EmperorSteele

Oh yeah, i know. Heck, i was part of the Qhimm community back in the day that released all those patches. I just meant i didn't feel like spending an hour installing, patching, and editing my registry just to take a 20 second video =)

You CAN do this, it just won't net as much XP. Heck, i have a mission like this where I take all my own characters and wail on all the archvillains, and it's not even published because i don't even CARE about the rewards! I play it when i feel like seeing all my characters kick some butt together. And i could publish it if i wanted.. and since one would get maybe 10% experience and it would use all standard mobs, i'd dare anyone to try and call it a farm =P

You should come to virtue. We do MULTIPLE hami raids almost EVERY NIGHT (divided between redside/blueside, naturally)

The devs havn't abandoned bases, but it IS on the back burner right now. War Witch has noted she'd like to give bases love sometime after I19, iirc.

And as for "nothing left", you should try actual STORYs in AE. Yeah, a lot of them won't give max influence because of all the nerfs (which were only there to begin with because of samarai farms and the like, funny how that works!), but it'll be something new and different. play a few then roll your tickets and sell your drops. Boom, instant influence.

Of course, if you want purples, run radios in PI. One or two should drop eventually. And since you're so in love with your story-less Sammi farms, radios shouldn't bother you much.

oh lord, no >_<

But the OP has a point. Executioner's Shot looks VERY similar to Vincent's Deathblow. If i had FF7 up and running I'd make a comparison video myself, but it's too much work getting that game to run on anything later than Win98 =/

That, and like it was mentioned above, the boss has to have Hard/hard for his power settings for full individual XP. It's an anti-farming measure.

Actually, as a minor point of order: Controllers have ALWAYS had this (at least, since ED iirc), but there was NO INDICATION of it. Now we get the "overpowered" message to show that it happened =)

No, i mean if somehow, some cosmological force prevented people from posting or bidding above certain amounts. That somehow, there would always be enough supply and buyers to maintain a fair, stable price (no one listing at 5 inf, no one buying at 30,000). Again, complete wishy-washy and never gonna happen =)

I think the bad sets should be given better, more lucerative bonuses. Not as good as purples obviously, but replace any instance of "xp debt protection" with S/L resist or something.

Merits and inf costs don't seem very equalized right now. If i did the STF enough times to buy a miracle with merits, i would -not- have gained enough inf from defeating baddies to buy it off the market. And while I agree with you in principle, that the good stuff should be rare or not come cheap, it IS the major complaint of most people that the good stuff seems terribly far out of their reach. And it does the market and merit system no good if people get fed up with its inequities and stop using it (which seems to be half the problem with the redside market. No one uses it, because there's nothing there, because no one uses it... ad infinitium).

Again, it would be -nice- if cosmological forces interveined to make enough people buy and sell enough of everything; I don't propose and alternate system =)

If you didn't buy 100 of them, 100 other people would have gotten what they wanted for a lower price than what you listed them for and used them they way they were intended >=. (well, ideally... in reality another flipper probably would have grabbed them, le sigh) Without flippers, the going rate would be 80 mil not 200 mil. True there'd be a few spikes, but since the mystical "casual player" wouldn't take the risk of their respec recipe taking up a market slot for more than a day, they' list it low so it could sell. Instead, knowing that flippers are out there, they price higher so A) a flipper can't get it, and b) they're secure in the knowledge that people will pay the going price shown in the last five, so they pluck it up for 30 more mil than they need to, which deprives a poorer player the ability to buy it.

Heck, even just having 100 extra bids on something drives up the price because people assume it's something in higher demand, which means more people are "supposedly' bidding at the price point shown in the last 5, which makes them bid higher, which drives up the price. It doesn't occur to anyone that it's ONE person biding for only 70% of the going rate. And even if someone were to try and bid low, they'd still have to beat YOUR "low bid", and they may not know what that is, so they may never get what they desire. All I know is these things used to be 50 mil, then YOU started flipping them. Now they go for 150-200.

Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno. I'm open to the idea that without flipping they'd be even MORE ludicrously priced, but the direct evidence points to the contrary.(You can't say you've kept prices low when you're the one who bought all the low-priced ones to begin with) Though i'd like to see what would happen if NOBODY flipped for a 6 month period, though there's be no way to enforce that or prevent anyone from puposly skewing the market. *shrug*