Neuronia

Not a Grav/TA

Put me down for a low estimate of 927,111,345 inf.

While I think this would be a good idea as an inf sink, let me produce some worst-case scenarios:

*A player loses all of their inf, posts on the forums about it. Debate ensues about player responsibility vs. dev responsibility.

*News of an unfortunate gambling incident makes the E-News and the already low-sub CoX is painted with a broad brush (They're making their players gamble, the horror!)

*Mistyping of a desired amount clears someone of all their influence. Solution: Allow only marginal amounts like 500-50,000 influence and only allow a limited number of rolls.

*Betting on Arena matches: I like this and we tried this a few times but not many bets were placed.

I'm behind the idea overall, but I would need some definite convincing to get behind it 100%. There would need to be a 100% return to the player in any event, in the form of Inspirations, Salvage, Recipes and so on, or even booby prizes like confetti above the player and so on. Of course, they could also add badges to the whole thing...like: "High Roller, Dead Broke, Lounge Lizard (?)" for the number of times you access the mini-games.

What I would prefer:

Pinball mini-games
Pool/billiards mini-games

These wouldn't seem like "gambling" so much and instead come out as a kind of time-sink. You wouldn't get the "Virtual Moral Majority" coming out and expressing their discontent about it and the Devs might be safe from raised eyebrows as well.

Applied mine to both accounts, fairly decent but I wouldn't have minded some flashiness when the power is activated...a little low-key compared to the Magic one.

Love the costume change emotes and organic costume sets as well as the Rikti devolution debuff, hehehe.

Poison for Defenders and Corruptors
Cold Domination and Radiation Emission and Kinetics for Masterminds
Superstrength for Scrappers
Spines for Brutes

Do it for Going Rogue please. Remember when they said each issue would either have new IO sets/Enhancements or proliferated powersets?

Mmmmmhmmmmm

Thanks. That last was a nail-biter only up by 1 kill at the 8 minute down mark.

Sent BadBadGirl a PM to schedule our next tilt, still looking for more teams to spar.

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Lineup
Hardpunchers:
Psi/NRG Blaster
Invuln/DM Tank
Emp/Archery Defender
MA/Nin Stalker

Fix't, Click heal in powerset is ftw.

Kara and the Hardpunchers vs. Omega Run & Shoot.

Kara and the Hardpunchers 10 - 0 Steel Canyon
Kara and the Hardpunchers 2-0 Graveyard

GFs guys

Got the Stalker to 50 today (thanks JK) all IOd and Accod, just need 55 Hordelings for Demonic. See everyone tonight.

About time.

Prices don't matter in our game economy. The game will distribute you drops that you can sell with enough influence for Single Origin enhancements. After that. the proverbial sky is the limit on where you want to go with your build.

Availability has always been the issue, especially redside where Merit-earning arcs are plenty (I got 8 Merits in around 30 minutes doing Arbiter Daos stuff) but TFs are so few that players are inevitably drawn to blueside because their friends are there, more Task Forces, easier Task Forces....which causes a self-fulfilling prophecy of a dead redside market.

Merging the markets means I can USE my plentiful redside funds to BUY something. At the moment, I have to wait weeks at times to get items, not a great thing.

Bring on the merge!

I'm moving a metric ton of Hamis blueside to Redside for my sg.
I'm moving a bunch of Lotg 7.5 redside for my sg.

Of the excess, many will go to the Marke, hopefully diluting prices in the process.

I predict PvPIOs will stay about the same, salvage will trend down and the big ticket stuff will probably move up/down +10% as villain inf gets absorbed into the system.

The Devs will also seed the Market surrepetitiously and billions will "poof" into the Aether...

Kara and the Hardpunchers vs. Omega Run and Shoot

Tonight at 10:00 p.m.!

Who can I submit line-ups to?

The SS/Fire Brute would probably be pretty nice. You wouldn't have crazy Fossilize like the Tankers do, but Webnades, Taunt, recurring click heal and so on could get you some fun out there. Not sure how many kills you can score on a Brute, though admittedly with travel suppression in zones once you webnade someone you should be able to KO Blow them or whatnot. Rage is always nice...

Remember to build for +Hit Points, +Damage, and some Recharge too if you can.

I'm not sure what the animation times are like for Defender Neutrino Bolt, but I know on my Rad/Therm Corr I can "proc gun" N-Bolt (adding damage procs to the attack) and spam it in between Cosmic Bursts. The Rad/Rad is ok.

Unfortunately, your softcapped Tanker will be...considerably less so in a PvP setting due to Diminishing Returns on everything.

If I were you I'd hop over to RV on Freedom (if you have anything there) and take a look at what some people are playing. Take it with a grain of salt though...

Stalker TS is fine in your everyday PvPing and such; it was banned in the FPvPL, but not on the current ladder iirc.
I'd keep up with this AT and get some practice with it, if you can get ASing down consistently people will love you for it.

Brutes do see play in Arena, as Tauntbots mostly but the odd one has been known to get a kill down. Masterminds less so, but Thugs/Storms have made an appearance now and then. MMs are pretty fun overall as well.

Finally.

Was finishing up my MA/Nin Stalker's PvP build (yes yes, lolz now) and there were all of two Unbounded Leap: + Stealth available below level 50.

Bring on the merged markets so my infamy can BUY STUFF.
Bring them on so I can sell my goods to heroes AND villains.

A tip of the hat to everyone from Miladys Knight to JoJo to the smelly goat to Fulmens to Geko that did all the legwork so that we may all profit.

Hallelujah the witch is dead and RP reasons didn't stop it from happening.

I try to get stuff like LOTG 7.5 as early as possible (25), the rest I just wait until level 50 unless I'm going for some crazy exemplar build such as my Mind/Bubbler's old Positron TF build.

I was IOing out my Martial Arts/Nin last night and some IOs weren't available at any level, or were so scarce as to lead to 'overpayment'....100 mil + for a Unbounded Leap + Stealth, heh.

Generally though, I don't worry about IO sets that much, preferring basic IOs which I slot at IO level 30-35.

Unfortunately you can't accurately police this.

You could slot a build with frankenslotted Hamidon Origins, single Purple or PvP IOs and go from there.
The only real way this works is if you have a static team levelling together and use the honour system on slotting.

There was something like this in a PvPEC event and one of the players got +3 SOs for the level 5 battle, etc.

It's a good idea in theory, but a better one would be to have new people team with vets in kickballs and FFAs for pointers.
Will help out though.