Destrukt

Originally Posted by AgentMountaineer

Shoot, I'm going to come across as splitting hairs, but I'm really not trying to be a jerk or anything in taking a slightly contrary position again. My main is a scrapper and I've found it extremely uninteresting to go very far with other classes, even on the villain side. Such being the case, I have to defend the scrapper boards a little. Yes, most of the posts there show how to get the uber build, which of course requires the uber shineys, but I've also seen a good number of posts on how to create less expensive, yet quite effective, builds.

Often somebody will come into the scrapper domain and ask how they can even afford 'cheap' build and they are referred here to the market forum to learn how to make influence. I wouldn't say this is because of any lack of knowledge on their parts, but because this is where all the knowledge of the ages is stored when it comes to profiting from the use of the market.

It always makes me roll my eyes to hear somebody say that using the market is not playing the game as intended. I know nobody has been so disparaging on this particular thread, but I feel like writing right now so if you're loosing interest in the post, I'll understand if you say TL;DR and move on.

The market is a wonderful tool in being able to complete enhancement sets. Could you imagine how much time you'd have to sink into this game hoping for that one drop to finally get the sixth enhancement in a set after waiting for what seems an eternity for the other five. Personally, I think I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

I know there are advocates of the store, but those who make this demand, I think, fail to realize the business aspect of an MMO. In order to make a profit, people have to play the game. If everything is automatically available at low prices in a store, things could be acquired extremely quickly and then you'd be stuck in the waiting game for more content or a new power set proliferation or some other feature that would hold your interest. I think the 'drop rate' of new content is such that people would probably loose interest and move away from the game. Too few players in the game means that the game would dwindle until it would finally be scrapped.

The bottom line is that you can get enjoy the bulk of this game on SOs. It is enhanced with the various invention sets, but that enhancement takes some investment and time to acquire, thus making the game thrive and continue to exist because the subscription fees continue to roll in. If you want the best sets, you need to be prepared to invest the best amount of time.

Originally Posted by Organica

Nope.

He posted here to show off a relatively cheap build.

If he'd posted in the scrapper forum, he would get advice on how he could improve his build slightly for only 2 billion or so more. ^_^

Originally Posted by Roderick

Yes, that's what I meant too. Sorry if I was unclear.

Victory Badges is full. Nobody can join unless someone leaves.
Victory Badges 2009 is the overflow channel. New people generally go there.
The original intent was that everyone abandon VB and go to VB2k9, but LOTS of people "stayed in old VB just in case something formed there", and then just continued their regular activity in VB, mostly out of habit. End result is that the busier channel is the one that new people can't join. :/

Originally Posted by Roderick

That would be correct. Unfortunately, VB seems a little more active than VB2k9, but that's usually random chatter. Most teams get announced in both, so you aren't missing out on teams by only having one.

While I don't use Victory Forum often, it is still a good channel for finding teams and TFs - by all means check out that one too! Just as a warning: The last time I was in VF, it was set to auto-silence all new members, because the RMT spammers were joining and flooding the channel with ads. If you're auto-silenced, find a channel mod, and send them a /tell and they'll unsilence you.

Welcome back, and welcome to Victory!



Wait... "Victory Badges of Facebook"? I was sure I had typed "on"... No more posting that late for me!

Originally Posted by Roderick

For those of you who are active on Facebook, and are members of the "Victory Badges" or "Victory Badges 2009" channels, there is a new Facebook group, which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/mku3za !

If you AREN'T a member of those channels, and still would like to share photos/screenshots and stories, form teams and TFs, or anything else related to Victory, Badges, or CoH, you're still welcome to join!