The_Alt_oholic

I have two low leveled characters 5 and under that I have been playing lately. I can't say that I have noticed any additional end drag on powers or being unable to make more than two attacks.

I tend to fight groups with reds and oranges often by myself at that level and I'm not seeing the end problems that you are talking about...and that's even with using vet powers.... I do not, however, use Sands of Mu - that sucks a lot of end, but it is a cone attack which can hit a good number of foes at once if it is successful.

I have to Rest more during the lower levels, but that doesn't really curtail play, it just makes it more strategic as you have to be careful about running out of energy mid fight and planning attack sequences based on end usage.

I also don't know how you are slotting your enhancements at the lower levels.

Nah. Leave it in, only have them bring more buddies back with them when they return.

"Hey, she's the one that shot Fritz! Get her!"

Sorry if I am repeating, but I have most of these people on ignore.

Go to Bloody Bay, Sirens Call, Warbug, or Recluse's Victory - these are PvP zones. They are all PvP all the time.

You an also use the Battle Terminals in the Arenas and in the Pocket D to set-up or play pre-scheduled PvP events.

Bloody Bay - is the lowest level PvP zone. It is general PvP.There is a mission arc here to gather parts of various meteorites and refine them into a temp power.

Siren's Call - is the next higher up PvP zone. It has hot spots that PvE characters fight over which characters can PvP and PvE to assist. The zone tips toward good or evil depending on the out come of the hot spot battles. Stores open up to sell better gear to a side that has tipped the balance for themselves.

Recluse's Victory - Is the highest level Hero/Villian PvP zone. This deals with capturing pill boxes in order to sway the zone from good to evil. It is basically the Atlas zone.

Warbug is free-for-all PvP. You can PvP with anyone, regardless of side, as along s they aren't on your team. The mini-game here is to collect launch codes to get access to utilizing a nuke temp power.

All PvP zones are level restricted. The lower leveled ones are level-capped as well and will auto-exemplar higher leveled characters.

I love threads like this.
It makes it really easy to ignore players that I never want to hear from again.

Feel free to ignore me if you don't like the fact that I like to play a Superhero game rather than a game about farming missions.

Here is 5 minutes of broadcast on Freedom in Atlas 1 - color coded by -
level appropriate
hopefully level appropriate
farming related
Characters outside of the level range for Atlas

