Forbin_Project

Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit

Which of the cracks? The Tsoo's or the room one? *giggles*

*rimshots self*







Sorry, was too easy to resist...

Originally Posted by arucard236

i did have a account. last year i visited the site just fine but now they've blocked it.

Originally Posted by Smurphy

Listing items at a price does not mean they sell those items at that price.

The forces of Supply and Demand keep prices within the limits of what players are willing and able to pay. An alternative, overpriced store will not magically cause players to suddenly be willing and able to pay a higher price.

I assure you, marketeers are already fleecing you for every penny they can. This suggestion would not cause marketeers to be able to raise prices.

Originally Posted by Teeth

Because the prices at the store would cost twice as much (or more). You do realize that we can already buy basic IO recipes for influence at the Universities? Those basic IO recipes still sell like hotcakes on the market. (Heck, you can even flip some of them from the vendor--the margin isn't good, but people will often pay more on WW than the university charges you.)

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Someone posted that they have the name 'Goldie Glocks', thought that one was pretty clever.

Originally Posted by Impish Kat

Blasters are fun, but keep in mind they are "squishy". They are set up to be played at range. Get too close to your baddies, and expect to be getting a good look at the grain of the flooring.

As for flying... yes, there is the flight pool where you can get the power to fly at lvl 14 (with a pre-req power at lvl 6). BUT to tide you over, you can get a flight pack by doing radio missions in Kings Row once you hit level 5.

• So, when you hit level 5, take the tram to Kings Row and look for the detective (he should show in your contact list once you zone in). Go to the detective, and he will give you a "radio". The "radio" will appear in your contact list.
• Do 3 radio missions, then it will tell you to go back and talk to the detective again. He will give you a special mission to protect Atlas Park Bank.
• Check out the P-wiki page on Safeguards to get some ideas on how to approach this mission. Get a team together for it, folks love the bank mishes.
• Successfully saving the bank will get everyone on the team a "raptor pack". It will give you 2 hours of flying time (use it well, turn it off when you don't need it, to save up that fly time).
• Conversely, you could go to KR and just wait around for someone to advertise that they have a bank/safeguard mish, then jump on board that team (but I was never one for waiting around.. lol).

Originally Posted by Teeth

As an Inf sink to fight inflation, we should be able to buy most recipes with Inf. You could use data mining to ensure that they're not good deals, but people would still use them.

Originally Posted by darkraven

Well yesterday bought the Architect Edition and grabbed the Martial Arts booster. Then found the Good vs Evil online for under $10.

Thanks again everyone for the suggestion and all the help. So far Ive mostly been playing in the Virtue server under the name Gargain and looking forward to gaming with others.

Originally Posted by Evilanna

Your villainy knows no end, does it Karl Rove Man!?

I agree, a cliched Earth destroying laser on the moon would be pretty awesome. In my opinion Arachnos and Lord Recluse don't go into the world destroying doomsday devices nearly enough.

Originally Posted by Joe_Blow

The current system is unfair. Let's say you created 'Super Duper Man' back when the game started, and want to transfer to a busier server, like Virtue or Freedom, but some temporary account used your name four months ago and never signed back on. It is now unavailable to anyone forever, and you are forced to either re-name your character, or keep them on their original, dead, server. Great choice, eh?

I don't buy the argument that it forces originality either. How many people just add a number or an extra letter, or use a capital 'I' in place of a small L to get the name they need, or even just butcher a name altogether to get the name they want. I see dozens of them every day. But you know what I see even more of? People not even trying anymore, because all of the REALLY catchy names are taken, both by actual comic book writers or by other players, many of which have quit.

The older CoX gets, the more difficult it will be to come up with unique names. Even worse -- if server merges become inevitable, people may find themselves forced to rename characters which they believed had perfect names. This solution is not perfect, but the current system is far worse.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

That's what I have, Forbin, and from what I understand, no, it will not run Ultra Mode except MAYBE at minimal settings and not all the options enabled. I plan to upgrade.

Of course, if I get into the closed beta this week and I enable Ultra Mode and it WORKS...

... I still wouldn't be able to tell you.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by Sister_Twelve

The Punisher - Yes.

The Shadow - No.

One was a villain. He was introduced as a villain and Marvel later gradually morphed him into an anti-hero and then a hero. The other was a radio play character and the brutality of his actions were largely left to the imagination of his audience at the time, but he was never characterized as a villain or anything other than a relatively grim hero.

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

I don't believe this has been mentioned yet, but...


Free server transfers make for-pay rename tokens a waste.

1. Transfer Character "ABCD" from server X to server Y
   1. If "ABCD" exists on server Y, rename character and transfer back to server X
2. Create character "ABCD" on server X
3. Transfer "ABCD" from server Y to server X. A rename is forced (and free)
4. Delete "ABCD", since it's no longer needed

The only situation this doesn't work in is if you've got one single character slot open to you on all of the servers you have access to. Even if you've filled a single server, you can transfer a character off temporarily to make the rename free.

