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I was referring to the atrocious state at which the market is currently in. What do I mean by that? Well as others have already stated the almost complete drought on red side for every item from the most common salvage to the most rare IO. I mean at one point a year or two ago a common lvl 50 accuracy IO was about 200,000 infamy and today it's in some cases ranging from 700 to 1 million. Blue side while not suffering from the same lack of supply that red side does has nonetheless felt the pinch in the sense that prices have increased there as well. I mean when I checked the market a long while back you could get a damage Hecatomb for 300-500 million. Now they are hovering at a BILLION for some of them.

Will the market merger help to deflate prices? I don't know but I'm hopeful. However with the system being the way it has been so long there is no way of really knowing how it will react.

I like how you put that caveat in there of 'some time' lol Yeah it only took several YEARS and hundreds of posts by far smarter posters than I that understand math and complex systems that it was a good thing. I'm just hoping it's not to late to salvage a very broken system with this revelation.

Oh I see so everybody basically got a preview of where they are all going to end up together. But each individual person will take their own path getting their.

Agreed. One has to only look at the market to see how it's changed it. Just a year ago prices and availability of Pool C drops were much better. A pool C cost almost 40% or more less and far more were available for sale. Now the supply has been cut and I weep to see the sheer level of cost many of these recipes are going for. It's pathetic. That's why I'm glad I farmed the hell out of TF's and built up tons of influence and IO'd my most favourite and important toons. What cost me about 1 billion to IO my main toon (tanker) and make him a bad *** would now cost me probably twice or even close to three times.

I would definitely recommend you speaking with Morna. She's a good friend and one of the oldest players in the game. She'll hook you up

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Ohhhh I get it!

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Wibbly wobbly timey wimey

Well from what I understand Wentworth's is failing so Paragon City is planning to take funds out of the public influence savings and buy the majourity of the auction house since it's too big to fail. Then finally we'll have decent prices through the auction system since the city government knows better than the seller on how much their items are worth and how much to ask for them.

Agreed. That was pure awesome wrapped in goodie goodie fun time candy.

I'm with you there. About 3 or 4 years ago I actually wrote a 4 or 5 page post about a Zig TF that would be 10 missions long and went through every area of the prison and had some great stories and finally at the end you would face an AV final boss of Malaise who after being incarcerated in the prison was secretly being tested on by Crey and Dr. Vazhilok as a lab rat to try and increase Malaise powers and give him the ability to psionically reanimate corpses that he could control. The experiment goes wrong though and Malaise is turned into a mindless beast driven only by his baser animal instincts and mutates into a 20 foot tall brute. Everyone loved the idea and it would finally give the players something to do with this giant honking prison in the middle of the zone. Unfortunately nothing ever came of it

No your not wrong. The O_I account is one of his alt accounts. He's just trying to deflect his true identity off himself. Hell the fact that 99% of all his posts are in the PVP sections alone is an indicator of his identity. Plus this post alone sounds like something he would ask for. After all he spent millions if not billions IO'ing his 'PvP' toons only to have the PVP game radically altered so all his old tactics were no longer viable. That means those toons are now loaded with IO's and built to perform a task they can no longer do so with the new rules in place. I'm not surprised he wants to respec his entire powerset or AT since it's a lot easier than say rolling and leveling a whole new toon then respecing his old toons like 6-10 times to offload all his IO's.

What do you expect? The Optical_Illusion account belongs to Twixt and that name alone should be enough to answer all your questions. If it doesn't then just check out the Freedom server forum and you'll learn who/what he is.

Not at all. In fact several several MMO's out there already offer this feature. For instance in the game Ultima you can go to their website and not only pick what level you want to start off at but also what kind of equipment you want your toon to be outfitted with. The online store then calculates how much that toon would cost and gives you a price. If you choose to you can slap down the cash and bingo they give you the toon.

Obviously you didn't bother to read my entire post or you would have seen my answer to that question. I REALIZE that certain aspects of the TF is outdated and not in line with established canon. That's why I said the devs would only have to make a few tweaks to the TF in regards to story and dialogue and BAM. You have a new TF. For instance. While it's true Sister Psyche no longer inhabits the body of Aurora Borealis they could rewrite it thus:

Though they no longer share the same physical form there remains a strong psychic connection between Sister and Aurora since they spent so many decades together. The Circle of Thorns are well aware of this and have discovered a secret artifact the Soul orb which they can use to create a bridgehead between the demonic realm and our world. With this orb they can fuse together Aurora and Sister together again and use their superior vessel to carry the essence of the demon Ba'al. The only person who could successfully perform this ceremony is someone who's mind has both been touched and controlled by Aurora and Sister and that is the insane AV Malaise.