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[Broadcast] [editted]: 38 Spines scrapper LF AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 21 Blaster LF ae Team!
[Broadcast] J[editted]: 50 pb lf AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 28 bs/shield scrap lft, do high damage
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 19 tank lf ae
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 25 blaster lfae
[Broadcast] [editted]: yup
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 33 pb lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]d: lvl 18 tank lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 18 blaster lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 20 blaster lf ae
[Broadcast] [editted]: hello
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 37 blaster lf ae boss farm PSR
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 19 troller and lvl 26 tank lft :3
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 4 defender with ice shields and a big smile hoping for a team (will get out lvl 50 tanker or blaster if necessary)
[Broadcast] [editted]: 33 kin troller LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 37 blaster lf ae boss farm PSR
[Broadcast] [editted]: Level 35 Scrap, LFT!
[Broadcast] [editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 22 scrapper LF AE Team
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] S[editted]: lvl 21 Blaster LF ae Team!
[Broadcast] S[editted]: lvl 37 blaster lf ae boss farm PSR
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf members for ae boss farm lvl 30+ PST
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 emp lf 54 boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]s: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 23 scrapper lf ae team
[Broadcast] j[editted]: lvl 50 emp lf 54 boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]t: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] S[editted]: dang
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf members for ae boss farm lvl 30+ PST.
[Broadcast][editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lv 23 scrapper lf ae Team
[Broadcast] [editted]': plz
[Broadcast] [editted]: Lv. 38+ Preferebly
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: blaster lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: would it be cool if they made an expansion for this game called "alter ego" where instead of this "day job" you actually did stuff in normal clothes for bonuses
[Broadcast] [editted]: 50 grav/emp lf high lvl boss team
[Broadcast] [editted]: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]: can someone lend me a mill?
[Broadcast] [editted]: 38 Emp Def LF XP Grind Boss AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: no
[Broadcast][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 25 fire/kin lft 54 ae boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]: can someone lend me like, any amount of cash
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 23 scrap lf ae Team
[Broadcast][editted]: 21 tank lft.
[Broadcast][editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf ae lvl 15 electric blaster
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast][editted]: LF Fire/Kin for Lv. 52-54 Boss Farm, Lv. 38+
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 25 fire/kin lft 54 ae boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]: no go earn it
[Broadcast] T[editted]r: get a job "son"
[Broadcast][editted]: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]s: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]': lvl 50 fire fire blaster lf ae
[Broadcast][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted] Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: 44 Scrapper LFAE
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast][editted]: lvl 50 blaster lf anything
[Broadcast] [editted]: LF Fire/Kin for Lv. 52-54 Boss Farm, Lv. 38+
[Broadcast] [editted]: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]: 20 tank lft
[Broadcast] [editted] lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]C[editted]rist: 50 Grav/Emp lf ae boss team
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 blaster lf anything
[Broadcast] [editted]TR0N: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] Flame [editted]: anyone need a kin
[Broadcast] Flesh On [editted]: lvl 50 scrapper lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]the foxdemon: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: son of Mr. T
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: 33 kin troller LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 37 blaster lf ae boss farm PSR
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: Level 35 Scrap, LFT!
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 22 scrapper LF AE Team
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 21 Blaster LF ae Team!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 37 blaster lf ae boss farm PSR
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf members for ae boss farm lvl 30+ PST
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 emp lf 54 boss farm
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]the [editted]: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 23 scrapper lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 emp lf 54 boss farm
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[[Broadcast] [editted]Of Mr. [editted]: dang
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf members for ae boss farm lvl 30+ PST.
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lv 23 scrapper lf ae Team
[Broadcast] [editted]': plz
[Broadcast] [editted]A [editted]A: Lv. 38+ Preferebly
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] A [editted]G E L of [editted]: blaster lf ae team
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: would it be cool if they made an expansion for this game called "alter ego" where instead of this "day job" you actually did stuff in normal clothes for bonuses
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: 50 grav/emp lf high lvl boss team
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]Of Mr. T[editted]can someone lend me a mill?
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: 38 Emp Def LF XP Grind Boss AE
[Broadcast] [editted]-: no
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted][editted]: lvl 25 fire/kin lft 54 ae boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]Of Mr. [editted]: can someone lend me like, any amount of cash
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 23 scrap lf ae Team
[Broadcast] [editted]-Ball: 21 tank lft.
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]TR0N: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted]: lf ae lvl 15 electric blaster
[Broadcast] [editted]TR0N: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted]Beast: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]A V A: LF Fire/Kin for Lv. 52-54 Boss Farm, Lv. 38+
[Broadcast] [editted]Cimerorian: lvl 25 fire/kin lft 54 ae boss farm
[Broadcast] [editted]M00N: no go earn it
[Broadcast] [editted]Tallywacker: get a job "son"
[Broadcast] [editted]Zavid: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]': lvl 50 fire fire blaster lf ae
[Broadcast] [editted]Beast: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]the foxdemon: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]-Blade: 44 Scrapper LFAE
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 blaster lf anything
[Broadcast] [editted]A V A: LF Fire/Kin for Lv. 52-54 Boss Farm, Lv. 38+
[Broadcast] [editted]Zavid: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]: 20 tank lft
[Broadcast] [editted]Beast: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]Crist: 50 Grav/Emp lf ae boss team
[Broadcast] [editted]: lvl 50 blaster lf anything
[Broadcast] [editted]TR0N: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please
[Broadcast] [editted]Cimerorian: anyone need a kin
[Broadcast] [editted]On Flesh: lvl 50 scrapper lf ae team
[Broadcast] [editted]the foxdemon: lvl 20 ws lft
[Broadcast] [editted]: son of Mr. T
[Broadcast] .[editted]: Level 23 Scrap LFAE TEAM!
[Broadcast] [editted]Zavid: Lv 6 scrapper LFT
[Broadcast] [editted]Beast: lvl 27 WS looking for AE
[Broadcast] [editted]TR0N: lvl 6 lf ae team inv please


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Do you see Voivode Zavid in all of that?
A level 6 looking for something to do in Atlas. Who would have thought so?

