ZacKing

You can put anyone on ignore that you want and never have to read another doom post again.

Yeah I'll determine for myself how big or small an impact changes are on me thanks. Population has been steadily declining for a while now and none of the new and super cool content seems to be changing that.

I don't care what they say. Not saying they're lying, just I don't completely buy it. If you want to believe every word they say, more power to you. I saw where reward merits are getting added to iTrials and such. Thanks? That doesn't help the soloer out all that much if needing to wait on full leagues to make up for those merits they lost from converting emps they could get solo.

Yeah it also impacts everyone who isn't doing that. Having the option to convert them into some quick reward merits was a nice bonus if you had a few spare emps lying around and needed some merits to fill out a build. Or you could convert them into other stuff to sell for some quick inf. You got those emps natively from vet levels doing any content, not just AE. I think people forget that. Not everyone is getting those emps from vet levels doing AE farms.

If that's true then it's clear that the need to remove the emp merit conversion is BS. Farmers are going to farm tons of inf whether they convert the empyrian merits or not. They're a drop of a drop of a drop in the bucket. They're being removed to try and push solo players out of AE who were converting them to reward merits. Plain and simple.

No interest in hard mode. Too long a slog for me and not my idea of fun. I never see this advertised in LFG or in the various team forming channels I belong to on Torch and Excel. No issue with it being available to those who want to try and tell others how to play though.

Of course! Gotta do something to keep the narrative alive. Next it will be you can only compare AT to AT using the same power sets and same exact builds running the same specific content. Of course they want to include that because that's one area where AE is going to be better in that narrow situation because you can control what map you run. It's utterly hilarious that when you asked for criteria, you got belittled and berated for it. Now all of a sudden that others are posting their findings that don't jive with the bullshit "AE is the best!" narrative trying to be forced on us, the goalposts must be moved and all kinds of restrictions need to be put into place to make sure it rings true. It's all hypocritical nonsense. Nope. What other goal posts would you like to move now?

Just saying 😉😁

And the fact that you want to bullshit everyone into believing anecdotal evidence is equal to hard facts shows that you're an even bigger idiot than me.

Nope anecdotal claims are anecdotal claims, doesn't matter what they are about. Nice try though.

Don't know them personally either and they might be the most knowledgeable person ever about the game. That's great. I do know hypocrisy when I see it though and all the game knowledge in the world doesn't change that.

"Mountains of anecdotal evidence" LMAO!! Ok so aliens, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster are totally real. Give me a break. Making claims and then not offering anything real to back it up isn't super helpful either.

You don't need billions of inf to earn tons of inf in the game.

This is totally hilarious. Other players say "one person's results aren't enough" and they get jumped all over by the anti AE crowd. Then when others start posting data that doesn't line up with what the anti AE crowd found, now all of a sudden it's "not enough people testing". Christ you people don't even try to hide your hypocrisy anymore. Unreal.

Yeah because everyone has billions of spare inf lying around... 🙄

There's other stuff I disagreed with in your posts overall, but the general sentiment you were making on that point I can get behind. Don't take votes from random people on the internet personally. They mean absolutely nothing.

The entire Sonic set. Most annoying shit ever.

Nope, nice try though. I just downvote stuff I find stupid and dumb and like/upvote stuff I like and agree with. Whether or not it makes you happy or makes you cry I could care less. These are all just random people on the internet who I could not care less about. If getting downvotes makes you laugh, ok great. If it makes you cry, oh well, too bad. That's on you.

Anyone looking for the "more like live" experience should checkout Rebirth server. It's the slow levelers paradise over there.

You are. And you're welcome.

I understand what the change is supposed to be for, I don't buy the the reason for it. Like @Bill Z Bubba asked above, so what? I believe it's more being done to prevent less than a handful of people from farming vet levels and using the early EMP merit rewards to cash in. It's probably what the goldfarmers are doing. Now you'll be able to get all those things doing speed runs or farming iTrials, so why run any other content? What about all the story content? Should iTrials and speed TFs get nerfed now? Don't worry, I already know the answer. Those are righteous/good/right/correct/approved content. You're not understanding this change isn't necessary because it's absolutely clear the vast majority of players aren't farming for everything in AE. I can see that much with my own two eyes. If you don't see that, you're blind of willfully ignorant. The requests for TF/WST/DFB/SBB/SF/missions in LFG far outnumber the requests for farms by a vast majority so people are running non-AE content all the time for all kinds of stuff, so I know the "one stop shop" excuse is just bullshit. You have to know what it is you're testing for. What are you measuring and under what restrictions and assumptions? What are you comparing? One person posted they made a million inf an hour. Ok great. Someone else may make 10 million or 100k. Is that the only thing being measured?

I think you already know the answer. It's wrongbad/evil/exploit and certain people don't like it, so it has to go.

Right so AE isn't the best source for inf per hour. Thanks for being honest.

AE isn't a one stop shop for every reward and you can farm merits by doing speed runs faster than earning the emp merits from vet rewards. You still aren't getting it. I see so you asking for testing criteria to make sure the results are legit is perfectly fine. It's only wrong/bad if someone else asks the same thing. Give me a break.

Doesn't have to sell immediately if we're going by inf per hour. But whatever. You're just as biased as everyone else so you keep doing you.