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Originally Posted by Hydrophidian

I'm tired of the request for a store.

Merits were added, played hell with the market, but that wasn't good enough.

Tickets were added, played hell with the market, but that wasn't good enough.

It appears to me that some people just aren't going to be happy until the purpose of a market is completely defeated. As I enjoy the market aspect of the game, I'm not interested in accommodating those people any further.

There are currently alternative means to get practically everything without using the market.

I'm sorry, but I think that's good enough.

Noop.

Sure, that might indicate that someone is trying to flip (or flop) or manipulate an item, but it's by no means a given. Many, many people simply look at the sale history and buy at that same amount, or higher, even when they don't have to.

This scenario happens to me regularly:

Last 5 sales on an item: 10 million.

I list 5 of the same item at half of that amount.

I come back later and find that all 5 have sold during the course of the day for... 10 million. Or more.

Sale history? Still uniformly 10 million.

The phenomenon you're talking about does happen, but it's generally easily bypassed by awareness and patience. And the few times where it isn't, well... that's where market PVP comes in.


People just have to grasp the concept that the market isn't static. Just because you see an item selling for X doesn't mean it's going to sell for X a month, a week, a day, or even an hour from now. If an item seems oddly inflated, it probably is. Put in a bid you're comfortable with... and wait.

I understand that this is apparently too much of a bother for some people. But, y'know, that's why the whole thing's optional. That's how those people are accommodated in this system. Nothing needs to be fixed any further, because it's not broken.

It's not the obligation of the developers or the rest of the player base to cater to the (willfully) uninformed and impatient. The very fundamental dynamic of the market system runs counter to those traits. Thus, trying to "adjust" the system to mollify the (willfully) uninformed and impatient undermines its most basic function and purpose... and will ultimately ruin it.

I happen to enjoy the market aspect of the game. I'd rather it not be taken away from me to satisfy people who:

1. don't have to use the market at all.
2. have SOs available through stores.
3. can fully outfit themselves with common IOs without ever using the market.
4. Can purchase most set IOs without ever using the market.

That's enough.

If any given item is deemed too rare, the way to address that is through its drop rate. The market doesn't need to be smacked around any further.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

The position specific to me is that they have been making very conceptually similar "simple mistakes" for a long time. They've made some improvements over the years certainly, but still break things too often for my tastes. I'd like to have seen those mistakes result in better continuous improvement, so that such bugs surface less with each release.

I know I'm biased. I work in an environment with a very high bar for software correctness. Of course, it's not a game environment, and when my team's system doesn't work right, its other people in the enterprise who come asking why. I can imagine that has a far different dynamic from an MMO shop where players get mad about bugs in game.

But just because I would love to see a higher bar doesn't mean I am trying to vilify devs individually or collectively (and I acknowledge you weren't accusing me of such specifically). I just wish the results made it look like they had a higher bar.

Originally Posted by Clouded

I think it's more you (general "you" for those that share this viewpoint) are assigning malicious intent to the devs for the changes, rather than them making a simple mistake.

Originally Posted by MrQuizzles

Easy mode that Tankers, Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers already have. You can't forget that part.

Originally Posted by eryq2

I can't complain on drops. I farmed this weekend on a BM map set for 8 +1's. I got hundreds of salvage, hundreds of common io's, and 2 purples. (both arma)

Hopefully i can single handed lower price rates. At least on salvage since i'm selling all for less than 500. So, buy em up.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

That's not a bad idea.

Originally Posted by Vel_Overload

well, not all classes can acheive the damage of a blaster. Fire/Kin controllers and Scrappers are the closest i can think of.

Blasters have come along way since the beginning of the game. With IO sets teh blaster can become much more sturdy due to all the +defense and with +recharge, the blaster can free up more attack slots for defensive powers.

I've yet to see a class that can match a Blasters when it comes to burst damage or AoE (other than the Spines/Dark -or- /fire scrapper)

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

And turning someone's thread into yet another round of Let's Argue With Venture is also rude, not to mention repetitive.

ON TOPIC: No, I would not alt-tab out while playing an arc, not for a Youtube video, not for any other outside material. I play CoX to play a game, not watch movies. Incidentally, I also hate cut scenes.

You have 500 characters for "boss unaware" dialogue. Any boss dialogue that actually uses all that space gives the impression of being a long-winded monologue, simply by contrast to the one-liners you usually get.

Originally Posted by Beber

From Avatea, french board (approximative translation)

Originally Posted by Liz Bathory

You mean ... mr. Bocor arc... Snake hunt arcs... patron arcs... timetravelling to the future... etc etc etc... more then I can mention here. incl All the TF's and SF's...

There is standard content. Only you are bored with it. Don't bring new players on wrong idea's. This game has more content then any other still.

Originally Posted by peterpeter

I know it's early, but what impact are you seeing?

Reduced MA farming/pl'ing?
Increased solo farming in standard missions with extra difficulty options?
Lots of new alts increasing low level drops and starving mid level drops?

Originally Posted by AquaJAWS

Everyone is assuming and hoping for the issue that gets released to coincide with Going Rogue will be issue 17, and while it is likely, it hasn't been confirmed yet. It could be issue 30 for all we know right now. Considering the sizes of issues 14 and 16 development wise, I think we're done with issues for this year (usually try for one big and 2 small ones a year, we got 2 big ones this year). Also because of the loyalty program they announced the other week:

they won't be able to really start at least the 'tier 2' closed beta testing until November 15th. Considering the holiday season comes soon after that where many workers are going to be out of town for much of it, it would be very tight to get it out before the end of the year. They might not even start any beta testing until after them because of it.

Assuming Going Rogue coincides with issue 17, I'd say 1st or 2nd quarter of 2010, depending on how much beta testing is needed.

Originally Posted by Sad_Aust

I hope this means that we will be seening less AE farms and more players going back to standerd content.

Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan

This is a fair point. My own personal view is something like Consumerism:

Writer: "Here's my arc - its intended for X and it does Y"
Player: "OK, I'll give it a go"

or

Player: "Hm, not my cup of tea sorry"

The OPs request for comment from the forum-goers here has hopefully given him the answer - some people will accept a youtube video as part of his arcs narrative, and some won't

It's still up to him alone to decide whether or not to use one.

Eco.

Originally Posted by PoliceWoman

From experience, I'd have to say, no, I wouldn't be willing to switch to YouTube to view a streaming video as part of the story arc.

I say "from experience" because, as it turns out, I've already run an arc that had a video linked to it (Ashley Porter and the Gorilla War, a fun WW2 era romp), and I didn't look at the video until some weeks later.

The video proved to be pretty awesome (I wish I had that author's skill at demorecording and video editing!), but I certainly didn't look at it while I was playing the arc; and even if I had, it would've been unfair to let my opinion of the video (which is really a different medium) color my opinion of the story arc.

However, if the MA interface changed so you could splice a "cut scene" seamlessly (or approximately so) into your story arc, I'd be totally OK with viewing those. That would essentially make the video clip part of the AE experience.

Originally Posted by ClanXanathos

I just wish I'd thought of it first. That would have been the coolest First Post on a forum in the history of ever.

Originally Posted by Mid_Boss

I mostly agree with the OP. I don't think blasters bring the damage enough to warrant all the protection they need to bring said damage and survive.