ShardWarrior

Making decisions in a vacuum is not always the best solution either. There is a happy medium somewhere.

Not a bad idea at all. I would also like to see an increase to the ignore list size as part of this.

Not all of them, just Regen scrappers. 😉

Agreed although I seriously doubt that the community at large will ever be brought in on the discussion on future issues.

I have to agree. If you are all categorizing whatever this is as abusive behavior, a rule change is in order. From the sound of things, you can detect it and can deal with anyone doing it accordingly. The sledgehammer approach that affects everyone seems a bit much here, although I realize at this point it is too late to make any changes.

That and intolerance.

May she rest in peace. She was truly an inspiration to generations of people. Condolences to her loved ones on their loss.

Thank you. At least this is something. I will respectfully disagree that AE is the best source of every reward in the game.

Forgot to add, my personal preference would be to remove Vet Levels from AE if we can keep the EMP to Reward Merit conversion. If that is not possible, then I would prefer some sort of cooldown on converting EMP merits to Reward Merits. As nice as most people are here, I simply do not want to be forced into teaming for reward merits and being able to convert EMP merits was a nice way to pick up recipes when inf was in short supply or to complete IO sets. It would be very nice to get that dev digest where the thought process behind this decision could be shared.

Again, not accusing anyone in specific however different accounts having an avatar and a post history is not solid evidence of unique individuals either. You can easily have one person using multiple accounts to post support or dissenting opinion to ideas to make it look like there is a lot of interest in a given point of view.

Ok but how many people have several accounts? Not accusing anyone specifically, just pointing out what should be fairly obvious. Online poll results are very easily skewed.

Polls on here are easily skewed by people using alt accounts. This does not really tell anyone anything other than what a handful of people want.

I am not sure that would work. You will get people here saying that farmers will just flip those on the market and earn billions, which is somehow going to miraculously destabilize the economy.

Zardoz does make a fair point here. Trust is very important. Given the history of lying to the community for years about the existence of the server, it does make anything they say suspect.

I honestly have no idea why this bothers people so much. Just ignore them and go and do your own thing. Chances are very likely those people do not want to team with you and you do not want them on your team, so leaving them alone is the best option. Everyone wins.

My guess would be less than a handful, if that. The better question is, who cares? Let them farm trillions of influence and billions of reward merits if they want. The tools used to detect gold farmers should be a help here and anyone abusing the rule should get a permanent ban. Ultimately, you simply are not going to be able to stop anyone from farming like that short of turning off the game.

Excellent questions. I believe we were told that we would be receiving a digest to explain why some of these changes were necessary. So far, just crickets.

It is laughably comical how certain things like the inner circle claim requires proof, yet stating that AE farming is driving away new players is taken as absolute fact and requires no proof at all. Something seems out of balance there.

For a commercial game where there is a financial incentive to keep accounts active and keeping people paying longer, it makes sense to be concerned about the market and inflation. Homecoming is not a commercial game and there has not been inflation here or ludicrous prices for things on the market like we saw when the game was live when it had a much larger population.

As good a suggestion as this is, it will not satisfy the select few on the inner circle who will not rest until farming and/or AE are removed from the game.

Yes. New Dawn (Cake) lets you build one free 50 with everything unlocked (badges, incarnates etc) plus 2 billion inf per account, basically just like Brainstorm but it is an NPC contact in Atlas. Hardly anyone there taking advantage of it, which again disproves the whole "people want everything for no effort" excuse. Other servers also have vastly superior costume editors and have added signature power sets for players. They each have some very cool stuff in their own right. Hate to say it but the more Homecoming does to drive off players, the more attractive those other servers become.

I had asked about that months ago. Never received any kind of answer either way.

If I win the billion, I will be purchasing the rights from NCSoft. Then it will be mine. 😁

All you need to do is look to the literal ghost towns that the other servers are to see that. There is no AE leveling to speak of, no P2W vendors, no seeded markets. It is the traditional, slow levelers paradise and yet there is hardly anyone there. New Dawn lets you create one level 50 with all the bells and whistles and 2 billion inf for free per account and the server is still a ghost town. I think that telling.

People can already create however many fully decked out level 50s as they want on Brainstorm and hardly anyone uses it. Just my own personal perspective, I think most have found the happy medium they are after with creating characters and leveling them through AE. They are enjoying what they are doing and feeling like they accomplished something versus using a token to instantly level up.