Aura_Familia

aka: MERGE THE MARKETS.

It's not a lure at all.

The devs didn't BUILD in incentives to go blue.

People are going blue because the BM sucks and there is no population redside to get the volume needed so that the BM doesn't suck.

The fact that there is a lower population reside has nothing to do with with the devs having built any incentives to play blue. It has to do with many other reasons, including:
1. many folks not wanting to play villains no matter what (this alone will ALWAYS contribute to a smaller redside).
2. many folks not liking the color scheme, dreariness, and arcs (some folks openly state their hatred of Westen Phipps, among others) of the redside.
3. Many folks hate the "arachnos is the overarching 'invisible arm' that extends into EVERYTHING redside".

I can go on. The point is the devs didn't build lures into blueside to get people to play blue.

People for whatever reason just DON'T like redside, just like they don't like pvp.

So therefore there is no magic pony solution that will bring volume to redside. The only REAL solution is the one they refuse to do: MERGE. THE. DAMN. MARKETS.

EDIT: Also there ARE NO INFLATED rewards blueside. That's just silly.

You can make more inf REDSIDE due to the shortages in supply. I've done it multiple times now. It just takes sooooo much longer when you are trying to BUY something.

These things mac listed, especially the "save the last feature" need to be killed with fire.

I haven't lost inf to that . . . "feature" yet. But I can imagine more and more folks RAGING when they do.

We've already had a 1.5 billion error posted elsewhere on the forums related to it.

My question is was it possible to fix the crippling lag and load-all-of-wents/BM-at-once-while-you-pull-you-f#@$ing-hair-out bug WITHOUT re-creating the entire interface?

Cause I'm really wanting to know WHY we needed an entire UI re-write.

And just to chime in and add, that YEAH what they FIRST showed in beta for the UI would have had people bashing their heads on their keyboards and /facepalming with their screens. It was A LOT worse people.

EDIT: The UI is . . . usable. However, I now dread having to go to the market. It takes ENTIRELY too long to search for things. Some things are just unintiutive and are a bad change.

One specific example: You could click any word in the old interface and it's nested lists would open up. Now you have to VERY specifically click on the + and - sign to open and collapse nested lists. I thought this was just a bug in beta. Turns out its a feature? BWAH?!? NO. Just no.

The problem is that we don't know how long it will take to switch sides. From what I've read so far it will be anything but fast. So seeing how long it will take to go redside then back to blue will already be a disincentive.

Also the devs have said you DON'T take your inf with you when you switch sides. Go blue, you lose you influence. Go red, you lose your infamy.

You get it back when you come back, however, it's yet another disincentive to switch sides. So I think the only thing unique side items would do is to encourage people to START OFF playing on that side, which you don't need GR to do.

EDIT: So therefore even if you did switch just for the unique item, you'd STILL need to farm to have the necessary funds to get said item. Thus an EVEN LONGER grind than necessary. The only way it would work is if the side switching is VERY fast. Which it WON'T be.

Lures like that are NOT a good idea, as it often breeds resentment and unncessary arguments within the playerbase. See badges, temp powers, and pvp zones.

Careful. You'll be told soon that you have no say in what the forum reps turn off or on.

Even though you were here for the idiocy of the star system and how they eventually turned it off, on the old forums.

THIS!

I never got why some folks broadcast their farming missions.

Pretty stupid if you ask me.

GAHHHHHHH! I felt the pain as I read that.

LOL!

Provided of course it's a person that reads the forums.

To the OP: OWWWWWWWWCHIE.

And yet I17 launched with this bug.

When it was live, I too did not see this bug.

2 people isn't enough of a sample for testing.

EDIT: Glad to see it's fixed.

see comedy for all the family.

I'm hoping I can get a few recovery serums once the markets come back up.

Yeah . . . I'm . . . confused at the hostility being shown.

The OP is not something worth getting THAT upset about.

Which is why they should fill it up with items to get a real test going, the next time they do want to test the market.

They've done it before in a past closed betas.

Same here. he's been amusing me for ages with his mentally weak arguments.

That said, his point about releasing it just to meet an anniversary is a good one.

I personally wouldn't have released a date for when the issue was coming out in the first place.

/shrug

EDIT: Also someone else in another thread pointed out that there really should have been in a bit more focused market testing in beta.

And nor does it confirm retirement of THIS game. So the OP's title is misleading.

No need to use the market to store inf anymore!