Pitho

And unsound loans. the 1938 crash involved a lot of stock buying on "margin" (loans to buy stock more or less). The recent issues involved house loans to people that really shouldn't have been given loans, with the risks hidden away behind "Derivatives".

Huh? Brainwashed how?

Anyway, if you had a degree, you'd just be dismissed for being an "evil market person" or something. There's no end to the kind of rationalizations idiots make for things.

Alchemy?

I'd like either a way to buy normal merits or an option to purchase hero/villain merits at a higher inf cost, but no normal merit cost.

There's also the old plain SOs that are ALWAYS buyable, no matter what.

We don't have the duty to educate those that would plug their fingers in their ears when someone tries to actually explain things to them. The kind of people that trust Fox News and think Obama is a secret muslim. They are already lost, they are unteachable, they can hold whatever idiot perceptions they like, and in turn we don't have to care about them.

Circuit board shortages aren't artificial. Like you said, your friends don't even bother listing em most of the time because they're so common. Likewise, because they're so common no one (with any sense) is ever going to try flipping them to stabilize prices and get some inf out of it, there's no profit in it. People fight the enemy groups that drop tech salvage a LOT more often than ones that drop arcane salvage, so anything tech is going to be more common. 99% of the time they're not worth carrying around to list, so a small portion of the supply is ever listed.

They are, however, still used in a lot of good recipes. This includes level 30-40 generic Recharge IOs. Someone going for the badge can easily eat up supply of all the circuit boards. Or someone just crafting for some characters of theirs or something.

Basically they're so common that they're usually not worth listing, but just useful enough that the small amount that is listed gets bought out every once in a while.

There's an Elec/cold controller I made recently I named Winter Watts. Was meant to duo through praetoria with a buddy that hasn't had much time to play recently though.

The one shot code is based over a period of like one second. So, doubt it.

Get one for 250 sales, 1k sales, 3k sales, 5k sales and 7k sales

Siphon power does as much damage debuff to a single target as fulcrum shift does, and stacks with itself. Very useful against AVs and monster class enemies.

Would it be worth getting a level 10 3 Def all gladiator's armor?

How about someone declaring that if the government banned alcohol no one would drink?

I'm sure we all know how THAT attempt turned out.

You want an idea of what salvage prices would look like without flippers?

Circuit boards. This is a fairly common salvage, and is USUALLY cheap, but every so often the supply gets bought out and they sell for like 100k+. It's not worth the slots for anyone to flip for an extended period of time, but they're useful enough that they get bought out and deal with horrible price spikes. Also even during these price spikes you still see people occasionally buying them for like 500 or 1k or a few k.

That's what say, alchemical silver would look like EVERY DAY without flippers on it. Wild constant price spikes.

Basically, what the goat just said.

Not to mention, if players can't hold enough of the game currency to be worth using, they end up making a currency of their own. That's what happened in Diablo 2, the amount of gold characters could hold was heavily capped so trades were often done in units of "SoJs". If currency was globally capped in CoH, players would just trade in units of LotG recharges or something, and the market would be used even less for high value items. Making it even harder for an average player to get their hands on high end items.

Is this going to be as long as it takes to get 5 benefactors?

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