Do you see how Voivode Zavid is looking for a team the whole time?

If you can't see what is wrong with that picture, then... I feel sorry for you.

Do you see all the other garbage that isn't level appropriate to the zone?

I don't see any costume contests, sg recruting, or lf sewer team posts.

And look at that blatant exploiting of the AE for farming. That's freaking ballsy.

If was the DEVs I'd be there with a right click option to ban players for blatant exploiting by announcing farms.
The AE has gone bad and it isn't the the DEVs fault - other than them expecting that players can be responsible.

[I've removed the names to protect the guilty. Go to Atlas on Freedom and you will see all these exploiters yourself]

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Who cares?
You don't have to farm.
Nobody told you to do it.



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You are right!
The DEVs told you not to. Yet you still do it.
Take your whippin' like a real hero/villain and stop being a sissy about it.

Step up to the plate and send a PM to the DEVs with your global handles and say that you are a farming in the MA and ask what they are going to do about it.

I really want to see what happens.

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will not be tolerated by those of us in the community that actually enjoy this game.

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Please provide documentary evidence that people who don't play the game the same way you do aren't enjoying the game.

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Don't you understand how a witch hunt works? Evidence is for fools.

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Yeah, in witch hunts people are accused of supernatural crimes that they did not commit and are then tortured to confess that they did, in fact, possess supernatural powers.

Are you trying to tell me that I shouldn't report farmers and farm missions because :: <ul type="square">[*]they don't farm[*] they aren't creating farming missions (even if farm is in the title)[*]...and the non-farmers -- that are accused of being farmers and writing farming missions --are being tortured into admitting that they are farming and creating farming content in the MA [/list]
Your understanding of a witch hunt is very weak.

I'm there with you, Helios_Carnage.
I'm already actively doing so.

I'm also taking time to report players broadcasting for :: <ul type="square">[*]more members for AE farm teams[*]players broadcasting that they are looking for AE farm teams.[/list]
I send along the time, server, and side that they sent the broadcast message along with a cut-and-paste of their message and their global handle.

Needless to say if you say anything about PL-ing you're getting reported as well.

Make sure the team search icon you want is up.

Go to Bricks or Founders.
Talk to the detective contact there.
Open up your contact window and you will see a police radio at the top.
Click on that and pick a mission.
Open up your mission window and make sure that mission is selected before you start the next step.

Open up the search window.
Sort by level 25-35
Check for people that are; looking for any, looking for mission teams, or are showing the "Not looking for" (not the red circle). The ones that are light blue are not on teams.
Start sending them tells asking them if they would like to join you for police missions in which ever zone you are in that are whatever level you are and at what difficulty the mission is.
The people that will respond to you will usually be pretty cool, and you have made your own team, so you can kick those that aren't.
Works pretty good on any server, but better on higher population ones.

At level 33 I would suggest being on rugged at least, depending on the team you probably can handle inv missions.

I'm there with you.

Putting the AE "contact" in the lowest level zones was also a serious mistake. That contact was the magnet that dragged so many there in the first place. Once they were there, it just became natural for the higher levels to go to the lower levels versus the lower levels going to the higher levels for some of the exploitive behavior that has run rampant.

I use /follow a lot on melee characters to get to the next villain. (whoops...I mean enemy...)
The main problem I have with hover/fly is related to this.

Using /follow you don't automatically get "dragged" close enough to the enemy to hit them if you are hovering/flying- if you are on the ground, you do.

That's the only problems that I have had with it.

I'll go for this as long as it can cause the Confuse effect on villain enemies if you fling the loot in their direction!

I'd love to be able to throw a bunch of money at some Outcasts attacking someone and stop to pick up the money and then starting to fight each other for it!

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What other AT steals aggro from the tank?

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You won't steal it from a tank with Taunt.

