Ironblade

Yes.
I can attest to this as recently as this week. I have a level 20 controller in Praetoria who is in the middle of an arc. He was able to get the next mission in the arc AFTER not just hitting 20, but also TRAINING to 20.
(Penelope Yin's arc, although I doubt it matters which one.)

Yes, I love NewEgg. I also wish I had a Fry's nearby, but they're only on the west coast of the U.S. and I'm on the east coast.

Let us know what country you're in. It's possible (likely) that someone else on here is playing from the same country and possible (maybe) that they have found a way to get decent prices on computer parts.

And I think we will.

Now the tearing of hair begins, "OMG! I have to respec 80 toons in one week before the next freespec! OMG OMG OMG!"

You're a little mixed up on how this works.

The Hess TF is *NOT* available in Ouroboros. Ernesto Hess must be 'unlocked' by doing Lars Hansen's arc. Lars' arc can be done from the actual contact *OR* via Ouroboros. Either way, once you have completed his arc, Hess is unlocked as a contact, ON THAT CHARACTER ONLY and he is unlocked FOREVER. If you want to do the Hess TF again some day with that character, you can just go directly to Hess and start it up (once you have 5+ teammates).


As someone else noted, it sounds like you're still in Ouroboros mode. Make sure you have talked to Lars Hansen to finish the arc. You can always check if you are in Ouro mode by opening your team window. If you are in Ouro mode, it will have a QUIT button, even if you are solo. Also, you'll have the Ouro symbol in the circle next to your hit point bar.


Working as intended. Only contacts that you have actually received show up on your map.

1) Moving like a giant slug is annoying and detracts from the fun of playing the toon.
2) Walking 5 ft to line up a cone is faster than teleporting.

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I am applying this to both sides. That's why I used the phrase "flippers cause this effect" rather than "drive prices up" or "stabilize prices". I think people on both sides are getting carried away in their certainty about the conclusions they draw from their own observations.

I can't tell you how many times that I've read posts by people who clearly know what they are talking about, and whose conclusions are directly contradicted by my own experience. Rather than simply believe the evidence of my own eyes, I consider that both of us are only seeing a part of what is actually going on and are drawing conclusions based on partial and/or flawed information.

A lot of threads in this section start off discussing valid concerns or interesting aspects of the market but end up drilling down into such minutia that the arguments no longer serve a useful purpose.

It's like two carpenters arguing over the length of a plank where the plans call for it to be 6' long. One insists the length is 5.94 feet while the other insists he is measuring it wrong and it's actually 6.05 feet. They are both overlooking two facts:
1) Their measurements are nonsense because they are claiming precision beyond the capability of their measuring tools.
2) Whether it's actually 5.94 or 6.05 makes no damn difference in the end.

Wrong. That's not what I'm saying "in effect" (great weasel words there).
What if he is mis-identifying *SOME* flipper activity and draws conclusions based on those observations?

Saying "Flippers cause this and flippers cause that and I know it's true because I saw it with my own eyes." just doesn't carry any weight. There's too much other stuff going on.

Look at all the times that there have been large, sudden movements in the stock market and no one can explain why. The market is highly regulated and there are tons of smart people who are well-paid to keep an eye on it.... and they can't always explain what's going on. Our market is almost totally opaque (except to the devs, presumably). It's a 'black box' where you do things through the market interface and stuff happens. If it existed in a vacuum, you could do controlled experiments and figure out the properties of the market. But it doesn't. There are hundreds of other people messing with it at any given time. Some are buying to use, some are buying to craft and sell, some are flipping, some are maliciously manipulating.

Now, I'm not saying you can't draw general conclusions and learn the market well enough to use it effectively. I'm saying that people are just blowing smoke when they start talking in absolutes about the characteristics of the market with statements like "FLIPPERS HAVE EXACTLY THIS EFFECT!"

(shrug) I can't even guess how you read that into my posts.

I read every post. I see people on both sides who think they're really smart. Some of them actually are. Many are not.

Which tells us what ONE person is doing. My point still stands. We don't know what anyone else is doing. Most of the 'experiments' done in the market are suspect for the simple reason that it's not 'laboratory conditions'. There are too many variables.

And the dramatic experiments, where people are able to drive prices all over the place, don't prove anything except that you can manipulate an item IF THAT IS YOUR GOAL. Driving prices into the sky or into the basement has zero bearing on what flippers do to prices.

Long, rambling post from A_F that tosses around a few insults and contributes absolutely nothing to the discussion - check.

I would question how you know when "flippers leave a niche". In point of fact, you can only know if YOU leave a niche. You don't actually know what other people are doing. I suspect that you see a drop in prices and ASSUME that flippers have left that item and take it as confirmation of your beliefs, even though there is no actual proof as to what has been going on.

Oxymoron time, eh? If you have to run an arc to EARN it, it isn't free, is it?

No, we're just saying that acting like a jerk doesn't help anyone.
Just because you're having a problem doesn't mean the game has bad software or bad support.

Unfortunately, the 'last objective' starburst does not apply for hostages. Dunno why, but it never has.

If things are too easy to obtain, people will get everything very quickly and lose interest.
This applies to pretty much any 'asset' in any game.