avatar and location-someone who zero-stars arcs like that, for example, would never be taken on board the tardis by the Doctor. I just realized that it's not only companions who have been aboard. so have the Sontarans, for example. You're a villain, not a companion.

Eco

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Riiight .. Because it's impossible for someone who plays CoH to like doctor who.

*Gets glass stuck in my tongue*

*Blood spurts all over Doctor_What*

What Castle wears at the beach.

Once upon a Positron there was a bug. It's purple Mankey liked saving walruses deaths. Until a green shoe fell off a pretty cloud of root beer fluff cleaving off seven little toes while chewing Bubblegum. After seeing the drunk Pinnacle-ite puke chunky bits of magnets, it stumbled into a garbage carafe. Feeling pretty depressed, it died a Lonely death.

Elsewhere, there were some hungry hippos dancing on me for every time one slurps from the fountain of Wayne. In the early dawn, sirens wailed under a pale little moon made of nothing. People thought they saw Ghost Widow munching on Doritos with Valerie. But it wasn't Doritos, it was a magical corncob that sexy Jay designed with care.

This time, she wanted 12 umpa-loompas and 5 slimy Pterodactyls with Listerine. Suddenly the wizard Spanksalot grumbled with great big annoyance. Dirty scoundrels sacked small vermin left by evil midgets wearing pink Fedoras and speedos. However, Elvis wasn't having cheesecake; he stopped to adjust Stacy's corset that had melted rubber down its frog but sadly, he died.

Cheney shot the lawyer in the buttocks with spitballs made of recycled garbage with asparagus. After blowing the mayor, he loaded up 12 hundred bucks obtained illegally so he licked garbage which Statesman tossed overseas. I then drank sour kiwi Rum. Drunken Avenger then sang Imagine. Afterward, Lily Tomlin beheaded the Tele-tubby while it sat eating pickled beets.

Next, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockheart, Vincent Valentine and Yuffie Kisaragi took Aeris Gainsborough out cold.

Considering everything that transpired, little foot sat on his behind waiting for apples. Eskimo kisses tickled my tootsies unmercifully. Eventually, they screamed bloody Sunday until one benevolent little prince started rubbing knobs fiercely.
More midgets climbed Numina and pruned quietly. Taking advantage of nimble and skilled gastrointestinal parasites wasn't such a hard chore, except flying ones drove crazy

*licks up spilled beer*

City of Heroes?

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i, too, have been on a bad team

here, let me tell you all about it in a way that makes me look both morally and intellectually superior:

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Hey, I enjoy reading about other peoples bad pugs ... Makes me know I'm not the only one

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I heard your mother had it.

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Oh yeah? Well... well... I heard YOUR mother had it! AND she got it from your father!

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BAR FIGHT!!!!

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Cut my pants


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Ok ... *snip snip snip*

Once upon a Positron there was a bug. It's purple Mankey liked saving walruses deaths. Until a green shoe fell off a pretty cloud of root beer fluff cleaving off seven little toes while chewing Bubblegum. After seeing the drunk Pinnacle-ite puke chunky bits of magnets, it stumbled into a garbage carafe. Feeling pretty depressed, it died a Lonely death.

Elsewhere, there were some hungry hippos dancing on me for every time one slurps from the fountain of Wayne. In the early dawn, sirens wailed under a pale little moon made of nothing. People thought they saw Ghost Widow munching on Doritos with Valerie. But it wasn't Doritos, it was a magical corncob that sexy Jay designed with care.

This time, she wanted 12 umpa-loompas and 5 slimy Pterodactyls with Listerine. Suddenly the wizard Spanksalot grumbled with great big annoyance. Dirty scoundrels sacked small vermin left by evil midgets wearing pink Fedoras and speedos. However, Elvis wasn't having cheesecake; he stopped to adjust Stacy's corset that had melted rubber down its frog but sadly, he died.

Cheney shot the lawyer in the buttocks with spitballs made of recycled garbage with asparagus. After blowing the mayor, he loaded up 12 hundred bucks obtained illegally so he licked garbage which Statesman tossed overseas. I then drank sour kiwi Rum. Drunken Avenger then sang Imagine. Afterward, Lily Tomlin beheaded the Tele-tubby while it sat eating pickled beets.

Next, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockheart, Vincent Valentine and Yuffie Kisaragi took Aeris Gainsborough out cold.

Considering everything that transpired, little foot sat on his behind waiting for apples. Eskimo kisses tickled my tootsies unmercifully. Eventually, they screamed bloody Sunday until one benevolent little prince started rubbing knobs fiercely.
More midgets climbed Numina and pruned quietly. Taking advantage of nimble and skilled gastrointestinal parasites wasn't such a hard chore

Strip Poker (I'm sure it's been said)

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I wouldn't know as I always 1 star Defeat All containing arcs. That's a hint.

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That's pretty idiotic, really, considering a ton of maps have 12-8 spawn points or less for mobs. If that's too much for you to handle on occasion...

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I 0 star them ...

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That's pretty sad, but whatever floats your boat I guess. If that's what you have to do to get your kicks in game, well, I suppose you gotta do what you gotta do.

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Yeah, it's sad ... I cry every time I give out a 0 star vote .....

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Thanks for the replies. I suppose I'll pick up Ring of Fire when I get a chance then.

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You can check out my guide, and there are several other Fire/Kin guides out there. On the lower levels though, you'll want to focus on being a controller before trying anything more daring with a fire/kin.

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I wouldn't know as I always 1 star Defeat All containing arcs. That's a hint.

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That's pretty idiotic, really, considering a ton of maps have 12-8 spawn points or less for mobs. If that's too much for you to handle on occasion...

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I 0 star them ...

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Someone said on another forum that the way the extra buyable slots had been implemented would mean an increase in story arcs, changing the ratio if story arcs to farm arcs in the MA.

I'd like to ask any farm map creators out there if they'd be likely to buy any more slots. Would a farm arc creator feel the knees to make more than 3 different farm arcs?

Eco

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Yes ... Despite what many people think, a farm can contain a viable story and be a farm at the same time. I have about 4 other farm/story arcs I don't have room to publish. I may buy 5 more slots to fit them.

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So, all i am saying is....don't pl with the n00bs, they are probably leaching in your farms anyway.


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I've been noticing it too, so I've stoped joining random AE farms in atlas, and running my own, and charging anyone who wants to join 2mil inf. I'll just do it this way, play with people I know, or solo when it comes to farming AE.

I've played a new character for the first time, and tried to PL him through normal AE farms broadcasting in Atlas. It was actually slower gaining levels than playing through normal content just because of all the really dumb farms. You really need someone who knows what they are doing when it comes to farming AE.

So charging 2mil influence to run on my farm teams will weed out all the new players who don't know what they are doing, and they can sit and do nothing, or help fight. If my toon sneezes, he drops 2mil influence, so I figure it's a low enough price people won't mind paying who know how to gain influence, and I'm pretty good at smashing through large groups solo.

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The problem with farming threads is they tend to inevitably lead back to the farming debate. Avoid it, and the thread stays open. That may require some serious forum ninjitsu though.

/em luck

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So lets post some alternate techniques, and ignore the "Farming is ebil" people ...