But thanks for pointing out to tankers again what I keep on telling them in the forums ::
---- punch provoke and damage shield DO NOT hold all agro. ----

Oh back to the original question - all of them if the tanker doesn't use TAUNT.

Oh, and blasters won't either if a tanker has Taunt and uses it correctly. (yeah, I know I already said that, but tankers really need to stop blowing off Taunt because they think it is a useless power).

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What other AT has to constantly break LOS?

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On the Blue-side?
Any that have AoE's - Controllers, Defenders, Peacebringers, and Warshades. Depending on what is going on, I'll even do it with scrappers.

Really, if you are tanker with Taunt, it can be very useful to break LOS after Taunting. The Taunted enemies can only attack you. So if your teammates have them held and the enemies can't see you, they can't attack anyone on your team. Of course, most tankers would think that it would be boring to do so.

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What other AT NEEDS so many inspirations to do the job it was designed for?

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I carry one column break-frees with all characters that don't have mez protection - that's all of them besides tanks and scrappers and even they carry that one column of break-frees until they have their anti-mez power.
All my characters carry one column of awakens.
Until the columns start getting 3 or 4 deep, I usually fill up the rest with respites and a couple of blues (when an character seems to be especially end heavy).

So all my characters basically carry the same payload of insps until level 35-40.

At that point, I might start throwing in some yellows and reds for blasters to up their damage output.

Back you your question, I don't see Blasters NEEDING insps more than any other archetype.

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OK, I mentioned a bit about defenders but they can still do their job competently, in fact every other AT can do what it was designed for without the outside help blasters need

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What do blasters need exactly that other AT's don't need?
Blasters have something that other AT's don't have - a massive amount of damage!

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But if I want to be a damage dealer, why a blaster over a scrapper, controller, maybe a tank, or anything redside?

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Uh, this is a trolling thread...isn't it?

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I guess I'm trying to say blasters are not performing properly in the role they were intended for

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This is definitely a trolling thread...I'm not doing to waste my time any more....

Honestly, your first post made next to no sense.

This one...yikes...trolling about blasters not doing damage...wow...

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With one addition, this could be awesome.

Let this be the case for a month, and then when all the farmers are settled and easily identifiable by their tags, the GMs can have one weekend of mass account-banning.

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They could just about unplug redside infinity then. Trying to institute punishment to discourage a rewarding behavior is not the better option.

edit: I don't need to state the obvious.

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Punishing players for behavior, that was said to be punishable multiple times before they had a chance to do it, is to be expected.

Cheaters break the rules.

The DEVs have clearly stated repeatedly - the MA is not a farming or power-leveling tool. Players that use it as such will be punished by bans, account closures, etc.

I know that some of you can still act like you are blind to the fact that exploiting the MA obviously what is being done. There will be a stop put to it.

Is it really worth getting your account banned, suspended, characters deleted, etc.?

Farmers are pretty full of themselves these days and think that they are the core of the game and the majority of players.
Neither are the case.

Bye.

No thank you.
I think I would like the play the game with less farming and not more.

Bye-bye.

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https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthre...SID=&amp;fpart=

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Not signed. I don't want my level fifty to have to go to talos and then steel or use a base portal to have easy access to a university and a wentworths.

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I can't believe a level 50 doesn't have 10k to buy a wentworths tp or can't park at a wentworths for 21 days (plus a few) to earn free wentworths tps to solve this issue. Either will take you from any zone to the wentworths of your choosing - including the one in Steel. (where you could buy another wentwroth's tper, before heading back to Peregrine Island via the O-portal.)

If you had taken the time to make a solo base, then you would have been able to place a crafting station in your base by now. If you do have a base, then the base portal in Talos is so close to the Wentworths that it may as well be a University (if it has a crafting station).

It seems a very minor excuse for being against something that can help solve so many issues, but I expect as much.

After all, it is really that hard for a level 50 to get around the City?

Besides, if you can't spare 10k for the wentworth's teleporter, taking the O-portal to Atlas and then taking the tram to Steel Canyon is much shorter.

