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Quote:Your guess made no sense, which is why I asked you to explain the reasoning. Several times.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I've already said several times that I was trying to guess what they were doing.
It doesn't take psychic powers to answer simple questions.Quote:In case you weren't certain about it, I can't read minds. -
Quote:just roll a scrapper or brute and play around.Originally Posted by Crash Zero
You happen to have a build for one i could see?
they're all survivable and fun and the most entertaining part of any new game is seeing how stuff works by messing around with it. -
I don't own the Wedding Pack but will be picking up the Party Pack when they release it.
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Quote:***** finally!Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I DON'T!!!
Let me put it to you in plain English...
Then why surmise that some person or persons were manipulating AlSil to fund their lowbies, as you did earlier in the thread?Quote:I don't think, nor did I ever say that I think that manipulating common salvage makes more sense than just emailing your low level characters some influence.
No, but it's hard to get anywhere with someone who answers clear, direct questions with insults and gibberish.Quote:Are you being intentionally this obtuse... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Dude, your entire reply is irrelevant. Did you take some hate-pills this morning or something?
A "cabal"? Since when is a group of players (even a hypothetical group) a "cabal"?
This is really making me laugh. You're totally going out of your way to make some huge deal out of this. I guess if it bothers you that much that someone out there is doing something with some common salvage that you'd bust my hump just for noticing it, well... yeah, I think you need to find yourself a better hobby then. Sakes.
Seriously, you've totally gone off the deep end. You should chill the frak out. God forbid I come in here and ask a question, for crying out loud.
PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY YOU THINK MANIPULATING COMMON SALVAGE MAKES MORE SENSE THAN JUST EMAILING YOUR LOWBIES SOME INF.
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Quote:Fine advice, and also has the benefit that by the time they wrap the show George may have circumnavigated his writer's block and finished the series (or at least the second half of this last volume...)Originally Posted by RosaQuartz
Shadow, the one thing I'd say; if you haven't read them yet and are interested in the TV show, I'd almost recommend that you simply enjoy the TV show then go back and read the books if you like them.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironik
Don't.
Martin has choked on this series and it resides in limbo. I think it's because he's intimidated by all the attention he got, but whatever the reason, he has the yips big time.
The first book was pretty good.
The second book was probably the best Fantasy novel I've ever read.
The third was disappointing -- repetitive and boring, but some of that is in comparison to the excellence of the 2nd novel.
The fourth book was one of the single worst Fantasy novels I've ever read.
I'm extremely choosy when it comes to fantasy and I've liked them all so far.
He's suffered a bit of book bloat along the way (which seems to be an inevitability these days), but certainly didn't just go completely off the map with it like Robert Jordan, who by the time I gave up was averaging about 100 pages of actual story advancement in an 800 page book. -
Quote:Irrelevant to my question.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
didn't even notice the prices or demand for this bit of salvage until this Saturday (as I said in my original post! hello?).
Yes, I know.Quote:So I'm just trying to guess at why it's happening.
The guess a cabal trying to make money for lowbie alts by controlling the alchemical silver market makes no sense at all.
your quote:
I asked you to explain the logic, you have nothing but insults.Quote:I'm getting the feeling someone (or maybe a group?) are trying to bring in inf on their lowbies to start them out with, say, 50 or 100 million or so.
Which does provide me with an answer, albeit in a very roundabout way. -
Quote:Ditto.Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
(Personally, I mourn for the PC game version of Halo that could have been.)
I was so freaking pissed when MS scooped them up and the whole thing got shoeboxed into console format. -
Quote:if you wanted to start an alt off with a big pile of money it's really easy to email it to them.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Riiiiiiight, whatever you say man! But I think you better lay off the sauce a little bit.
on the other hand, manipulating a popular, high volume common over any meaningful length of time would be a tremendously labor intensive exercise for a minuscule profit.
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Quote:The logical contortions of the RP crowd never fail to amuse, do they.Originally Posted by Zamuel
Oh ho, but you aren't really emailing it. What you are really doing is using your status to validate the heroism or vileness of another super.
