PumBumbler

Close your browser(s). I was getting miserable frame rates with too many (ugh) flash/shockwave sessions. Video flash was sucking about half of my performance away.

'Chasing the dragon" is a term from the days of the opium dens. Basically it means 'a waste of time.'

The OP has recognized that his build is a waste of time yet he still insists upon this course of action. It is a poor decision compounded by another poor decision yet he feels that he is insulted that his route, while possible, is the slow and long road to hell.

There is nothing left for anyone to do at this point but to point and laugh. The better people tried to dissuade him from making the journey, but he has insisted. He probably wants to call himself a martyr for a greater cause.

Right now I'm just hoping he posts this 'letter' that he said he would write to the devs. I really hope it is printed so they can put it up in their common room and have ample 'discussion' about the nature of his proposal and secret cabal of evil marketeers that have cornered the market.

Although some people have said it is important to refute the OP's claims because they are so wrong headed, I'm pretty sure anyone walking into this thread now gets the idea that the OP hasn't got a grasp on reality when it comes to the market and builds. The horse has been flayed to the bone.

Not sure what resolution you're running at but I can always suck up the performance of the GPU so SLI/Crossfire is important to me.

Bzzt.

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But the cake is a lie! Never fall for the cake!

I think the devs would rather have us PvP for IOs versus trying to buy them.

Hmmm...now that would be an epic screenshot. Mass deletion of 2B+ PvP IOs while sipping tea and eating crumpets with the Monocle and Top Hat crowd.

At what cost? Then what you would have is everyone running around with the 'ultra-rare' items which won't be that rare anymore.

There is a reason why the items are rare: the Devs want them to be. Flooding the market with supply would be cutting off your nose to spite your face because there would be nothing to work towards anymore.

Your idea of anything trading for more than 2B being your definition of griefing, must make you a graduate of the Je Saist School of MMO design.

And your accusation is the first line of every two bit UFO believing conspiracy theorist. Scientists and courts of law tend to demand evidence of things like the things you are spouting off, yet you've been going on and on about things like everything you've said is gospel. Too bad most of the things you've gone on about was factually wrong yet you keep clinging onto your paranoid fantasies. You remind of the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

The simple fact of the matter is that there is literally Billions of influence being made every day in this game. Why don't you tell me what they do with that influence besides chasing the same small market for ultra rare goods? Do you even acknowledge the basic elasticity of a supply and demand equation?

Obviously you've seen more than everyone else in the market forums and you've decided what is 'really going on here'. Let me put it this way, if you are so smart why can't you devise a fool proof way of showing the market manipulation that is going on with these ultra rares? How about just a basic test?

All the poor fools here can do is make billions of influence by selling stuff and tell you that you're flat out wrong. I guess that proves that they are all 'in on it'.

Again you are clinging to this idea that someone is cornering the market on ultra rare items. Show me some evidence that this is happening or else drop it. The people who have made billions on the market are telling you it's not realistic, they are making their money differently. Proof or this is just another paranoid delusion.

The Devs will probably agree that runaway inf is causing massive inflation, but price capping is definitely not the way to fix it. Also, many of the devs may not be aware of the issues at hand regarding how much inflation there is.

The biggest problem with fixing things is that there has been zero suggestions that have been reasonable in reducing inflation, even in this limited game context. If you have a viable way of changing that you should put down the keyboard because you are likely to get a call from the Nobel committee for your prize in economics. Most of the experienced people here have already heard your suggestions before from other people. You repeating yourself and then accusing them of having ulterior motives simply puts you on the wrong side of things.

You are complaining because you feel you are discouraged because it would take you 7 years to build a top tier toon using one method to get there. Let me put it this way, a new player doesn't have the same prejudices regarding the market as you. If you were to put a new player on the map and ask, "are you motivated to get a top loot toon?", the ones that said yes would use any and all means to get there.

That would include AE, the market, reward merits and alignment merits. I would guess that it would take a person 1 year to do that from scratch. Any person who's been here for longer could do it in 6 months from scratch.

You are only angry because it would take YOU 7 years to do it. The Devs probably thought you'd be happy having a way to do it outside of the market, because it was a lot harder before alignment merits were introduced. Just goes to show that good deeds never go unpunished.

The first time I got the crafting bench/crafting badges it broke my will to spend lots of time running back and forth getting salvage and recipes, and needing to be in a specific zone to optimize my workflow. Unlike a lot of other people I know, I try to have as few 50s as possible, since it minimizes my management hassles about which mouth to feed during events, badges etc.

I'm just intellectually lazy that way. The less I think I need to do in this game the more it is less like a job for me.

Usually the folks I hang out with are doing lots of things like TFs and trials and zone events so bringing a lowbee is guaranteed to get more xp than I know what to do with. For example, getting 500-1000 vanguard merits during a single ship raid is pretty much par for the course when we decide to run them. I'm not sure how other servers are running their raids, but it seems like a power leveling session is going on when ship raids are going down.

Since I don't bother planning ahead on my toons (rarely bother with MIDs), selecting powers and slotting just gets in my way when there's another TF to organize instead. I'll just click something and go, leaving it unslotted until I have some "down" time, which usually means it gets pushed off.

I'm pretty sure not very many people play like I do, if any at all. I'm the disheveled homeless guy at the end of your street who's got stuff like Howard Hughes. :P

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Because you're so dashing?