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Well if they could cap AE missions to whatever the lvl range of the particular zone is, that would fix everything IMO. 50s could still come to do AE fram in Atlas if they want....they would just have to do lvl 10 farms They could still go farm lvl 54 boss AE missions all day in zones meant for 50s.

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You didn't quite get it.

My first idea means - If you are above the level of that zone, you can't use the AE in that zone - at all - the portal will not let you in and you can't use the AE computers to pull up missions. Level 1's can still pull up level 50 missions in Atlas, Galaxy, or Mercy if they want to.

https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthre...SID=&amp;fpart=

if you edit the arc, use the ? in the upper right side. Click on it and it will tell you what's wrong. Click on an item that is wrong and it will usually take you to the section or part of the mission that is wrong.

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My biggest problem with the MA is that Peregrine and Grandville are now ghost towns.....can't find anyone to team with to do lvl 50 stuff except AE farmers. I.....Guess it just shows that the majority of players are perfectly happy farming away rather than playing the game.

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No.

Your logic is flawed.

Logic flow is not:
<ul type="square">[*]Peregrine and Grandville are now ghost towns[*]can't find anyone to team with to do lvl 50 stuff except AE farmers[/list]- therefore -
<ul type="square">[*]the majority of players are perfectly happy farming away rather than playing the game[/list]
It is, however, logical from your first to facts that this logic flow is true ::

<ul type="square">[*]Peregrine and Grandville are now ghost towns[*]can't find anyone to team with to do lvl 50 stuff except AE farmers[/list]- therefore -
<ul type="square">[*]the majority of level 50s are perfectly happy farming away in the AE located in zones other than the level 50 zones, rather than playing the game[/list]
I don't even really think we can say majority, but your facts are about ::
<ul type="square">[*]The highest level zones on both sides of the game - where Level 50's would normally be - lack 50's[*]Level 50's are farming in the AE in other zones.[/list]
I have an issue with this too.

Here's part of my solution to the problems in the MA and it would directly help fix the situation that you are experiencing ::

https://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthre...SID=&amp;fpart=

And it does so without impacting AE mission building or selection at all.

In fact helps solve issues with the /broadcast channels in the lower level zones directly without having any impact on costume contests, sg recruting, etc.

I do think steps need to be taken to stop the exploiters. If they constrict my options a bit, that's fine. Constricting my options doesn't nerf my creativity. In fact, I have to be more creative than before to figure out how to utilize the tools that I have available to reach the goals I want to achieve.

Please explain why and how this resolves farming.

I don't see this effecting farming other than making solo "standard" custom groups.
It still allows solo "custom" groups.

Part of the problem has to do with the construction of custom groups.

On the very basic level it should be clear that custom groups should have the same kind of make-up/characteristics of a "standard" group. It would be easy enough to create a standard "form" for groups that had to be filled-in in order for the custom group to be usable.

Obviously, groups must have at the very least;

<ul type="square">[*]minions, lts, and bosses[*]some creatures with ranged attacks[*]some creatures with flight (reflective or not)[*]Bosses, elite bosses, and AVs should have ranged attacks and/or flight (reflective or flight)[/list]
I tend to think that they should be required to have at least one "support" type critter as well.

I don't see how your idea focuses on the composition of groups other than "standard" critters can't be in them.

I have a several group that is all standard critters and meant to simulate a group that range from level 1-50. They are combination of multiple "standard" groups in order to fill the level ranges in completely. The groups have minions, lts, and bosses at all levels. In order to make the EBs and AV's scalable (when I needed to have these as part of a custom group made of "standard" characters for a 1-50 group - I would create EB's and AV's as needed).

I don't see how I'm using the "standard" enemies in a negative way.

The "custom" group frame work does more to stop farming than your plan does.

If you can't use standard critters what's stops you from making a custom critter that is essentially the standard critter?

The advantage of being able to use the standard critters as part of a custom group is that it drastically cuts down on the file size.

A Dual Pistol Scrapper set huh?

