Darmian

RP is not a thing run by the Devs or built into the game itself. You can do it, and GMs even help out and participate sometimes with RP events, but there's never been rewards for it because the game was never set up to do it. The rewards for RP are dictated by either a predetermined set of rules that the RPers agree to adhere to and/or the fun of actually RPing in the first place. Even if you were to have rewards how would you distribute them? Here's X amount of XP/Reward Merits/etc, because that was a particularly sharp comment in response to Night Lepus's attempt to ruin the party? If any of the dedicated RP groups/players want to correct me on the above, please do. That said, it's still impossible for the game code to award things for RP.* *Allowing for any XP/drops etc earned in an AE arc written specifically to further an RP storyline.

THAT, my friend, is on them being grade A dipshits and no reflection on you. Yeah, I know you know that but I'm just verifying it for you.

LOL, yes. THAT thing. So annoying that I don't give anyone an initial speech anymore unless it's something I want "overheard".

There's some legs to this. It's not entirely there yet but it has the makings of something.

Again, automatically conflating AE with farms. Plenty of us do not use it to farm but actually to find actual player made content, of any level. Yes, we can exemp and do stuff written to be lower level, but a level lock shuts out a level 10 from playing something written to be level 10. I think the suggestion is well intentioned but it's not an adequate solution.

Four of them are, but frankly that's beside the point. I wrote them as best as I could and got lucky. There was no guarantee I'd get those. However I specifically wrote them to cover a gap in Gold side between Neutropolis and First Ward - this is veering off the OP, apologies - so that Gold players could have a proper transition rather than just (a) taking the Rift or (b) abruptly going to First Ward. Sure, anyone can play them (and I encourage people to do so!) but they have a distinct purpose even beyond their story. Anyway, thanks for everyone's patience while I now climb down off my soapbox. Even if what you state is 100 % accurate - which I say it isn't, but that's descending into "She said/He said" - so what? I actually don't understand this statement. Please break it down for me.

And how would that be done without locking out people like myself who use it to write SFMAs for lower levels to play? Sure, you can exemp when you go into them, and no issues with that, but I for one don't want level 20s shut off from stuff I specifically wrote so that those levels could play them.

RL and work has got in the way of many a thing for me lately, but never fear, I will get to your stuff!

It's been a loong time since 40 hours was an entire video game, at least in my experience.

One of the issues with removing the Fetch/Fedex things is there is a desire to maintain some continuity with the OG game, so if any version of a remove was planned I think it would be on a case by case basis, looking at the most egregious versions of those things.

I used to use the analogy that farms are songs while story content (in game and AE) are TV Shows. You can easily play the same song over and over, not so much watch a TV show over and over. No, that doesn't contribute to the debate at all when people are looking for some sort of middle ground between now and the changes on Beta. AFAICS the changes on Beta ARE the middle ground versus what could have been a lot more. Anyhoo, stay civil Folks, you know I love you all!

I for one am not actually calling for it to be reinstated. I do think a trial run of it would give some numbers to crunch though.* *I'd be very surprised if it was reinstated to be honest.

Excellent! A life in politics awaits you!

Sure they can. Should they? Maybe. Should MARTy be reinstated? Again, maybe. Might be worth it to see how it fares. I'm making an assumption here that you mean the below: Tricky. I mean we have a system for building your own adventures that gets predominantly used for "making your toon swole/wealthy". It's like having a home treadmill that spits money at you while you run. Or leave the dog running on it while you do something else. And weirdly your friend simply standing beside you (or your dog) also gets fit! Trouble is, no one has got anywhere! I think you're genuine in your concern, I just disagree with you that what is happening is wrong in some way. I'll need to have a good ponder on further things about this before I post more.

Well, we're at cross purposes here then, and never the twain shall meet. AE content outside of Dev Choices never gave equal rewards to in world story arcs. Character progress after 50? What's being "lost" is the bumps from Vet levels, something that was an anomaly being in the AE in the first place.

Apart from a few grandfathered in, all the Dev Choice winners automatically get booted to the HOF. And that's good. Farms get there from hitting 999+ plays. Frankly I'd kill that dead.

They simply don't actively discourage anything of the kind. AE story content, however well crafted, is ancillary to the full game, and that's where their full focus is. And it's where it should be. As someone who uses the AE to find story arcs of all kinds, any disincentive I see comes from wading through the metric tonne of crap farms that swamp everything else. And no, I'm not hammering farms as a thing here but for every "bad SFMA arc" in the AE there's probably 20 times the amount of bad or simply abandoned farms.

Can I ask for a definition of this please?

Removing XP buffs from the TFV/P2W and reverting to "Double XP Weekends/Insert other time here" like on Live.* *When I came back in 2019 I didn't know the buff existed and got to 50 the "normal" way, occasionally wondering if HC was ever going to do a double XP weekend.

Excellent post and breakdown here. Now, @Ankylosaur can hop in here and correct me, but I fear my own work may have skewed his naming conventions, since I felt he wanted more clarity than the vagary I deal in!

Applause! Also, did I give you the Zoe bio?

Tsk. Missed that.

I run a Main that is Mind Control/Empathy. Frankly, removing the rez is a no go for me. That thing is golden. Ok, it doesn't smack the enemy around like HT and so on, but so what?

It's all a matter of perspective. EDIT. That sounded like a diss, now that I read it back. It isn't! It's all a matter of perspective on who contributes in different ways. Whew. Got out of that one!

Never seen it on Reunion either. @Akalabeth, give it some time. I'm sure you'll work out a bio for your main at least, and once you've done that, well, sky's not the limit!