Hyperstrike

Your tinfoil hat is slipping.

It's not denial. We acknowledge that the population may not be as bustling and busy as YOU would like it. But we don't have a problem with that.

You really should watch the personal attacks. They don't help anything and basically just weaken your already shaky position.

Exactly when is "nighttime" for you? Also, having gone over and actually played on Freedom in the last week or so, I'll admit the market locations were not as busy as before the issue dropped. But there's still people there. And, depending on time of day, some of the WW/BM are downright lagfests. Still.

No they're not. You've merely latched onto one argument and are ignoring all the others as you ride it down Kong.

Correction, LAZY new players see ghost towns. Mostly because they aren't paying attention.

Ah. The reason behind the "RAWR". What's the matter? Can't find anyone else to PL you anymore?

I call male cow feces. In the last two weeks I've started approximately eight characters. One on Protector, two on Freedom, two on Guardian, and two on Virtue.

All of them are now level five and over.
2/3 of them are over level 10.
Three of them are in their mid-teens.
Two of them are even level-pacted and still in their teens.

Nobody's telling you to leave the game. Simply do what players have done for the last five years. Learn how to play. Learn to take advantage of the social structures in the game.

You're wrong. Reading it again isn't going to make it any less wrong.

So we should make things completely stupid for a huge chunk of people in the prime time slot simply because you don't want to take the effort to look for a team at 3AM on a Monday?

Yeah. I guess.

Buy low. Sell high. However, you DO need to put some effort into scoping out a few market niches to operate in. This is not fast.

Your best bet is to take one of your alts and purposefully convert it into a marketing toon. You know, maximize on-person storage for salvage (high level, some marketing badges, and the Vanguard satchel), and recipies (at LEAST get the crafting badges that increase your storage capacity, but think about getting Field Crafter to minimize time spent running to a crafting table, as well as minimizing expenditures for crafting commons).

You have to stop that. I know it's difficult. I'm at LEAST as impatient as you are. And, when I have a huge chunk of change, it's difficult to keep it from burning a hole in my super-suit.

Again, patience. And take some time to read through the backlog of posts in the marketing forum. There's a wealth of knowledge there and you can make yourself stupidly rich with a bit of perserverence.

Just keep telling yourself that impatience costs money.

The seller sets the minimum bid he will accept. That's not the sale price (though the two can be identical at times).

The buyer is the one with all the control over how much they actually pay for the item.

If the prospective buyer will not at least meet the minimum bid, there is no sale.

No. Actually I'm right. The buyer has to be willing to PAY the amount asked for. If not, there's no sale, and the seller has one of his market slots taken up.

Bah. You think too small. Atlas or GTFO!

Yeah, if you watch your defense numbers in a quickly shifting mob, you'll seem them jumping around like a frog on a hotplate.

That's normal for Inv/* toons. Really sucks when you have a bunch of running buffers in the enemy group (Tsoo sorcerors, etc).

Please don't. He might offer to indulge your curiosity.

Debatable. One or two people can be shrugged off as inconsequential. Half a thread-worth of people? Not so much.

Bah. Hit shappens. You've been mocked mercilessly, recognized the error of your ways, etc, etc, and so forth. Page 4,752, section 2, paragraph 4 of "How To Make Friends and Influence People On Bulletin Boards" says that some magnanimity is called for.

Magnan...ah, whatever. Go ahead and pass go, here's your two hundred bucks...

This is simply proof that you don't know what the hell you're talking about and need to shut up and think through the situation without the excessive greed and envy currently infecting your "thought" process.

I've been playing over a year. In that time I've had four (COUNT EM) purple drops in total. All of them in Issue 12. On all of my characters, I have exactly 17 purples (all on my main's primary build).

How?

Some were bought with the inf generated from the purples I had dropped but couldn't use.

Some were bought with inf generated from marketing.

Some were bought with inf generated from farming, as well as regular play.

In reality, the ones I didn't get as drops and slot were all actually bought with money from a combination of all three of the above things.

In other words, I WORKED FOR THEM.

Again, YOU are the one setting the price (why it's an AUCTION house), not the seller.

So kindly take your accusations of being an RMT'er and cram them, man up, and let go of the ill disguised envy.

No.

If I get a purple I can't/don't want to use on one alt (it's happened), I want to be able to either move it to an alt who needs it, store it for later, or possibly sell it. Making it non-transferrable essentially makes it junk.

Moreover, think about it. If it's non-transferrable, you can't buy one off the market then. You have to farm your....butt....off in the hopes that you get ONE. There are people who've been playing here YEARS who've only ever dropped one or two purples.

RANDOM ROLL MEANS RANDOM.

Then let him pay the "IWANTITNAO" tax.

They ARE attainable. You just have to work for them. HARD.

There is a reason they are called "ultra rare".

If everyone had them, they wouldn't be "ultra rare". They'd be "common".

Also, on an End-hungry build, they're not always the best bet. They're good for their primary purpose (damage, hold, etc), then Recharge, then Acc. There's pretty much NO end reducers in them. As such, there are other sets out there that are a MUCH better fit for many. And sometimes the benefits are better than capped damage and stupid-high recharge.

You do NOT need Purples.
You do NOT need Sets.
You do NOT need IOs.

They are NOT necessities. They are LUXURIES. If you want luxuries, you either work hard for them, or work hard to have the money to PAY for them.

Simply because this is a virtual world doesn't mean it is THAT much different from real life.

SOMEONE didn't get their hug this morning.

C'mere...

That smell? Don't worry, I just haven't bathed for the last six months. Hold your breath if it helps...