<ul type="square">[*]Pistol Whip - quickly slap your target across the face with the barrel of one of your pistols - Damage (melee/smash) minor + Disorient, Recharge Fast[*]Butt Smash - smash your target on the top of his head with one of your pistols - Damage (melee/smash) moderate +Disorient, Recharge Moderate[*]Unload Clips - Shoot a spread of shots at the foes in an short arc in front of you. Damage (melee/lethal) moderate + Def Debuff, recharge moderate[*]Challenge - use this power to lure foes away from allies in trouble. Recharge moderate[*]Guns Blazing - with an awesome yell, you able to do more damage and your attacks are slightly more accurate for a short period of time. Recharge slow.[*]Dance Sucker - firing your guns at a foe in melee range will cause them to dance wildly to avoid your gunfire. They are unable to attack unless they are attacked. Damage (melee/lethal) minor + FEAR +Def Debuff. Recharge moderate.[*]Spinning Pistol Whip - Spin around with your pistols held out at arms length and slap nearby foes. damge PBAOE (melee/smashing) moderate w/ chance for +Disorient or + Knockdown, recharge slow.[*]Point Blank - fire at a foe at close range. Damage (melee/lethal) superior -Def Debuff, recharge slow.[*]Multiple Head Shots - fire off both your pistols in rapid succession strait at a foes head. Damage (melee/lethal) extreme + KB +Def Debuff, recharge long.[/list]

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I can only speak for Guardian (mainly) and Pinnacle (occasionally), but the Help channel seems to be used a LOT less since they made that change. I dunno if that's a good thing or not...

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It's because a lot of players still don't know how to chat on the "new" [Help] channel.

Don't feel shy about doing this ::

/hc to talk on the [Help] channel, use /hc

Players usually thank me for doing so.
I'll try to remember to send it out when I log onto a different server. (I do tend to server jump a lot).

You get to play the game.
You get free updates to the game.
If you buy certain game packs or boosters, which come with game time, you get extra powers that only get for buying that version or booster.
If you want, you can buy six months or a years subscription at one time.
I buy it in six months chunks myself.

That money goes toward improving the game.

If you don't like the entry price, feel free to play in another MMO. I'm pretty sure both Champions Online and DC Universe Online will have a monthly fee as well, so I don't think you are going to have much luck finding a superhero MMORPG that you can play "forever" for $100 (your game box price plus times two and a little extra).

Good luck with that.

It is at least showing tribute and respect to Fantastic Voyage so there is a psychotronic connection between that original work and the work that you created.
So there is a relation of some sort.
I run the arc as I have time and see what connections I see to Fantastic Voyage.

It appears to be getting good reviews. I haven't knocked the merit of the arc, I'm just questioning the no parodies and no derivative works aspect of it and there definitely is a connection between the two per the author (admitted a homage to Fantastic Voyage).
Primarily, I raised this point because Niviene posted a poster related to this arc. To me it appeared that a DEVs was doing something that was questionably against the posted rules for the use of the MA.

good luck.
Keep posting.
Send petitions in game.

Actually say what your idea is so that you can get other people to discuss it. You can do it here.
If some thread gets hot and has a lot of positive responses then there is a chance that something will happen.

If you don't drop the subject and keep posting creative reasons for why the improvement is a good idea then they may eventually incorporate it into the game or fix the issue.

If you are going to get frustrated if you don't get DEV response or if you don't like criticism from other players, I wouldn't bother posting it.
If it is something that you feel powerfully about, I would make a thread for it and start discussing it.

At least "A" DEV said at one point that any idea that a player comes out with that they probably have already come up with it and haven't implemented it for one reason or another.
This strongly makes me feel like not going out of my way to try to help them improve the game.
I won't do Betas any more because of how I feel some of the bugs that I reported were allowed to go live. - game breaking bugs as far as I was concerned. At least one of them was a game breaker that stopped some players from being able to play the game for three months and then "impaired" game play for for many for another 9 months or so.
I don't know what is important to them sometimes. The stuff that they are trying to accomplish is always cool, but I often feel like the are not using much fore-thought.
All that said and done, I still bring up ideas for game improvements on the forums when I feel that I must - for one reason or another. At that moment of posting, i know full well that my input will be completely lost amid a sea of "stuff". There are a lot of posts on this forum. I doubt anyone has had the opportunity to read "all" of it.