Darmian

I think any attempt to use Battalion is ridiculous and the team should look at what is seeded in the Lore, that's what's in the game+novels+comics and it is not an after the fact AMA, however fun that is to read, and move forward from there in a way that is not bound by the original Dev team's ideas or plans.

Keep him dead! What is done is dead, however badly. New stories with him? Sure, in the past. we have the Lore that allows that, but dealing with the actual consequences of his death should remain I think.

Ok, thanks for that! I didn't want to get riled by text and the best way to do that is just ask nicely 🙂 See, I'm a heavy user of AE, but I don't farm and have never written a farm. I just write stories to the best of my limited ability, and that's a big part of the game for ME. So I don't actually begrudge the existence of farms and farmers, I just want a way to separate them from what I and others like me do. And I suppose we're a minority? I don't really know, either way we're not nearly as vocal as dedicated farmers/farm makers. And it's why I advocate getting the training wheels off the AE system. I am looking forward to what Piecemeal has done, I really am, but give me and the rest access to her tools and we will build you a fuller world. I'm not even talking about new stuff, just access to what is already in the game! Give us a bible to adhere to and limits and sure, it would need to be looked at by an external team, but the talent to write is there. I know, I've played stuff in the AE that is good enough, and some frankly better, given the limits of the AE tool, than plenty of the actual content in the game. Much obliged for the polite reply. That's how we all get along. We're all in the same boat, we don't need people poking holes in the bottom!

I don't do it but a friend does, and their reasoning is sure, I'm exemped down but I still have the extra inspirations to drop, the enhancements are still firing passively better than if I was actually (insert true level) and I get to enjoy it more without just dying constantly. For me the dying is part of the game, but different strokes and all that.

Can you clarify what this means please?

Perhaps. But not for a long time I think. And they should be rightfully wary of the Statesman/JE conflation situation. So if they do that then "Insert Name Here" can't be any one dev's character, they have to belong to the game. We don't need an alternate Statesman, we already have one of those in custody. I still say there's a lot of mileage in Mender stories about past Statesman though.

OOKAY.

Oh sweet goobus. Being able to play the PPD and responding to a zone event and telling the heroes to back off because of jurisdiction. LOL.

I'm never happy, you should know that by now.

You didn't, I did and there will be a time when I can't and you will, it goes around. We're in this together 😄

Fair points all I reckon. And the reality tv analog is probably apt in many ways. As for story becoming old content? Well, true for all the content really that is played for story. I think right now, in the volunteer economy we have if they could get the training wheels off the AE then it might (I emphasize might) produce decent replayable content. Or as decently replayable as any number of Posis or Mantis at the very least! And I honestly don't know if this would address population decline but (famous last words!) it could hardly make it worse, could it?

I won't bring PvP into this but how about now re AE? Aside from the Holy Mittens work last year and what's in the new beta, the AE is the only place you CAN get new content, whether that's a farm or an SFMA arc or some wacky thing I could never have imagined. I can't comment on your argument about it being a way to get the players to do whatever etc, because RL stuff had taken me away from the game before it dropped and I only got to use it when I came here. But right now, right now my tiny bunch of AE testers slot in things for ourselves along with levelling, trying different ATs etc. As of yesterday there were 2500 slots with no plays/zero stars. So we randomly pick one and look at it. Or there were 165 1 star arcs. Why did this only get 1 star? Let's find out. Oh dear god make it stop. If it wasn't for the simple fact that I really don't want to hurt anyone's feelings I would be so tempted to do a MST3K like set of reviews for the truly awful stuff we've looked at! Anyway, I've wandered.

Content content content. I am very much looking forward to Piecemeal's work (I, like others, am not "spoiling" it for myself by doing it on the beta) and more of those please. But I think that finding a way to port decent AE material into the game in specific instances is a step forward. Yes, it may be the cable TV version of what you want but it would still be there in the game and with expansion of the AE tools cover the gamut of 1 to 50+. And "real". Because I know a lot of players who enjoy AE but for them it's still not really a part of the game, it "doesn't count", despite getting XP (however nerfed) and influence from it. I have copious notes to myself on all this, I must brush them up and look at them, before throwing them here to be savaged LOL.

But what do people REALLY think? I mean REALLY?

I've mentioned elsewhere, and I'll advocate it again here, that in a resource tight economy things need to be reused or repurposed. I think Galaxy should stay gone but also have an entire set of exemped Mender missions created for it where you can time travel back to there and do more than sight see and collect badges. Attempt to warn people of the coming meteors? Failure obviously but that could be a plot hook for lots of other things. Dark Astoria? You could do similar perhaps but given the original nature of DA that would be trickier. Not impossible but trickier.

But but SPOILERS!

Photo of what though?

Zone dedicated mission arcs? There's a thought.

LOL. Nice. However...the buildings should be there.

I'm liking that Kallisti Wharf is finally getting an Exploration badge, if only one so far. *poke* (and I feel bad about this because you guys are doing such great work) But there are seven blank plaques in KW just waiting for a History badge. I reckon one of them should be dedicated to the memory of Ezra Cole. And you know where that one is. The rest? Who can tell?

I was just pondering that there are no firestations in Paragon, at least as far as I can see, nor any fire engines/trucks. So why not? Where does the Fire Marshal come from/go to before and after the fire event in Steel Canyon? And more importantly if there WERE firestations then how about we be able to buy the fire extinguisher temp power there? Yeah, I know REAL firestations don't let you do this, and frankly you could add it to the P2W or to Wentworth's, but actually having a firestation building would be an extra bit of color to the cityscape. And I do mean BUY the power from them. I know the Marshal just hands them out but that's part of the deal, the fire is ongoing at the time. And even if you can't/couldn't buy the temp power I think there should at least BE some firestations in Paragon.

Possibly Praetorians get the option of going down, and this is simplistically thinking on the hoof, the route of Vigilante/Rogue BEFORE having to make a Hero/Villain choice? And the fact that there is an entire area (I know it's just an instanced map but even so) of Praetoria that no actual Praetorian can ever get to, Last Bastion, bugs me.

Doh. I have had that there so long I just forget! Now that I think of it, isn't that just great!

And he has this cool little "Thank you" glowie citing where he sourced them in one of the missions 😄 EDIT. And he actually said that because even though I read it it did not register with me, duh.

The mini Zone map will need realigning too then, for Siren's Call.