Taking the flags for continuous and the tel var buff has always been a thing lol

AP used to be interesting as a player-generated currency. Now you can farm it just as well by pve'ing guards on an empty campaign. Soon you'll be able to sneak around town pickpocketing AP from NPCs. Or maybe they'll introduce AP nodes to harvest. Might as well throw it in the writ reward boxes too lol.

gibous wrote: »

AP used to be interesting as a player-generated currency. Now you can farm it just as well by pve'ing guards on an empty campaign. Soon you'll be able to sneak around town pickpocketing AP from NPCs. Or maybe they'll introduce AP nodes to harvest. Might as well throw it in the writ reward boxes too lol.

I agree lets all go back to the previous patch of constant tower farming or the previous meta where repairing walls made you emp. Those were the good old days, now that capturing objectives matter things suck.

raasdal wrote: »

I really don't care what is happening "up top" i have not left IC since patch came out.

It is awesome; those idiotic flags that no one wanted to take, because they were totally pointless, now actually have value.

It provides a basic incentive to take the flags. For me, it has breathed new life into IC. Smallscale and lag free btw.

Now if only they counted towards alliance war campaign scoring.....

mvffins wrote: »

gibous wrote: »

AP used to be interesting as a player-generated currency. Now you can farm it just as well by pve'ing guards on an empty campaign. Soon you'll be able to sneak around town pickpocketing AP from NPCs. Or maybe they'll introduce AP nodes to harvest. Might as well throw it in the writ reward boxes too lol.

I agree lets all go back to the previous patch of constant tower farming or the previous meta where repairing walls made you emp. Those were the good old days, now that capturing objectives matter things suck.

People just farm AP by trading outposts, repairing walls has been replaced by AFKing at Nikel for 200k AP an hour. I'm not sure if this new system is much better.

Chuga_Rei wrote: »

Taking the flags for continuous and the tel var buff has always been a thing lol

Nah. No one would waste 5 min of their time, flipping a second flag, after taking the first one for the Continuous. You would just run past them, unless you were there for grinding stones. So you would have incentive to flip the flag only if to get the respawn point basically.

It is difficult to explain. But it means that when you go up there in the districts, instead of going around, looking for other players, you can now take the flags, and let the battles happen "naturally". I would never dream of wasting 20-30 min flipping all the flags before. Why? Because if IC was empty, i would go off with nothing to show for it. Now, the worst case scenario, i go away from that with 10k AP.

So when IC is heavy with action, it makes no difference at all. The difference is that this will attract and retain single players, for WAY longer, before leaving the area due to no fights.

arkansas_ESO wrote: »

mvffins wrote: »

gibous wrote: »

AP used to be interesting as a player-generated currency. Now you can farm it just as well by pve'ing guards on an empty campaign. Soon you'll be able to sneak around town pickpocketing AP from NPCs. Or maybe they'll introduce AP nodes to harvest. Might as well throw it in the writ reward boxes too lol.

I agree lets all go back to the previous patch of constant tower farming or the previous meta where repairing walls made you emp. Those were the good old days, now that capturing objectives matter things suck.

People just farm AP by trading outposts, repairing walls has been replaced by AFKing at Nikel for 200k AP an hour. I'm not sure if this new system is much better.

They just need to give it the same treatment as they did with AP for players. Put a cooldown of like 15 min on the Resource. Untill then, it will net 0 AP. Problem fixed.