Oklahoman

It's hard to imagine it would even be possible to code this, and probably the benefit to the community might not be that great, but I've always thought it would be fun if AE could allow you to create stuff where you could tweak some rules like this in exchange for considerably lower (or possibly no) rewards. So, you wanna know what it's like to herd an entire map? Go run AE #8675309 and let me know how it was.

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There's already someone creating a lot of @Confusion in that respect.

EDIT: Ha! Great job with that pistol on the right there ChatGPT.

Socially acceptable power leveling. This and the Halloween event need to be shorter.

I'd never real thought about this point, but it makes sense. Why, as a league leader, would you ever want any of the other teams in the league to be less than your level? It could impact the mentoring badges, I guess? But if you want those, I guess... I dunno... you could lead stuff on your own. As a league leader, I would LOVE it if I craft team 2 and team 3 just like I want and know those teams won't get swapped when we LFG into something. I would love to be able to designate someone as a team leader without having to reshuffle the teams to accomplish that. It would be so cool to never again have to ask someone to give me back the the league star. I'd be thrilled if I could continue to invite people who are in zone, even though someone on Team 1 happened to leave the zone. Let's get rid of "Lock the event for your group" which seems designed to spaghetify your league, and instead have you immediately go in with less than a full league rather than have to queue for a few minutes. Let's remove the Avg. Wait Time column which has always been meaningless and replace it with how many are in progress you can join right now. Let's have a prompt come up after you mapserve that detects you are still involved in an event and ask if you want to rejoin - rather than you sending a tell to the league leader, getting reinvited, but then find yourself locked out of the event entirely Alas, I bet that is a ton of work, fraught with programming peril, and we're more likely to get an additional currency before any of that ever happens.

I don't hate the idea. As a personal example, maybe early in your incarnate career you like the lore pet Polar Lights because it works thematically with your character. But later, you determine that character is basically just going to do Hamis (low XP, high reward) for whatever reason, and the league leaders are telling you that Longbow is best. This would allow you to cash out your Polar Lights and use those resources to rebuild a Longbow pet that better suits your current needs. Right now, you'd probably have to email yourself some Transcendents from another character so you can build the Longbow, while retaining the Polar Lights you never plan to use again. For some of us that's not a big deal, but I realize most people have these "alts" things and may not have a pile of Transcendents laying around.

I've lost hope we'll ever do anything with Empathy, but I like the thought. Personally, I'd love to see the RAs combined into a single power and with the open power slot have a Light Servant (basically the opposite of Dark Servant from Dark Miasma).

Yeah, I've had mixed results with that. Usually if I am forming something with just 2-3 teams I can invite another team, but if it's a Hami or MSR I have trouble. It may be that if you have 6 teams in your league already - even though 1 or more of them maybe only has 1 member and you're trying to invite a group of 7 or fewer - you can't invite another team. And, if that other group you are trying to invite is formed as a league you're probably hosed, even if you have plenty of room for them.

Figured you for skim or 2%, honestly.

Here's the thing about scrapperlock (which is real, I get it) but in the context of Triple Threat they are already stopping at 10 and 5 on their AV. But once we get down to 2 I've seen people go stand right next to an AV with a damaging aura on, or summoning uncontrollable pets, or not being aware of their attacks that have DoT. It's almost like they are anticipating the end is near and they are in a state of bloodlust. Brain shuts off. So I'm sending tells, messages to the league, teleporting them away, etc. but I can't be in 3 places at once. It really is like herding cats - more so than with LAM badge runs.

I like this idea, but I'd go a step further - 3.5.

Of the 23 failures, 12 were due to "Itchy Trigger Finger" (someone taking out an AV before the kill order), 7 were due to random stuff (poorly timed kill order, one team suddenly forgetting how to do damage, Walmart delivery banging on my door because they need a signature for the yogurt I ordered, etc.), and only 4 were due to an AV regen after the kill order was given. Honestly, that surprised me - and I firmly believe that in 2024 most failures were due to a regen after the kill order, though I didn't keep track like I am so far this year. I mean, stopping your damage so we take out the AVs at the same time should be a skill set you learned in any of the millions of BAFs run on a weekly basis. I don't get how people with Lore and Destiny unlocked struggle with this. I'd still argue that window needs to be expanded to 10 seconds, though, for Triple Threat.

At raids, I always choose a Hami O, followed by Reward Merits for the remainder of the raids. If you could convert them, maybe the price of Enhancement Converters would go back up, though. 🙂 Personally, I'd rather it stay as it is now.