ShardWarrior

This is not useful for those of us who already have all the alts we want at whatever Incarnate level we want, if any at all. It is great that people interested in kitting out their alts to T4 will be able to do this. There is a forgotten/ignored group that does not fall into that category. There looks to be quite a lot of solo players who were using those bonus EMP merits to convert to reward merits. What should those solo players do now to make up for the loss? "Run more team content" is not going to work for them. I am asking honestly since it seems to me, at least from the people in my circle, that this is just going to mean even more farming, not less. That seems to be the exact opposite effect of what this change was meant to do.

Not sure I would characterize "lose Vet Levels or EMP Merit conversion or both" as a compromise. Many players are losing out under any situation. Just being honest.

I doubt very much there is any changing anything at this point.

Our group ran the ASF on Hard Mode once for the badges, then never again. Will do the same for the ITF, assuming we stay here. Zero interest in turning TFs into lengthy slogs really.

Sure, assuming being herded into team content is your thing.

Not to mention all of the complaint threads and comments over the years about people begging for PLs in LFG. If there really is that many begging for farms, there must not be a lot of people taking advantage of multi-boxing or AFK farming. As I remember it, the badges and whatever else to unlock them was in response to tokens just costing a lot of inf. The reasoning was making them inf only would just encourage more farming or buying inf from gold farmers.

You can essentially AFK any content on a team and get the reward for it, so your argument singling out the EMP merits from Vet levels does not work.

This still does not matter. I would wager far more people are doing speed runs than are multiboxing several accounts across several machines on server farms to do mass AFK farming. Sure, it is technically possible someone could set up a giant server farm running 10,000 + accounts all AFK farming. It is also possible someone could create enough accounts with enough characters to use up every word combination in the English language. Just because these are technically possible does not in any way mean this is what is happening in reality.

Being a MMORPG does not in any way mean teaming is required or expected for all content. Most all content in the game is not meant for teaming and can be soloed. You are completely wrong on this.

So do not take into account the ideal TF speed run, but do take into account extreme edge case ideal farming in AE. Your whole post falls apart with this.

Others having a different point of view does not make them a troll.

If they are not a reward, then why remove the conversion? Supposedly the conversion is being removed because earning them through Vet levels makes AE "the best place for all rewards" in the game. Quite clearly they see them as a valuable reward.

Well no, you did earn them by doing whatever activities that earned the veteran level XP to get them. Nice try though.

No, not if you make a lot of costume changes. 😁

Thank you. I do the same thing. I have already gotten all the characters I wanted to at T4 incarnates, so I used excess EMP merits to convert to Reward Merits to fill in holes in IO sets or to buy purples or ATOs. Getting the EMP merits via Vet levels to use for other things was a nice bonus. Now I am just going to have to farm even more to make up for that loss. Instead of coaxing me out of AE, this idiotic change is encouraging me to spend even more time in AE to make up for the lost conversion. Just being honest, this is not making me want to play more, it is making me want to play less and less. As @PeregrineFalcon put it so eloquently, yet another swing and a miss.

Rebirth and New Dawn both work just fine without the background updates made by the team here. Both have some very cool changes and additions in their own right. Rebirth has a vastly superior costume editor for one thing. New Dawn opening up signature NPC power sets and even Freeform ATs is a lot of fun. Truly a shame that the various people developing are so fractured.

Oh I already know your answer. 🙂 Apologies, my post was more a general question/statement and not directed at you personally. Sorry if that was confusing. Seems to me that taking extreme edge cases into consideration for balancing rewards is only ever going in one direction.

So we can start nerfing all the rewards in TF/SF/iTrial content to balance them out? Speed runners are getting rewards for optimal play in far less time than the non-optimal players. Only seems fair to balance these out.

And these are builds and maps everyone uses? Or are other players using different builds and maps? Seems to me these are finely tuned builds that not everyone will want or use.

Inaccurate how and defined by whom using what criteria? It seems to me that quite clearly not everyone posting their results here are hitting these mysterious figures.

Earning the EMP merits from Vet levels by doing "right/correct/approved" content and converting them is earning them, same as running TFs over and over.

You are absolutely right that people should enjoy their costume and character design. The problem is that we get buried under layer upon layer of VFX from other players being used or cast onto them, many of which obscure the view of other players completely. Unless I am misunderstanding the request, the ask is for a minimal or no VFX option for abilities that are cast onto others.

Same. Predator 2 was meh, although it did expand the story a bit at the end where you learned the Predators had been visiting Earth for quite some time. The AVP films were awful. Predators was pretty decent, although as great an actor as he is, I could not see Adrien Brody as an action hero. I did not see the The Predator because it got such terrible reviews and from the clips I have seen, it does look like a stinker. Prey here is getting good reviews and it looked like an interesting idea. I will wait for it to show up on Vudu or something since I do not have Hulu.

So now we are arbitrarily moving goal posts by adding the criteria of AFK farming?