Let's send the farmers upstate!

[Jiro Ito]

19 hours ago, RadiantPhoenix said:

Between the two, I favor putting in a new dedicated AE zone (without removing the existing AE locations), with:

• Many tiny AE consoles
• SG Base portal right next to the AE
• An NPC to sell stuff to right next to the AE entrances
• Some crafting benches in the back so you can craft your Purple and PVP IOs for the AH

Give Dr. Aeon a whole new zone for his business. 😄

I'm not sure if it's possible to make an AE entrance inside an SG Base, but that could be nice too.

 

 

Can it be the matrix room?

 

[Snarky]

[RadiantPhoenix]

3 hours ago, Jiro Ito said:

 

 

Can it be the matrix room?

 

I will leave the decision of what the "EZ-AE" zone should look like to others, as long as it's nice and open, and not a 5th Column tileset or smth. (No flags)

[UltraAlt]

11 hours ago, Oklahoman said:

Back to the topic at hand, I'm not sure why we can't have one AE zone with portals there from the existing AE zones. It might cut down on people clogging LFG with requests for farms since the more efficient thing might be to go to the AE zone and broadcast.

 

I don't think you understand the farmer/door-sitter connection.

They are never going to stop using /lfg

[macskull]

Yeah there is literally a server-wide “architect” channel that exactly zero people use, people are going to continue using lfg and general.

[Troo]

On 8/12/2025 at 2:48 PM, Yomo Kimyata said:

 

..then we could use Pocket D for its intended purpose -- awkward sexual overtone chats.

 

 

Oooooh you play on that server..

 

lol

[Troo]

6 hours ago, Snarky said:

[Psi-bolt]

On 8/12/2025 at 9:57 PM, RadiantPhoenix said:

Between the two, I favor putting in a new dedicated AE zone (without removing the existing AE locations), with:

• Many tiny AE consoles
• SG Base portal right next to the AE
• An NPC to sell stuff to right next to the AE entrances
• Some crafting benches in the back so you can craft your Purple and PVP IOs for the AH

Give Dr. Aeon a whole new zone for his business. 😄

I'm not sure if it's possible to make an AE entrance inside an SG Base, but that could be nice too.

 

This is really what I'm suggesting.   The farm thing was just for flavor/lols.    Also because a big wide open farm map is mostly what I'm looking for.   AE was really never designed for tons of people to be standing around.  But that's how it's developed and that's fine.  

 

A big AE zone that's Co-Op, easy to get to, has more and spread out terminals and entrances to missions.   Finally, adding services like crafting, AH, etc.  would just be the chef's kiss.

 

 

[Oklahoman]

8 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

I don't think you understand the farmer/door-sitter connection.

They are never going to stop using /lfg

 

Maybe. I do occasionally farm myself on some alt accounts, and when I do I recruit out of broadcast in the AE I am in. Having not tried it, I'm not willing to dismiss the idea that once we get all the AE folks into the same place that broadcast won't be more efficient than lfg, but I am happy to be proven wrong.