Grouchybeast

This. If the devs want to drive out AE farmers, then they probably need to put more effort into it than making occasional minor tweaks that leave AE as still by far the most profitable way to grind drops in the entire game. Like, either they don't actually want to destroy AE farming, or they're so astoundingly bad at it that AE farmers don't need to worry anyway.

I demand that the devs seed the AH with 👎 IMMEDIATELY.

Yes. It's in the patch notes.

Skulls don't do -End as far as I can remember, but they definitely do -ToHit. If you're missing more then you'll need more attacks and use more End. Have a look in the combat logs and see if your hit chance is down.

This isn't ironic, it's WAI. Buying IOs with merits is intended to be a cap on market prices, not an equivalent, and as an expensive alternative for people who absolutely refuse to engage with the AH. Unless inflation gets completely out of control, it's always going to be cheaper to buy IOs via the AH. I think you might have missed this change, but all content that previously awarded Emp merits has been buffed to award an additional amount of reward merits equal to the amount that could have been made from converting the Emp merits.

I like the powers in /TA but it feels...twangy. The animations and especially the sound effects just aren't satisfying to me. I always feel less like a superhero and more like I'm a kid out in the garden making bows and arrows from bendy branches and string. Which is a shame because it's an interesting powerset, lots of action.

Although it's very easy to forget they exist, there are actually people who do use AE for its original intended purpose. They already take the hit for lower AE rewards v. non-AE play, so it seemed particularly unfair to then also cut them out of post-50 XP progress there.

You might have missed this update, but content that awards Emps is getting a buff of extra regular merit equal to the amount of merits that would have been made by cashing in the Emps. So now you get the equivalent reward merits AND you can still use the Emps for Incarnate salvage.

'Immortal' is a tricky concept when you start to think about it. Do you need to get a signed note sent back in time from the final heat-death of the universe to say that. yeah. they made it there okay without some loophole in their immortality being found? Is it enough that someone could live forever (in whatever sense 'forever' is being defined)?

It's superheroes. Immortality is a flexible concept.

Will you accept characters who die in the current time during the course of a story arc? Marcus Valerius was around for a very long time, in one form or another.

A lot of people happily farmed the heck out of the extremely broken AE on live, until it destroyed the economy and put high-end IO builds entirely out of the reach of many players unless they were willing to play in very specific ways. I don't think 'some people love doing it' is necessarily the sole metric by which to judge whether or not something should be in the game. And it really doesn't matter, because the devs have said more than once that they don't have anything against farming in general, and they have no intention of trying to stop people farming. They're just trying to keep a balance between different play styles, and between different play styles and the economy. They question they usually seem to be asking is 'does this potentially have undesirable consequences for the playerbase as a whole?'

Gratz!

No one just liked it?

I do (or rather did, because I haven't been playing for quite a while) slow travel when I'm soloing, but it feels rude to do it on teams. But when I'm not holding up other people I love flying around the city, or taking the trams, or even flying over to go though an underpass. I do admit I'll cheat and take the now-linked-up tram to get across IP, though, at least some of the time. I miss going to WW to trade, or to Icon to change outfits. I even miss Prestige sometimes. There was a real feeling of achievement to upgrading bases on Live.

The devs have already said that they'd like to ban AFK farming, but the answer to 'why not just...' is that they can't come up with a workable system that will only ban AFK farming, and not erroneously punish other players. If you know a foolproof metric they could apply using the CoX engine, then I'm sure the devs would love to hear about it.

In the Great AE Patrol XP Nerf of Doom Thread, Jimmy said that the devs would like to get rid of AFK farming, but only when they figured out how to do that without hurting other playstyles. I could probably find the posts, but that thread scares me.

IIRC, the timer that starts the event is variable. (ETA: the wiki says it can be from a few seconds up to 36 hours.) The key point, though, is that another construction event can't happen until the Paladin spawned from that construction site is defeated. So if there are already three Paladins in Kings Row, then the construction event will never be triggered. If you're looking to get the construction event badge for preventing the construction, you need to clear out existing Paladins from Kings Row, and then watch for the construction event notification (Unusual Clockwork activity in Kings Row).

Doesn't seem to stop people around here on a Saturday night!

Stackable Confuse, a big Resistance buff, and an Accuracy debuff. Also, a debuff to everything next time the day/night cycle reaches sunrise.

The bartenders should sell Insps that are exactly like normal Insps except that all the icons feature a little cocktail glass, and also Nevermelting Ice.

Lol! You can always speed-run it on 0x-1 and kill her that time.

It's a one-time reward that can't be gained again by design.

I would like to propose that the Absorb Pain/Rez combo be called Suck It Up. Then when the Empath's teammates faceplant, they can yell, "You, Suck!"

I don't care what AE farmers are doing with their time so long as it isn't screwing up the Market prices for everyone else. AE on Live was an inflationary nightmare. As long as the devs have that under control, it's fine.