ZacKing

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.

Right so anyone can do what they want and come up with whatever data they want.

Like I said in the other thread, you're welcome. Post something worthwhile and I'll give it a thumbs up. All you've been posting is pointless crap, so I call it like I see it. Yeah it tells everyone you're biased. You've seen one person post something and claiming it's gospel and absolute proof. There's people who think Bigfoot is real too. You can't compare oranges to apples that's why they're asking for testing criteria. Seriously, what's the harm in answering the question? What's the testing criteria? "Use your own" doesn't work. It's a perfect way to skew the results like @ForeverLaxx mentioned earlier. People will just tailor the situation to come up with the results they want. I can play the market and earn more in an hour than your fire farmer will in running meteor maps, so that means AE isn't the best source of inf. The people who don't want to share collection criteria are bullshitters and don't want their results questioned because they're afraid of people proving them wrong. But whatever, you do you and keep right on bullshitting. The only person I see whining here is you. Just being honest.

lol I'm not the one crying about down votes on an internet forum.

You're welcome. Try posting stuff worthwhile and I'll pass along some thumbs up. I only downvote stuff I find stupid.

Well the goal seems to be to push everyone into more grinding for stuff so an increased market for RMT should be expected. Nothing they can do to stop it either.

Do you need more evidence or is what a GM posting about it happening sufficient for you?

Google is your friend.

Wasn't "there is no private server" over on the Titan forums a conspiracy theory for a few years?

The fact they think people expressing legit concerns over their changes funny speaks volumes. I guess the "developers" just don't give a shit.

Why does this need to be implemented? Where's the masses of new players complaining they can't find a name?

Where's the dev diary that was mentioned telling us why this was necessary?

I wish the "developers" here had the balls to do this. I'd laugh my ass off watching the four or five people left crying that they can't fill a team and wondering where everyone went. That'd be epic.

I'd love to hear this answer too.

This is a terrible idea. Please don't implement this.

100% agreed! Wish people would stop nerfherding and look toward the future.

But you are trying to make it something by coming to the forums and making posts about it. It's perfectly ok to come and vent about something that frustrates you. I'm sorry if what I wrote earlier wasn't clear. I didn't mean to say that there are no new PLed players at all. I was saying that I don't see it as a big deal and not something to stress over. You're even admitting it's rare. Just a difference of opinion is all. There will be bad players whether there's AE farming or not.

It's not an indication of anything. There's people with hundreds badges who still don't understand what they're doing. I have at least half a dozen alts in various states of being PLed that don't have any defeat badges. I have other characters that have over a thousand badges. If I'm running one of my alts on a TF with you, does that make me a PL'ed noob? you're really trying to make this into a huge problem that just doesn't really exist. it's nowhere near as rampant as you're claiming it is and the criteria you're using isn't exactly solid. It seems to be biased on your prejudices.