GavinRuneblade

It's in the options menu somewhere under "General". Point of advice: Do not "save options to file" after turning off experience. =)

It is a very cool option.

ok, minor thread hijack here. Can anyone find a video clip of the presentation where Bill Gates was supposed to demo the "origami" ultra mini computer? I was working at Microsoft at the time and videos of this one went through the company like wildfire because they only had two prototypes and one got broken, so they gave him a painted block of wood to do the demo with. And totally against the PR people's advice he admits it to the crowd and makes a joke about how they told him to talk about how MS's technology is so much better than the competition in the field and he asked them (roughly) "what, no one else can cut their block of wood as small as ours?". It was awesome.

But I haven't seen it since I left. /em Sadness.

I don't have acrobatics on any character. Between -kb IOs and the base enhancement station buff, and just putting up with it I'm fine. I have a fire tank, scrapper, dark stalker and a huge stable of squishies with no -kb at all. It really isn't the end of the world, and those -kb IOs are very easy to get if you level from 1-15 in AE and roll bronzes. Even if you don't they're not expensive.

Was updated and Mantis is out near the AE building in Sharkhead so you don't need the mission computer anymore.

I know you have to be in the zone to start the TF, but the TF is not the only source of missions in the zone, Just have the leader start any local mission and then drop it after you arrive. Solo, I'll often use a mission from one of the local contacts to get to Cim if I have their phone number. Heroside I do the same thing with the Shadow Shard.

I'll have to test on the minimum level, I thought I got a lowbie hero in there.

My guess is the heroside supply will be a greater influence than the additional villainside demand.

demand from villians for pet recipes will impact hero sellers in a way they are not familiar with. Otherwise, there isn't a significant difference in what is generated and what is in demand, other than villains demand more than they generate.

Problem is that for both sides demand exceeds supply, vilinside moreso than hero but true for both. I'd be surprised if any significant watering down happens. Though villains might have lower prices.

I just sell my drops, so for me, I predict a small loss in revenue in exchange for faster turnover times. Which is fine with me.

You're gimping your exp if you turn off bosses. Low-level bosses are total pushovers worth enormous experience. Why do you think so many AE exploits are set to level 1 missions?

Trust me, bosses on from 1 until between 12 and 15. then off if you start to have trouble with them. They have only 25% more HP than lieuts, but 300% the exp. To me, this is a huge plus.

also, per the math, at all levels, a +2 boss is the best "experience per point of damage dealt". Not the best over time, or any other measure, but for stalkers, this measure may be more relevant. Since we pick and choose our kills. =)

No level requirement anymore.

Or join an all-villain team and use your mission teleport.

Level 20.

only the first arc, not the first two.

Very nice guide!

Pangean Soil and most other high-level rare arcanes go for 2.5 million to 5 million. Way better than mid-levels like Deific Weapon and Impervium.

Special note: most prices tend to be higher on the villain market. If you are selling as the OP recommends, this is good news for you as a villain!


Caution #1: If it requires rare salvage, many mid-level set IOs are not worth crafting because they sell for less than the salvage costs. ALWAYS check the going price before crafting you might be better off just selling the recipe.

Caution #2: Watch out for recipies at levels in increments of 5. Many recipies spike the crafting cost at these levels. So a level 34 or 24 might be half the price of a level 35 or 25 to craft. Here is a quick example:

Pulverizing Fisticuffs Acc/Dam Level 24: 36.8k, level 25: 74.8k

Mako's Bite Acc/Dam Level 39: 97k, level 40: 209k

When you are judging if you want to craft and sell, keep the crafting cost in mind. If you'll lose money, sell the recipe.

All attacks, are good, but you are right the PBaOE's are primo. Also withinEndurance Modification, two sets are valuable and the others suck. Efficiency Adapter and Performance Shifter. Nearly always worth crafting and selling.

Another recommendation:
Sell tier-3 (Large) inspirations. Lucks for 200k+ and all others for 50-75k. Steady, solid income. Bosses higher level than you are a reasonable source of them, and level 1-10 bosses are almost the same difficulty as lieutenants. It's not until after level 10 that bosses really start getting more hp and damage (level 1 lieut has 79 hp, boss only has 115hp but is worth triple the inf and xp as well as higher chance to drop a large inspiration).

If the suggestion of purchasing chips to gamble with is used, this is no different than a player going up to a crafting table, burning all their inf on level 50 recipes and deleting the stack. They have to buy the chips before they spend, they can't gamble inf directly.

