Humility

Huh, interesting. Yeah, he put off his anti mez toggle for a little bit because my corr is a /kin and can tag him with Increase density when needed. That's probably the issue then.

Which simply means you need to pay attention and manage your resources appropriately. Good players can easily do so, and bad players will still be bad it just won't involve the tedious set of keystrokes to demonstrate that fact.

Close... but no cowbell!

Except that's not what's happening. You're going around the region buying all the cowbells and storing them, creating a false scarcity for an otherwise common item then demanding $500 for the very few that you do allow to trickle onto the market.

The example you gave would equate to putting up your salvage for 1K. Sure, lots of people throw 50K at it. But that is not the same thing as creating a false scarcity to drive up the demand so you can post at high prices.

The market is what players make of it. In this case, a select section of the player base has decided to make it a competitive aggressive minigame regardless of what the rest of the player base wants. Some people in this thread talk about entitlement. So what entitles those select few to turn the market into something punitive to the player base who doesn't enjoy the "market minigame". What entitles you to take your fun at the expense of the play experience of others? There is plenty of evidence from both the forums and in game that plenty of people don't enjoy, yet plenty of marketeers continue to take their pleasure at the expense of others. Entitlement indeed.

I'm not sure how many times I need to say this before people can grasp it. I have no real problem getting things on the market. I don't BUY IT NAO and I have plenty of resources to do whatever I need to. That doesn't mean the market has no room to be improved. However, as long as that change is in the hands of the players it will not ever happen. Why you ask, because on the internet you can be a tool and there isn't much in the way of consequences.

Quoted from my earlier post:

I'm talking about that kind of obvious and deliberate price fixing. That's not supply and demand. that's market pvp. That's the statement my participation in this thread has been based on. That's the piece of information you either couldn't be troubled to read, or decided to conveniently ignore. That is the premise for my statements.

Yes, alchemical silver is expensive. It's always expensive. That's not what I'm talking about. For someone who wants to attack me for not basing my statements on information, you aren't much interested in actually looking at the information my posts contain.

If someone buys at hugely inflated prices, you are taking advantage of their impulsiveness.

It's a textbook definition of the term. The only difference here being that you think this behavior is ok, and I don't. I prefer to try and make the community I am taking part in a better place instead of using it to profit myself at the expense of others.

The beauty of this whole thing is... I can have my opinion and be correct. You can have your opinion, and be correct. And magically, the world won't end. I can think someone is acting like a jerk for things they do in game, and it doesn't have any impact on anything anywhere. I can think someone is acting like a jerk and not have any emotional investment in that, people in the thread seem to think there's some big raging issue here, and it's just not so, no matter how much they try to misrepresent things to match their view. The only issue I have with anything in this thread is people who are incapable of reading and think that making statements about out of game parenting based on a forum post that they couldn't even bother to read completely is somehow ok.

This needs to be patched in.

Now.

The only question at that point becomes... is he here to fight the Nemesis Plot? Or is he part of it? /queue ominous music

Or... maybe said players just don't want to be forced to commit the exact same keystrokes every 4 minutes without any thought process requires just so they can fulfill the core function of their chosen powerset.

There's no conspiracy here. This isn't a Nemesis plot (or is it?). Some of us just want more engaging gameplay. Literally, a trained monkey could manage this particular portion of gameplay. It's dull, uninteresting and tedious.

This, I was thinking of the wrong ED schedule for endmod.

That really doesn't make much sense.

An alternate ninja run without the current animation is pretty self explanatory. Same functionality, lacking the current animation.

SS+CJ is not an alternate ninja run. It is something much much faster on the ground, with much less vertical movement, stealth and a blazing feet animation. Also, it has 3 power selection cost.

You didn't suggest an "alternate ninja run" you suggested something vaguely similar from a thematic standoint but radically mechanically different. Not really sure what's complicated about this...

Second the /nin. Looks like an amazing set, but just not a fan of stalkers.

Explain to me how I can get CJ and SS without spending any power selections, and I'd be happy to. One of the main appeals for me with ninjarun is that it lets me delay or completely avoid having to take a travel power. CJ+SS uses up three power selections I may have allocated to something else.

Like I said, I love it, I use it, it's not a big deal to me. But all the same, it would be nice to have the same functionality without the animations currently in place. Not a game breaker, but it would be a nice perk.

Thank you, that's all I really needed to know.

Appreciated, but that was more a specific response to Forbin's suggestion. As for going to rogue... I rather like having direct access to A-Merits without having to blow a chunk of inf every other day to upgrade.

Which wouldn't really change anything now would it? Paying 300K for a piece of common garbage salvage that was 500 yesterday just because someone has too much time on their hands and wants to market pvp only encourages the behavior.

Bottom line, price fixing like that ends up with 3 outcomes. People with more inf than patience pay. Patient people get to wait to have their fun. Little kids get to have their play experience crapped on so some marketeer can go destroy a billion inf to feel special.

They have unlimited access to common IOs in the family base. They are frequently gifted with 5-6 piece sets for characters they really like. When they get a drop they want to do up, its something they can do for themselves to learn to be self sufficient and play the game on their own two feet. Dealing with self centered jerks is just part of life, and this is a good lesson I suppose though I would rather they weren't forced to do it in their leisure time gaming.