Chaos Creator

Originally Posted by Obitus

For what it's worth, I can't remember the last time I even paid attention to broadcast. And I don't even belong to a bona-fide Supergroup (all my SG mates left long ago, on both servers, which left me the bases -- and so I don't want to leave them ).

Triumph Watch (and/or Triumph Watch 2), and JFA2010 (IIRC that's the name of the one on Justice) get me all the team offers I'd ever want or need. Global channels really are the way to go.

Originally Posted by STORM1980

I appreciate that you have been enlightened about what my "problem" is, Chaos. Please allow me to express what I think about your statement. Simply, you don't know what you are talking about. You can log onto the busiest of servers, Virtue and Freedom and those comments get posted in Broadcast. I would go on to say that there may be others that feel as I do, but won't spend the time to debate the issue in a forum because truly they don't care.

There are a good deal of players who have lives (i.e. work, family, school, etc.) outside of the game, so they are not going to log in at different points of the day to try and find a team. Unfortunately, when they have the chance to, they will see those statements and may even say the same thing. Don't assume that your success rate of finding a team is another person's issue.

When there are other variables at play, such as expansions, events, the awaiting of i19 for example, the amount of game activity will increase. But when the excitement has grown old, activity decreases. An alternative is joining an active SG where you don't have to worry about finding a team, because the members have their own internal events. Yet, you have a portion of COH/COV's population who are not apart of any SG or VG.

Originally Posted by STORM1980

I appreciate the feedback. I was not aware that purchasing influence from 3rd parties was a violation of the Terms & Conditions. As a practice of good citizenship, I do work up to larger influences through missioning and selling @ Consignments. Personally, I think its unnecessary to give lower level toons Crafted-IOs when they haven't reached 50 because its a waste of influence, but that's just my opinion.

But once you get to level 50 (unless there's an event) activity seems to decrease, which is one reason that the Architect Edition was implemented. You go to PI or RWZ and all you see through Broadcast is things like: "lvl 50 def LFT" or "are there any mission teams"and so forth. So unless you have a solo'ng capable archetype or happen to log into the game and find a team, your chances for collecting rare recipes and IO's is slim.

Originally Posted by ricktu

I don't think I have ever seen so much effort to rationalise a morally ambiguous act. By their own admission marketers end up stinking rich. Which means people are paying more than they need to without you. That 600 million per day doesn' come out of thin air it comes from the virtual pockets of other players.

Okay so you add a little stability to the price ranges. This stability obviously comes at a great cost to the rest of us or else how could you make so much money doing it?

You guys have fun playing the market and this is a game so go for it. But for crying out loud stop trying to sell us on the fact you're the good guys. The cold hard facts are for every hundred million you make out of the markets is a hundred million the rest of us had to pay more than we really had to.

Originally Posted by STORM1980

The power "Lighting Rod" is only available to the more "physical" archetypes, which doesn't make sense when you have electricity in other archetype categories. This would give players more of a Champions Online-like feel.

Originally Posted by theOcho

Don’t forget – with the release of Issue 19, not only will one free Respec token be granted to all characters but another one will be granted exactly one week later. Since these don’t stack, if you currently have a Respec and wish to use it, you might want to consider doing so soon so that you can free yourself up for those coming with Issue 19 and beyond!

Thanks! .

Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Yes, you are wrong. So be happy.

Basically, you need to be a villain to get the badge. Once you have the badge, it stays with you even if you switch sides, and allows you to continue to respec into the powers.

I'm hoping that a new mission (and possibly some new patrons) will be added hero side so the switching will no longer be needed. The problem has nothing to do with the powers, it's that heroes can't do the mission.

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

And guess what? That is not what most trial ccount users are looking for. They are looking for a super powered video game.

Originally Posted by crayhal

You don't have to wait for folks to come to you. Just go to where the lowbies hang out, like Mercy, Port Oakes and Atlas. Look for vet badges. If you see none, offer to trade. I've done this many times and even taught a few folks about the basics of frankenslotting.

(It also gives me a chance to show off my VG's base when I teach the lowbie how to craft items. Sometimes, they even ask to join. No, really, I don't have an ulterior motive...)

Originally Posted by Intrinsic

Aaughh!! Stop it, stop it! Next thing, you'll tell me there's no tooth fairy either.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Lame!

I always enjoy checking out what folks have slotted when I'm hanging out at the market.

Although it'll hopefully invalidate those occasional tall tales we get of people who were KICKED FOR NOT HAVING IOS. =P

Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion

Nicely written Uber Guy, I tried to cut out stuff I am not directly responding to, and still had half a wal of text. Very thoughtful stuff. We re at least having the same conversation.
It is the I/O system in general that I am trying to address. The reason it is posted in the market area is simple: No one toon, no mtter how lucky, ill get the ight mic of recipes/salvage to kit themselves out. therefore, they have to trade with other players via the market.

However, this is my FEELING, the market system does not serve new/casual players well, nor does it serve the Devs well. Again, I cannot quantify this, I have no spreadsheets to give you, but there is a Truthiness to it. And trust me, John Stewart and Steven Colbert play around with a lot of facts/non facts, yet many people actually follow them for news because of that same Truthiness. You kinda have a feeling when you are getting a god deal, and a enetirely different feeling when getting ripped off. I get that ripped off feeling from the market, and have for a very long time.

To me, the market is necessary, because you need it to trade for I/Os and Salvage with other players. But the abuses in the market need to be reined in. The market favors long term players and farmers, because they have effectively unlimited cash. This puts new players and non famers (who mostly play content) at a huge disadvantage. Unfairness in any system ruins everything.

Originally Posted by Heraclea

lack of money sinks.

Originally Posted by seebs

I have seen very few market griefers, and I've never yet seen them prevent me from getting stuff for a price I was okay with.

Thanks to the current AE exploit, ancient bones were running 100-500k. So I bid 12,345 on one and waited about three minutes. I got it at the price I wanted. OMG HAX! NERF PATIENCE!