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As far as price increases go compared to other games CE's that isn't too bad an increase. I've seen CE's going for $250, $400, and even $2,500.

Still I don't expect anyone except the crazy to pay $100 bucks for an old temp power.

So the people that pop up right after every new exploit gets stomped demanding to know why they can't access or delete their AE farms are all just shills planted by the company?

Yeah right.

Furthermore you have been here long enough to know that the company doesn't publish any information about who or how many people have had disciplinary action taken against them. We only hear about it when some fool is stupid enough to whine about getting caught, and wants sympathy.

Not seeing a down side.

1. But the exploiters don't admit they were nailed for exploiting. They lie and claim they had an innocent farm when they complain. Company policy doesn't allow GM's to respond one way or the other so all we get is their unconfirmable version of what happened., and anyone that doesn't agree with them gets labelled a fanboi, troll, brown noser forum cartel, etc.

2. Not if the devs don't want to, and I haven't seen any statements from them saying they've changed their minds. If there is one can someone link it cuz I'd like to save it for future reference instead of relying on out of date info.

3. They do.

They do police and ban the exploit farms as fast as they can when they crop up. The reason you hardly hear about them now is that exploits are harder and harder to find. More may crop up when they get around to adding new stuff to the AE.

The people that do this don't care about what they skip. They are only concerned about endgame. They can't understand that this game isn't all about the endgame. In their minds they can't enjoy a game unless they are all powerful.

I say let them have at it. The sooner they realize this isn't the type of game they like the sooner they'll leave. Don't force them to be miserable. Then they'll only hang around complaining and scaring away players that would like the game.

It's both. Not all farms are exploits but all exploits are farmed. The devs are against farming exploits.

Farm builders are afraid that they will get lumped in with the exploiters, when the exploiters bad behavior brings the hammer down on everyone. It's no different than how innocent players got smacked with free account restrictions because the RMTer's started abusing free accounts.

The devs did do something. They banned the worst offenders, they permanently locked characters that were power leveled using the exploits, they permanently locked AE publishing slots that were used to make AE exploit farms, and they flat out told everyone:



And they put that into effect a month after the AE launched.

Or a computer. If we could trust the programmers.

Just guessing but from some of the slang Boris uses I'd guess he isn't in the US so the name in question may not have registered as a violation with the EU mods. Assuming of course he had an EU account at the time.

Thanks for reminding me of the scumbag woman that pulled that very stunt
at a local club store I used to live near. (A friend whose a cop told me about this) Seems she was showing up with her kids every day for several months and slowly going round and round the store hitting all the free sample food stands with her 2 kids and then leaving without buying anything.

No one actually cared about what she was doing, but one day the store changed it's policy and cut back drastically on giving out free samples. When scumbag came in with the kids for free food and found out she went ballistic. Started a huge scene at the CS desk and screaming at the manager demanding compensation etc.

Just to shut the scumbag up and get her out of the store the manager decided to refund the membership fee. He got her name and went to pull it up in their computer, but he couldn't find it. He asked for her husbands name, and she said she wasn't married. So he asked for her membership card to pull up the account.

Turns out the scumbag was using someone else's membership card. The manager called the cops and while waiting for them to show up apologized and said there was a computer problem causing a delay. When the cops (my friend) showed up and questioned her about her identity it was discovered she had stolen her grandmothers cards, including a couple of credit cards. Needless to say she was arrested.

If they were Tricks wouldn't they all be John's?

They were also super heroes themselves.



Multiman - Hubert "geese" Ausbie - Power of cloning

Sphereman or Super Sphere - Freddie "Curly" Neal - Power of turning into a basketball

GizmoMan - Louis "Sweet Lou" Dunbar - Power of hiding a lot of gadgets in his afro

Spaghettiman - James "twiggy" Sanders - Power of turning into spaghetti (also deathly afraid of Italian restaraunts)

Liquidman - Nate Branch - Power of turning himself into a puddle of water. He also spelled Liquid with an "F". Damn inner city school education.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pch_77AX08

Collectors Editions always cost more than the regular price of any soon to be released product. In the case of the one I've seen the free players refer to when complaining about what they don't get for free in this game, the CE costs twice the basic edition.

And where exactly does it say the game is a Free 2 Play business model? Oh that's right it doesn't. There is also nothing stating access is unlimited.

What next? Are you going to claim they have an obligation to keep the servers running after they one day shut the game down because they used the word "forever"?

That's a load of garbage. If the devs were against farming they would put timers on all missions and make them non-repeatable. They have never been against farming, just against the people that abuse the system to get the most rewards for the lowest risk.

As long as the risk/reward ratio is balanced you can farm to your hearts content.

They don't want to use farming terms because the exploiters and abusers will latch onto them as a defense to hide amongst innocent players, just like they did during the AE crack-down trying to stir up support with lies and fear-mongering.

Try double that amount in a lot of cases. The collectors edition is running $150 bucks and pre-orders for it were sold out in a few hours after it went on sale, and they had to increase the amount they were going to sell due to the demand.

Sorry but they just want more for free. It only costs a one time expenditure of $5 bucks to unlock those chat channels. Everyone can afford that. If they aren't willing to spend $5 bucks on the channels they aren't gonna spend anything at all.

This.

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I wish it worked that way. My Tank Isdjeveln Jordskjelv has to remain on /hide and red flagged nearly all the time just to stop all the blind invites he gets. He still gets tells from people that see him passing by and want a tank.

Says me. You even quoted me as saying it. See the very first line in the quote?




That's me. I'm Forbin_Project.

Actually one of the things I was thinking was if we actually succeed at developing genetic manipulation on the level the OP is talking about how long would it be before the Japanese started selling real live Cat-Girls as pet/playmates. Genetically bred to be obedient, submissive, low intelligence, and an overclocked libido. And since they aren't human they wouldn't have human rights.

Or take a page out of Heinlein's book Friday, where AP's (Artificial People) are second class citizens that can be bought and sold, but have no rights because they weren't born of a human mother.

Another example of that would be the show Space Above and Beyond where Tanks (test tube babies) were mass produced and treated as less than human.

Genetics could allow us to rise so very high, yet at the same time we could fall to our worst levels imaginable.