FredrikSvanberg

If I was a dev I would introduce some kind of lottery where you can spend a whole lot of Inf in exchange for random salvage and recipes. Totally random, but of course with a very small chance for the good stuff to drop. This would remove Influence from rotation, which reduces inflation. By adjusting the cost of the random rolls the devs can adjust the inflation rate as needed.

In-game I would present this as high-risk enterprises which characters can invest in. Some examples:

Magical Rituals. You cooperate with The Midnighters in performing certain rituals to enchant items, contact and barter with various entities or investigate new magic. You will gain one piece of random magical salvage or a random recipe.

Super-science. Same as above but you help Portal Corp investigate new materials and form new scientific theories, explore other dimensions, and trade with them. You will gain one piece of random technological salvage or a random recipe.

Villains would have similar options but they would probably work within the framework of Arachnos, or possibly with the Circle of Thorns and Crey.

I don't think minions should have KB effects. That **** just gets stupid when you get knocked back before you even have time to get up. I think the devs should have saved the KB for bosses, but given them higher mag so they could potentially knock back anyone who hadn't taken special precaution, such as Acrobatics or an IO or two. It would have made KB more special and less aggravating.

I would like to suggest a quick re-fix of this fix.

Make the AVs and EBs scale down as before but remove their rewards if they end up lower than their lowest level range.

This would help preserve existing legitimate missions and we won't have to scramble to fix our arcs, or possibly unpublish them because they need certain characters that we can't remake in the critter editor.

I ... did not.

Now I have to read them all, all over again!

This is amazing.

Oh, you meant "free".

I don't see how paying for the IOs makes them free but maybe I'm old-fashioned.

All you have to do is make an arc of your own. A defeat all on a large outdoors map should do the trick. Use enemies you feel comfortable with, crank up the difficulty to whatever you can handle and go to town. Don't forget to unpublish this crap after you're done - you don't forget to flush, do you?

And now we've got another generation of useless exploit farm arcs, the majority of which will never be deleted, cluttering up the MA. Time to reiterate the request for some kind of purge mechanism to hide arcs that nobody wants to see anymore.

The server status page doesn't seem to work for Virtue, so don't trust it when it says it's down.

You could always bind that emote to your /think-ing, but I would prefer if it just remained the same as our current /e.

What's so bad about the Kheldian arcs now?

I've wanted a way to add "Later, in Metropolis" or similar captions for ages...

I would also love if we could separate actions and thoughts so that when someone emotes "takes a drink" or some other action it doesn't show up as a thought bubble. It would be cool if it showed up as a square to the side of the character instead. "Superman kisses Lois Lane" - well, you get the idea.

Then thought bubbles could be made exclusive for actual thinking. Maybe with a /think command.

Or play my VEAT arcs. Just search for @Fred in the MA, you'll find them.