Easily countered by showing that "making players gamble" is libel. Possibly resulting in a new revenue stream for CoX due to the resulting lawsuit and easy victory.

also, at this point any press is good press =) In genreal video game controversies get people to try the game out. Think about Mass Effect. And CoX is a good enough game that lots of those testers will stick for a while.

No different than the current market. Happens all the time. I had someone buy an 80m IO for 888,888,888. Clearly added an accidental 800-million inf to their purchase. Already happens, so no change.

That's because there is no tech involved to automate it. Make it an automated process and it will happen.

The entire goal is to be an inf sink, not to be a revenue stream. In general gambling gives a 50% return or lower in the real world, so a 100% return would completely ruin the intended function.

I've yet to see any virtual moral majority protest the gambling in Fable, or Final Fantasy, or Runescape, or Mass Effect. Can you find me any links to pure entertainment games with a mini-game that involves fake gambling with no real money where there was a protest? I've never heard of such a thing personally.

However, I'm all in favor of any kind of minigame, including cheesy arcade game minigames. Play for 1 chip. =)

Near as I can tell all of your concerns are either already a non-issue or easily solved.

Boots are in the "flat" option. Go into the costume selector, pick the whole bioluminescent costume and you'll see where all the pieces are stashed.

Hmm, always the same and roughly into thirds for all maps?

Completely false. The lore and the stories are exactly what make it fun. Questions it and talking about it keep me and many others more interested.

A couple things to keep in mind, first what is on the website is the public information, not all that the public knows is correct (see Emperor Cole vs Tyrant or the "start" of the Rikti invasion which has no mention of Nemesis), Second there are two distinct groups within the Circle, and the website description only talks about the surface/superficial group the "real" circle you learn about mostly on the Villain side missions, but a bit heroside. Potential spoilers:






















The Circle are ghosts inhabiting the bodies of descendants of Mu. While the cult itself publicly formed in 1933, the ghost have been riding from body to body for a lot longer than that. So while the events on the website are "public" knowledge about what the humans who end up getting possessed went through, they don't at all cover the existence of the ghosts or the effects, impact, knowledge, and actions thereof.

Mu Drakhn's stories are great for getting at this lore.

The ghosts who are the actual circle members have been living in Oranbega without break since it was on the surface. Once they got bodies they brought hte bodies back down. Whether the caves were blocked off intentionally or as a part of the fight with mu or by some other event is not explained. But the human bodies of the Circle (who are the ones discussed on the official pages) almost certainly only "found" oranbega because the ghosts wanted them to, and quite possibly, it was ghosts completely possessing some of the bodies that lead the others there physically.

Mostly true.

But if you are using SOs at level 25 you are getting the full 33% benefit from them. If you are 50, and have SOs then exemp down to 25, you only get 24.19%. So not quite the same.

Fortunately, you do have to drop under 30 before this really starts to matter in any significant way.

This. Any villain who can seriously challenge Supe is so far beyond the lantern than he wouldn't even last the full duration of the first attack. Same thing for the average CoH team. If the villain can seriously challenge the toughest AV and GM soloists, the average squishy is toast as collateral damage without contributing to the fight.

That's not fun for anyone involved. The AV soloist is complaining the rest of the team isn't helping, and they are all dead on the floor complaining the mission is not winnable.

I never skip them for the exact reason that you do. Doing the patron arc you first become one of the top members of arachnos, then equal to the 4 patrons themselves, then become an equal of Lord Recluse and walk away from arachnos to be your own independent villain. I'd not skip that for the world and it is as far as humanly possible from being a level 1 errand boy.

Implementing a system where the players can implement plots and NPCs react to them would be extremely hard, but very rewarding. I like the suggestion to simply change the nature of contacts to be providing information rather than offering work. However, I don't mind the current system as much as some others. I would enjoy a change, but the current doesn't bug me.

Lots of people slot set IOs that are level 25 to 35 so that they can exemp down for taskforces and oro arcs. Smart ones start slotting those set IOs at level 22 instead of waiting to be level 50. As a result, those smart people don't have "many levels of subpar performance to get through first".

Also, some people craft and slot, or buy, cheap set IOs as they level for frankenslotting, instead of using SOs. Again, no "many levels of subpar performance to get through first".

I could add some anecdotal experience to back it up, but anecdotal is not worth being used as toilet paper so meh.

Tracks mine all the time. I Find it very handy as I like to buy a bunch of different commons and uncommons for crafting my ticket rolls and not needing to retype my bids over and over is much appreciated.

I did have to learn to always bid cheap to expensive and not the other way around after accidentally buying some unquenchable flames at the same price as pangean soil. Now, worst case I have a too low bid I need to cancel and replace.