Nethergoat

I would, except every Fair Trade coffee bean I try tastes like butt!

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Oh well!

Maybe you should learn to temper your expectations for a release this far off?

Or at least stop whining about it.

hah!

well, the legacy hero content is chock full of that sort of junk while MA is 100% filler free...is, in fact, concentrated so that you don't need to leave the building if you don't want.

Here's hoping the comments about 'revamped low level content' in the GR thread mean they'll be cleaning up the older stuff hero side and giving new villains some alternate paths to follow.

gosh I dunno...maybe by becoming a vigilante and Going Rogue?

The RP argument against merged markets has always been the most laughable of a weak bunch...now, the premise of GR has made it explicitly ridiculous.

For me, this is where MA comes in.

There are a number of fun, lowbie friendly arcs that will level you at good speed without forcing you to farm or sleepwalk through 'real' content that's going to drive you crazy with one more play-through.

Even with your specific & somewhat stringent story requirements, I'll bet there are some arcs out there you'd enjoy, or at least enjoy more than played out 'real' content.

Villain side was much less populated before the markets existed, the market has very little to do with their population issues. I personally went 'hero only' for a while because the sluggish nature of the undersupplied BM didn't interest me, but I don't remember anyone joining me (at least not publicly).

And I'm not getting the logic behind "a big merged market with more of everything would turn off villain players, while a small, undersupplied market rife with profiteering wouldn't".

The villain market in its current incarnation is a much closer approximation of the casual gamer's paranoid nightmare of price fixing and secret cabals than a merged market would be.

The silliness of the "heroes have more inf" argument should be obvious to anyone who rolled a new character and built a fortune from nothing.

Which makes continued separation of the markets even more ridiculous than it already is.

People whine about dated graphics so they update the graphics.
Then people whine about how they wasted their time updating graphics.
It truly is a thankless job.

So?
Your unrealistic expectations aren't their fault.

If you understand that salient point why are you whining about stuff you don't have enough information to pass judgment on?

That whole train of logic is derailed at the station anyway.

Anyone can roll a new villain or hero and be filthy rich in short order, starting from zero. Heck, you can do it without earning a single XP! Give my villains access to Wents and they'll be drowning in profit in no time.

And as we've mentioned here time and time again, if the poor, widdle villain market needs protection from the big, mean hero market...then every server should have their own market. Poor widdle Triumph is being taken advantage of every day by big, mean Freedom, after all!

Won't they think of the children!

this attitude makes no more sense now than it did when they initially floated it.

The number of zones isn't that relevant, it's how their used.
Villain story arcs are mostly contained in the zone your contact is in.

Older Hero story arcs send you all over creation, nearly always for no good reason other than to pad your gameplay with nutrition free filler.

Actually, you're right- "lazy" isn't a good description.
It looks lazy from our current perspective, but it's just an artifact of an abandoned design system (slowing down progress by whatever means were at hand).

It's a little like the human appendix- it used to serve a purpose, but now it just gets in the way and nobody would miss its removal.

I'm hoping we'll get an early game re-write at some point after the release of GR. With the recent changes to teaming and leveling, new content made available at any level is open to everybody without too much trouble. I'd be happy to take all my high level heroes and run through some revamped early content in Atlas, Kings, Skyway, wherever.

I was trick-or-treating around PI last night and accidentally backed into a HUGE spawn of carnies- at least ten of 'em, with a Master Illusionist.
"What a waste!" I thought as I mowed them down.

Hah!

See Sam, all you had to do to come around to my point of view was go back and play some of the ratty old story arcs.

As I've said, I'm not against travel & sightseeing per se, I'm just against a ton of pointless running around dictated by lazy game design.

It's actually incredibly simple.

The stuff lots of people want is scarce and expensive, the stuff not many people want is widely available and cheap.

then how did the Goat get all the banner badges (save one) last night solo?

maybe I imagined it? Or perhaps I'm just magic!

I thought he smelled familiar!

It's a pity the new forums didn't import our ignore lists along with the rest of the info...ah well, I only wasted one reply.

Maybe eryq will roll out another sleeping bag under his bridge for AC.

It's a forum, a place where people post their opinions and other people respond. If you read this thread in its entirity, you'll have a good idea of where purples stand now and where involved marketeers think they're going. No careful observation needed, just basic literacy.

None of the regulars here count as "random people". Most of us have been here since I9 and have a lengthy track record of public advice and predictions to be judged by. By and large, if you listen to any of our frequent posters you'll get good advice. And if their advice isn't good, it's sure to be corrected by some of our other frequent posters. As a group, the market forum regs are an excellent wealth-building resource for the average player (notwithstanding our public facade of eeeebil).


Yes I am.
I play the market as a mini game. Getting expensive stuff for less gives me a thrill. Sure, I have enough inf right now to 'brute force' the build I want for the Goat...but why should I, when I can wait a few more weeks and do it for much less?

My fire/rad had a couple of purple sets in base storage which I was too lazy to respec in. I picked them up for cheap quite a while back. When prices spiked during the MA frenzy, I dug them out and sold them for a truly ridiculous markup. I'm going to buy them back at some point in the future, likely for more than I paid originally but for vastly less than what I got for them.

That's fun for me. That's fun for anyone who approaches the market as its own little game, which quite a few of us here do.


Again, the nature of this forum is self correcting.
Anyone trying a game like this will have it debunked within a few posts.

Who's said that?
And again, this forum is self correcting.

Most of the regulars here are altruists who want everyone to make big piles of inf. Your motives may be as described in this post, but all us long time regs are here to help people with good advice.
None of us need more money. We have zero motivation to fleece visitors to our little corner of the forums.

Actually, it's "I have mine and you ain't getting it cheap just because you're too lazy and/or stupid to make your own pile of inf".

Yeah, I'm still waiting. Like the housing market, I think purples have a ways more to go before they hit bottom.