Turgenev

First, as a Freedom native, welcome aboard. Hope you enjoy the roller coaster ride of teaming and slap-talk.

"AE" is shorthand for Architect Entertainment, which is a system designed to proliferate player-crafted story content amongst the live servers. Its intent and function is to permit the regular player to add to the available storylines for all players by writing up missions, new enemies, allies, and a bunch of other facets using the Architect editor, found either in the AE buildings across the various hero/villain zones, or by a "work tablet" accolade power that you can get after nabbing a few badges.

The debate centers around the fact that "farmer culture" has been using AE to optimize their XP/drop returns, primarily in Atlas Park and Cap au Diable's AE buildings. Some posit that AE itself is ruining the "City" experience. Others have stated that the behavior isn't new, and has just been transported from previous "farm" zones (Peregrine Island, Grandville) to these new AE areas.

(As I'm writing this, it kinda dawns on me that people are noticing this behavior more because AP and Cap are low-level transit hubs, as opposed to PI/GV, which were very much "high level" player hubs.)

Yes, you can form teams and do missions in AE - that's its biggest draw, the fact that you can go from 1 to 50 with pure player-created storylines if you wanted to. There are plenty of terrific writers out there who've put out some truly creative story arcs for other heroes/villains to enjoy. There are also a metric ton of "not quite so terrific" story arcs out there, plus arcs meant to optimize merit drop/XP farming, etc. Your search utility in AE allows you to navigate and read previews of each of these arcs, as well as search by popularity, vote count, by author name, etc.

Have fun in COH, gabriel, and if you need something on Freedom, feel free to shout out in our forum or on our global channels! Cheers!

...iiiiinteresting, indeed.

You may proceed.

Nonono, it's not a problem at all, I just brainfarted on when the time was. But hey, I have a Palm Pre now, so I'll put you into MEH CALENDAR now...

I was watching Big Bang Theory with Tina 'til 10, then did my usual wash-up for end of night stuff, then got to the boards to check that it was still on... then saw the timing issue. Joe And Crew(tm) were VERY generous to restart the TF (they were still on the first mish) to accommodate my insane BS/shield scrappah.

"scrappa scrappa scrappa"

Hear, hear. I just figure I'm on a "do not invite" list. Maybe I shouldn't have called States a ravening lunatic when the whole "let's try to sneak in ED" thing blew up...

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little there.

Turg got a life. Film at eleven.

(Just got back from two hrs at Bethesda Crab House, working a dozen XL blue crabs with three other people. Serious OM NOM NOMin' goin' on.)

Same. I thought it was just me. Avatea, can you comment?

Sleep: The poor man's T1. (Hey, I paid for a 2nd line in our first apartment for 3 years for just that reason, 'til DSL came to town...)

You need to go 3D.



...and welcome to the OP!

Same. It's quite irritating actually. Someone I know quits regularly, and keeps getting closed beta invites. Which she likes, because she likes to know whether or not she'll want to resub for a few months due to the upcoming content.

Whereas I've not received one, evar. EVAR. Maybe I need to add more drama and quit at random intervals?

I love you. I will set aside a throne at IRON's SG Master Table, and I will announce to all succeeding generations of IRON heroes and villains that, "This seat is set aside for Castle, in whose light we bask every moment of our waking lives."

Fixed for moar betteritude.

Just had an idea for a comedy arc starring the villain, ePeen...

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