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Farming is solo to me. Set to 6-7 players, +1 level and go from there.
I don't want others getting my drops; I will take a close friend of sgmate along at times since the drops are going into the same sg bins, but that's about it.

Pretty much everything Perfect Pain said...I team for Merits and badges and just for fun, basically...but when I want to achieve stuff I usually do it alone or in small groups because my usual casual play groups don't want to spend time farming for damage, debt, mob kills by level 30/35.

While the content redside is much better than blueside, pretty much all my villains are going blueside so I can dive deep into the Merit trough, accumulating hundreds of Merits which I will then turn into blueside goods.

I will move a hero redside to get badges there, but that's about it.

There is just too much influence being generated and not enough sinks for said inf. On top of that, people can just drop money for inf at RMters, making more influence come into the game (yes, the money was generated ingame...) as well.

The Dev's best recourse might be well to fill bids for the "bid holders" such as level 53 recipes, odd-levelled Hamis and so on, thus removing billions of influence from the game completely. That or block bids on nonexistant items.

In the end though, if the Devs really want to fix things they can, and quickly:

-Add an ingame store that sells ALL non-PvP Recipes at a set influence price. If the store sells Miracle procs at 20 mil, people will use that and, sadly, ignore the markets. Or as peterpeter (I believe) said, they can lower the Merit costs of recipes and random rolls and ticket costs of rolls to trivial amounts....or even allow us to pay influence for random rolls.

Actually, I'd love the ability to pay influence to vendors for random rolls...that would crank out [i]thousands[i] of new recipes into the system Or the devs could just flip the switch and drop hundreds of recipes into the market from a 'dummy account', removing inf by the millions (billions?) as well.

Either way, I look forward to whatever happens. If recipes crash, so be it. If an alternate supply is created, so be it. If inf sinks are created, so be it.

Bring on change.

AddendUmbing Yoclant, he was quite the conversation piece in the day.

Right.

In your case I'd head over to your chosen server forum and find their main teaming network and go from there. Or post in that server forum that you're new and need a head start.

I do hear you though, it's empty at times out there.

Some stuff that might help:

Join one of the big badge channels like Cozmic's Playground, Infinity Badges, BMT of Champion...lots of teaming through there.

People are often in mission instances so you don't see them outside. Use the search tool and send them a tell, ask if they need help or want to group up.

Some servers are just population light. Try Freedom or Virtue for non-stop zaniness.
Nice having you around.

If you don't want to increase drop rates give an alternate supply.

[Psypunk]
Ideas (Shoot down/modifiy as you wish)

Siren's Call bounty system:

I used to love going to Siren's Call but really, there's no need anymore with maxed builds at 50 and RV being hopping.

Modify the Bouty System so that the 6,000 bounty (or whatever it is) for a SO is instead applied to a random roll for a PvPIO. If you want some PvPIOs to maintain their value, lock them out of the roll table.

Issues with this include killsteals, of course, and farming for them. The killsteal issue could be resolved by having a tab of the player performing the most attacks on the target getting the IOs. The farming issue is always going to be there. Farming happens now, it always will so not sure where to go with it. If you want to disincentivize farming you need a higher supply output.

PvP Merits:

The PvE Merit system is based on time for rewards. Applying this to PvP could be problematic because matches generally last 10 minutes (sudden death is largely ignored at the higher end) and time in zone doesn't necessarily equate to getting kills.

Make this a participation thing...if you're in an 8 v 8 match you get a Merit on completion. You can add extra Merits for getting the most kills or getting kills. To disincentivize kill farming, also think about getting Merits for good healing skills...if you AP someone back from a potential death, grant a Merit for that. The problem is, of course, you could set up a farm where someone would just spike a target like a petless MM and your Empath could just gather up the Merits, of course.

In an ideal world, both teams would get Merits. Give each team member 2-3 Merits for participating (per member, so 16-24 Merits per team per match) and add more Merits for kills, saves, etc.

Make the Merit vendors about equivalent to PvE. Unfortunately, the low pool of IOs here (let's be honest, there aren't recipes available at level ranges, JUST recipes) means you might have to set the roll cost fairly high. It doesn't make sense to have it be 20 Merits or something...

Say in our practices last night, one of the matches ended 18-11 or something. So that would be 3 Merits to each team member for playing. Give the Emps 2-4 Merits for making saves. Give the Blasters 2-4 Merits for kills. In the end you'd get 10-20 Merits in a match. The rapid accumulation of Merits means you'd need to make rolls around 40-50 merits each at least.

The zone problem is...people KS. Some people are really good at KSing. The game/power system ensures that DoT powers can kill off a target someone has been working so Merits could be hard to gauge then. You might want a lower Merit output in zone. Reward time in zone more...after a half hour out there you get 5 Merits. If you get kills you get 1 Merit or something...not sure what the best methodology to work this would be as I just zone for kicks and I rarely get kills myself.

(As an aside, cages would become somewhat lulzy as you might see people caging targets on low HP to prevent Merits from being awarded)

Of course, at this point you have to decide how rare you want stuff to be. Should PvPIOs be as rare as purples? Not in my humble opinion. Should they be rare? Sure. You shouldn't get them with every kill. It shouldn't take hundreds upon hundreds of kills either...

[/Psypunk]

TLDR:

The new system awards Merits automatically to PvPers in Arenas and to Zone PvPers. It tends to reward teaming more (a good thing imo) as team members get a set amount on match completion.

This would require some extra work on the Devs parts and of course some checks and balances, but you'd get more recipes into the system (hopefully) by players PvPing regularly and dumping excess in the Markets.

Even if you don't dump your excess, you still get more IOs generated overall.

So:

Merit vendors in Arenas and PvP hospitals/zone entrances.
Random Rolls at around 40-50 Merits each.
Weight rolls as needed/desired. Exlcude some recipes if needed, if you really want some recipes to be drop only.

People PvP, recipes generated, supply increases, profit?

Welcome to dUmb, EnD_Reitanna.

Also, glhf Eternal P A I N.

My Rad/Ice went without for a while, my Bubbler could probably do without as well.

Tarikoss used to be lower. It was also redside Katie prior to Merits being included in the game...sadly, it got hit badly by the change in reward implementation.

Tarikoss isn't too bad though. You can ghost a few of the missions and move briskly. Still, I do agree that there is a vast disparity in Merit/rewards between both sides. The Devs haven't really found a solution though, outside of having villains go blue in Going Rogue.

Weather (We kind of have this in the form of winter in some instances)
Citizens not pushing us around
Merged markets
Wall climbing
Removal of the aggro cap
Flowing hair

So did you guys discuss banning any powers or is everything a go?