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First, I applaud many of you for trying to create interesting content. You're telling a story, which can be tough to do using the MA system. My very best suggestion/advice is to plead with the HC staff to allow the better stories/content to be moved out of AE and into the wild, so to speak. The reason many do not run your stories is because: 1. No idea it exists. 2. The XP is 1/2 what it is in the wild. 3. There are no reward merits. 4. The defeats, debt, influence earned - so many different badges that are tracked by the game - they do not count in AE maps. If the "dev choice" winners, say, every quarter, were to have their missions/story arcs moved outside of AE, then people WOULD run it. Perhaps not as often as a Yin or other task forces and story arcs, but when something "new" drops, people will run it.

So...I can kind of see how you might think the game is catering to a certain group. The earlier page, when they took away temp powers (like my jetpack) when in a pvp zone, it certainly seemed like there was some effort put in to appease the folks that liked to pvp. And they are either a rare bunch, or a very quiet bunch. I only know of a handful of players that will tolerate pvp, (as in think it's okay) whereas the rest are decidedly anti-pvp, and you could remove those zones, and they would never know. As they are a volunteer staff, it also stands to reason they'd work on things that capture their interest. So, I guess I'd just say be patient. Empty words, I know, but it's all I got.

Guess I'm just as ignorant. I remember where The Fab is in Grandville, but only because of the badge there. Thing is, when I get invited, I can see from the team window what zone they're in. Once I get in zone, if I am not real clear where the contact is, I can just head over to where the leader is. We don't really have to know, for example, where the Hyperion neighborhood marker is in Atlas. Nor do we need to know where the Grim Vale is in Croatoa, if we join a GM kill team. All we need to know is where the train is, or an sg portal, take one or the other, and once in zone, head towards the team leader.

I am only looking at the Rad/fire (new) and the Spines/Fire. Something doesn't add up for me. And I could certainly be wrong. When I tested earlier this month the Brigg's Asteroid Map, when I cleared the map, I got the same influence each time. I don't know which map you're using that would take 20+ minutes, but I'm curious as to why the clear time for Spines is faster, but somehow you earned less inf? If the number of mobs on each of the maps was the same, with a faster clear time, the spines/fire should have a higher inf/minute. Do we know enough about the spawns on maps to conclude they have the same number of mobs, or even the same class of mobs? Outside of AE, for example, the last mission to rescue Mr. Yin, sometimes there may be 1 boss, or 3 minions, or sometimes 1 lieutenant and 1 minion. Is that the way the AE Maps work as well? It's a very minor thing, I was just curious.

As we all know, some changes took place in AE. I read/see/hear of new farms that are updated as "adjusted for XP". So, trying to sort it out myself, I go to create a custom npc. Is this what folks are referring to? I'm not an AE mission creator, not really. I've put together tiny little ones for badge purposes, but really had no idea what I was doing. I can only assume that some farm maps have this slider lower, to make the farm easier. And other folks have it higher by using the Custom or Extreme setting. Is that the case, or does it mean something different?

You mean, "A bad part of the internet" uses it as a byword for ..etc. I just think it's bad form. I have a daughter named Felicia. The teasing she got during that stupid "Bye Felicia" meme was horrendous. While it may be true that there's a woman out there somewhere that treated some waitstaff horribly, it's equally horrible to perpetuate it's use in such a poor fashion. I mean, I get it, it's something most folks understand. We all have a clear understanding of profanity, but that doesn't mean we should use it. We're all mostly adults, let's use the words we already know instead of coming up with new ones. Sorry, I don't mean this to be an attack, it's just a peeve of mine.

So, was tinkering with a build, and had thought that the Impervious Skin: "proc" was a unique. It isn't. So, who wouldn't want more regen? So, in mids, I slotted several. So, did the respec, and suddenly, I read it more carefully and realize only the regen part is unique, which allows for multiple slotting. So, I could slot multiples, but in game, only get the benefit of one regen boost. In Mids Reborn, however, I'm seeing these regen boosts stack. So, I believe that's a mistake, and Mids' shouldn't show the boost from multiples of this IO in question. If I've misinterpreted, or not expressed things clearly, I apologize, let me know, I'll try to do better. But, pretty sure that's a mistake on Mids' part, and not mine.

First, Karen is a name. It is not a description. Some folks might think it is, but I know several ladies named Karen, and they do not represent the behavior this label infers certain women have. It is patently rude to use such a description to refer to anyone. If someone's an ass, just use the word ass to describe the behavior, unless you're concerned about offending certain mules or donkeys. Second, expecting players to have a travel power is normal. To not have any travel power is just ludicrous. There's usually no reason to not have one. Now, I understand for thematic, possibly RP purposes, some folks may delay in getting one, or opt to just use ninja/athletic run, or whatever. But that's still a power. To play the game with just sprint, I can't wrap my head around that. And I don't have to. It's ultimately none of my business. However, me dictating that they must get a travel power - that's a no-no. Not my role to tell anyone how to play - although I will consider them a bit silly, or a bit stupid. Or both. I won't share that thought with them, but I'll think it, for sure.

