Doctor_Gemini
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Quote:I wouldn't expect a government that is loony enough to believe that a law like this would solve any of their problems to tell the difference between gameplay in Crysis and CoH.Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
I believe this Intiative in the German Parliament is targeting purely the titles it conciders blatant ie: Crysis, Farcry, MoH, etc, basically anything that buts you in FPS mode gunning down humanoids and games taht are a kind of rampage-porn like Postal. Its supposed to stop lunatics being inspired to play their fantasies out in real-life and I believe the whole intiative was started after a german university rampage killing.
If I were NCSoft, and this law is not just something proposed by some minor faction that has no chance to get it passed, I'd already be looking at relocating my servers to another country. If this has a serious chance of becoming law then it doesn't matter if it fails this time, it will come up again. -
Quote:You have not proven a single thing. Much of what you are claiming is provably false in game. The fact that RMT prices have dropped by about 80% being one of the biggest pieces of evidence against you.Originally Posted by TonyV
I've already posted the simple provable ways in which farming hurts the game,
I have a very hard time believing you have any kind of degree in economics, as you haven't demonstrated any knowledge of the subject. Someone who did have a degree in economics would know you cannot cherry pick which factors you're going to use in your economic model while ignoring all others.
While I realize that much of science today is "if I believe it and I can convince enough other people to believe it then it's true" rather than actual hard evidence, your higher education is doing you a disservice if that's what it has taught you. -
I agree, her videos are great, but first we have to bring her out of retirement. Everyone neg rep her until she starts making videos again!
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Quote:Actually my 2 minute google search of etymology sites mentions it possibly coming from a contemptuous term for woman from the 16th century. That doesn't explain how it became American slang 400 years later...Originally Posted by Alasdair
You may want to research 'f**got gatherer' as that appears to be what you are thinking of. In any case there is no connection between that and the US term for gay men.
I think we can officially blame the yanks for this one.
but it's good enough to back up my facetiously throwing the blame back to the Brits
As a side note, the hilarious thing I saw on the origin of the word is the claim that back when they were burning witches in Europe, gay men were thrown on the flames when they ran out of wood. The idea of them doing that is not funny, but the fact that some people seem to actually believe this tale is. -
Quote:Because he says it is.Originally Posted by DKellis
Why?
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"I'm all alone, so are we all
We're all clones
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Quote:Yes, his post is nothing at all like calling someone vermin for feeling that farming is a detriment to the game and acting on it.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
It's interesting that you choose to equate some fellow players with criminals and garbage because you disapprove of the way they dress or the way they play.
The community is the community.
Last time I checked there was no "trash", just players enjoying the game. And yes, I'm one of them.
But I understand maintaining a bloated sense of moral superiority requires an "other" to hate & blame, so I'll leave you to it.
I think you've got the corner on the "bloated sense of superiority", moral and otherwise, market, there Goat.
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Quote:It likely comes from older British uses, since it once referred to unpleasant women or something like that, as well as prostitutes and those considered "gutter trash", just like cigarette butts.Originally Posted by Alasdair
Both meanings are derived from a word which essentially means a bundle of sticks.
Quite why the Americans felt the need to turn this into a derogatory term for homosexual and/or effeminate men I is something I probably don't want to know. Among many other things.
So we get to blame it on Brits.
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Front, middle, back is not broken, it just does not act as expected by the player in some maps.
Go into the editor and look at the thumbnail of your mission's map. It shows the spawn points now, and whether they are front, middle, or back. That should help you place them as you want unless the map is one of those with some of the very bizarre spawn points. -
Quote:Your answer is in that quote...Originally Posted by DeathSentry
dumb question but i have to ask: can you nominate your own?
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Quote:Originally Posted by Mota_
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Where!?! ;D
Or in batter and call it a Pizza Crunch mmmmmmmmm!!!!
Obviously a heart attack follows very quickly but hey, what a way to go
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Quote:On both sides, I'd say...Originally Posted by That_Ninja
ITT: People taking a video game waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too seriously.
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Going Rogue's midnight release at the Perez Park Gamestop.
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Quote:Tony, you are looking at it with tunnel vision. One reason that printing more money is disastrous to a real world economy is because doing so does not increase the supply of goods. Therefore there is more cash available to buy the same supply.Originally Posted by TonyV
Yet another person who doesn't understand basic economics. "They make what you want to buy on the market more expensive, and less available. That's a pretty big negative impact on your game-play." There, fixed it for you.
