Bionic_Flea

I think the devs got better and better with their story telling over time. Red is better then Blue and Gold is better than Red and generally newer stuff is better than older stuff. Except for the Daedulus arc. Ugh. It's horrible to me. The one thing that bothered me in Preatoria, after playing all the arcs, is that there really are no villains and no heroes. Everyone is trying to manipulate everyone else into doing what they think is right. I guess that was too much like real life and not enough comic book escapism for me.

I've been leveling an ice/cold controller slowly on Brainstorm and I'm finding it pretty painful. I could see doing better with Storm or TA but that's a testament to those secondaries, not to Ice Control. I don't think I have enough control, or enough damage. I could make it more damaging by adding a bunch of damage procs, but again, that would be the procs, not the set. I think Cold Snap should have a wider fear cone and do some up front damage, not more DoTs. I appreciate the slight added damage on Ice Slick but it's too little to make much of a difference and doesn't do any containment damage. It could use a doubling or more. And even with those changes, I think it would still be bottom tier, just less so.

You would be a classic Explorer in Bartle's Taxonomy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_types To take the test: https://mudhalla.net/test/bartle3d.php

What do you do to try and create that?

So what's your favorite content to run to get those rewards? So is your favorite content the content you created? That's a fair response. And one I had not thought of. I agree! One of my favorite early memories is surviving a team-wipe and cleaning up so folks could rez.

Is it the story, the maps, the action, the rewards, something else? It seems to me that the player base in aggregate likes to run DFB, ITF, Tin-Pex, RSF/MLTF, Market Crash, whatever the weekly is, the Task Force Commander Accolade TFs, Maria Jenkins Arc, and MSR & Hammy raids. At least these are the things that I see advertised the most. And that doesn't include all the people soloing.

Oh, Wretched Man! (https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Seer_Marino#Oh.2C_Wretched_Man.21) is one of my favorite story arcs. One of the few that I will read every word. But favorite single mission? Probably the Finale of Number Six's arc that someone else mentioned. (https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Number_Six#Finale:_New_Earth) Interestingly, I was about to start a similar thread when I saw this. My thread: What's your favorite content and why? Is it the story, the maps, the action, the rewards, something else?

When I want to use a blast set and not be magical, I give them either gauntlets or suit of armor, or pretend they just shoot ice out of their hands like X-men's Iceman. That said, I wouldn't mind additional alternate animations and other computer wizardry beyond my ken to have say ice blast looking like dual pistols, AR, or Beam.

What reduced rewards are you talking about? This is Troo's poll thread. No vet levels vs no emp conversion. Which of those two are you saying is a reduction? Or do you think it's both?

Except he's not fired. He can still farm. He can still solo. He can still team. He can still run i-trials. He can now also run advanced difficulty stuff for new or increased rewards. I know this much is . . . Trooooooooo

My understanding was that the reward merits in I-trials was in compensation for the loss of conversion. I doubt you are gonna get one without the other.

That too. Although a lot of people get to 50 and geared up, and then run the lower level TFs. The DFB is just a little head start. Also, everyone knows that Arcane is a special little snowflake. 😜

Some farmers like to farm. They like the feel, the pace, the rhythm. Other players farm because they like the fast rewards. Put faster/better rewards somewhere else and those players will go there. What gets run a lot other than farms: The weekly, the TFs needed for TFC accolade, ITF, Tin-pex, Market Crash, DFB, RSF/MLTF, Hammy and Ship Raids. Am I missing any of the usual suspects? Why are these things run more often than all the other TFs and story arcs? I'm not saying that other things are never done, just that these are done WAY more. I'll answer my rhetorical question - Because all of those either grant good rewards quickly or because it's the only way to get certain rewards. If they want players to AE farm less, they can reduce rewards in AE, they can increase rewards out of AE, or they can create new content with unique rewards. Oh, look! That's what this new "page" does. What a coincidence!

There are all sorts of things that they could do short of shutting off the game. This patch has just shown us a few. I am confident that not everyone will like all the things they could do to curb certain undesired behaviors. I agree that every player does what they like. But many players do what is fastest, or easiest, or most efficient. Right now, AE fire farming is all 3. If the trend is that players are spending the majority of their time in AE and that trend continues to grow, at what point do we just have one giant AE and forget about all these empty zones?

I'm stating what I think the problem the HC team is trying to solve. *Thumbs down to add to your impressive collection* Me, personally, I am against systematic AFK farming, especially multi-box AFK farming, with extra hate reserved for automated multi-box AFK farming. I don't care or mind that AE Fire Farming is the fastest method to get XP and Inf, but I would prefer that it not be multiple times better than anything else. But I am not sure how much better AE Fire Farming actually is or should be compared to the next best thing.

I-trials may be faster, but your proposal greatly curtails solo incarnate progress. So again, no thank you. The "problem" that I think they are trying to solve is that more and more players are doing nothing but AE and that some players are doing AE AFK 24/7 on multiple accounts and reaping tremendous rewards in Inf, Emp Merits, and (since Emp merits are convertible) reward merits. If you can get everything you need in AE and faster than anywhere else, why do anything else?

Please, no. They are set up nicely now to quickly get to +3 level shifts, then T3 to all, with T4 possible with only vet levels by 99. Changing the drops would change that nice progression.

Dunno. The only thing I can think of it to time yourself running from point A to point B on each server and time it.

Sooooo . . . does anyone want to get together on Brainstorm to run some ITFs this week?

I agree.

Bait and Switch!

At least you didn't say pineapple on pizza. But that was a @Jimmy thing and he doesn't love us anymore. I blame @Luminara

I am me, and you are Flea, and we are Flea, and we are all together.

Goes to claim this name and search for geometry holes.

10-4. Off to test! Now he tells me! Went to Fort Trident, then Penny Yin exit, still could not LRT to Fort because my test character doesn't have those badges.