Nethergoat

The only game AI that can't be 'solved' and trivialized by players....are other players.


That's a great interview, I'm much more excited about Incarnates and the new TFs than I was previously. Especially happy with the 1 hour design goal, which means I'll actually be able to PLAY them.

r/e his comments about 'every minute' of the TFs being meaningful, that's the feeling I got from the Halloween tip mission, which seemed more like a mini-TF than just another one off mission.

Very hopeful these TFs will raise the content bar to another level.

It's a waste if you're looking to maximize profits, but I'm sure your friends appreciate your largess. =)

flippers raise the price floor but lower the price ceiling.
When supply is minimal there's no price floor to prop up, the price floor and the price ceiling are basically the same, leaving no room for flippers to operate.


Besides the ToT enemies not dropping invention salvage there are a couple of super efficient MA farms running right now that are sucking in a ton of players racing to cash in before the devs change the rules.

As mentioned, nobody wastes tickets on common salvage, so......


I've been hoovering up big piles of underpriced rare salvage which I'll re-list once they fix MA for fat profits. I suggest y'all do the same. =D

Never underestimate the market force colloquially known as 'lulz'.

What Seebs said.

Absent flippers supply jumps all over the place and so do prices.
With flippers adjusting the price floors and ceilings supply and price are much more consistent and reliable.

A day of fiddling will demonstrate this reality far better than any forum post, even one as illuminating as Seebs' effort.


/edit
scanning some posts here I'm starting to suspect our new wonder poster is Another Fan in drag. =P

also my impression.

None of the backward misconceptions people have about flipping would survive an hour in the trading pit. =P

the absence of flippers increases volatility in several ways, all of which I've explained in many previous threads over the years.

I'd suggest flipping something for a while.
it's cheap, easy and provides a helpful primer on market forces, plus its way more entertaining than a lecture from me.

=P

I think we've all learned this lesson the hard way.

Once I had a great idea to blanket a level range for a particular Kinetic Combat recipe, because hey people wanted them and from what I saw they were mostly selling way under value. So I laid out a bunch of bids on an alt and went away for a while. Checked back, had a pile of wins, crafted them up and listed the IOs.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.


I mean, eventually they all sold at a nice markup, but it too waaaay too long to be worth my while, even on a parked alt.

When I'm slotting junk I shop around and find deals in the 'off brand' levels, but most people don't bother- they shop where the action is, and that's at the 'max level' for whatever recipe or IO they want.

That's pretty much the opposite of what actually happens.

I wasn't enthusiastic about the Mutant pack until I hopped on test and played around with the bits. Things invariably look much cooler in game than they do in the promo videos.

oh hey, how do you slot level 50 IOs in your lowbies?
cause that would be really great if it were possible!


not seeing how EVERYONE taking 3 fitness powers earlier rather than later does anything for variety.

talk to someone about adjusting your meds, this dosage is clearly no longer working.

weak!

let's start a PM campaign.

Agree on both of those (although I consider both Things to be different adaptations of the original story by John W. Campell, Who Goes There), and I'd also throw in The Producers, a brilliant film which became a brilliant musical (and eventually a less than brilliant film based on the musical...full circle!)


Some kind of state change can inspire a remake- Little Shop and Producers going from screen to stage, or even the Lion King, brilliantly realized for the stage by Julie Taymor.


Boiled down, I'm not so hard on remakes that are actually translations, either to a different medium or to a different culture, or to some extent a different time period (which could be folded into 'culture', I guess).

I'm a big J-horror fan, but I admit I thought the US remake of The Ring was superior because it kept the important stuff from the original while clarifying the storyline for the US audience. Of course, for every Ring you get misfires like the execrable Jennifer Connelly remake of Dark Water or The Uninvited (a botched adaptation of Tale of Two Sisters).

It's just 'Sim', but I agree 100%.
We watch two Christmas Carols every year, the Sim version and the musical with Albert Finney, which is a horse of a different enough color to avoid unflattering comparison to The Master.

Brett was also perfection.

Local Man has impeccable taste!