ChaosExMachina

Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen

What's the source for the above? Where did you hear this?

Originally Posted by ShoeTattoo

The markets have three problems. First, there are far too many markets to have a healthy level of liquidity in more than a small minority of the markets in existence. With tens of thousands of markets and 80,000+ subscribers, this amounts to nothing more than stating the obvious. The solution to this problem is also obvious, given that the number of subs is unlikely to increase 100-fold.

Second, transparency is key to making markets strongly efficient, and providing only the "last five prices" will never be a good solution. The current limits on information provided lead to very high profits for those who stay regularly connected to the markets because they understand price movements far better than those who don't--essentially, some version of technical trading works, in the COX-verse, because historical information is only available to those who gather and remember it. Those who don't spend a lot of time at the markets end up operating at a strong disadvantage when trying to set their bid and ask prices. This leads to fairness issues, which irritates some players and drives them away from participating in the markets, and it lowers overall volume and liquidity. This is on the devs, though, as players can be counted on to do what is in their best interests and designing a system based on any other premise isn't going to work.

Third, the transaction system for the markets currently encourages players to spend a large percentage of their time at the markets handling low value items, which lowers their motivation to participate. More generally, players incur high hassle costs as the price of their involvement in the markets, which has depressed trading volume. Reducing the hassle costs of participating, and giving players ways of quickly putting low value items onto the markets (or into item sinks), so they can focus most of their attention on higher value items, would help players feel like their time at the markets is producing more "value" and they'd be more likely to want to participate. Ergo, participation would rise.

Originally Posted by Nick_Riviera

Stone Melee for Defenders.

Originally Posted by Void Spirit

What is the reason for the relative lack of supply redside?

Originally Posted by War Witch

Keeping the markets divided would require significant on-going development support, and we needed to take this into consideration. But, most importantly we wanted to produce the most fun system possible, and this decision reflects that.

These changes are very exciting and will simplify not only the way we create content, but provide freedom for you to play your characters the way you choose.

Originally Posted by CoX_Zombie

Logic shoots and scores!!!!!!!!

RP and their coach Nonsense slump off the pitch in defeat with the crowd chanting "LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!"

Originally Posted by KingSnake

2 simple fixes and story arches wouldn't be annyoing at all, and far superior IMO to paper missions.

1. Keep the zoning to an absolote minium. Only zone if it makes since to do so. (IE, you need to speak to a contact in a different zone). Outside of that, keep them all in zone.

2. Give us the phone number right off the bat. Screw this trust thing. I get telemarketer calling me on my cell phone... phone numbers are not usually a big private trust earning deal, and if you trust me enough to put peoples lives in my hands by god you should trust me enough to give me your cell phone number...

You do that, and I'd never touch paper missions again. Frankly, i don't DO paper missions red side at all usually, cause the missions are all pretty much in the same zone, and you get the cell phone eairly. (though, IMO, you should just be giving it at the start like in the RWZ)

But hero side, where the contacts love to send me all over the map for each mission? Screw that. I'll run papers. (or i guess, scanners..) Hope the dev's do the new missions for the new zone more like CoV and a lot less like CoH.

Originally Posted by Reptlbrain

The ticket cap is 1500/mish, so if you're running a click glowy and end it sort of mission, you should fight til you have 700 something tix, then click the glowy.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

step 1: set for +0/x8
step 2: find a map you like full of enemies you like
step 3: cap your tickets (takes my ar/dev blaster 20-30 minutes, the Goat somewhat less).
step 4: roll them all Bronze level 35-39
step 5: delete the garbage & craft the 'good' ones for huge profits, I've never made less than 50 million on a run.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

if you follow my MA farming plan you'll be making 100-200+ per hour.
=P

Running straight missions, no way on earth barring a super lucky drop.

Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan

Radio missions don't cause stupidity. In fact, they're probably the smartest way to get right to running missions, since every other way is, as you aptly described, more convoluted. It is rather unfortunate that the easiest and most convenient path to gameplay is also the one that offers the least interesting gameplay, but that's hardly the fault of the players.

I also have some doubts about citing familiarity with the poorly designed legacy systems of a pretendy fun time game as proof of intelligence.

Originally Posted by magikwand

No, I didn't read what they said, because I was the first one to respond to this post. In case you missed it, the OP's post did involve a lack of villainous content as well as feeling like an errand boy. I won't disagree that sometimes one can feel like the equivalent of a cart attendant while in the Isles. I didn't dispute that in my original post. I do, however, stand by my belief that the Patron Arcs are great villainous content and should not be overlooked if one is searching for such.

Originally Posted by Avatea

Patch notes for build 1800.201006040036.3T

COMBINED

Mutant Pack Updates

• Fixed some issues with the new Mutant Pack, and added a few more goodies.
  • Added Organic Swords (Dual Blades and Broadsword).
  • Secondary Mutation: Acute Senses defense buff reduced.
  • Secondary Mutation: Tough Hide defense buff reduced.

Global Email

• Increased the time before stored emails are deleted from 30 days to 60 days. There is now a column after the date that indicates how much longer an email will be stored.