Adeon Hawkwood

That's a problem with the SG not the game. My rule of thumb is that if someone I don't know attempts to recruit me into their SG it's probably not a good one. There are plenty of active high quality SGs but in general you have to seek them out and not the other way around.

The servers Freedom and Virtue have a much higher population than the others so you might want to give them a try. In any case as Bill said most people are inside instances so finding a team outside is tricky. If you hang around a level appropriate zone long enough you can probably find a radio team but that's about it. If you want more teams there are several options. The first is to set your LFG tag so that people know you're looking. Secondly join the global channels for your server, those are often a good resource for teams. Finally the easiest way is to start your own team, open up the search window and start sending tells to people of an appropriate level* who aren't already on teams and ask if they would like to join your team.

*Due to SSK the range for appropriate level is huge. You can effectively team with anyone although my rule of thumb is to limit myself to people who are no more than -10/+5 to me. People outside this range are still welcome but I find that with a larger range people get frustrated, higher levels because they feel like they're carrying the team and lower levels because they feel like they aren't contributing.

My experience while working on the Volcanic badge was that Igneous bosses don't spawn there. On fact with the way Hollows spawns work I found it almost impossible to get the badge without a four+ person team (the other people don't need to be in zone but you need to be on a team to get them to spawn).

No argument form me. I think the prices of purples are ok but the prices for PvPIOs are ridiculous. I don't PvP (and don't care to) but since the PvPIOs are presumably intended to appeal to PvPers they really need to be more readily available.

Well there's a simple solution to that. Introduce a Swashbuckling Assault set at the same time .

And the Romans were allied with alien invaders just like in V


...ok, that one's a stretch

This definitely true. Eventually the market will stabilize but during periods of inflation like we seem to have at the moment Inf is a poor storage of value. Note that conversely if the devs instituted changes that reduced the amount of new influence being generated and thus caused deflation then suddenly Inf is a good storage of value.

That being said, for me slotted enhancements are the best means of storing value becuase they give me enjoyment .

Actually more are than you'd might think. It's still generally faster to use the geysers but it is possible to hop between a lot of the islands using the tiny little stones scattered about.


I don't really think SC is to bad for Super Jump, if you're going a lonf distance it's pretty easy to get up high and jump from rooftop to rooftop.

While the AE has had some impact I think the larger cause is that I16 fixed a long standing bug which was causing level 50s to earn less inf than they should. This means that level 50s are now earning almost twice the inf that they should be earning.

That would be more feasible since there are significantly fewer if them sold each day. However that isn't necessarily a good yardstick for how much total uinf is destryoed each day. Sure purples and PvPIOs destroy the most per transaction but they account for a very small percentage of total transactions.

Well, the costume recipes are a special case. When they came out they were part of Pool A recipes so the chance of one dropping was very low and consequently the price was very high. The devs didn't like this so they made costume recipes into their own pool which has a special drop rate (only minions drop them and they can drop alongside a regular recipe). This increased the supply to the point where the price is minimal.

Heck, Mod8 has posted several times to the effect that he spends time marketeering to get cash.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...1&postcount=44
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=198983

Well, you've got two flaws here. First off farming is in no way required to be able to play the market. I don't farm and am perfectly capable of making cash on the market. Secondly as people have said many times you can't really manipulate it over the long term. If something is in reasonably short supply then it is possible to buy up all of the stock and sell it for profit but the problem is that more stock is always coming into the market so all it takes is someone selling their stuff in between your buy price and your sell price to break your monopoly and send prices heading back towards normal.

As for flipping manipulating the economy, I personally see it as loaning money. Lets assume that there is a really simple market with three players:
Player A has a widget and is willing to sell it for X
Player B wants to buy a widget for Y and is willing to wait so he has a standing bid
Player C wants to buy a widget and is willing to pay Z but doesn't have a standing bid and is instead buying it on impulse.

Now X < Y < Z

Player A comes along and places his widget for sale where it is immediately purchased by Player B for Y. Player C then comes along and tries to buy a widget but can't because Player B already bought it. Result: Players A and B are happy, but C is sad.


Now suppose I'm flipping widgets. I have a standing buy order for R and I relist them at S where X < Y < R < S < Z

Player A comes along and lists his widget for X. I immediately buy it for R and relist it at S. Player C comes along and purchases the widget for Z.

The result is that Player A got paid more for his widget, and Player C got to buy it when he otherwise wouldn't have. Effectively I am working for Players A and C. With Player A I give him an advance loan on his sale price betting that I can sell it for more than he is expecting. With Player C I am getting paid to ensure that widgets are in stock when he wants to buy one.

Sure I make a profit on the transaction but the point is that of the palyers involved the only one i am hurting is Player B. I am helping Players A and C.

I have no clue, that's what his concern is but i'm not quite sure how he got there from your comment.

Fury's concern is that changes like this will potentially make Inf useless as a currency. I disagree with him but it is something to keep in mind. in the event that that happens players will end up with some sort of player run economy to trade things in and this generally has a higher barrier to entrance.

Well, considering that even without using the market to store currency a player can potentially store 24 billion on each server just using their base slots no, I really don't think that it makes a difference, it just makes things more convenient. The percentage of players that have more than 2billion in excess Inf is very low. The percentage that have more than 24billion in excess inf is even lower, in fact I suspect that it's significantly less than 1% of the population.

I'm happy to be rude, that is complete and utter tosh. Some people simply do not like teaming. CoH is an extremely fun game to play solo and people should not feel restricted in their options just because they don't enjoy teaming. My first character went from 1 to 50 almost exclusively solo simply because I was learning the game and wanted to be able to do things at my own pace. Since then I've come to enjoy team content a lot more and regularly lead teams although I still solo quite a bit when I don't feel like being sociable or just want to play a quick mission or two. However, if the game was not welcoming to solo players then I likely would have quit long before reaching 50.

I have no problem with some content requiring a team but I also feel that anything that is unlocked by team only content should be purely cosmetic in nature. Costumes and temp powers are ok but why should someone be told that they can't play EATs just because they don't enjoy teaming.

Regrettably not everywhere, and even those who do it don't all pay attention.