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Quote:spoilsports!Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Grievously saddened to see that someone got EverStryke's Crazy 88 Recruitment thread nuked.
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Quote:he's not alone there- my hatred for the intentionally confusing, misleading enhancement names was my original motivation for jumping feet-first into the invention system, where Accuracy is called Accuracy, not Nemotode's Grevious Concoction or whatever.Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure
I play with a family friend, a fellow who is in his 70s and requires my help in levelling his characters and selecting powers. He loves playing the game, but even the power-selection and character design process can be daunting for him, and Single Origins with their varied names and types can be completely confounding at times.
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Quote:it was available to check out on test for a good bit before it went on sale.Originally Posted by Mud_Lark
Bought it, loved the aura, but i'm pissed that the capes don't come in long and short. I actually feel ripped off on that fact, cause I was expecting to have long/short choices.
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Quote:I'm also a fan of protective bids.Originally Posted by Enyalios
Note that I also support the IO price to prevent people who craft and auto-list for 1 from screwing up my niche.
Not only does it keep folk from undermining your niche, when you do get a hit you can flip it for a profit.
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I think I forgot one great cookbook in my list a while back:
Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook.
For anyone on a tight domestic schedule, this book is your new best friend.
Every recipe I've tried (which is most of them) has turned out fantastic, and the bulk of them are no more difficult than chop stuff up, dump in pot, forget about for 4-8 hours. It's really nice being able to get something going in the morning and have it ready to eat after work.
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r/e earning hows and whys:
Since Project 88 started up I've been "working" a little bit at making inf so I'll have something to set fire to every Monday. I'm working a couple of mid range to high end niches, but a good portion of my earnings (which I'm not tracking too closely, but I've been torching a billion a week without noticing an appreciable drop the level of my gold doubloon filled swimming pool) come from....PLAYING THE GAME.
OMG.
I have a few characters I'm leveling-I play them and sell drops, crafting junk where appropriate. In the course of selling drops I find 'good stuff', which is where my niches come from.
I'm working on a high end build for my fire/axe tank, so he's been farming MA. He can hit the ticket cap (the inventory ticket cap, not the map ticket cap) in 45 minutes or so. He singlehandedly generates such a flood of valuable recipes that I've been logging in *all* of my alts on Freedom to serve as market mules.
I've uncharacteristically been able to run a couple of TFs in the last few weeks. I play on PUGs, I do some soloing.
When the weekend rolls around, voila! I've got another billion to heat our base with.
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Quote:I periodically play a game where I skim through the market throwing out ridiculously insulting lowball bids for 'good' crafted IOs, like 50k for stuff 'worth' ten million, or a million for stuff 'worth' 50 million.Originally Posted by seebs
Yeah, it's amazing how much people will pay for stuff without even trying lower prices.
I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't do all purchasing on things without outstanding bids by trying 1 inf first. I know that's what I list at about half the time.
I'm always surprised by how much stuff I end up with at the end of my sweep.
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Quote:I've been here almost seven years and I've never done a single hamidon raid.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I never said I led them. I know a group of players on Freedom that stage one just about weekly, and I participate once in a while.
A hamidon raid isn't content aimed at your imaginary friends the 'new player' or 'casual gamer'. It's about as close as this game comes to a 'hardcore' raid.
Yet you've done it a "dozen" or so times, you've played a level 50 for a year straight, you have a purpled out brute who wants to upgrade to some PvP IOs, and yet underneath it all you're just a real, salt of the earth, honest to goodness 'casual gamer'.
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Quote:and let's not forget the ever popular Third Word:Originally Posted by Terminal Velocity
One word: Instance. One more word: Mission.
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Quote:and we're supposed to believe you're some kind of "casual" player?Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
er, I've participated in maybe a dozen Hami raids.
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Quote:I once got a purple at level ten while doorsitting for a friend.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Your casual friend player got a purp within 15 hours of playing. Okay. You guys win. I am horrible at this stuff. Cause I was no where near 47th level by the end of my first 15 hours of casual gaming.
You don't need to be level 50 to GET a purple, only to slot them.
Then you're lying about your earnings.Quote:also, yes, I did run a 50 for about a year.
Only if you vendored all the valuable drops you got while running missions or doing whatever.Quote:And even at a million per hour that would take 2,000 hours for one of these enhancers.
1m is the absolute rock bottom amount earned by the least able solo ATs in the game. You said you had a brute? People with 'good' solo ATs were making 10+ million an hour on defeats alone. Not even farming, just running missions. The FARMERS were *really* raking it in.
Or maybe you're not telling the truth about some stuff.Quote:Maybe we have a different idea about what is casual.
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Quote:on Crafticus I've been working on a sort of a depth gauge technique for moving IOs, since he crafts them in big piles, I don't want them sitting around clogging up the base AND I still want to turn a profit.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Another similar story, I was working on field crafter for one of my characters and had a handful of level 40 jump IOs to sell (or was it level 35?). I know from experience that Jump IOs do tend to sell but somewhat slowly. Anyway the last 5 market price was about 500k which seemed high so I listed them for about 150k and left it at that. However they didn't sell for several days despite the last 5 prices remaining at 500k. I was a bit surprised and decided to see what the ones on the market were going for. I ended up buying 5 of them for 1, 10k, 10k, 100k, 100k.
