Nethergoat
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Quote:I feel your pain- I had to put a piece of masking tape over the glowing blue power button on my tower.Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
I keep moving, never stopping. Always vigilant, always watching.
Computer goes "click". Screen goes black.
Look down. Reset button on the tower is so shiny.
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Okay, I've sold out most of the stuff I laid away in preparation for Marketgeddon, and while I've made a TON of inf it didn't play out exactly as I anticipated.
My main expectation was that melee sets would be my big moneymakers. Alas, it seems that enough other people had the same idea that prices were relatively restrained. Aside from the usual big winners (Kinetic Combat, Touch of Death) returns on crafted stuff has been in the 1-4 million range, which in a world where I can almost randomly pick an 'okay' recipe that's cheap to make, craft up ten of them and sell them for a million or so each just isn't worth it.
The surprise hit of my selection of MA-generated treasure has been Red Fortune. I moved my entire supply for 5 million +, which added up quite nicely.
But my main earner, which was almost an afterthought, has been PvP recipes. But not for the reason I thought. I expected the devs to crack down on AFK farming, which they don't seem to have done, but regardless my PvP recipes have generated billions in pure profit.
Not knowing much about them I just poked around and took notes on the stuff that was undersupplied- I found a couple of things with 0 supply, threw up stacks of bids and collected my wins just before the merger. Following my Rule of Zero I listed them after the merger at a genuinely ridiculous markup over my buying price and the last one sold this AM.
I made such a pile I will have to claim it in stages, pausing to Gleemail big lumps to other characters so I can stay under the cap.
The price disparity between recipes and crafted IOs is still going strong. There's a particular Positron's Blast IO I've been picking up for 100k, investing a million or so in crafting and selling for 8-10 million. The recipes come in fast and furious, my main hangup has been getting enough rare salvage- I may have to run some MA missions and buy what I need with tickets.
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I wouldn't write Pilgrim off just yet- it's going to rake in a big pile on DVD sales to the very nerds who couldn't be bothered to haul their carcasses out to a theater to see it.
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My two year old finds CoH fascinating. So fascinating that I can't actually play unless he's asleep or out of the house- any glimpse of the game inspires his battle cry "Oh...WHASSAT?!?" as he charges the computer.
When he was younger and I hadn't yet admitted defeat his favorite zone was Atlas Park, which he called "BIG GIANT GUY!"
These days he doesn't see much other than whatever I'm doing when he wakes up/gets home. This morning that meant my stalker in the middle of a CoT morality mission, stalkers being the perfect child-friendly AT since you can abandon them pretty much anywhere and they'll be fine.
I was stealthed about 20 feet from a Nerva Spectral Demon, which inspired this conversation.
Quote:I'd love to keep playing for the running commentary, but he invariably attacks the keyboard and it's all downhill from there.Kid: Oh....oh...GHOSTIE!
Goat: Yah, there's a ghost.
Kid: *pointing at my stalker* oh, Scary Guy!
Goat: Well, he'd like to think so.
Kid: Scary Guy HIDING!
Goat: Yep, he's hiding alright.
Kid: Hiding from SCARY GHOSTIE!
Goat: *laughs*
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Quote:I chucked every time I saw that character at the Talos market.Originally Posted by Obsidius
One fof the most memorable names was a character on Triumph called Very Mad Cow, who was a bovine that got mutated and psychologically disturbed when his owner fed him a bad person (like Mad Cow disease, but in reverse). His battle cry was "MOOOooOooOOOO Damnit!!!!"
I've seen too many great names to remember or list here over the years. The best name I've seen in the last few weeks was playing MW2, but it'd make a fine CoH name as well-
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viva windmill tilting!
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Quote:I've never had one drop.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Very extremely low as far as I can tell. I've had two drop ever.
I do see a lot of them though, as I stock up after freespecs are handed out and then re-sell at a fat markup once everyone burns through them. -
Quote:Nonsense.Originally Posted by Turbo_Ski
Keep deluding that CoV was made from scratch, it wasn't. Everquest and Everquest 2 are standalone games, CoV was an expansion onto a pre-existing game.
Lots of folks bought the CoV box and played the game and had no access to hero zones or hero content.
Players with pre-existing accounts could certainly add CoV to the mix, but plenty of folk *just* had CoV and nothing else.