Imagine if the people who run the U.S. Mint decided one day to start printing millions of extra dollars and go out on shopping sprees. Your logic says that would be great for the economy. The stores they buy stuff from will have a lot of extra money and will spend it, the suppliers where they buy stuff from would have a lot of extra money and spend it, and so on and so on with a net "pretty big positive impact," right? So why don't they do it and just solve this whole recession thing we're in?
I could explain it, but chances are that you don't want to invest the time into thinking about it, you've already made up your mind and nothing I say would convince you that it is indeed a bad idea, and I don't want to turn this post into a book. However, I will say that this kind of thing actually does happen in the real world. It leads to a condition called hyperinfation, and it has destroyed countries because people who, like you, don't understand economics thought that what they were doing would have a "pretty big positive impact."
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that having a lot of influence being doled out to a few people is a good thing is just plain wrong. There are a few solutions to prevent long-term massive inflation in the game and make it more casual/normal player-friendly. An easy one would be to add influence sinks. Another would be to simply curb the supply of influence. If they really want to address the issue, they will figure out some ways to make getting stuff you can trade a "point of diminishing returns" prospect, where the rich will still get richer, but not as quickly as the poor.
In the CoH economy, increasing the money supply goes hand in hand with increasing the supply of goods. You don't get more inf than everyone else without having goods to sell. Therefore there is more cash available AND more goods.
Your problem is, you are trying to compare an extremely complex economic model, the real world one, with a relatively simple one.You're comparing apples and oranges and coming up with a wrong conclusion because of it. -
There are no longer any rules, we've been set free......
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Quote:I'm not seeing the problem here. Yes, if you look at the last 5 sales you usually see some ridiculously jacked up prices. The fact is, though, I've been going for Field Crafter on one of my toons the last two weeks. I've put in my bids for recipes and for salvage. Any common salvage, with the exception of the always high prices Luck Charms, I bid 100 on. Uncommons, 250 (although I'm probably thinking of other toons, since I think all the common IOs just use common salvage).Originally Posted by srmalloy
You miss the other fallout from farming the MA -- because you get only inf and tickets from MA arcs, and the farmers are using all their tickets to get recipe rolls that they can sell in the auction house, they're not getting the salvage that they would be getting along with the other drops in regular missions -- but they still need salvage to craft the recipes they keep or buy. As a result, the supply of salvage in the auction house has gone down, since fewer people are putting salvage into the auction reserve, but the same number of people are trying to buy salvage. And, inevitably, we're seeing prices ratcheting up -- common salvage bid up to 35,000 - 50,000 inf, and uncommon salvage up to 100,000, when it might have, if badly bottlenecked, have gone up to 20,000 for common salvage and 50,000 for uncommon salvage. This is then followed by people seeing the prices the inf-rich farmers are willing to pay for salvage and jacking their listing prices, keeping the prices cranked to the sky because they a) don't want to lose their listing fee and b) figure that if someone's willing to pay 75,000 for common salvage, they should be getting 75,000, too.
I log on the next day and all my bids are filled. Much of the time, I get a good percentage of the salvage in the time it takes me to go to my base and craft the stuff I just bought.
For that matter, all the common arcane salvage I could never buy for less than 5 digits before AE, such as Spell Scrolls and Ancient Artifacts I've been getting for 1 to 5 thousand. Even Luck Charms I haven't paid more than 25,000 for. Used to be I'd bid that and wait a week or more before I'd see it filled, if at all. -
EDIT: this is a reply to TonyV above. I thought hitting the Quick Reply button on his post would indicate such, but, apparently not.
What you're failing to take into account, Tony, is that those same farmers also supply a large portion of the good recipes to the market, including purples.
I also have to say that I personally find very little on the market that is beyond my price range for the toon I'm shopping for at the time, and I never farm. If I pass up something I want it's more often because I refuse to pay a ridiculously high price for the item, and instead just leave a bid and generally find it filled at some point. I haven't tried to purple out a toon, so I can't speak to those, but, most of my toons have close to 10 million by 10th level just from running story arcs, not farm arcs, in AE.