That way you still have essentially kept the same principle characters in the TF along with the mission souvenir of the Soul orb and the final AV of Malaise. It's the job of your TF to capture or destroy the Soul orb and defeat Malaise so that the ceremony can't be completed and you have saved both Sister Psyche and Aurora Borealis. You could also keep Calvin Scott as the TF contact since it was he who brought this calamity to your attention and is requesting your help since say the Freedom Phalanx is currently engaged in combat off world and only you and your team are available.

There you go. With just a few minutes I managed to not only maintain the mission integrity of the TF but also explained why the TF is relevant again. Maybe Paragon Studios should put me on the payroll

The problem is the devs KNOW all this but getting them to ACT on it is the never ending battle we've had with them for YEARSSSSSS. I remember the last time I actually had a physical conversation with a dev in regards to the Cathedral of Pain and the Calvin Scott TF (*see below for brief description) was way back when Ouroboros was being put in the game. I just happened to log in one morning before the servers were going to go down on the TEST server and went to the O zone. Standing there next to the pool was none other than Positron.

He explained he had gotten into the office early and was taking care of a few things before his 'day' started. We talked for a good 20 minutes and while I explained that Ouroboros was interesting and a good idea what the game really needed was more 'hard' content. That is content which actually mattered in canon and was part of the game and you were rewarded tangible benefits like an IO recipe (this was before horrible merit system), or a TF badge. I told him he had two such pieces of content just sitting and collecting dust that could have been tweaked up and put out already to add to the game in the form of the COP and the Calvin Scott TF. The Calvin Scott TF came up because back when Ouroboros first came out there was a bug that actually let you access the TF and start it. The problem was after the first mission you had to go back and 'talk' to the contact to get the next mission and Calvin had been taken out of the game by then so there was no way to continue.

I told him with just a few tweaks to the details of the Task Force all he had to do was place the Calvin Scott avatar back in the game perhaps in IP inside the hospital or something and boom. He instantly had another Task Force to add to the player content and a good TF was once again restored to active life. The same thing went for the COP. I told him that like unlike the villain SG computer the ONLY thing the blue SG computer offered was a still defunct COP trial that didn't look like it was EVER going to be fixed since base PVP was something that seemed like it was NEVER (and it still hasn't) been fixed. So I told him why not just take the COP and revamp it a little and release it (and here was the kicker) as a joint trial or TF just like the Lady Grey. This way you were adding both content to blue side and the starved red side and resurrecting dead hard work the programmer's had put into making the bloody thing.

Positron conceited that my ideas had a great deal of merit and that he would certainly consider them and see 'what he could do about it'. Whelpppppp. That was back in Issue 11 I had that conversation and here we are now on the cusp of Issue 17 and where are we..... nowhere. Both Calvin Scott and the COP sit collecting dust which is the most frustrating thing because it's content that is already DONE. It it needs is some spit and polish and it could EASILY be slipped back into the game with little fuss and bingo you've got instant player content which is finally back into the game after a long hiatus and the player base is happy 'new' content is back in the game to help fill the 'something to do that was generated by the devs' list.

Will though we ever see this happen? I HIGHLY doubt it. It's been six issues since that conversation with Posi and what I suggested could have easily been implemented since then. Why though nothing has been done about this simple fix? Now that is a question I can't answer but considering I asked for about a YEAR afterward in PM's and board queries and was never acknowledged indicates to me that those pieces of content are considered dead issues for reasons unknown or that an answer is not forthcoming because they don't wish to discuss it for some reason. Why? Who knows. But it would sure be interesting to find out why at this point.












Calvin Scott Task Force

A Mind in Danger
Summary

* CategoryTask Force
* NoteCalvin Scott is Aurora Borealis' Husband, convinced that Sister Psyche's presence in his wife's mind was going to kill her, he turned up in Independence Port during Issue 3: A Coucil of War asking willing heroes to investigate a way to seperate their two consciousness'. Sister Psyche was returned to her own body in Issue 4: Colosseum. An unexpected consequence of this was that Sister Psyche's hold over Malaise was broken, allowing him to slip back into insanity, and turn evil once again.
* IntroducedIssue 3
* RemovedIssue 4
* Team Size6 team members required
* ContactsCalvin Scott (Independence Port)
* SouvenirSoul orb
* Level Range30 - 36

Mission Index

1. Defeat all agents in base (Circle of Thorns,Nemesis,Rikti,Council,Malaise)
2. Defeat all Rikti in base
3. Take file to Rebecca Brinell
4. Interrogate Crey agents
5. Interrogate Nemesis soldiers
6. Interrogate Circle of Thorns
7. Take tome to Azuria
8. Defeat Tyrkis & his covern
9. Take books to Azuria
10. Defeat Punkadelic & his cronies
11. Interrogate Freakshow
12. Defeat Malaise & his men

Notable Foes

* Mission #12: Malaise, Arch-Villain (Malaise)

Don't feel bad man. It's been a WELL known fact that Nosferatu is probably the most powerful AV in the game in many MANY ways. I think the only one that rivals him in sheer power and the ability to basically one shot is Ghost Widow.