So I have 10 of whatever in my inventory, plus a bunch in base storage.
I sacrifice a couple to the mob to find the bidding floor. If that floor is high enough to support my profit margin, that's where I list. Last night I insta-sold 20 level 35 and 40 damages for 3-400k.
If I *don't* like the price point, I list everything for a few inf above it- barring a sudden influx of supply, I'm pretty much guaranteed to clear my inventory at whatever the bulk of the 'last 5' suggests.
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same here...it's like he read my mind!
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Quote:Why must you turn our forum into a HOUSE OF LIES?Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
I have farmed some, gotten luck some, ran a 50 for a year almost exclusively. Still, not rich.
The LEAST a level 50 character will earn per hour is one million inf, and that's just from defeats and vendor prices.
If you play a 50, you *will* get extremely valuable drops.
It is literally impossible to play a 50 'almost exclusively' for a year without accumulating a sizable fortune. Unless you play like ten minutes a week or something. -
Quote:Or......it's an accurate reflection of server load.Originally Posted by Fusion_7
With that being said, I too have not noticed much change in the amount of people on Freedom in either the Blue side or Red side waltzing around zones, and this includes Praetora even though the majority of time my server will show 3 reds. Could this be a sneaky ploy by the dev's to pretend that the two most popular servers are so full with GR giddy players old and new that they are trying to give the perception that the game with GR is just so ungodly popular that people just can't stop playing it?
I've watched the population slowly ebb back toward 'normal' since the GR frenzy and haven't seen anything to support the popular conspiracy theory that they 'cook' the server loads to....do whatever that's supposed to do.
We've gone from everything being red every night to the more popular servers being red every night and the others being yellow to last night, where the two big guys were red, about half the others were yellow and the lower pop servers were green.
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Quote:Your logic is flawed CC- to do that they'd have to get off their duffs and play the game.Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
The casual gamer can SELL all of these things and then kit out the rest of their entire build for the price of one IO. Great deal.
Any reward system that doesn't involve nubile servants hand-feeding the OP the most delectable of peeled, chilled IOs as he reclines on a velvet sofa is clearly biased and unfair. -
I see plenty of folks on Virtue and I'm getting a couple of invites per night doing nothing much besides logging in to check my market slots.
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Quote:all this sort of thing is the game equivalent of, oh, pulling out the stove, sweeping underneath it and cleaning off the backsplash.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Stun/Disorient... I knew I was forgetting something
And, no, there is no difference between defence as a stat and "strength to" as listed in the Real Numbers screen. In fact, I'm pretty sure that's just the system name of the stat internally that they never got around to changing into something meaningful to a person who is not Arcanaville. In fact, I brought this up multiple times when Real Numbers were being introduced, treating it like a text bug, but apparently it's working as intended.
Effects and statistics need to be standardised so they appear with the same name in all places where they occur. This includes enhancements, recipes, Inventions enhancements, the crafting screen, the Market, Combat Attributes, Real Numbers, combat spam, power descriptions and so on. Right now, attribute names are a real mess.
Would it be nice to do?
Sure!
Would anyone notice it?
No!
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Quote:It is by far my most popular sig with the general public, even more beloved than the classic Statesman Banned HA HA Nelson sig.Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Funny thread. And Nether your signature is PURE lulz.
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Quote:What we think prices NEED to be is irrelevant- they are what they are.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Wow. You guys are really addicted to the fact that market prices need to be 2 billion, and that playing the market is how to make money.
As long as other players are willing to pay market value for the uber-l337 junk you want, you're out of luck. You can either pony up, find a cheaper alternative, or cry in your cereal.
And who's stopping them from doing that?Quote:Let me clue you in to a little fact. Most people who get this game want to create and run characters. Most of the people who play this game want to earn rewards with their characters.
Unless you meant to say "Most people who get this game want TEH L337 UBERJUNK without making any effort to earn them," in which case yeah, there are some serious obstacles placed in their way by the design of the rewards system.
I dunno about you, but WE'RE having an absolute blast!Quote:Think about it. Think about marketing a game. It is a game, remember. Stay with me now. A game is supposed to be fun. You remember fun, right?
Hey, did you know that I flushed two billion inf down the toilet this AM?
I turned it into prestige for our marketeer supergroup, because it's so easy to make inf in this game the only thing left for me to do with it is set it on fire to heat our base! -
I've been trying to get good base screens to post, but I have a strange problem with my game where I take screens in widescreen, but if I log out they get compressed down to a square format, which looks terrible.
The only way I can get 'good' ones is to alt-tab out, open them in an editor and 'save as' to my desktop...which is a PITA and the reason I haven't posted any lately.
I might just change my resolution for one night, take a pile of screens and then change it back to wide... -
Quote:I'm going to beat RagMan to the punch here and BEG you to convince the devs to implement this brilliant suggestion!Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
couple of easy peasy fixes to the market.
A)Cap all market prices at 250 million. -
there is no way to 'level the playing field' between efficient power gamers and 'casual' players and I wish they'd stop trying.
MMO players who devote more time and energy to the game are going to reap much greater rewards than 'baseline' players, period. -
Quote:There's this little thing called 'supply and demand' you might want to check out.Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
There is no underlying logic in the world that justifies 2 billion per enhancer in this game economy.