Whatever term marketing cooked up for it, it was also a stand-alone game. -
Quote:The OED is printed on acid free paper that will last basically forever barring fire or flood. It's necessarily thin, but of very high quality, and the bindings are tremendously hardy buckram cloth.Originally Posted by Furio
Not the paper they print those dictionaries on. It makes public restroom TP look durable. Last time humanity used a really durable writing medium was about 1000 years ago
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Quote:A physical book is substantially more durable than a piece of consumer electronics and people will still be able to interface with it 1000 years from now.Originally Posted by Furio
Seriously. I practically have the entirety of humanity's accumulated knowledge accessible on a 5"x2" device in my pocket. Tell me again why i need a 40 lbs, two thousand page book (that gives definitions, etymology, pronunciation and spelling of words in only ONE language) threatening to crush whatever furniture I put it on?
I can't even access the hard drives I salvaged from my last computer, let alone the stack of 5 1/4" floppies I uncovered during my last move (which are almost certainly corrupted anyway).
It's equal parts alarming and amusing how people view essentially impermanent, fragile & vulnerable mechanisms as some sort of lasting replacement for physical objects. Give society another decade or so to hone its dependence on hardware and anybody with a handful of EMPs will be able to knock us over with a feather. -
Quote:we're going to be so screwed when all the computers go belly up.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
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Quote:ambushes ignoring the Raison d'être of the stalker AT (stealth) is my one remaining beef with the set.Originally Posted by seebs
So, I got a mission, to defend TPN from hordes of destroyers. These hordes are large groups of creatures (I have no AoE powers available in my primary yet), and they completely ignore stealth and just go right to me no matter what.
How is this fun? Answer: It's not. the characters, rather than forcing stalkers into being really fragile scrappers.
the preponderance of ambushes in GR makes me glad I have no intention of rolling up a new stalker there. -
a few of my friends have them- the primary draw seems to be a nifty portable platform for streaming Netflix.
they don't have kind words for the comic apps they've tried. -
Quote:insight this penetrating really demands it's own thread, doesn't it.Originally Posted by Inazuma
A booster pack of nothing but emotes? Really? This doesn't feel worth the money, Paragon Studios. New emotes are something I'll play with a few times and then forget about.
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Quote:Some folk will believe any ol' nonsense, won't they.Originally Posted by Sunpulse
Many people have come to the same conclusion as I have already.
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Quote:While I'm sure some folk will be spending a-merits on purples & pvp IOs the cost and time investment is so prohibitive I don't see it having a meaningful impact on the market price of any but the extreme outliers that sell at or over the inf cap.Originally Posted by Soul_Stormer
purples might have also increased in price because those farming and selling purples realize that their exclusivity is about to end, especially when concerning melee and ranged purples and are trying to cash in before players build up enough a-merits to buy them. at least with apocalypse, a couple of them have barely any supply lately and i'm looking forward to buying that apoc triple directly instead of for 400 mill inf.
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As Gentleman has nicely canvassed literature, I'll stick to genre-spanning movie titles.
Ghost Dog
City on Fire
Rules of the Game
Motel Hell
There Will Be Blood
The Brother From Another Planet
Frankenhooker
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not my cuppa, but looks cool. The emote junkies will be pleased!
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Quote:Only the deranged would claim they're less than vastly helpful at lower levels.Originally Posted by Strike_Force
Am I the only one who see's the Vet rewards of the Black Wand, Nemisis Staff and the Sands of Mu Vet powers to be utterly useless?
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I doubt this will satisfy the only a national television campaign counts as advertising crowd, but I think it's pretty cool.
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Quote:Not while I yet live!Originally Posted by heffroncm
I am probably the laziest marketeer in the world.
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motivation to move on to primal earth?
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Quote:powersets don't really come into their own until the mid-30's anyway- I've always found it best to pick something that sounded cool and fun and then ride it for a while.Originally Posted by Merchant of Chaos
It feels like there's too many power sets, which makes it hard to test them all, and powers are unlocked too slowly, which makes it even harder to test them.
To jump up the ladder at a good rate look for a team to run with, levels speed by pretty quickly at the low end when you're teamed. -
Quote:I believe it's "attracting new customers and staying in business" logic.Originally Posted by Prisca
what kind of logic is this
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didn't y'all get the memo, advertising isn't REAL unless it's a national television campaign.
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