Zombie Man

Normally, I SuperSpeed joust them. I run by so fast that by the time the server notifies them I'm in their Perception range, I'm out of their attack range.

Puppies!

Was the shut-down wildly off from the weekly 7:00 AM ET announced maintenance time?

Cause... then one should haven't started a TF so close to expected shut-down time.

The purpose of not allowing PA to survive Hami was purposely to make rotating or heavily supported Tankers needed for the Hami Raid. The New Hami Raid was specifically constructed to require a full range of AT rolls and to keep one person with perma-PA from making Tankers useless and Hami agro unimportant.

Since we've heard from the Devs that no such design strategy went into making the Incarnate Raids, but on the contrary, made so that an unbalanced PuG (thanks to the Turnstile) could still do these Raids, it is very highly unlikely that the PA will be made vulnerable for Incarnate Raids.

So, quell that nerfaphobia, folks.

Get the Ethereal Shift recipe drop (cheap on the market) or the PvP Zone Phase Shift.

Doesn't matter if you're seen.

I think Depp is a really good actor. While one may not like a specific characterization and not like that many are eccentric... at least they are not the same eccentricity.

So, I look forward to this Burton/Depp/Elfman vehicle.

Though, I am not going to delude myself for one second that this is "Dark Shadows."

Dark Shadows had a hot mess of meandering plotline over the years. Any pre-Twilight vampire flick set in an old mansion could have been equally labeled "Dark Shadows."

It's just a genre flick. The actual 'continuity' will be superfluous.

Though, I could use a good ol' high-camp, soap opera-y, penny dreadful, moody gothic horror flick.

The option to turn it on isn't there unless they're there. Next time you get such a mission open up the drop down menu in the mini-map and check.

In Beta, there was a problem with outdoor zone glowies (zowies) showing up if you had another mission. Clear out all other missions first, then try the zowie mission.

And don't get me started on how Newsie is about 6 issues behind on the news.

Another data point:

Rare Level 50 Invention Components (e.g., Hamidon Goo) tend to be very stable in their price. All of them.

2 years ago, they were hovering about 1 million.

Now, 3 million.

That's 200% inflation in 2 years. Far from hyperinflation.

Some goods haven't changed in cost. Others have become more sought after (higher demand) for external reasons, e.g., with more Level 50s in existence, Level 50 loot and 'high-end' goods become scarce, which drives up price. That's not inflation, that supply-and-demand.

Hyperinflation comes from 'printing money' even though there was no commensurate growth in 'gross domestic product.' That devalues the currency.

In CoH, players print money, not a central bank. But players also produce an X amount of value (in tradeable loot). The Inf they produce is relative to the value they produce. As 'money gets printed' the 'gross domestic product' also increases because players are also the manufacturers of the economy.

If players are getting more Inf than producing goods, then inflation is to be expected. But because the two are in a constant ratio to each other, *HYPER*inflation is nearly impossible unless players go crazy thinking that there might be a 'run on the bank' and their inf would 'be no good no more!'

The introduction of Alignment Merits and Incarnate crafting should help put a slow down to any current inflationary urges. The first changes inf into goods, reducing inflation. The second simply destroys inf while producing non-tradeable goods.

Of course, attacking inflation by reducing individual wealth will be seen as a hardship and roundly denounced as much as inflation is. But prices won't come down until you reduce the inf in peoples pockets. And who willingly accepts that?

Star Trek Reboot: II in 2012.

If you come back, do I have to give you your stuff back?

From this thread.