Humility

That's unfortunate. Guess I'll be staying blueside until GR drops.

(For all the rabid defenders of the red market, my opinion is just as valid as your so unless you have something constructive to say please don't bother, I already know you don't agree with me)

The kat animations are very nice. I've actually tossed some Apocalyptica in the playlist and am getting fired up to swing some steel just now. They seem to go quite well together.

Werner, I've seen your name touted around as one of the "go to guys" for regen. Do you have any guides on how to be a god with that kinda build? Looking for something low to medium income (rerolled on a new server, willing to put some effort into doing it right but not looking for like billion inf builds or anything).

Well said.

Way to add nothing useful to the thread. So are you being deliberately thick, or is it for real? The point is... casual friendly play=a thriving playerbase. The less casual friendly your play, the smaller your playerbase will be. Redside is not as casual friendly due to weaker market and more scarcity in teaming (among other things). The point I was making was to highlight that relationship. But you either totally missed the point, or deliberately missed it in an attempt to troll the thread.

I strongly agree with this. The only downer is the nerfed xp in AE. But the complete lack of travel time is a bonus, thought that may end up evening out when you consider sifting through all the potentially terribad missions to find one worth playing, heh.

Heh, toss a 4, 2 and 5 month old on top of that and it gets pretty hectic!


This. Since I've not been playing my 50, but rather leveling... the merits are rolling in exceptionally slow. Sure I can get a real nice high end piece... in 4-6 weeks.

That's a pretty slick attempt at setting up a straw man. When did I ever say it was about pricing. Everything I have mentioned about market flaw (aside from a single example of price fixing, which I pointed out was an example and not the root of the problem) has been in reference to supply, not price. Thats twice already today you've tried to make it seem like I'm saying something other than what I actually posted.

I've actually never run a TF, ever. Even in the timeframes I can sit for that long, I am constantly on call to take care of a kid that wakes up or something similar. When I can't 100% commit to being a contributing part of the TF, I don't join as a matter of courtesy. My level of casual means I will never see that content, I'm fine with that. It also means that merits are not a reliable way for me to get high end IO's. Which leaves the market. Which is flawed if you do not have merit purchases to bolster it.

But some people seem to have serious issues understanding that if the market is your sole source of IO's, it rapidly becomes very flawed when supply is significantly lower than demand. But god forbid anyone should disagree with them or point out flaws in the system. But hey, lets see how many more straw men arguments and personal attacks this thread can garnish today, it's off to a solid start within just a short time!

Sorry, not a lot of TFs and raids that I've seen forming up between 11 Pm and 3 Am. Thats generally the only timeframe when I could commit to being at the keyboard that long. Juggling wife work and 5 kids will often keep you from making time commitments like that. Which means no TF farming for merits.

But hey, keep up with the personal attacks. It's clearly helping your case.

You're confusing casual with incompetent. I've known plenty of casuals who go and buy a full set (or as much of it as they can find) even if it gives no bonuses really worth having and gives things they don't particularly need (rech in a toggle or similar) just because it is a set and it is neat. Many people like to have something shiny and new for their character every once in a while.

Vent? Nah. I've been playing pretty much exclusively blue for a few weeks now and I do have one major complaint. It takes so much longer to sort through what is actually available to purchase for the toons I am leveling. I am quite pleased with the state of play that I am currently experiencing.

It is just providing quite a lot of amusement watching you act superior and e-thug it up about how tough you are surviving the the rough rough world of playing villains, while constantly trying to dodge admitting that the market redside is in a bad state.

Because I can't fix it. I can only work around it. There is a difference.

Totally aside from that, I pay people a monthly fee to fix things like this.

Hell, the whole concept of the GR expansion pretty much admits the devs have no way to fix redside population. Once that is established, the only way to have a healthy market is to merge it with blue.

But accepting that fact is tough once you've taken the internet tough guy stance. Have fun sticking redside where you can be the big fish in a small pool.

You're absolutely right. The keyword for redside marketeering is indeed "patients" as in only mental patients think it's a healthy market.

Oh, whats that? You meant patience?
Well, you're right about that. It takes a lot of patience. It's pretty sweet when you hit 15 and bid on some 18 recipe sets. With enough patience you might even buy the whole set by the time your level 25 or so!

You like redside, we get it. You feel all e-thug for making it in the oh so hard world of City of Villains. That still doesn't mean the market is healthy.

Hah, I had totally forgotten these boards even had rep ratings. If you check the OP's recent posts he's pretty much trolling lately about this subject. "You traitors suck, come back to redside" and the like. I didn't rep hit him, but I can see why people did.

Nope, I blame marketeers for destroying the market redside. There is simply not enough traffic to prevent someone with disposable cash from outright cornering a particular item and completely destroying the market for it.

To go back to my earlier example Circuit boards, one day they're 500-1500 past sales. The next they are 150K with stacks and stacks of bids on them. This is solid in my mind because my son got a recipe drop that he wanted to craft and slot and we needed a circuit board for it. He asked me what happened and why it was like that. I explained about the open market and that someone had cornered it for the strict purpose of making some extra money, and that was why it was a pain for us to get this done.

His response? "So basically they're just jerks?" Trust a 10 year old to cut to the heart of the matter.

Bottom line, it's your $15 and you can play how you want. It's also my $15 and I can continue to consider you a waste of skin for playing in a manner based on taking advantage of others.

For the record, I'm far from a pauper redside. I know I can't hang with the big dogs, but I think I've got 2-300 mil in raw inf with about that much sitting in my base enhance tables and at least a few hundred mil slotted in my brute.

Bottom line, I don't find market pvp fun. It's not difficult, just lame and tedious. Marketeers abusing the exceedingly limited market supply redside has the effect of driving yet more playerbase away from red. I would prefer to play red, I like it better. but I simply will not play in that environment. I want a market where I can grab some basic sets for my toons when they hit 20. You know why? Because it's fun. I want a market where I can find a full set of recipes in the teens to give to my son when he hits his next level and slots out his new shiny attack power. You know why? Because it's fun and it makes his day.

That simply is not a feature you can rely on for redside. You know why? Because we have market pvp e-thugs who think buying lowbie stuff is about "survival of the fittest" and then wonder why vil zones are ghost towns. This obviously isn't the only reason, but it damn sure contributes.

Have fun with that.