Nethergoat

more likely they're acting like any other game company that hires people to push out a major product then goes back to 'normal'.

And as noted, in this case 'normal' is still a much larger staff than we were used to in the Cryptic days.

But keep up your drumbeat of ceaseless negativity, I'm sure some dissatisfied folk with poor reasoning skills will be happy to dance along.

say, that's pretty good.
I haven't picked up a 'regular' comic in probably ten years, but I'd be tempted to check out a few titles at those prices.

yah, I've picked up a few compilations used or checked 'em out from the library. I didn't realize how steep cover prices had gotten, trades definitely have a better ROI.

I keep a few hundred tickets handy on my MA farmers to deal with temporary shortages I don't want to wait out. =D

link or eat your words.

I'll put down a billion inf on 'eating your words' because there's nothing to link.

the vast majority of junk I've seen floating around recently wouldn't be productive to answer so I don't fault them for ignoring it.

we've gotten answers & clarifications on an assortment of productive topics over the last while.

From where I'm sitting all the wailing and rending of garments is a massive overreaction to a fairly minor change in how rednames interact with the community.

haven't you been to the shadow shard?

=P

nm, julius already got there.

An interesting perspective.

How, exactly?

On the contrary, folk who were paying attention figured out what a merged market would look like shortly after I9. A factionally merged market would look just like the hero market, which is a 'merger' of various server populations that serves to smooth out supply/demand imbalances.

If pooling the servers was a good idea (it was) then pooling the factions was a good idea (it is, aside from the years they wasted letting ideology trump common sense).

And that's hardly the first them they were cosmically, ridiculously wrong about something.

as I've said before, if they'd had IOs ready to roll after ED I wouldn't have kicked.

But the ridiculous wait between the global nerf and the re-superfication of the playerbase totally justified my vacation from the game. =P

well it isn't exactly 'benevolent', but marketeers themselves drive down prices when they discover a competitor's niche.

also, sometimes people find a bunch of stuff in their base and want to clear it out- for a while I was visiting my disused bases and dumping whatever I had in storage on the market, which I'm sure cased havok in some regions.


sometimes I'll be working a niche and all of a sudden someone is listing stuff for below cost. If I think it's just Base spring cleaning, I'll buy it up for later re-listing. Sometimes though it's a structural change in the game being reflected by the market- rare salvage post-ITF is one example.

Like many of Jack's bad ideas it came directly from pen and paper RPG'ing.

The philosophy was best summed up by Shane Hensley (who worked on CoV) in either Deadlands or Hell on Earth (I'm old, my memory is going) as "Keep 'em poor, Marshal!"

And it works great for a 'real' RPG where you've got a live GM monitoring player morale minute by minute. Not so much in a computer game.

it is an absolutely valid point and one I raised earlier in one of these discussions- there is no value in answering the question "when did you stop beating your wife?" Ignoring it is the only rational response.

it's a funny thing, but putting out a major expansion has a way of soaking up leisure time.

you'd be wrong, but that's your prerogative.

there have been any number of excellent changes to the game over the years that haven't made any difference to my personal gameplay. That doesn't make their value 'subjective', it just means I have an offbeat playstyle.

Any improvement in the general welfare is a net good for the game.
The market merge has been a boon for pretty much everyone except the redside marketeers who enjoyed massive profit taking on the back of much lower levels of supply.

people do all kinds of kooky things.

in the early days of the market one of my pals would craft whatever drops he got and sell them, just to have something to do. he didn't care about making money, he just liked collecting salvage and creating IOs.


and I'm sure some of it is savvy players under-listing to get sales.
I under-list stuff when I'm selling in bulk to make sure it moves- even if I end up losing one or two to creepers the rest generally sell at or above the 'going rate' and I figure it's worth taking the hit to keep my slots free.

I spotted him earlier in the I19 discussion thread!

Illusion needs a buff like Reichsman needs more hit points.

they are.

I'm inordinately tickled by the mental image of James Joyce rolling up to a club in jeans and a tee shirt.

=)

I don't find them difficult so much as TREMENDOUSLY ANNOYING.

It simply isn't fun to wipe up a spawn and be stuck buffing your nails for five minutes waiting for the 100-deep pile of caltrops they buried you in to de-spawn. There's no challenge to it, it's just tedious.



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that said, they'd probably make good toys for my mind/kin controller! =P