Memphis_Bill

And thus not something that would be agreed with *at all.* Why screw over the customer?
I'm assuming by "the whole community" you mean "the whole PVP community," as opposed to the "whole COH community." They have increased the drop rate on items once that I can think of - costume pieces. Used to be you needed around 14-20 million for a set of wings. Now, cheap. But those weren't meant to be rare. And that DID benefit the whole community.

Suddenly invalidating peoples builds does not benefit *anyone.* It would, frankly, be more likely to *shrink* the community. Someone works on a build, manages to get the money for those IOs (or the merits) and then a day, week, or month later it's invalid?

Go look at the reaction to ED and the GDN. People DO leave over these things.

So why spend more to have to make two builds? You now have to find SOMETHING to make up what you're losing from those now-useless PVP IOs.
You're dreaming if you think you can "io out 2 builds for the price you spend on one." The PVP drop rate wouldn't be ratcheted up that far. And as far as "making PVP more accessible to the rest of the player population?" Well, I13 was supposed to do that, too. Look at how *dead* it is. The rest of the population, for the most part, *doesn't care* about PVP if not *actively dislikes* it. This was the case even BEFORE I13.

IMHO, you've got it backwards. PVP was more "accessible" before issue *9.* Yes, the issue inventions were introduced. Everyone had SOs or, at best, Hamis. If anything, the PVP builds should be - if you're trying to go for "accessibility to everyone" - restricted to non-set IOs. Just regular recipes, common IOs and your insp tray. Of course, then you irritate the... what, 20? remaining hardcore PVPers in the game and they leave because you've just invalidated the work and time THEY put into their builds.

Short form: You want a guaranteed PVP IO, stay on one "full" alignment and work on your merits, and spend the rest of the time PVPing. Merits = guaranteed PVP IO, PVPing = chance for one.

You've obviously never asked a cat's opinion on that.

Actually, if you finish the incarnate arc and start asking Ramiel questions, he says flat out that yes, Mender Silos was Nemesis once.

One time... yeah. But we've gotten a few of them. Sometimes unintentionally.

In other superhero games, yeah....

I've got to admit, though, I was rather jealous of APB. (Well, aside from how textures became a mess of pixels after being applied to things, even if they weren't scaled.)

Made graffiti look odd, at times, as well as some car designs.

Aion's got - or had - some good character creation and animation as well (which you then lose under the "go g3t l335 g34rz" grind.)

Your glasses need cleaning:

She's just talking about the lunch special down the street.

... but only *just* after the Rikti finish washing it and shining it up. After all, that's when birds attack cars...

Well, prior dev comments have indicated that the Incarnate material won't necessarily coincide with the issue release schedule. Besides, it's something else (besides events) they can drop between issue releases.

Booster, no.

Issue, yes.

How would a booster with "base love" work? Few people work on the bases, compared with those that use it. If there's (for instance) a 4-location teleporter, do you not get to use it unless you also bought the "Base booster?" Not get to see the items on the wall/floor/etc? If it's (for instance) new wall textures, do you just see the generic one unless you have the pack?

Costumes are account specific, and don't really require interaction from anyone else. Bases are (generally) a shared resource.

You need to learn how the market works.

When I *do* sell stuff, it's generally 5 inf. Sometimes I get 5 inf. Sometimes I get 5 million. If I'm keeping stuff, it's stuff I'll use - so it wouldn't be on the market anyway.

If you don't want to pay "high prices," bid low and/or use the alternatives (play the game, use AE, etc.) I haven't bought a luck charm, for instance, in a long, long time thanks to AE rolls. Last ones I bought on the market (and used) were JUST after the markets went cross faction and I was getting them for 1-3000 a piece. Only have 150 tickets? Congrats. 8 tickets a piece for common salvage. You have 18 rolls to get a luck charm, and you'll probably end up with more stuff to put on the market.

Yep. Really hurting it there. (*lists more Alchemical Silver I got that way but didn't need for 5 a piece.*)

You're supposed to be wrong, saist. Sheesh.

(I keed.)

DB is fun... and if you play a db stalker, has one of the nastiest looking ASes of the stalker sets. Don't worry overmuch about chasing combos, but don't completely ignore them either. Just have to work them in when appropriate.