Plasma

I accidentally the influence.



Also: no.

(And lucre is on and it's up another 4M since I even took the screenshot.)

Really, 40B more isn't much for first.

I've always wanted an 88 alt. Fulmens is the supreme overlord? At some point in the next couple weeks I'll pick someone to add and come stoke the fires with you.

Seems like decent assumptions. There's also a ton of influence melted from the massive amount of WW fees collected as stuff changed hands. As near as I can tell, I did about 160B worth of WW business as either a buyer or a seller, on my way to profit about 250B worth of stuff. (About 30B liquid, the rest as a huge stash of stuff I'm keeping to use that I didn't have before.)

Seems accurate with respect to the numbers. (And I cover the odds in my converter mini guide; yes, 15 converters on average to hit a specific converter on in-set conversions, with a high variance.)

Updated to reflect the vendor patch and the fix to the "shopping cart" icon.

I just realized there was no dev post about a live publish. Does this mean we're headed to 6 weeks with broken converters? Or might build 2230.201203280247.1 publish without an announcement? Blah.

I'll just point out that: people moving to a new project doesn't mean at all that a project they came from is dead. This is simply the nature of trying to build cross-functional teams.

Case in point, I work at a software company. Granted, we're gigantic compare to Paragon, but my team was smaller than their dev team not long ago (we had 22 people at our team dinner tonight, and I was reminiscing about not long ago when there was only 4 of us). Anyhow, we've had several people join our team from elsewhere in the company.

People move on because:
- Their skillset has some redundancy on the current team, so it can "spare" them easier to fill a critical need on another team, while still hiring enough overall manpower to not "hurt" their old project
- They simply want to do something new (this is a big deal. The more talented your people are, the more you HAVE to cater to their career needs; a new development could offer a chance to learn new things, take greater responsibility, learn new technologies, etc.)
- When extending a successful corporate culture, you don't just add a new product and staff it with all new people. You move people into it gradually and replace them in their old position, so the new hires "pick up" on your successful culture. I imagine in the game industry, this is also where assistant producers become producers, and programmers become senior programmers, etc.

Anyhow, none of the people joining MY team joined because their old projects are any less important. Their old teams now have open positions they are hiring for. We were just too cool.

Edit: addendum, I'd say the past 18 months have easily been the best CoH has ever had, so doing doomsayer is awfully premature. This isn't a game in decline right now; this is a game hitting its golden age, if anything.

So it would be nice to be able to make it, but sadly I don't think it's in the cards.

However, I *am* at Dinah's Garden this week, as I'm visiting Palo Alto for business. Part of my logic for picking this from the corporate travel booking tool over other hotels was, "Well, if they're doing it there AGAIN this year, the Internet access must have been pretty good to please a ton of geeks."

Hopefully that turns out to be true

It just occurred to me - I get everything from work (big software company) free, and also can get cheap F&F copies of stuff, too.

Do Paragon employees get free/cheap Paragon Points?