Nethergoat

Yeah, that was me.

Keep it straight, plz!!1

Really?
So you're a mind reader now?

Ok, now you're just lying.

Or, you've never actually played WoW or been on their forums.

Here's my favorite "exploit" from when I roamed The Barrens-

One, hit the Undercity, buy Bronze Rods (i think they were bronze- it's been a while) from the vendor down the road for a few silver, list them for a few gold, reel in the profits. This basic tactic works for any item that is available cheaply from a vendor in an inconvenient location.

I liked it fine and I made a lot of gold "exploiting" low information users just like I do here. It isn't any better, it's just different.

Oh right, that must be why we had that huge hiring binge and why a new paid expansion is coming out.


Are you even being serious in this thread, or are you just issuing missives from under the bridge you call home?

Can't say it any better than that.

Well, the markets works better if you put up your bids then go play the game.

Maybe that's your problem?

It isn't built to be used like a store and if you insist on using it like a store it can impose a substantial convenience fee.

I've always found it easier to modify my behavior to suit reality than to insist reality change to suit my behavior.
I suppose YMMV.

But that isn't what they wanted it to do.
Salvage is distributed the way it is in order to funnel inf from the high levels to the low. That's intentional.

Price is determined by supply and demand.
Players determine what SHOULD be expensive on an hour to hour, day to day basis.

Again, its designed that way intentionally.

First, I thought you didn't have any problem paying a lot of inf to get what you wanted RITE NAO?

Second, if you don't want to pay that much inf to get it RITE NAO, put in a bid and walk away.

For high volume stuff like common salvage ("junk" in your parlance) any reasonable bid will fill very quickly. Often I'll have 'reasonable' bids fill before I finish making the rest of my bids and closing the market window. Or I'll run a mission and voila, my bids have filled.

Again, I'd suggest modifying your behavior instead of railing against the system.

They explicitly did not want a WoW style AH here.
Alas, your dream is doomed.

Well, here is some common ground.


Which is what I like about it.
It makes the "game" more interesting, and the market is as much a game as any other CoH system.

And how is that anyone's fault but your own?

If someone finds the market distasteful for whatever reason, they can still earn a fortune doing nothing but dumping off their drops and picking up their inf. This takes at most a few minutes per session.

If someone enjoys the market, as I do, then sure you can spend a lot of time at Wents fiddling with this or that experiment.

But, that level of interaction is entirely optional.

The belief that the only way to to make inf on the market is to slave over a hot interface for hours at a time is a ridiculous myth that's become one of the deader horses on the forums.

bahahahahahahahahahaha!!!





Hah!

It's cheaper for them to step on their players than it is to stand up to other corporations with legal departments that may or may not take issue with this or that name/costume/whatever.

well, except that GR is going to pull EVERYONE out of MA for a good while, and the new 'global enhancements' are an unknown quantity that may supplant some of the demand for purples.

If I were going to place a bet, purple prices are going to crater (relatively speaking) following the release of GR. When, if, and how strongly they rebound will depend on factors we aren't aware of at this time.

For every recipe that has soared in value another had plummeted.

If you think the stuff you're holding will appreciate, or at least hold value, it would make sense to keep it.

Of course, you might guess wrong and end up taking a bath.

I personally prefer the (relative) stability, portability and convinience of inf.

Probably no big deal either way, inf flowing as it does like water.

I am calling a meeting of the Secret Eeeebil Cartel to bring up the issue of your impeachment.


>:e

This is neatly explained by the part where he likes CO.

Depends- will they be watching their SOs wither away, dealing with greatly reduces efficiency until they turn red, or will they be buying fresh stacks for combining so their power level stays constant?

=P

Not necessarily.

Yes, more play time tends to 'educate' a player in efficient methods gameplay, pulling them away from the sort of inefficient, haphazard behaviors that I use to define 'casual'.

but I know several people who's approach to the game is entirely casual (in that they don't really care about 'good' builds or careful slotting or fast levelling, they take whatever powers look fun, slot whatever is handy and play whatever missions fall in their laps) even though they've accumulated thousands of hours of play time.

Playtime can certainly be an indicator of 'hardcoreness', but behavior is the defining boundary separating a casual player from a 'serious' one.

I found it to be a time consuming process that I hated so much I would just log off a character who's enhancements had just gone read and go play someone else for a while.

Kitting out with IOs is much simpler (at least the way I do it) even though there is a temporal component absent from SOs.

Open market, place lowball bids on crafted generic IOs, wait for badgers to dump their wares cheap, pick up and slot wins.

Most of my bids fill overnight. Even the ones that take a few days aren't a bother, as the enhancements I'm replacing with them don't weaken and expire so I can afford to wait.

I hated fishing through disorganized lists of enhancements with intentionally confusing, non-descriptive names. I prefer the system where 'accuracy' is called 'accuracy', even if I have to pick up my enhancement the next day.