FredrikSvanberg

It wouldn't work because as you say there would be ways to get around it. If there are ways to avoid this fee, and the fee is high enough to matter, people will avoid it - and thus it won't work.

Hoarding is not bad for the market, if you consider another reason people might hoard stuff: they are waiting for a glut in the market to die down so they can sell their stuff at a profit. That's one of the reasons I have a ton of enhancements sitting around in my personal base. If I can't use them right now, or sell them at a profit, they will sit there until I can. Funny enough, that will most likely coincide with a time when there is a lack of these enhancements on the market, so by hoarding these things I am not just making money, I'm also making sure that there is a steady supply on the market.

Anyway, penalties is a bad idea that will only annoy people and, like you yourself admitted, will be easily circumvented. We already have a few "carrots" to make us want to sell more stuff. Trader badges for example, which grants us more market slots and inventory.

The best way to destroy Influence and reduce inflation is by offering something new and attractive for people to spend their Influence on. Just as an example: if we could buy purple recipes for 500 million or more from a store - even if just for a limited time - it would drastically reduce the amount of influence circulating in the game. The store could open up every time inflation was threatening to make the market stop working because too much is selling at or above the influence cap. That's about the easiest solution I can think of. I have a more complicated one posted earlier in this thread which would be more fun.

Agreed. Even having to pay for more slots than the eight I've already got would go a long way.

I can't find it anymore.

When Golden Girl ends a post with a smiley she's either lying or guessing but pretending that her guess is better than everyone else's.

One of those werewolves was intentional, at least. I didn't know that the other two allies would also transform. The one that is supposed to transform has a reason for doing so - he has been implanted with a nictus shard already, the other two hasn't. I wonder if there has been a change to these mobs for some reason, to make all of them transform.

Stephanie Peebles reveals that she is a witch during one of the Striga arcs, or maybe one of the Task Forces. I can't quite remember which at the moment. Instead of making up a custom mob for her I used a Cabal witch since they have fun and balanced powers already, and look witchy. The reason for her re-appearance with zombie horde in tow is of course that she wants her stolen ring back, and vengeance for her destroyed property.

Thanks again, I hope that many people take your advice and play this arc.

hargh blargh!

This made me laugh.

Yes, I like bosses. They say stuff when they are supposed to as opposed to patrols. Granted, these bosses were quiet, but they are still more reliable "dungeon dressing" than patrols and they can do funny emotes. If people don't think they can handle bosses they would be playing with bosses turned off, right?

So... you think the terrorists should pass out handy "Why are we burning your warehouse today?" leaflets? I guess that could pass for humour.

Because you are in front of Marshal Brass when he finds out about it. Haven't you learned anything in Arachnos school?

I don't know. Everyone who has played a couple of newspaper missions red-side knows that Aeon Hydroponics grows giant-sized food for the third world, but that's just a cover. It's actually a clone breeding plant.

They are also not required in this mission. Don't want to get xp from the huge amounts of goons? Don't mess with the defendable.

Or by shutting down the NutriPaste™ production. It's the only reliable food source in the Rogue Isles, according to the plaque that describes it.


Dr. Aeon uses the Goldbrickers as his private secret army. I don't see it as a far stretch to use them as security at the NutriPaste™ factory. In an earlier version the factory was owned by Lawrence Langston and was also used to produce his famous Gold Brick chocolate bars (See the "Sweet Tooth" badge). Lawrence Langston is most likely King Midas, the leader of the Goldbrickers.

Yeah its a problem. I'll get right on reprogramming the spawn points for that map. Or I'll wait for another good factory map to be added to the MA. Either way it'll probably get fixed "soon"™.

I'd think it would be more fun to find seven things than one thing, because with seven things there would be more to do. Just one thing would be frustrating. Seven things... you're bound to run into something.

Whoa, spoilers!

I don't think Luddites need a reason to hate the unnatural NutriPaste beyond the obvious: it's unnatural, and more importantly it's made by Aeon Corp. Luddites are irrational fanatic terrorists who hate Aeon Corp, why would they need a reason to do anything that includes burning Aeon Corp labs and facilities? By using Luddites I didn't feel the need to explain their motivations, since they should be obvious.

... So the number of bosses is the deciding factor here? Not what they are supposedly up to or the story in general? I know they are really just a row of numbers in a database but we can at least pretend that their plan to blow up the sole provider of food for millions of people is slightly worse than burning a warehouse full of food. Can't we?

You know, I had completely missed/forgotten that those were available. This opens up possibilities. Thanks for reminding me.

I'll look into it, but I kind of like them. The pry-bar and molotov emotes work so well.

I think I've got a couple of ideas to break up the "saminess". Maybe I'll just remake the entire arc. I've learned a few tricks from the other four arcs I built after this one.

Yes, this story wasn't really all that VEAT-focused but I've been wanting to know more about NutriPaste and Luddites ever since I first read that plaque in Cap Au Diable. Maybe another version of this story won't be a VEAT arc at all. We'll see.