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Quote:Then why can I email it?Originally Posted by Garielle
Let's face it folks, infamy or influence is not currency like dollars.
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Quote:so you think its easier to 'corner' a high volume common salvage than to just gleemail a few hundred million to yourself?Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I'm getting the feeling someone (or maybe a group?) are trying to bring in inf on their lowbies to start them out with, say, 50 or 100 million or so. That's just a total guess though.
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Quote:30 of those bids were from me.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
What about the demand for them? I think it was something like 12,000 bidding, which seems a little ridiculous to me.
*shrug*
it's a useful bit of salvage that shows up in a lot of good recipes.
But, y'know, keep worrying about a shadowy cabal of eebil geniuses out there breaking their backs for a, what, 500k profit per slot?
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Al Sil has been going for 50k+ for as long as I can remember, it's hardly a new phenomenon. -
Quote:He expresses an understanding for the connection people feel with their characters, notes past name purges, but makes no comment about future plans.Originally Posted by Venture
Imma gonna suggest that Positron's blog entry for this week suggests we're not likely to see another name purge any time soon.
Also he's not the head cheese anymore- read the quote in my sig for how much pull he carries these days.
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Quote:time bomb is hot garbage.Originally Posted by Jibikao
I just found out Taser has 20ft range. I don't recall seeing Taser in action though. Well, I don't see many /device Blaster to begin with... hehe
I thought it would be nice if Taser does some damage. I still hate Time Bomb...
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Quote:they serve no purpose except to annoy me when I try and tab to my next target.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
Have often wondered exactly what the purpose of that is supposed to be, because ts not like these runners are going to be able to stop me from completing my goal.
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Quote:fantastic post, kudos.Originally Posted by The_Cheeseman
The Fitness pool has always been a textbook example of how NOT to design a modular character building system. The purpose of giving players a choice of powers is to help differentiate characters so that each player can build a unique play experience that fits their personal needs and sense of fun. Getting a new power should be fun and should give you a new tactical option that changes the way your character plays. Most powers achieve this, fitness does not.
Fitness is a pool full of nothing but static bonuses to base mechanics. They are not fun, they are simply enablers. They don't make the play experience more fun, they make it less tedious. This is an important difference. A designer's goal is to make a fun experience for the player, tedium is never a fun experience. Only a minority of players find resource management to be fun on its own, most people only pay as much attention to such issues as is required to enable the play experience that they enjoy. Running out of endurance basically grinds your play to a halt for as long as it takes for the blue bar to recharge. I am willing to bet that the vast majority of players do not enjoy standing around waiting for a bar to refill so that they can continue playing.
In many ways, it's rather like getting a faster internet connection to stream video. Nobody likes their videos to pause every few minutes to buffer, they prefer a fast connection so they can watch their movie uninterrupted. Running out of stamina is essentially the same thing, it forces you to stop doing what you enjoy and wait.
So, not only is the power itself not fun, the effect of the power doesn't really make playing more fun either, it just allows you to play consistently without having to wait all the time.
I, personally, am glad that the devs have finally realized this mistake and are willing to make a change for the good of the game. No longer will I have to pause my game and stare at a blue bar that seems to read, "Please be patient while your fun is loading." -
here's a late vote for
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defulmenestration
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defined as the act of throwing inf out a window.
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Quote:Last year I went nuts, I still haven't installed 90% of the stuff I bought. =(Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I got three words for you.
Steam. Holiday. Sale.
I already got the games planned out I'm looking for when it hits this year. Last year I got 5 games for like $22. -
Quote:okay, that would take some effort. =POriginally Posted by Fulmens
well, there's always the "knockback IO needed" problem. (Theoretically you don't need KB io's. In practice, I always do on my squishies.)
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Quote:Rare?Originally Posted by Steampunkette
Yes. There can be the rare circumstance where someone sees the name "Blaze" and says "Wow what a great character!" and makes another character named "Blaze".
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Quote:it's actually a psychological reality.Originally Posted by Steampunkette
No... No... That's just stupidity.
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Quote:<.<Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade
List it for 221 it will sell faster. Lots of people are so lazy they type one number over and over. so you see bids for 1111111 instead of 1 million
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