I think the only reason it was put there was to make it easy for villains/heroes to team up and farm. I don't recall it being there during live. And for the folks that run non-farm content in AE, I guess it makes it easier for them, too. But they can always go to RWZ. What's strange to me is there isn't one in Kallista Wharf, a co-op zone with nothing else going on there. Seems like a perfect place for one. I'm not real clear why there's one in most zones, other than to encourage it's use.

You don't honestly think that a person under 13 couldn't blissfully ignore that user agreement the same way teens agree they are over 18 and look at porn? Of course they can. Anyone that thinks differently is an idiot.

I am pretty sure if someone told you to go to Port Oakes, you would know enough to find the ferry to get there.

My apologies. I guess by not wanting to give you what may be a tedious task, I was thinking there might be some way for us to edit, kind of like the way we all might contribute to the HC Wiki. This is what I'm referring to: I confess, when I got the badge, I didn't look at the badge name. Or if I did, the name of it left my memory quickly. Same with Mimic, and the other new costume badges. But, I was able to pick those out by the descriptions. No such description for Hologram. That's all, and certainly didn't intend to nitpick or make extra work on top of what must be quite tedious work! Thanks for the effort!

Well...I never kept tabs on the numbers, but if you take into account that a number of AFK farmers who don't read the forums, suddenly discovered their builds were insufficient to handle the new aggro changes, perhaps some of those numbers are playing, and not in the farm - at least until the new page 4 adapted builds make their way into the forums. I just finished one, for rad/fire, and spines/fire. I like the spines/fire better. Yeah, I know irradiated ground is supposed to give the rad/fire a slight edge, but I like spines better, so sue me. As for the aforementioned LotG, I was honestly expecting the price to go back to 7M, but it's stayed at 6m for the most part. That did surprise me.

I wouldn't think that the case. Why would they corral only level 50's? Half of those level 50's got there in the farms, so it stands to reason they wanted the lowbies out of the farms, too.

Is there a simple way for us to edit the text? I was looking at the badges for getting 50 of the Prismatic bought costumes, Hologram accolade. I was anticipating it being directly below the badge for getting 10 costumes, but I suppose because it was an accolade it was further down. Had to refer to my character's list to get the name of the badge back in my wee brain. It is there, I did find it, but maybe a description would be helpful for the next old fella who's looking to update their badge list.

Preaching to the choir. But, I do think it was fun for some folks to get insta-rich (for them) when they were able to sell one for over 100M the first time they came out. I wasn't one of those folks, mind you, but I did my part to subsidize some folks with my purchase of 143 of them. The shame of it is, it could have been a great influence sink if they were available from a merit vendor or p2w, but the inf is just transferred instead.

So, the focused feedback for this patch has closed, so I'll make my suggestion here. As many of you who read the patch notes are aware, when a "page" drops, it's pretty easy to miss a few details here and there, because there's a lot of information to process. So, I ran a Mortimer (weekly) on a level 40 character, and was unpleasantly surprised to see I didn't get 2 Prismatics at the completion of it. These do drop randomly for lower level characters, so I can't understand why it doesn't reward 2 PAPs, regardless of level. So, my suggestion is that it should.

So, it would seem I had no idea what the OP was talking about. I thought he/she was referring to that Tiki lounge in Pocket D. I'm on my way to a mission in Talos and ran into this place. In any event, it would seem this side door has some Devouring Earth plotting the demise of this woman named Tanya. Seems like I'm always trying to rescue a woman named Tanya, but I am always too late. So for those that may have struggled with reading like I do from time to time, this is in Talos. [-1633.7 10.5 5642.6]

So, awakened from my poor night's sleep by a broken air-conditioner and a lot of sweat, I take a cold shower, and stumble in here to see if I need to amuse myself with any comments. The title of the thread captures my attention, because it took me a moment to realize it was in English. "Bamboo Kats Luau"? I don't know what I thought it was, but the Tiki lounge never occurred to me. Carry on. I am making coffee, and hopefully, more sense later.

I suspect in a few weeks time, they will be so abundant, it will be like candy. For the hordes of costume fiends in this game, they'll be given away freely at various costumes contests, I'd expect. I think last night, I saw the price had dropped to 20M. I need to get on and check this morning's price.

Oh my! Quick! Make that alt!

lol, you're welcome! I say this on behalf of the player that was seemingly desperate for it. I have 450 bids at 10M for them in the AH. I ain't paying no 200M, lol.

It's a beautiful property. I don't think I'm the right buyer for you, as I don't RP. But, if you get no takers, I'm sure I can pay you more than what you paid for it easily. But, I'm sure someone will want it. Good luck!

I see you trying to be helpful. The problem is - I wasn't the one who said there was a problem. I was the one who said if folks have a problem, most folks have no idea how to determine if it's a user error (bad build/misunderstanding/etc) or something legit wrong with how things are supposed to work. It's just not intuitive to do what you're so helpfully describing.

One down...the rest to go.