EarthWyrm

Whatever else they fixed, you still can't put the new set on the market.

The "string of abitrary symbols" aspect of the thread need not be continued.

This. ^^^^^

The only character I don't bother with it on is my SS brute. Rage with 3 Membranes made me feel like the slot for the Kismet was better used elsewhere.

For realz, yo. I bought the Carnie costume pack around 2 am Sunday morning, when I realized those stupid thigh-highs were the only boots that really worked with a costume I'd been slaving over, and last night told some friends in-game that I had done so and that they could thank me today when the bundle went on sale.

I'll have to look at see if the CoT one has anything I want in it. Already bought Barbarian a while back.

This is the kind of sale I expected during the anniversary month...

I'm pretty sure this was part of a GMOTD pop-up a few days back, and is listed in the known issues:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=264969

Yah, I don't get the drama around this. I ran it on 2 PUGs the first night and succeeded both times. Only my "want it NAO!" mentality kept me from doing full runs to get the slot unlocked all the way. So yes, I did run farms to finish out 2 of my characters.

The front-loading of iXP-granting mobs is one of the more questionable design decisions I've seen, though. Just swapping the order of the first two encounters (fight through some token IDF, deal with 3 bosses, fight through reinforcements before Swan arrives, then Swan/Tyrant) would have made more sense IMO.

I felt like I'd accomplished something when we succeeded. That's something fun, to me.

I looked at the link you posted. The stuff at the top of the page under "unsorted salvage items" are all confirmed to exist in the game, per the wiki page. The only thing he's asking for that's not in that list is the Coral Shard, as near as I can tell.

Edited to add: And the Coral Shard has a sales history in the last few months, so it's definitely in-game as well. Why rely on the wiki when you can open the market interface and see that these things exist?

Your conclusion, emphatic as it may be, only logically follows if we equate flipping with manipulation. I do not see many people, other than AF and yourself, who seem to fully "buy" that position. I have also made ridiculous fake moneys on the market doing exactly the things you describe, and I do not agree with your conclusions.

There is a difference between manipulating the market to consistently make items more expensive, and taking advantage of naturally occurring volatility to make a profit. Consistently making the item more expensive removes (or at least reduces) the profit potential. Remove the profit potential and the marketeer slits his or her own throat.

You made a lot of fake money flipping. Grats! Me too. If you want to define that as market manipulation, though, recognize that you may be in a somewhat lonely (and frequently ignored...) club.

Perhaps a show whose plotlines revolve around some smart people's inability to take a joke or their sometimes-tendency to take themselves too seriously would be a better tie-in?

Threadjacks aside, I think the OP's idea is a great one that PS ought to pursue.

I think it's pretty well known that George Lucas hates semantics almost as much as he hates syntactics.

I agree with Darth.

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In the interest of humanity's survival, I submit that we end this thread immediately, and start focusing on how we can keep the rest of the seals from breaking.




p.s. Thanks for the free stuffs!

Agreed. That was the moment where I "bought" the character.

I don't pony up for movies in the theater very often. Wife and I will be going to see this one a second time, though. Maybe try it in 3D, even.

I pity whatever director has to follow Joss in the franchise.

You can slot all six different pieces of the set in a single character, but each individual piece is unique. So you can't have two Acc/Dam from the same set on the same character, but you can slot an Acc/Dam and an Acc/Dam/End/Rech and a Rech/Proc and be just fine.

If these are just the experience awards, I have no problem with the adjustment. It was obvious during beta that these maps would be farmed, so removing the potential for them to be crazy NPC PL maps makes sense. Any confirmation that it's just experience awards affected, or is it drops as well?

I hope nobody was actually surprised that the best selling item in a store whose model is kind optimized for micro-transactions was the most generally useful micro-priced item they've put in it.

/brainmelt

I don't PVP 'cuz it's way too hard to understand.

/em shrug

The EULA says that you agree to it by clicking the "I Accept" button.

There is no "I Accept" button.

You say this as someone who has all-but-demanded, and then gotten, direct responses from representatives of THIS game, in the last week? You're really criticizing the way the folks who make this game manage community interaction?

Baffling.

There's nothing wrong with pointing to the EULA. There's nothing wrong with (correctly) noting that we are not entitled to any compensation for downtime beyond what the PS folks may decide to give or not give us, regardless what any other game (you know better...) might do. Saying these things doesn't make someone a mouth piece, a brown-noser, a sycophant, or disconnected from consumer reality. (Don't bother pointing out that you never said any of the last 3. You don't have to.) Name-calling people who don't see a problem with the PS policies is no better than name-calling people who do. It's still uncivil and unnecessary.