Originally Posted by Pans_Folley

Should be no problem. My brother was set as leader before he stopped paying his account. I'm not sure if anyone else has been on since though. It could be that when he logs in his account, another person became leader and kicked everyone out and started rebuilding on their own. My understanding is that most left the sg before hand, but time will tell.



Very good to know! Thank You.

Originally Posted by Steampunkette

He's not asking for 12 free slots. He's asking for another page of purchasable slots per server. Which i don't think is -too- unreasonable...

-Rachel-

Originally Posted by TyrantMikey

I may be missing something here in all this, but I've seen numerous mentions in this thread of folks who could not afford the listing fee for their drops. This confuses me somewhat.

A listing fee is split when you post an item for sale: You pay half when you post it for sale, and half when you claim the influence. Further, because of the way that our market works, I know that I can get a very rare drop (say, a Deific Weapon) and offer it for sale for 250 inf. This makes the listing fee ridiculously low (something on the order of 7-13 inf). Finally, once posted at that price, it will be sold (usually immedately) to the highest bidder, and any remaining fees deducted from the sale.

It seems to me that you only hurt yourself if you sell really high. It's not a matter of impatience, really. We have a blind market. Lowest bids go to the highest offers, and it's true whether you're buying or selling. That's just how it works.

This understanding (coupled with a never-sell-less-than-the-vendor-will-buy-it-for mentality) has made it very easy for me to accumulate lots of inf on many, many toons. But, I readily admit, I could be wrong--and my understanding of how this works could be fundamentally flawed (I am not an economist). If it works differently, I'm a willing and eager student, and I'd be happy to be corrected.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Thank you, BABYLON 5 reference. That so needs to be the CoH forums' motto.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by NordBlast

Heh irony... You came into this thread as a "champion" of the rights and wellbeing of "poor sellers" saying that proposed system is going to screw them:



After Chriffer and I in multiple posts showed to you that it isn't the case and current system screws them much more than proposed, you made 180 degree turn, basically saying lets continue to EFF them "poor sellers" for the sake of better supply.

As far as the negative impact of withholding of these items is concerned, at worst, these goods will be delayed to market by few hours, days, weeks (whatever time is necessary for poor guy to make enough inf to list it). And how many of these rare goods are sold by poor guys anyway? During of my 2+ years of playing this game, I had to gamble just once by selling lelvel 12 Regenrative Tissue+ during my 2nd week in the game and listing it for 100K and regretted it right after I clicked "post" button. I didn't know anything about the game, recipes, markets during that time. After that, I never came across the situation where I would compelled to list rare item way below it's going price.

Originally Posted by macskull

The irony of anyone telling Smurphy to read the market forums makes me giggle. A lot.

Originally Posted by NordBlast

Forbin, you missing the point.

Under current system, if "poor seller" decides to sell his shiny on market, there are the following possibilities:

1. There is highest outstanding bid for 265M inf on that recipe. He puts his recipe for 5M and gets paid 265M. This is a ideal case: both buyer and seller are happy.
2. There is highest outstanding bid for 10M inf. He puts his recipe for 5M and gets paid 10M. He screwed out of 255M if he hoped to sell it for 265M. Seller is pissed off, buyer is happy.
3. There is highest outstanding bid for 1M inf. He puts his recipe for 5M and leaves it. Couple hours later here comes "BUY IT NAO" guy, sees last sale price of 265M and places bid for that amount. Seller gets paid his 265M. This is near ideal case: both buyer and seller are happy, but seller had to wait for his recipe to sell.
4. There is highest outstanding bid for 1M inf. He puts his recipe for 5M and leaves it. Couple hours later I'm deciding that I need that recipe and and willing to go as high as 100M. So, I'm deciding to bid creep it with 10M increments. I'm putting lowball bid for 1M to see if I can get it at bargain price, nothing. Next my bid will be for 10M and here I am getting this recipe for 10M, screwing seller out of 255M. I'm happy, seller's screwed. BTW, I'm really bidding like this for expensive items I want to buy. I also don't think that my buying behavior is unique in any shape and form, given that "The Market and Inventions" forum has crapload of posts outlining this strategy.

So, to summarize cases listed above, your "poor seller" is screwed in 2 cases out of 4. Worst thing, he doesn't know whether he will be lucky or screwed until it is too late.

With displayed BBO I'm proposing, seller will immediately see what he might get from the market, and make completely educated decision whether to put it on market now or hold it until he has enough inf for listing it at hes desired price. There is ABSOLUTELY no way he can be screwed unless he ignores all information given to him, and lists his recipe.

Originally Posted by Shadow State

Not seeing why the seller wouldn't just list it for the 260M and hope another player comes along and bids more, any seller should be able to figure out he isn't going to get the highest price in the last 5 unless he's willing to wait and he certainly isn't going to find someone willing to over pay be 65M just for the privilege of trading off the market. The only change is the seller now knows what price he has to undercut and the buyer knows what bid he needs to beat to get the sale made now.