Nethergoat

there is no "whatever reason", they told us why they don't like revamps- it's the same investment of time and energy as making a new zone.

That being the case, they prefer to create new content than re-hash old stuff.

only if you have lots of time to grind merits, which I do not. Tickets are random, so they don't count.
which isn't a problem blue side, where I just make tons of inf then buy the stuff i want.

it isn't 'fewer goods' per se, it's the fact that villains get a DEGRADED GAMING EXPERIENCE compared to heroes.

Is it really that hard to grasp, or do you just not care that one faction gets it in the rear compared to the other?

When it comes to the market heroes are tooling around town in sports cars while villains are taking the bus.

Inventions is a major game system and villain participation is limited by poor game design.

If villain participation in MA was limited by some game mechanic that wasn't present hero side, everyone would agree it was a "substantial harm".

Market participation is no different.
My villains deserve and expect a experience roughly equivalent to my heroes and they aren't getting it.

Earning power is irrelevant when there's nothing to buy.

wait, you mean there's MORE?


*scurries off to search the rest of the thread*

I can count the number of TFs I've run in 5 years of play on one hand, so I figure the good ones I've missed are balanced out by the crummy ones I've missed. =p

Packing so much wrong into so few words is an impressive feat!

could be!
I've never run an ITF.

I'm guessin' it'll have something to do with that building on a hill you can see through the zone boundary....

That's an impressive misinterpretation!

If it were that easy they'd have done it already.
Clearly the process is more complex than "add a contact and throw in some missions".

But philosophically, adding stuff to zones without otherwise disrupting them would be great.

But bad zones exist in isolation, aside from those annoying "go there, kill that" missions you sometimes get hero side (which is a contact problem, not a zone problem). At worst they're occasionally annoying, not toxic.

That analogy is bad enough to actually undermine the point you're trying to make.

When I'm roaming around Talos the state of Boomtown has zero impact on my level of fun. I'm not sitting in Wentworths seething "OMG I can't believe BOOMTOWN is out there somewhere polluting the game with its suckitude while the devs DO NOTHING!!11"


And as it seems I am fated to keep pointing out, one player's dross is another's gold.

Take Dark Astoria.
Atmospheric, sure, but a dead end zone with no indigenous content, an expression of a failed design philosophy ("hazard zones", lol).

Well, except that some of us really love to periodically blow off steam nuking zombies by the truckload. So, for some of us DA is "content" as configured.

Make a cool new zone, and everyone can play it without losing anything from their game experience. Re-vamp DA and you're removing content for a certain demographic.

Even the lamest zone has SOMETHING for people to do, even if it's just farming big ol' spawns or stress testing builds. If you remodel the zone, that is lost.

Adding new zones increases the total content of the game more than re-vamping zones does. And in the MMOverse, more is better.

Now, in a perfect world with unlimited resources, yeah it'd be great if they could re-do every zone in the game from the ground up using the latest and greatest techniques and technology.

Since that isn't gonna happen, I agree with the devs that from a resource allocation/bang for buck perspective new zones have it all over remodeled ones.

new content adds to the game without deleting anything. When you're finished making a new zone you have all the old ones PLUS a brand spanking new one.

If some of the old ones stink, so what? You have other options.

OMG I'M TOTALLY GONNA CLICK ON THAT!


oh wait...no I'm not.

I'll believe my lying eyes instead of your bafflingly confused observations, thanks.

you can't process even the most obvious comparison, can you.

let's try ALL CAPS, maybe that's more your speed:


SOMETIMES YOU GET A LOT OF DROPS REAL FAST.
SOMETIMES YOU DON'T GET ANY DROPS.
BECAUSE DROPS ARE RANDOM, WHATEVER SORT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

QFE!


I was running some missions on my 'casual' stalker today and picked up two hunks of Rare salvage from a spawn of 3 Freakshow.

Weird things like this happen all the time, just file under '***t Happens'.

This has been going on for as long as there's been an internet for gamers to whine on, I'm amused that you find it surprising.

If I had more spare time I'd totally make a new character like that just to hang out at busy markets and pontificate on the ease of building wealth.