Grouchybeast

I was doing that, too. There was something hypnotic about sitting in WW and watching one stack of salvage filling up while another stack emptied for ten times the price.

Blessing of the Zephyr 4 point KB protection comes in delicious level 50 flavour, to satisfy all your irrational numerical cravings. :-)

I finally 'cheated' on my thousands of sales badges, and bought cheap salvage and sold it at a loss. I got into a selling cycle with someone somewhere in the world, where I bought stacks of 10 rubies for 200 and relisted for 10, and they bought at 10, and relisted at 200. I felt this kind of spiritual badging connection through the interwebs. :-)

On the other hand, buy-it-now transfers inf from people who have so much they don't care about the difference between ten thousand and 1 million for an alchemical silver, to the people who care enough that they're selling their salvage drops. Seems like a good system to me.

I don't think that's quite true. People do fairly frequently post suggestions for long-grind end-content, but I challenge you to find such a post where there's a majority of commentors supporting the idea. Normally it's exactly the reverse -- the proposal is vehemently shot down.

If the devs were to take anything from the boards, it would be how unpopular such ideas are.

Other people have alluded to this, but I don't think you understand the actual effect of what you're proposing.

At the moment, the devs datamine the median completion time. They then give a merit award based on the rule of 1 merit per 3 minutes. Some people will be faster and some people will be slower. E.g. a TF with a median completion time of 1 hour will give 20 merits. People who complete in 30 minutes will get a reward of 1 merit per 1.5 minutes. People who complete in 2 hours will get a reward of 1 merit per 6 minutes. However, *on average*, the reward for the TF will be around 1 merit per 3 minutes.

Your proposal is that everyone who completes faster than the median time will be capped at 1 merit per three minutes. So, back to the 1 hour, 20 merit, TF. Everyone who completes in 1 hour will get 1 merit per 3 minutes. Everyone who completes in 2 hours will get 1 merit per 6 minutes. However, everyone who completes in 30 minutes will still only get 1 merit per 3 minutes. Therefore, the average reward for the TF *must* become less than the 1 merit per 3 minutes that the devs want.

So, your proposal will not, and cannot, maintain the average reward ratio at the devs' desired level. The only way it could is if taking longer than the median time increased the reward, with all the attendant issues of people finding ways to game the system.

Over the DXP weekend, I shifted a couple of hundred common IOs, lvl 30-40, mostly End Mod, Acc and Def Debuff. I listed all of them for 326,000, regardless of the last five prices. The prices people paid were from 350,000 to well over a million.

The price that people pay for items is often not all the closely related to the minimal 'buy it now' price. If you're willing to throw your excess play money away to get something NOW, then it makes sense to leave a big enough margin to ensure it *is* now.

On big teams with support ATs along, enhancements are pretty much just whipped cream on the delicious sundae of buffs and debuffs flying around. Set IO bonuses aren't even a cherry on top. Soloing, though, is a lot more painful without enhancements :-)

Yes, I had a very similar problem, with flashback badges not being awarded for Crown of Glory (with the AT Powers Only and No Inspirations settings) even though I got the completion merits. I even submitted a support request, but got back the answer that we hadn't completed the requirements for the badges so they couldn't help. So either the level it shows up in the list in Ourob is screwy, or there's something else wrong with the arc which is breaking the Ourob badge awards. I just avoid Mercedes Sheldon's arcs for Ourob badging, now, which is a shame because they're fun arcs.

I have no idea which server you play on, but whenever I read something like this I just want to hug Defiant and never let it go. My double XP weekend was full of great PuG teams with lovely people. <3 Defiant.

Some authors worry about being accused of stealing ideas from fanfic, and so have a strict policy of keeping fanfic out of places where they have an official presence. Authors have been sued by fans in the past, so it isn't a baseless concern.

Question: when a price cap exists for a recipe which means it can be sold off-market for considerably more than on-market, what do you think will happen to the supply of that recipe on the market?

Birds?

There have only been 2 double XP weekends since I14 came out -- one in July, and one in October. The first one, XP was doubled. The second one it wasn't, and that was stated to be a bug.

They're called different things because they're mechanically different. From what was said at HeroCon, etc, the system seems to be:

Villain: Can only access redside zones, uses BM.
Rogue: Can access redside and blueside zones, but can only (or only primarily?) talk to redside contacts, and has to use BM.

Hero: Can only access blueside zones, uses WW.
Vigilante: Can access redside and blueside zones, but can only (or only primarily?) talk to blueside contacts, and has to use WW.

It would be very confusing to have them both called Rogues.

Whether there are some penalties to changing sides, we don't yet know, although in one of the recent interviews War Witch said something about mistrust of characters who have switched sides. No hint as to any mechanic, though.

I would agree with this, from my experience when I started playing in 2008. I found common IOs much easier to deal with. The recipes were available from the benches, and I pretty quickly noticed that made-up they were often available below cost at WW, anyway. Compared to the TO/DO/SO enhancement -- different origins, different shops, everything going red every few levels, incredibly confusing names -- common IOs seemed *so* much simpler, and there was even the University tutorial that explained how to make them.

As far as I know, the results were never published. Part of the survey from when it first came out is here at massively.com:

http://www.massively.com/2008/08/09/...cox-direction/

I don't know if the whole thing appeared later.