Nethergoat

generics are usually better sold at vendors (although at lower levels I regularly move them for more than 'retail').

anyone habitually selling set IO recipes to vendors is mental.

only if you hate money.

Devil's Advocate point-

a whole lot of that blue side content is absolute garbage.

you're right, dust is plentiful in a Dust Bowl.

Nothing is plentiful on the BM.

Yessir.

A billionaire and a pauper in the middle of a desert dehydrate at the same rate.
No point selling water you need for yourself.

Yeah, I'm hoping the parts are short enough for me to check out.

I understand the thinking but the first signature task force in the game really shouldn't be an exemplar of the failed design philosophy of the previous regime.

It was the first one I ran and it put me off them for a good while.

Then Posi WAS a total waste of time! =P

amazing how many of these folk come out of the woodwork in threads like this.

that's what "ignore application" is for.


otherwise I would drown in Farmville and Mafia Wars spam.

The system is spelled out clearly, it is in place to encourage and reward veteran players for sub time. If you want the rewards, stay subscribed.

Complaining about it may be "within their right" but it is still an unjustified entitlement whine.

Why?

I was entirely satisfied with the answer given- as a player, it tells me everything I need to know.

And the proof of the pudding is in the eating- since taking over for Cryptic the conga line of longstanding player requests finally getting some dev time hasn't stopped coming.

*rolleyes*

Of the scant handful of TFs I've managed to run in my long career one of them was Positron. It was back in the dawn of time on one of the first characters I ever made with my original group of CoH pals, all of us just tall enough to get on the ride.

You can imagine how enjoyable that was.

It wasn't a complete waste of time- the fight with that big robot at the end was fun, mainly because it was a surprise and we yelled for help and a bunch of other lowbies jogged over to help us put it down.

But getting there was like pulling teeth.

Stamina and a few more powers would made a huge difference, plus knowing how to play the game now, plus running it with a well-slotted level 50....I can see how it wouldn't be awful.

Intent aside, the result for me was a reason to stay subscribed during a prolonged period when I had zero time to actually play, and an added incentive to stay subscribed currently, when I have very little time to actually play.

Which over the course of the past year or so has added up to substantially more than they'd have gotten from me by providing no incentive to stay subbed and putting all the 'good' vet rewards in the store.

Seems to me that's 'working as intended'.


And really, they OWE us old timers nifty treats to make up for the horrors we endured in the "good old days" under the Ancien Régime.

If you never had to street sweep Bricks because you ran out of missions or gazed in despair upon an entire level's worth of debt stretching off to the horizon....quit yer whinin'. =P

Uh...I play this game to have fun.

=P

This is the reason I have negative sympathy for our modern-day poor criers.

You absolutely can 'work' the market and make inf beyond the dreams of avarice, but that simply isn't necessary for any but the most extreme high performance builds.

Players in our enlightened modern age can get filthy rich using the market like a vendor- stop in when your inventory fills up, drop everything in for some token amount and collect your $$$$.

The undesirable residue you can delete or vendor, as you wish.

I had time for one mission on a lowbie last night, ran it, got a few pieces of common salvage and made over 100k listing them for 1. No need for "good drops" or market savvy, just unexceptional salvage.

Players who cry poor while ignoring the massive profit potential the market has for even the most casual of 'casual gamers' simply can't be taken seriously.

Even if I were to pop into the game and magically have the speed team start RIGHT THEN it would be a tight squeeze to get one in with the ever present possibility of having to go AFK at any moment for a potentially extended period of time, which I hate doing to people.

Yesterday I was checking the market with the Goat when a fellow asked if I wanted to help out on a mayhem. I said 'sure', then ended up having to AFK for while we were hanging out at the mission door waiting for the last member of the team. They started without me and I caught up and ended up having a fun time, but I really dislike leaving teams hanging.

And the few morsels of contiguous playtime I manage to scrounge don't coincide with 'prime time' as defined by most other players.


Yes, that makes me a special case, but I know there are other players in my same position.

All that down time means I can do marvelous things on the market, but basically cripples my merit potential.

I read that as it's going to take a week of calendar time to add a notch to your alignment belt regardless of how much 'work' you do in that time (above a certain minimum).

Arbiters!


Since things cost more in CoV.... =P

and I doubt I've accumulated 200 merits TOTAL across all my characters since they were introduced.

I realize they're a trivial obstacle to some folks, but I haven't got the time to grind them out.

don't they have a pill for that now?

merits have gutted supply on most pool C's, I don't think anyone who's paid attention to their effect on the market would claim otherwise.


prior to merits the only way to get those sweet Pool C drops was run TFs. Every player who ran a TF got a roll, and I doubt many people did anything other than roll recipes.

By monetizing those rolls the devs undermined market supply in a few ways.
Some folk, like Toast, don't bother cashing their merits in. Some folk, like me, don't have the time to run the lucrative TFs are so are largely removed from the Pool C lottery. in the old days I could run a Katie now and then and get a roll, now I don't bother. Some folk who can earn merits efficiently save them up and buy the specific recipe they want, circumventing the market entirely.

I find the old system of the game generating drops efficiently and the market diseminating them efficiently much more elegant and much more fun than the current hybrid mess.