I also have a half dozen under 20 level toons who have made 20, 30, and 40 million from a single lucky bronze roll.
So, influence is easier than ever to come by in the game without farming. Which means the farmers are needed more than ever to supply the market. If you magically eliminated farming, and prices on the market dropped due to less influence being around, as you are proposing, you still will not get the recipes you want. Being able to afford them is worthless when there is no supply. Further, crap recipes that give bonuses almost no one wants will remain vendor trash, regardless of supply. -
I'm tired of the low-level grind, too, but for me the grind is not levelling a toon, it's playing the same missions for the hundred millionth time. So my response to your idea is a big HELL NO!
In AE there are a ton of lowbie friendly non-farm missions I've never run before so I can level up my toons without feeling like I've done all this before. AE is not a playground for 50's, it is alternate content. XP and awards are both integral to it being viable as such. -
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I do not make a habit of wasting tickets on recipe rolls. Every time I've done that, I've gotten burned. It is vexing that I have to waste tickets to acquire white salvage also.
The Golden Rule forbids prices from rising or falling based on supply and demand. Even if I could make enough inf selling the junk I get for more than it's worth to buy it at auction for more than it's worth, that only compounds the evil. Better to have even common salvage purchasable for a fixed and known quantity of tickets.
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Riiighhhtttttt.
Well, I'll tell you what. Before you penalize most of the player base go out and convert the large majority to your moral code, then you can have what you want.
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MA in the Library with a Candlestick
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Piston Boots animate for any kind of jumping. Rocket Boots activate for any kind of flying. Winged Boots activate for any kind of movement. (Winged Boots are conceptually for running, but there's no real difference between running and other kinds of movement)
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What do piston boots do when they animate? I have a character wearing them who uses CJ as his travel power and I've never noticed them do anything, even when using the jump pack. I always thought it was weird that all the other boots do something and the piston boots didn't. -
MA caused global warming!!
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It is rather inefficient throwing tickets at random rolls for white common invention salvage, given that you may fill your inventory with junk before you get what you need, even if you sell all the unneeded stuff you got. You can also run out of tickets. I try to get most pieces of white salvage I need this way, since the auction house prices lately are out of control and not something I would want to reward. While I am happy to undercut the gougers, it would appear that not enough are doing it.
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Bid what you think it's worth, then log out. Sunday I bought 10 ancient artifacts for 1,000, when they were mainly going for 10x that, and the order was filled by the time I logged the toon back on to check 3 hours later.
What you, and everyone else need to realize is that WW is not a store. It is an auction house. If you want something right now, then you will pay through the nose for it.
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Prices like that shock the conscience, especially since no 1-25 user can acquire the kind of inf necessary to purchase them at the AH without abusive play or abusive market manipulations.
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WHAT!!?? Prices like that do shock the conscience, however, MA makes it easy to be a millionaire. I only run story-based arcs, and one single mission gives me enough tickets to either gamble on bronze rolls and get a recipe to craft that sells for several million or buy an uncommon tier 2 or 3 that is selling for several hundred thousand.
No abusive play nor market manipulations required. I prefer to spend as little time at the market as I can, which means sell my goods and figure out what I need to buy for my own use. Not flip salvage or figure out what I can buy and craft for profit.
Right now, every toon I have between 7 and 15th level that has used MA is a multi-millionaire. Mainly I've gone for bronze rolls. I might think I must have gotten lucky except for the fact that we're talking over a dozen characters.
So this statement is flat-out false.
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I think it's become a moral necessity to allow you to buy white salvage to order, the same way that you can buy yellow and orange. Random rolls for uncommon/rare salvage might also be a good idea. Allowing them to be purchased to order would allow them to be acquired through intended play in the MA, while putting downward pressure on the inflationary spiral in the AH. It would also discourage inf selling and abusive farming. Purchasing white salvage to order is probably overdue and would be for the good of the game generally.
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I strongly disagree with you on being able to choose common salvage. You're wrong if you think it will do any of the things you believe it will. It will make it unlikely that those who don't have the "I want it NAO!" syndrome won;t be able to buy it for reasonable prices.
I do think that uncommon and rares should be random, however, at a much lower price than they are now. Random means more end up on the market. -
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Sally should con mauve >.<
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I respectfully disagree-she should con plaid. 'Nuff said.
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Then no one could ever catch her...