Snow Globe

Maybe. I've been toying with some ways to bring it back despite vBB.

Phase 3:
Phase 4:
Each reactor needs 18 charges, not 30.
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Bullet point changes:
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Changed:
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Now 9 EBs, and they will drop 2 Power Cells each.
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Other changes:
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• Power Cells will now override Anti-Matter's control over a terminal at Reactor Hope and Reactor Infinity after the first one is applied to the terminal. While he still must be brought to a terminal to unlock it for the first Power Cell, he does not need to be present for all 3 Power Cell applications.
• Altered the base damage for each tick of Disintegration from 15%/40%/75%/99% to 20%/40%/60%/80%. The attack will no longer require completely full health to survive at the end. Any increases in damage in a tick are to the resistible and defensible components, not the irresistible components.
• Reduced the Endurance Crash due to survival of Disintegration from 100% to 50% of the character's maximum endurance.
• Anti-Matter will now arrive 90s after the warning is triggered, rather than 2 minutes later.
• The drop rate of Rare and Very Rare Incarnate Components has been increased for the final encounter of Keyes Island Reactor.

And you haven't come up with a list for the Shadowy Presence power costing 60 points.

Hey, you brought the discounts into this. I was comparing only dollar for dollar with no discounts at all. Apples to Apples. You started introducing other factors.

No, but it does render your point about discounted points moot. That player is getting the points for much less than you've calculated.

Just like you did.

Except you are forgetting stipends. Both games have the same stipends.

So, after 26 months of 400 points, that is 10,400 points for that player. They are also a lifetime player (that company is losing money on that player if they don't buy additional points) so they are getting more of a discount than we are. BTW, 14000 for a single character, 22500 for account slots.

I'm not getting into a full compare contrast, as that is against forum rules. You aren't factoring in the lifetime subscription and sales.

But as you said, you can choose what you exclude or include to slant things.

That is why I left it at straight dollar values and the same items.

Yes, intellectual honesty would seem to insist that you use the normal price, not the "bulk" price. So thanks for nullifying your own argument.

Have a nice day.

Just to be very clear on the pricing:

Costume Slot #6 = 800 PP or $10
Costume Slot #7 = 800 PP or $10
Costume Slot #8 = 800 PP or $10
Costume Slot #9 = 800 PP or $10
Costume Slot #10 = 800 PP or $10

$50 total.

The sale was 25% off or 600 PP/slot. That is $7.5/slot instead of $10/slot or $37.50 for 5 slots.

That other competitor is selling costume slots (an unlimited amount no less) for 1/4 the price for account wide costume slots ($5.65 for 2 account wide costume slots). Two degrees from me (friend of a friend) bought 100 costume slots there because of one character (a single character costume slot is $1.75).

I didn't and I won't. Just like I did not buy Street Justice, the CoT Costume Set, the Barbarian Costume set, the 600 Point "sale" on Costume Slots, and the (in my opinion) overpriced enhancement trays. I'm not even going to say what I think about the consumables.

The thing is for everyone player like myself that refuses to buy something that is overpriced, there are players with multiple accounts that must buy NAO! Also, there are players, like Dispari, who will think it is overpriced but buy the items anyways.

I recognize that. However, I am trying to provide feedback as to how to convince me to spend points on the market, despite the interface.

At $20, an extra enhancement tray isn't worth it to me. At that price, Paragon Studios is asking me if that is worth more than a month's subscription (actually almost 2 months subscription as I use an annual renewal). At $10 for a costume slot is nearly the cost of a month's subscription on an annual renewal.

If the costume slots were sold as a set of 5 account-wide slots for 1,600 Points, I would snap it up instantly. At 4,000 Points for the 5 slots, they are "leave it on the shelf" items.

And I'm trying to give you that direct feedback.
See? I'm not calling anyone names, I'm not being overly excited (well except for the people responsible for the new pet toggle), and I'm calmly telling you what I consider to be reasonable prices.

That the pricing "plan" needs to be severely reduced.

Allow me to be perfectly blunt in return.

Since Issue 21 I've spent points on for my primary account:
Beam Rifle set. I probably shouldn't have because my BR characters aren't being used.
Halloween Costume Bundle. The parts I did want cost more than 400 points separately, so I bought it.
Autumnal Path aura. I have enough characters that could use this, and the price (even last week) was low enough to convince me to buy it.
Aura and Cape Unlocks. Thank goodness I don't HAVE to do those missions again. Then again, I probably could have just spent Astral Merits on these, but it is nice to have them unlocked from character creation.

I still have nearly 2,700 points (bought $15 worth of point to get 1 token for my 1st purchase and 1 for 1,200 points bought to get the complete Celestial Set) and nothing jumps out as "compelling" enough to buy. Not temp buffs, not auto-tune enhancements, not costume slots, and not even enhancement storage.

On my 2nd account that I had active from July-September, I had 1,600 points with Freedom Launch. Of those, I spent 400 points for the Time Manipulation set. I'll likely spend the rest of the points for the Controller AT... maybe.

Thanks Golden Girl for proving a point that I made earlier.

At 500 points the dog is rabid & needs to be put down for its own good.

Autumnal Path Aura is 40 points lower than yesterday.

Yes, 60 points for Shadowy Presence.

I guess it is better than what they were trying out in Open Beta (edit: 200 Paragon Points before I21 launch), but yeah.

In some cases those "early adopters" are the ones complaining that they've got ripped off. I didn't. * See edited note below.

It tells me two things:

• There are a bunch of people that spent a couple hundred dollars buying up their Paragon Reward shrub and don't know what to spend the points on.
• That the people setting prices haven't checked comparable offerings from competitors and set prices and effect duration to sell more.

I do. Some people have more money than brains, it seems. Then again, I suspect this initial "buy anything that gets made" will die down soon as the points from buying up the Paragon Rewards Program begin to dry out.

Edit:
* I did pay 120 points for the Autumnal path aura and do feel slightly annoyed. Do I demand a refund of the $0.50? No, but I'm going to be even more critical of how I spend points because of that.

A guide to finding out what you have unlocked from the market.

Kalinda is still hanging around, she just isn't the starting contact anymore.

I get that you (Paragon Studios Marketing group) are still trying to figure out appropriate pricing. However, despite being continually told, you are constantly missing the mark. You are simply charging too much.

This is extremely over-priced for a non-combat item that can't be used with other "vanity" pet toggles (whoever came up with that particular idea should be smacked upside the head) and buff pets.

The MVAS non-combat pet is 350 points.

To put it in perspective:

• I consider my baseline a full power set or costume pack to be worth 400-600 points.
• Account wide non-combat items (vanity pets or transformations) should be 200 points or less.
• One use buff items should never be more than 80 points, and probably closer to 20-40 points.
• Items with extensive use such as extra enhancement storage should be 800 points.