Nethergoat

How is that confusing to anyone?

oh I know how...if they're a tr....oglodyte!

Thank you!

I tried a couple of other unlikely items first, but the rings just wanted it more.

in seven-ish years of play I've never been refused a team here because I wasn't "well geared"...not the case in that other big game I played for a while after ED.

I have a level 39 grav/TA controller I respec'ed quite a while ago and never got around to fully enhancing. Most of his key powers have a couple of generic IOs and a couple of empty slots. I've been using him as a market mule lately, and the other night I got a team invite. He was pretty close to his next level, so I said 'sure!'.

I had fun and leveled, our team kicked butt, several members commented on what a great PUG it was, and nobody noticed that I was limping along on 3 cylinders.

It did inspire me to finish frankeslotting him, but I don't think anybody would've noticed if I had SOs or uber set IOs or even if I had nothing at all slotted.

do a little post search, this is hardly the OPs first tilt at this windmill.

this thread is doom masquerading as concern.

yeah, pretty much.

okay, so I can just skip rest-thanks!

Huh....exactly which problematic IOs were selling for above the inf cap prior to the introduction of PvP IOs?

Which merits and a-merits have done nothing to rectify.

"some would say" pretty much any ridiculous nonsense you could dream up.

Could we use more junk to spend our inf on?
Sure!

Is there anything currently 'wrong' with the market, or any looming disaster threatening its functioning?
No, aside from the overweening sense of entitlement inherent in a certain subset of gamers.

dumping your junk on the market for some nominal sum and selling it for big bux is mechanically pretty much the same as dumping your junk at a vendor for chump change.

I'm not seeing that as an insurmountable hurdle to participation, sorry.

this is absolutely true.

once you play for a bit and see how the inf floods in you'll feel better about things. =)

only if you define 'desirable' as purples and pvp IOs.

*everything* else has been devalued by the addition of various market alternatives (tickets, merits, a-merits).

And as always, high prices benefit sellers.

Fortunately you can also fight them for tickets, or for merits, or for a-merits.

As an aside, the OP in that thread is a serial fibber. Were he to engage in the activities he claims to have engaged in in the quantities he puts forth, he'd be able to afford whatever he wants.

Yeah, there are people who're genuinely hung up on 'the good stuff' who don't understand why it's so seemingly impossible to obtain, but that dude isn't one of them. The polite term for that OP is "disingenuous", the colloquial internet term involves a green nonhuman living under a bridge.

it just needs a better GUI period.
A handful more user-defined filters would make finding what you're after (whatever that might be) much simpler and less annoying.

they should've also taken the beta advice of replacing the 'star' system with an option to like, period. So you either give an arc props or just walk away.


anyway, I like MA. I like it for farming, I like it for stories...it's not an either/or proposition. If the powers that be *don't* want farmers using it they need to completely rewrite the rewards system, because it's WAY more efficient than 'real' missions for generating high value goods.

This morning I logged in one of my several marketeers and was greeted with a cheery "80 items sold" notification. All 80 items were pieces of rare arcane salvage I'd picked up cheap during Halloween and listed last night.

Not to brag, just to point out that different players operate on different scales, and whatever system the devs go with is going to have to accommodate, for lack of a better phrase, 'power gamers'.

I'm hopeful they'll figure out a way to make the Incarnate stuff available to interested but not hyper-motivated players without trivializing it for the people who enter 'guided missile' mode the second a new goal is added to the game.

As I get the vast majority of my 'gear' via the market, and this stuff by all accounts won't be marketable, I find myself in the same boat as you. I don't have a lot of 'real' play time but I would like to dip a hoof into the Incarnate system...so hopefully it won't take either of us a million years to collect shards.

I like that speedbump analogy...to low, nobody slows down. Too high, nobody bothers turning into the driveway in the first place.

Anyone with an iota of motivation would be Incarnated in about 30 seconds under that system.

=P