Bionic_Flea

Some questions to pose into the aether: How fast should a character get to 50? Or to 50 +T4? How much influence should a character be able to earn in an hour? Or a day? How many collective hours should players spend in the AE vs anywhere else? I like farming as much as the next guy, but I don't farm as much as some. I have done 1-50 on rare occasion, but usually I just farm a few levels here and there to get out of a slump or to get that shiny power or extra slots that will be game changing for that character. But I don't care if someone else levels 1-50. On the other hand, I like the rest of the game too. I like all of it. The costumes, the bases, the zones, the lore, the market, even some PvP now and then. Is there a point at which the pendulum swings too far towards AE and away from the rest of the game? If all anyone does is AE, is it worth the server load to keep 20 nearly empty zones running? I think these are questions we need to think about and discuss.

I think that Rommy needs to be susceptible to taunt, even under the protection of his Barriers. As a tank, I could not pull his aggro off another player until the barriers went down. Or if his taunt immunity is part of the design goal, then I respectfully request that a certain barrier be the one that prevents taunt and then allows it once defeated,

Sorry, but your memory is faulty. First, the /AH has always been cross server. Initially red and blue markets were separate but they were merged long ago on live. Second, except for perhaps a fat fingered misbid, Mako's never sold for 2 billion. The PvP uniques did and then they started being sold off market for even more. Maybe some purples got there on a busy weekend, but usually the in-demand ones where in the 100-300k range. And you could farm morality missions to get the hero/villain merits that could be traded to Botler and his evil counterpart for the PvP recipes or try to convert them.

Unless someone wants to organize a group to go run the I-trials on test, it's hard for me to get a good feel for it. Does anyone know, or do we have data mining, that shows the average completion time of the various trials? That's the only measurement I can think of.

That's never stopped us before! We're not quitters . . . until we quit the game . . . but that's a protest! I remember the frustrating reason my dad would give me when I would ask why? Because, yes. (Porque si. It sounds better in Spanish)

I did think about exploits but I wanted to keep it within the ToS. You could make the denominator whatever you want. I guess another way to work it is Linea's minutes per level (MPL) and I think he says good farmers get 20 MPL so that's 3 levels an hour which equals 20 Emps/hour. I'm not sure if that's AFK or active, but lets just say AFK and 24 hours a day. 20 emps x 24 = 480 emps/day 480 emps x 10 = 4800 Reward Merits /day 4800 x 3 accounts = 14,400 4800 x 12 accounts = 62,400

I am not surprised people don't know about converting emps or the ease of getting a fully kitted 50 on Brainstorm. There are a lot of people who play this game that just like clicking buttons and feeling good for punching Nazis and never come on to these boards after signing up and another sizeable chunk of players that may come periodically or just follow one thing. All of us usual suspects (you know who you are!) that practically live here and know all the little tricks and traps are the outliers.

My guess, working the number backwards: 61,500 reward merits /10 = 6,150 (10 merits per emp) 6,150 emps /24 hours = 256 emps/hour 256 emps /3 accounts = 85 emps/hour/character and that = ~12 DINGS! per hour. (Assuming 20 emps every 3 DINGS!) Seems high to me, but I'm not super efficient.

1) Yomo, you are obviously an evil very bad man . . . dog . . . whatever. 2) Devs are humans (presumably) and as fallible as the rest of us. 3) The Devs are not monolithic. They have different things they like and want to move forward on and sometimes those things are very different. 4) They really do listen to feedback and can be convinced to change. But just because they listen it doesn't mean they will change just to appease loud voices. Logic, reason, and data work much better than rage and tantrums. 5) Dammit. Now I want deep dish pizza.

Personally, I never convert Empyreans to Reward Merits. I use them to get to T4, occasionally add some different I-powers to cover situations or just to try something new. Anything beyond that get e-mailed to newer characters for them to get their incarnates quicker. I also never buy IOs with merits. I use the merits almost exclusively to buy converters, which I use to convert junk IOs into good to great IOs and then use, store, or sell them. I buy all my IOs from the Auction House, if I don't already have them stored. The merits I get from running story arcs and TFs and raids. Other people prefer to buy their IOs with merits. What I find to be a bad exchange rate, they find to be a nice, consistent, fixed amount that isn't being gamed by another player.

I hear you. But that market toon has to check his sales and restock!

My guess would be that a few outliers are multi-boxing afk farms and cashing in 1000s of Reward Merits a day. The original plan to ban all vet XP in AE seems targeted at that same issue. It's hard to reign in the outliers without affecting the masses.

But at level 6 it becomes a year. You can get to level 6 pretty darn quick.

Yeah, that stupid blunder was already pointed out yesterday. We're talking about my stupid blunder today. Keep up!

I dunno. I must search my feelings.

I thought they were testing the implementation too. What is there to test then for this section of the patch notes?

I used my other account to try and steal the name of Meteoric Flea, who is level 1 and has been offline for 236 days. I was prevented from taking it and it said that the name was taken, choose something else. Shouldn't I be able to take that name?

I totally think that Trick or Treating in the PVP zones would be appropriate, hilarious, and tons of fun. "Here come the bullies to take our candy . . . hit them with the rotten eggs first!"

Just let folks know that you are new and have questions. While there are some elitist jerks, I think you will find the vast majority of players will be happy to walk you through whatever questions you might have.

To mail them to alts so that they can T4 faster and with less effort.

I like the new additions, but I still think that Rando Cal Tipsian, the administrator of this facility, should give the rundown. 😁 https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx0rhrAD58g4tTOhPNgDRTDiZdQxRWjDwX Sorry to nitpick but one repetitive phrase was replaced by another: [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: I really should take more breaks to catch up on the gossip. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Oh. Nevermind. It's one of the heroes. [07:34] [NPC] FreedomCorps Soldier: Nah, I don't need to do overtime today. We've got some good heroes on the job.

I tried the SG promotion trick on Brainstorm. Confirmed that it no longer works to reset the days logged out timer.

I don't know why we bother testing and offering suggestions when the Devs have already made up their minds! *Reads Patch Notes*

Just posting to confirm that I was able to obtain these two badges via Ouro as stated in the patch notes. I remember running these way back when and being shocked at the implications. A nice piece of lore that deserves to stay in the game. Thanks for adding them back. Pecking Order - Complete the badge mission "Lost Motivation", listed as arc 0.42 under 'Champion (Level 25-29)' bracket in Ouroboros. Traditionalist Foil - Complete the badge mission "Revelation: Rikti Factions", listed as arc 0.43 under 'Vindicator (Level 35-39)' bracket in Ouroboros.

Number Six gave careful readers a work around . . .