Nethergoat

use common sense regarding which recipes to get multiples of and you'll do great with this system.

And with the avalanche of MA recipes I'm playing around with lately I'm finding that there are a lot of "garbage" recipes that will actually sell quite briskly for several million if you bother crafting them. I found one sort of off-brand defense set recipe last week that was selling for peanuts and bringing in 5 million crafted. So I picked up 10 for nothing, picked up the salvage for nothing, crafted the lot and as of this morning have sold 7 of them for about 40 million.

Not super efficient, but I wanted to see if it would work.

I imagine there are lots of these little pockets of profit in amongst the "junk" recipes in the game.

most of MAs problems could be solved with some additions to the search interface to make it more useful.


as it stands now you're playing Russian roulette with mission difficulty.


The other problem is structural and less easy to address; MA vastly over-rewards compared to the "real" game, which of course draws farmers like bees to honey.

The ticket system concentrates the 'drop potential' of a farmer and allows them to decide what they're going to get (in my case, giant stacks of level 34-39 Bronze roll IO recipes).

On a 'normal' farm map I'd get a mixed bag of drops- salvage (mostly worthless), generic recipes (potentially worth 100k each at level 50, but still nothing compared to a 'good' IO drop), a couple of IO recipes, and (the only advantage of 'real' farming over MA farming) the chance for a purple.

On an MA farm map all those drops get turned into tickets, so I'm able to invest everything in extremely lucrative set IO drops, to the tune of 50-100+ million worth of recipes for every ticket capped map. A nice return on a ~30 minute investment.

Purples have never dropped reliably enough for me to tilt the field back in favor of 'real' farming, not when I can clog my inventory with predictable bronze rolls I know will pay off.

If they want to move the farmers back out of MA they either need to scrap the ticket system altogether or greatly reduce the # of "tickets per hour" a well tuned character can earn.

co-sign.



to get the devs on board we can have the casino pay off in YET ANOTHER new currency that we can only spend at the Casino Store on special l337 Gambling G34r.

=P

a couple of ideas for time bomb, garnered from a round of Modern Warfare 2 before bed:


1: make it a sticky semtex grenade. You chuck it at an enemy, if it hits it sticks to them and starts a timer, at the end of the timer it delivers its aoe payload.

2: C4. Plant it like a time bomb, but make the detonation player controlled.


I'd prefer it just get junked for something else since it's largely redundant with trip mine, but these ideas would at least make it more fun to use.

I've managed to avoid the lag so far, thankfully.

But it really is worthless for anything but crafting and selling IOs.

the game is well established and has a solid profile in the gaming world. the devs have been doing effective (and cost effective) promotions for a while now.


a boxed expansion with new gameplay directions will do more for CoH's future viability than ads.

Handy guide Bill, two hooves up!

It makes a good lint trap for this forum, so it serves a purpose.

okay, sent along a nest egg.

Assumed you were blue side, if not let me know and I'll log in a villain.

Throughout the history of this game content that delivers the most efficient reward/time ratio is consistently the most popular with the masses.

Powergamers may find the most efficient reward paths, but once they do everyone else is happy and eager to follow their trail.

I'll send you a few million inf tonight when I get home, spend it how you will.

=)

There will always be outliers who run content for personal reasons. For example, I farmed DA because I really enjoyed blowing up huge spawns of zombies, not because it was the most efficient way to earn inf.

But the majority of players are reward driven to a greater or lesser degree. If you give players a list of potential TFs to run, all else being equal they're going to take the one that pays off the best.

There's a reason most of the TF invites I get include the # of merits it delivers. =P

I don't see the need to mess with bases, other than to improve them and make them more fun.

my idea of an ideal inf sink is MOAR STUFF to buy, not taxing the stuff we already have.