Quasadu

(edit becuase I quoted the wrong post)

I just lost at least 10 points of IQ reading the comments on that article.

I must not have had many to begin with, since I was dumb enough to start reading the comments in the first place.

Some of them were right about one thing though: Jeph Loeb = fail.

This Saturday marks two months since Issue 18 was released, bringing with it the market merge many people claimed would bring doom to the game.

It's reasonable to say that many new systems the developers have introduced over the years have not been quite as well received or successful as hoped. PvP was unbalanced and buggy from the start, and all attempts to improve it have just made things worse. Base raids and IoP's never worked properly, and bases themselves have always felt like a system that was slapped together and badly needs a rebuild from the ground up. Even the fantastic Mission Architect system has been beaten up in the effort to reduce abuses of the system.

The markets and inventions, on the other hand, have brought a whole new dimension to the game and, despite a bug or two with specific IO's, or wailing and gnashing of teeth from players who want everything but don't want to learn how to get it, the market and inventions have been a huge success and arguably the best additions, as far as mechanics go, the game has ever had.

Blueside, that is. Redside, the market has always been less stellar. It worked and those who knew how were certainly able to play that market, but no one can deny that there were serious supply shortages. I don't think there was ever a shortage of capital, and certainly demand was high, but supply was always limited and therefore that market was far more volatile and unpredictable.

I'm a villain - ever since City of Villains was released, I have spent far more time in the Rogue Isles than I have in Paragon City. I have four level 50 heroes, compared to at least a dozen level 50 villains. All my inf and all my interest is on that side of the game, so the volatility of that market has always been a thorn in my side. I've played that market but never seriously, because I kept getting scared that I was going to lose big (I did get caught holding a bag full of Impervium Armors that had dropped to less than half what I paid for them at one point - that was my worst investment ever). I was one of the folks begging for a market merge that I was told could never happen.

I've been playing the market seriously ever since Issue 18 dropped almost two months ago, and I've yet to have a real, serious loss. I've never been caught holding a bag of enhancements or salvage that I can't at least break even on. I'm making inf without even thinking about it, and I'm always able to buy what I want for my builds (although it can take time on a lot of mid-level range stuff).

So no doom.

This is a triumph, devs. Thanks.

That's awesome.

(Edit to add) And it reaffirms my confidence in my general policy of listing all my white salvage at 1 inf and then just buying what I need when I want to craft something. I haven't tracked it but my impression is that I am making an enormous profit over what I'd be getting from vendoring, with about the same mental effort as vendoring. This experiment suggests that I'm probably right.

Thanks

Here we go - not my first billion but... uhm... well, my most recent, I guess.

Sweet. I've got a monthly budget for what I let myself spend on comics, and most of what I'm buying these days is DC. I should be able to add a couple titles every month with the price drop.

Nice!

I've got a lot of toons with the free merits from the DP level bump that can roll, so I'm willing to do a bunch of rolls (assuming I can get onto test - haven't tried in a while). If someone is going to do something with the data, of course.

I remembered!





On Sunday, when I got a SMG drop...