Nethergoat

Google is your friend, as is the Paragon Wiki.

Not quite as convenient, but effective nonetheless.

City of Hero did happen.
It was a failure, but it was a going concern for longer than, say, Auto Assault.

I don't see how an offline tailor creates any problems not already enabled by an ON-line creator as long as live servers remain the only option for deploying characters.

CoH 2 already happened, it's what we're playing right now.

They just called it Freedom.

I like the snipe change mostly because it sounds like fun- it makes a kinda sucky power into one that's at least interesting. I'll be shoe-horning Snipe back into my ar/dev's build once this goes live.

That said, anyone who'd take 'insta snipe' over a real Build Up is HIGH ON PAINT THINNER.

I'd get more *useful* damage from Building Up one application of Full Auto on a big spawn than I'd get using an Insta-Snipe for an entire mission.

But it's a buff, and it sounds fun, so I'm looking forward to it.
Does it bug me that corrs and defenders benefit from it too?
No, why should it?
It'll be fun on my corrs and defenders too- I'll probably stick it back in the Goat's build. although it won't really do anything for his efficiency.

I don't really get the big drama over the 'insta' part.
It's a change that makes the power more appealing, to some sets more than others. It's single target, so it isn't really a game changer however well or poorly it works out for this or that character. They want some power combinations to be able to get it relatively easily, for others it's more conditional.

So what?
It isn't intended to "save" blasters, it's intended to make a lame power very few people take into a better, more fun power that more players will like.

R/e the 'big picture' for blasters, to paraphrase the powers guy The Buffs Will Continue Until Performance Improves.

Sounds good to me!

I don't think this round will do it, but both the announced changes are helpful, seem fun and as long as I've got the assurance that more buffs will be forthcoming if these don't do the trick I'm content enough.

1: none.
2: one.
3: none.
4: Yeah, pretty much all of them. And that's a lotta alts.


It's a system with limited interest to me as its most efficient reward delivery comes from trials and TFs, a style of gameplay I don't really enjoy. If it appealed to me I'd probably still be playing that Big Fantasy MMO.

I did the Incarnate thing on my fire/ice blaster just to check out the content, and I'm having a lot of fun running him through DA, but that's as far as it's going to go. Whatever incarnate rewards he can rack up in there is what he'll get- and that's thematically approrpiate, as he was my primary DA farmer back in the olden days & star of my DA farming thread.

Keeping the various player demographics content and involved is the dev's job, and from where I sit they've been doing a good job of spreading the love around. As one of the few game elements fully gated by the VIP wall they have a strong incentive to 'grow' the Incarnate system, but they seem to grasp that it isn't the be-all end-all for many players.


I have a bit of a unique perspective as a longtime player who took a year off then came back. Yeah, there's a bunch of new incarnate stuff. But there's also a bunch of new everything else as well, at a variety of levels.

OUCH!

heh heh.




Here's what I've seen happen consistently over the years whenever I start messing around with a heretofore 'normal' piece of salvage- I start playing around, people notice the playing around and pile on in their own way- marketeers and 'regular' users both. Suddenly this junk salvage is 'worth' selling, so everybody starts selling it.

Now, the reason it wasn't 'expensive' (comparatively speaking) before was demand. When you suddenly get someone coming along willing to provide that demand (the marketeer, in this case) everyone is more than happy to jump on the bandwagon.

I've done this over the last couple of weeks with Clockwork Winders.
I had a couple of instances where my crafter needed a pile of 'em, and there were never enough listed. I mean, like ridiculously low supply- 25, with a last 5 that looked like the notebook of a schizophrenic- 1, 200,000, 100, 5, 55,555, like that.

So I threw up a whole pile of bids across several characters at the low end- a few k. High enough to make people notice they were worth selling, basically.

Left it alone for a few days and came back to a BUNCH of wins.
Since storing common salvage is a suckers game I just re-listed all of them at a wide range of price points, from cheap-ish to ridiculous. Supply jumped from under 50 to a couple of hundred instantly.

Now I wasn't trying to make inf here- that's another sucker's game.
I mean you can do it, but why bother?
I just wanted to make sure that when my crafter needed 40 or 50 winders they'd be there.

But that didn't stop other people from trying to 'push' the price, which ended up inadvertently making me a little $$$ (buy cheap enough and you can't help turning a profit).

Eventually the value of slots & the annoyance of recycling what amounts to 'junk' salvage overcame the novelty of driving Winders from basically 0 supply to several thousand and I've mostly abandoned it now. What I expect will happen is the rationally priced once will eventually sell, the irrationally priced ones will just sit there (I know for a fact quite a few are listed for over 50k- I did a sweep one day and bought everything cheaper and there were a whole lot left).

So I basically created the situation you described, but on a smaller scale- a lot of bids, a lot of stock, but nothing available at the price point it ought to sell for. Well, I didn't do all the work, I just got the ball rolling and let everybody else do the work for me- amazing the market effects you can create with investing just a few million inf.


Yeah- while I was fiddling around with Winders I spotted someone doing a similar thing with Steel- you could buy as many as you wanted around 80k if you were willing to wait (and step in line in front of the flipper, who was pretty obvious), but if you were in a hurry they would cost you 400-500k. I converted a bunch of my clockwork mules to Steel mules just for the heck of it. Made some inf, annoyed a flipper, and by the time I backed out of the niche the 'low' price was up to 100k and the 'high' was down to below 300.

If the flipper is still there they should be able to reestablish their original price spread, provided nobody else botheres butting in.

I've *literally* never seen him post on any other topic, and I spend quite a bit of time here and read a lot of random threads.

Now I know he must have thrown up at least a couple of posts on other subjects just for camouflage- it would be too damaging if someone did a search and found *nothing* except incessant concern about finances.

Even so, the only reason I went as high as 5 non-doom posts is...I was gone for a year. =P

A good point.
Facebook's information disseminating is completely arbitrary, barring slipping them some cash to improve it.

The game has limited resources.
Most players prefer blue side.
So blue side is going to get most of the resources.

There's only so much nannying the devs can do before responsibility devolves to the player.

IMHO you get plenty of notice. If you blow by the warnings, how is that the devs responsibility? If your English is poor, how is that the devs responsibility?

The warnings are clearly posted.
If you ignore them, whoops that's your own damn fault.
If you have trouble reading them, well, you're ON THE INTERNET.
Help is a mouse click away.

345 posts, roughly 340 of them doomcrying about CoH finances.

One wonders why an actual player would only ever bother posting if it gave them an opportunity to pontificate on the impending failure of the game.

Strange, that.

It's been about three years since he started banging on his this game is dying, DYING I SAY drum, he's not about to let a little thing like reality interrupt his groove.

Do you ever talk about ANYTHING besides the impending financial doom of the game?

You're worse than Beetlejuice- someone only has to mention "revenue" ONCE and up you pop with your sad head shaking and glum expression.

God.


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=P

As you have no idea what's going to end up live this "paradigm shift" is entirely in your mind.

I saw one once!
My OCD friend bought it along with the game back in the day.

This argument makes my Spidey Sense tingle.....I'M OUT OF HERE!