Nethergoat

It's not a stigma, it's just human nature- most people will happily engage a system that is simple and efficient over one that isn't.
Especially when the cost savings of the alternative are minor.


PVP IOs trade off market not because people want to save money, but because the market doesn't handle those transactions efficiently.


A couple of things out of the panoply of salable goods in this game trading off market isn't a harbinger of doom, it's just a sign that the inf cap is badly outdated in the modern era of super-mega-earningpower.

fun, neat and completely trivial stuff like badges, titles, pets, whatever.
the iconic example from past suggestion threads is the badge awarded for destroying 2b inf.
they have a lot of options for providing inf sinks without having to sink a bunch of dev energy into them.


one thing I like 'that other game' I'm playing is the plethora of entertaining stuff on offer that doesn't necessarily confer any performance utility. It's a market segment we could really use around here.

I've been there before, but never in defense of a thoroughly debunked idealogical stand.

AF's taken some historic thrashings on this forum, but this could be the most sustained beating of his career.

I'm happy to have independent confirmation that I've got at least half a brain cell.

*hoovesup*

bronze 35-39 is my go-to pool as well.

If I ticket cap a map and roll them all I'm pretty much guaranteed one or two GREAT recipes (20-50m crafted), a handful of 'good' ones (5-10m crafted) several 'okay' recipes that I delete as not worth my time (~1m or so) and a bunch of junk that also gets deleted.


But basically, if you roll enough tickets any bronze pool will make you a fat pile. Go with whatever feels right.

I think MMOs appeal to a different audience than FPS's, or at least gamers have different expectations of the two genres.

MMOs to me are mainly a storytelling environment- I have this character and it's on this journey, and I tend to resent and be annoyed by any overly difficult terrain or dead ends that crop up. I'm more interested in seeing what happens around the next corner or over the next hill than I necessarily am in the process of getting there.

FPS's I approach primarily as an obstacle to overcome. I don't mind getting my *** handed to me as long as I also perceive improvements in my own performance, however incremental.

I played many, many hours of MW2 without once booting up the single player component. This has been my usual treatment of whatever my current FPS game is- the single player is irrelevant, I buy and play based entirely on the quality of the multiplayer game.

it's certainly a tougher environment than Paragon City or even the Rogue Isles (which were a fair step up in difficulty when CoH was released).

As someone who prefers playing on autopilot in a sort of videogame-assisted meditative state I don't find Praetoria a congenial environment. Looks nice, it's cool to have missions I haven't played to death and back, but when I log in I find myself gravitating to my usual stomping grounds, not the clean vistas of Emperor Cole's utopia.

Years and years and years ago we used EZB for the first generation of our CounterStrike server forums. They weren't great, but neither did they arbitrarily kick users off and refuse to let them back in.

At this point, even the wretchedness that were the old forums would be preferable. They stunk, but they didn't forget who you were.

I'm reminded of Evil Ryu's long ago TF Recipe Drop thread in the market forum.
Pre thread he was positive he never got anything but Crap of the Hunter.
Once he started posting his drops (and the rest of us joined in) his results miraculously improved.

alternately, you can just look at the date before you reply.

or, having replied, say "my bad" when folk point out the necro.



either of which are more reasonable than demanding the forums be retrofitted to safeguard you from making easily avoidable mistakes.

it can decline for quite a while and still be worth NC's while to keep around.

I've been seeing posts like yours since probably the middle of 2005.
I expect I'll be seeing them still in 2015.

I'll go out on a limb and say basically every arc the game launched with is unplayable garbage by today's standards, essentially bad MA arcs with (generally) better spelling and fewer bugs.

Nonsense.

The ability to set our own mission difficulty makes it much easier to find challenges as a soloist than as a member of a team.

If you're speaking from a game design perspective, also nonsense. Assuming a larger team gives the devs more flexibility in designing a challenge, but it's no harder to create a challenge for one player than for 8, or more.

It isn't going to drive off anyone, or at least not any more players than any new system they've added lately has. Whatever they do is bound to send a few screwloose types around the bend. People quit over PvP, people quit over the market, people quit over MERGING the markets, etc etc.

A system like this gives progress lovers something to do without bothering too many other folks, who're free to continue playing as they always have. I'd have been upset if it were gated behind teaming, but it looks like there will be an alternate route for soloists so no complaints here.

If it creates the perception that CoH now has 'end game raid content' and excites a little curiosity outside our small community, that's for the good. If it does so without disrupting our casual, solo friendly environment in any meaningful way, so much the better.