ChaosExMachina

Agreed, but I like the hero jobs, which are among the first content I found to be suitably heroic rather than just "lawful" or "justice thug," since each of them involves a hero who makes a deliberate choice to help RATHER THAN battle villains.

The rogue jobs are OK too, though the "but hey you can make profit by doing this" rationalizations get extreme and contrived, and a rogue doesn't always have to be a money seeker. There's power or ideology as motivations.

Actually, you can. I might write a guide to the virtuous villain.

Unfortunately lots of people want that sort of thing and even RP heroes as doing it.

I wouldn't support that and wonder how some of these quests can even work if it is a T rating, but they've decided to satisfy some of those people.

That would be a whole lot better than the way they did do it, for regular ATs anyway.

However gaining powers with such a career path, rather than just content, wouldn't be. What do the others get who don't take that career path? If you get powers from other career paths, those powers now have to be implemented in a way that they are balanced for every AT, etc.

However I do think that any future epic ATs should be implemented not as ATs, but optional careers that can be chosen. Like picking backstory along with origin.

Default: Custom backstory, they way it works now
Rikti: You get a set of exclusive Rikti content plus a costume slot with Rikti options
Etc.

Well a good way to improve that would be:

Yeah, that is just the sort of idea I was thinking of, though I'd consider going even further and making them decide their level by the level of the player, so there's only 1. Your version would work with less tweaks to other systems though, and would certainly be easier to implement.

Other advantages would include faster and more efficient market queries, better readability, and a simpler more inviting system for newbies.

Addressing caps is a good idea, but that implementation would run into some difficulties, particularly due to the increased load of sending those to the markets. And if it blocks you from receiving a large amount of inf it wouldn't deal with purples either.

I'd add buttons to the interface that let you instantly sell at NPC price, or manually send to market. To deal with the caps you mentioned there should be an overflow inventory that can only send to market or NPC, not accept trades to yourself. This way you get the advantages of not using caps plus the advantages (encourage market participation) of them.

Now that was the funniest thing yet.

Indeed, I like them and enjoy their cameos.

Protagonist double standards.

Scott is the protagonist, so he is the first prize. Knives is better than Ramona so she is the first prize, and thus the protagonist should go with her.

Audiences have been conditioned into it. The guy who spends most of the movie being a jerk only to turn it around superficially at the end to get the girl is an oft used but terrible plot template.

They did that not to stop inflation, but for other purposes. If anything it was done to prevent a deflation which can be worse.

And that would just... oh you were being sarcastic.

Theories about ways to stop marketeering are funny. It doesn't have to be stopped, and unless what you are proposing is... a specific thing I will not say so as not to give the anti-marketeering people ideas, almost anything you do will just make the marketeers richer. That's among the things that make it EBIL. Since marketeers take advantage of price fluctuations, and any such ideas will just make more price fluctuations, either way we win!

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No, that's not what I was saying.

It's about quantitative bonuses and qualitative bonuses.

Bonus recipes or an ability to add patrol XP are quantitative and acceptable. Powers, costume pieces, and systems are qualitative and should not be in any more vet rewards, unless they are trivial but cool like the map power.

I read statements like this and just wonder why? Why would you add a recharge to it? It's not about making the game balanced. There's no reason to make it frustrating for no reason. How often have you used the tailor and not had to click it again to compare costumes or go back and edit something after being in an actual environment rather than the costume screen?

Would like them to make the chalet permanent. I don't do much RP any more, but it makes lots of sense that it is a better place to find quality RP.

Where shall we go to find RP? An obnoxious dance club that looks like an implicit endorsement of cyber, or a great looking chalet with charm and divergent gameplay?

They could do that far more effectively by implementing FREEEEEEM.

And it would not be a pointlessly frustrating limitation that creates forced twinking.

That's not quite accurate and makes the devs sound like authoritarian jerks.

Those 30 slots were in a sense an additional method of storing inventions. Any racks that had more than 30 could still hold what they had. It was essentially a new type of rack that had a 30 invention capacity.

And this is why excessively playing up dev authoritarianism (even if speaker means it positively, no, ESPECIALLY if speaker means it positively) can be bad for PR.

Indeed, in real life an extreme free market doesn't work so well. But in a game the players can't, for example, bribe the devs with inf, or get injured so they can't produce, or be born to tons of inf through no merits of their own.

The game economy is the meritocracy that simple minded lasseiz faire philosophies dream of.

1. It would actually have the opposite effect of what you are saying. Removing enhancements contributes to SUPPLY, not inf. By putting those enhancements up at the market they can be traded around, which is the primary inf sink that exists, that is market fees.

2. The inf obtained by a respec is inconsequential.

3. The prices of most of the IOs that are currently recirculated through respecs would increase, leading more of those who build by grind to do so even more, producing more inf.

Locked enhancements are a relic of the pre-IO enhancement system. Back then, buying enhancements was the primary inf sink. Now, the primary inf sink is fees. So the nature of the question is reversed. You could do more to combat inflation by adding a 100k*level charge to removing enhancements or moving slots, which would not just cost inf but lead to more supply.