Bionic_Flea

I have 44 level 50s, all built to my specifications, including all ATOs/WinterOs catalyzed and at least +1 via incarnates, most +3, but only a few favorites are T4 to all. I tend to make one character and play it to 50+ before starting on a new experiment.

Replying to @Stoked Nope. That was a farming brute, made for farming fires in AE and to PL characters on my other account. Is that wrong? I don't remember how I leveled him. He may have self PL'd by doing farms on lower settings and ramping up as I got more powers and slots. I think the only non-AE stuff he's done is getting accolades and these recent tests. Maybe some other stuff, but not much. I never claimed to be the best farmer, and that 1 mill inf/minute was just one run of one asteroid. I might get a little better if I kept running the same one over and over, but I doubt I'll get into the 2.5 mill/min others say they do. What's your Inf per minute? I think his build was about 300 mill, but I keep a lot of stuff I use in stock. It took me about an afternoon to have him up and running from level 1 to fully slotted. I have no idea how many people use full sets, generics, SOs or something in between. That would be interesting to know. Oooooh . . . wait . . . that was all sarcasm in your post. You didn't use a little smiley face! Never mind, then. 😜 PS - Everything I said in this post is true and accurate.

Well, we've had a Dominatrix for as long as I can remember and her followers are . . . well . . . I'll just leave this here:

A) I happily await your results. B) I have no shame, therefore cannot be embarrassed. C) Don't let my work dictate yours. As long as you are consistent in your methodology and properly record and reveal your tests they can be benchmarks unto themselves . . . oh but wait, that would just be one data point, like polling one person . . . never mind, carry on. FOR SCIENCE!!

It was . . . a catastrophe!

None of the HC Team have stated they want to eliminate farming, or eliminate AE. They have made some adjustments in the past and have proposed making a change in the next update. It's not the end of the world, or the end of farming, or the end of AE. It's all going to be OK.

Feel free to add your own numbers. I heard you like to test and be helpful. P.S. I've added numbers for an ITF and will continue to add stuff as I go along.

I don't know if anyone mentioned this before, but if you up the levels for players and not mobs that would make getting Warburg warheads and Shivans very easy to get. Perhaps easier than the devs want, although I am sure many player's wouldn't complain.

I emptied my pockets and timed myself in a meteor fire farm and got about 1 million Inf per minute. I have been told that better farmers than I can get between 2 and 2.5 million per minute and that good AFK farmers get between 500 - 750k per minute. I just ran a Council radio and made about 250k inf per minute - but that will vary by map. Then I made about 435k inf per minute in the first mission of Market Crash (long tunnel with Freaks). That took too long because I had AV setting on. Maybe between 500-600k without the AV? And I could get better doing these too. I forgot to use my inspiration binds until halfway through the Market Crash Tunnel. And I should have pulled mobs more in both Market Crash and radio mission. But no matter how much better I get, it's hard to get the density of critters that one gets in the meteor map, which is also wide open so one barely has to move. EDIT: I ran Market Crash again and stopped the clock when I only had the AV left and came out with 610k/min EDIT2: I ran a +4 kill most ITF with a decent team. 34 minutes start to finish (not counting Rommy who rezzed again after mission complete or the towers) for 337k inf per minute. This was all run by the same player (me) on the same character (a rad/fire brute made for farming) and all at level 54. Lets review: Solo AE Meteor Map - 1 million/min Solo Market Crash 1st - 610k/min Kill Most ITF (team of 8 ) - 337k/min Solo Council Radio - 250k/min So based on my runs, AE Meteor farm is 4x as good as a Council Radio, 3x as good as a kill most ITF, and a little over 1.5x as good as Market Crashes first mission. I always started the clock once I was in the map and clicked build up to begin attacking. Clock was stopped on mission complete, except for Market Crash due to AV at the end. I am only counting influence earned by killing critters and completing mission. Other drops are extremely variable and one lucky purple can totally skew results. I also did not count merits, though they are deterministic based on the TF/Trial/Story Arc, their value can vary based on what you do with them and of the content I ran, only the ITF awarded merits. I tried to add a run of Heather Townsend, but I forgot to empty my pockets first (or note how much I had) so I'll have to try again another time.

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I had a similar thought, as I couldn't find my screenshots in the usual place, and then remembered that Dropbox added a screenshot folder and that's where they ended up. Do you have Dropbox or something similar, maybe?

I get that you have that feeling, but this new page has a lot more stuff than just the AE stuff and hard mode ITF. New RP bars and "bases"; new costume stuff including all the temp costumes (I made a stone/staff tanker on test with Nemesis Costume and Nemesis Staff. So much fun!); new incarnate story arcs and repeatables that can be run solo; new badges; new power sets; new maps; etc.

I want Jimmy's knife! 🔪

That's with the Cloak on and unsuppressed. Minus about 5 once combat starts.

Good! Congrats. It's not trolling to ask people to actually test stuff on the test server. Good on you for doing so. Also, you were kinda asking for it:

Sure. Knock yourself out. All I found was a Temporal Warrior test. So good on you for trying that out.

Yes. You can answer whether you have actually logged into test server and tried anything, or just gave your opinions based on reading patch notes and other players. A simple yes or no will suffice.

No need to repeat what you said before. As you said, I am aware of your prior posts. But I may have missed where you actually went on test server and provided your feedback based on that experience. I clicked on the links provided thinking that you had attached your tests or feedback, but it was just the patch notes, which I have also read. What precisely did you test and what help did you provide?

I disagree. What we have works and has worked for years now. You may wish it was different, but the genie is out of the bottle and doesn't want to go back in. You are certainly entitled to your opinion, as am I, but that's all it is -- an opinion.

You can transfer any or all characters you have on any other HC server to Brainstorm, the name of HC's test server, by using this link: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/beta/

It started with no more veteran XP being able to be earned in AE and that got changed to you can still earn Vet XP in AE but you can no longer convert Empyrean merits to Reward Merits. Like you, I had never made that conversion so I prefer that. Other people converted who never step foot in AE and they're upset now.

I'll ask you as well. Have you tried it on test?

I appreciate the response and sympathize with a lot of it. I spend a lot of my time solo because I am self employed and work from home much of the time. I can play the game at will, but I might also have to stop suddenly to answer a call or an e-mail and sometimes what I think will be a few minutes may end up being a few hours. But I can solo run story arcs and radios/papers and even some TFs/Trials just as well as I can solo in AE. However, I can see that finding glowies might be harder without sound. I have also seen some people be jerks, but I think the majority of people that play this game will go out of their way to be helpful if you ask. I don't know if you have tried the AE on test to see what you think. Especially if you have your own custom farms or arcs. You may need to make some adjustments to them, but I didn't find it too bad. You might find it bad, but we won't know till you try it.