Nethergoat

If radiation can turn Peter Parker into Spiderman & Bruce Banner into the Hulk, I'll gladly trust it to protect me from a lil' psionic damage.

yes to this!

cuz it's a comic book! =)

There are already quite enough 'hermit spaces' in the game where the antisocial can gnash their teeth in blessed privacy...like, nearly the entire game world.

/ah isn't about not having to rub shoulders with the hoi polloi, that's just a side effect. It's about massive convenience, and why shouldn't that convenience have a cost beyond playing the game for x years (which all of us with access would have done anyway).

If I felt passionately about this I'd re-frame the debate along the 'discount for using Wentworth's' line noted earlier, but as it's more of an impulse thing I'll just keep fishing for reasons beyond "players shouldn't have to see anyone!" or "bad idea is bad because I don't like it!"

I'm not sure where y'all are getting the notion that the market isn't supposed to be a social space when that's *exactly* what it's been since the invention system was introduced.

And that surcharge would be a terrific inf sink, specifically because veteran players with /ah at their disposal would be the least likely to notice a small remote trading fee.

Ah ok, my mistake.

I'm still not really feeling the poutrage, but I'm happy to acknowledge he's not the only member of the parade.

Oddly, I was only this morning thinking there ought to be a badge for foiling purse-snatchers. I have a hard time passing them by even when I'm tooling through Atlas or King's Row on one of my 50's.

Material rewards I don't support, but a badge or other ephemeral mark of respect I'd totally support.

Why are you posting?

It's a forum- that's what we do here.

From what I see everyone already agrees with me. =P

Well, except this one guy....

Splitting hairs about which threads offer the greatest ROI for time spent is silly when we're all posting on a video game forum. Any topic that catches your fancy is as 'valuable' as any other.

And I don't consider it "belittling" your opinion to point out that you were wrong about the OFFICIAL NO NEW MEN STUFFS company line & noting that when it comes to feeling persecuted by this imaginary policy you stand alone as an Army of One.

There's nothing wrong with being the only passenger on the bus as long as you know how to drive it.

Except, y'know, instead of major items that would impact most of the player base you're carrying on about some genuinely insignificant visual frippery.

I don't doubt it's a big deal in your mind, but that doesn't mean anyone else cares.

Even after dropping a couple billion on my ar/dev & hitting the soft cap I still don't like /dev, a dislike reinforced by logging in my elec/traps corrupter the other night and having *way* more fun with that secondary.

YMMV of course, but /dev is an elderly set that lags behind more modern options when it comes to flexibility and performance.

I'm not even after social interactions, just a clump of players sharing a public space. The game often feels like a ghost town, with zones being nothing but glorified hallways for instance doors.

And the utility of /ah really is ridiculous, especially for an inveterate marketeer like myself. The other night I was sitting at the MA window cashing tickets on bronze rolls, then pulling up the market window to see which recipes I could trashcan. It's basically printing your own money...which I'm all for, but it seems like we could 'give back' a little.


And actually, it occurs to me I'm marketing this wrong- the knee-jerk reaction of any gamer to "pay more" is an automatic "**** YOU!" Instead I should be pushing a discount for transactions made at physical markets.

That would lose the whole 'inf sink' aspect, but would be a lot easier to sell. =P

Having never played staff I will still declare with absolute confidence it would kick Stone's rear in an AoE face-off.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean everybody will clap and cheer what you have to say.

I can see where they'd want to keep them on lockdown just as a gating mechanism, but I don't see how making them transferable would be "exploitable".

well, it certainly demolishes your assertion that there's some kind of official ban on NEVER EVER ADDING ANYTHING FOR MEN EVER AGAIN.


protip:

when yer neck deep in a hole, its time to stop digging.

yeah, that's the 'convenience fee' part.
You're not in your usual stomping grounds, you use whatever bank is at hand.


I realize this suggestion guaranteed to be unpopular, but I am genuinely curious to see if someone can come up with an counter-argument more sophisticated than NO, NOT MAH MONIEZ!!11 =P

Your antipathy toward the idea seems to indicate it would be an effective incentive. =D

In any case it would provide another inf sink in a game with epidemic inflation.

this was my first idea as well.

Leave base egress up to the people running the base.

And, as always, RP must ever be subordinate to good game design.
Given the ever increasing 'co op' direction of the game some liberalization of base access would be a major QOL improvement.

are you so really so cash strapped you can't give the market a little taste?