Carmilla

It is refreshing to see someone actually sharing some strategies to help lower levels get some Inf for a change. It is so sad the way some players can find out a cool strategy to make influence, and then while keeping it to themselves act all high-and-mighty " I figured this out I am soooo smart, i am keeping it to myself ha ha ha..."

Fact is, while some of these strategies may be affected by others finding out about it.." Buy for 300 then respecc.", others are always good... I have been looking at enhancements that sell in the 1 to 2 million inf range, then looked up the recipes it takes to make them... I have found that while the enhancement sells for 2 Million, the recipe itself sells for a paltry 4 or 5k (After making sure none of the salvage needed is rare. ) I go craft... Iplace 2 or 3 enhancers up and they will have sold overnight... This oppurtunity is almost always available somewhere if you take the time to look for it.

Anyway in closing... I used to arbitrage... Now I find I can almost make millions at will if I take the time to just look, Now that I know exactly what to look for.

Give a man fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, you feed him for life. Thanks again for teaching this lady to fish. :-)

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Sorry, I didn't realize I was speaking with a Cryptic employee who "was around" when the developers were making decisions about the game, I thought I was talking to a blowhard player who thinks he knows what happened because he spent his time trolling the forums and concocting asinine theories about how the developers make their decisions.

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You have described yourself perfectly..

You and I share the same boat on that count and you can eat
your own words as your ignorance is doubled:

1, you do not work for Cryptic either

2, you didn't witness anything that occurred so your "theories"
regarding what occurred are even more "assinine", and ignorant,
than mine.

Would you like your face wiped on the sidewalk a bit more ?

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" Let him keep speaking, that men may know him mad"


LOL..OH My god... good one, But...you're still an idiot.

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Haha. Umm, no. Sorry, dude, I don't bow to the classic forum [censored]'s "I've been here longer so I must be righter," argument. It's funny to see you try to use it, though. I would have expected it from you if anyone.


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You do not have to "bow to it", twit..

But trying to speak of matters you were not witness to, only
proves that you speak from ignorance.

You weren't around, ergo, you do not know what happened..

End of story.

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Ummm No one was around during the American Civil War, therefore...History Courses are classes taught By the Ignorant to the More ignorant?

Are you saying that if someone never personally experienced something then they have No right to speak on it?

How about male doctors teaching about ...Childbirth?

Psychiatrists that speak On the Symptoms of Schizophrenia? or should Only Schizophrenic Psychiatrists speak on this?

The Crusades? No one should speak about the Crusades? and the effects of religious intolerance in society?

The slave trade? And it's destruction of families. Any slave trade? No one presently alive was around , therefore since none of us went through it we cannot speak on it?

The American Revolution, and it's proclamation that people should have some say in the decisions of it's governemnt? Ok it's not a perfect system, but still the best mess around. May as well Get rid of all the Lawyers then, they make a Living discussing old Pieces of parchemnt that were written LONG Before they were Born, namely things Like The Magna Carta, and The Constitution. But then again all lawyers are Ignorant and display it when they try to talk about a Piece of paper that was written before they were born.

All Preachers, and Ministers speak on The Holy Bible, a book written before any of them were born. Therefore all preachers and ministers are ignorant? How about Muslims that teach on the Koran? etc...

Military trainers teach our soldiers techniques and strategy, and tactics, based on old battles that took place before they were born, are they ignorant? want to call up The President? tell him to pull back our troops because ALL of them are Ignorant?

Ignoramus, just because something happened to which he was not a personal witness, does not mean he has no right to talk about it. You must be young, or immature. Maybe both?

Then again, I never met you, so cannot speak intelligently On that, all I have are your idiotic pronouncements that if someone has not personally experienced something they cannot speak on it with Authority.

I thought you were ignorant before this seals it. You are entertaining though I'll Give you that.

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How short your memory is...

You do not seem to remember how Mr. 152 hours came out
of the closet and how there were immediate nerfs to compensate
for his power levelling. (not referring to the exploit fixes)

Don't remember the purple patch either ??

Or how Equinox beat down blobbidon and there was a sudden
gang of nerfs related to that.

Maybe these will refresh your memory:

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Uhh, hey, thanks for proving my point Vegetator.

The developers base decisions on what happens in game, not what gets whined about on the forums.

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Touche'

You are absolutely right, there is no indication (other than timing)
that they used anything from the forums to base their decisions
on.

But, there was some suspicious timing involved...

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Because the players got the information at the same time as the developers. So while the developers were evaluating the situation and deciding what to do, the players were kicking and screaming on the forums.

Same logic applies to the SG fix. It dawned on the players as it dawned on the developers. So while one was considering if a fix was in order, the other was complaining. Doesn't mean one caused the other.

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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is a Logical fallacy.

Just because A came before B, does not mean that A caused B.

The devs read these forums, But they also datamine. Maybe all the " Smoke Grenade is broken" got them to look at the issue. But It did Not decide it for them. They investigated, and On this occasion happened to agree.

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When making a game a developer will soon realize their vision of a game might not always be in line with the will of the players. A good developer will realize that it may be neccessary to sacrifice parts of that vision to keep the game in line with what the players have decided their vision of the game is. Developers who do not follow this path are ultimately going to turn away their own players and damage the game for everyone, developer and gamer alike, with the changes that follow in their attempt to force people to play as they had originaly invisioned so long ago.

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5 stars. There MUST be a blend of Vision v.s. Balance v.s. Fun v.s. MONEY.

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I disagree. A good developer won't be afraid to buck trends, metrics, or marketers. A good developer creates trends, new metrics, and markets.

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I agree these developers are good. They create a superhero game, when the Most Popular games are ... medeival Magic games. LOtR Clones. They take out the Player economy, when Most other mmo's are all about a Player economy.

They take out Time sink epics, when all other mmo's have them. They Put in customizability of creation of toons to a Point where you never see 2 heroes that look e\xactly the same...when other's don't. Trends? metrics? If CoH were about that it would Look and feel like EQ, DAoC, etc.

it breaks New ground. Soon to come, space zones, Underwater zones. At level 50.... Most other games Move to 51, then 55 then 60, then 65... I hear EQ is going to level 70...But what then? 75?, then 80? Here you get to 50, maybe Unlock a New Epic AT, and start again. They create Mobs over 50...good... there should still be Purple things for us to fight at 50.

And Finally, seems many people here are Not familiar with the Granddaddy of all MMO's... Dungeons and Dragons, I mean the paper and pencil game. It was supposed to be a world you lived in, The RPG has become a set of skills and abilities that you now try to Mini/max for maximum xp/hr gain for least endurance used.

games should be balanced so all AT"s are fun...Not just the x/dev blasters, SG users Fire Imp Owners, and PA( I am one) controllers. People are supposed to ROLEPLAY ina ROLEPLAYING game.... No one does, it's all about xp/hr.... Just relax and have a fun time.

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Maybe it's free candy. Or a ham. Sounds invasionish...

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Meat, he is gonna give us a box of Christmas meat!!!!!No Job though.