Roderick

As long as you've still got that Sailor Moon number from the picture Zwill posted, you'll ALWAYS have #swag, BP.

You answered your first question with your second one: Salvage fluctuated (at least in part) because of Field Crafter. When someone wants to get a lot of memorization badges quickly, they need a lot of salvage. The easiest place to get it is the Auction House. The nature of the bidding process means that someone buying up a lot of a single type of salvage will use up all the cheap stuff, causing spikes in price.
Likewise, people crafting large amounts of certain enhancements - either for personal use of for resale - can cause similar spikes in Uncommon and Rare salvage.
The fact that the various types of salvage aren't balanced in their use - some are used in dozens of recipes, others in just a handful - also contributes to the flux and variation in prices.

As to the "overpaying" for common IOs, some people value their time far more than their Inf. When you can make 3-4 million/hour just off defeats (and some can do much more), PLUS significantly more by selling drops, it's easier to just drop 500,000 Inf on a common that to bid creep and try to save an insignificant amount.
I consider myself a low-end earner in the Market forum, and yet I still drop 500,000 to 1,000,000 each on level 25 and 50 common IOs (I don't use other levels, unless I'm crafting them myself out of salvage I have on hand).

I have no reason to believe that the system was automatically buying or selling anything (except maybe on Beta, but I'm pretty sure the system-created goods on Beta were manually generated). Activity that I've seen discussed in the Market forum, and that I've partaken in myself, explains all of the "oddities" I've seen to my satisfaction.

Sorry to tell you this, but... NCSoft killed that, too.

http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.....html#msg68778

It's way off. That mission CAN be abandoned, and is NOT permanently on your list. His issues with abandoning it stem from the fact that it's been selected as the Active Mission.

You can't abandon your active mission. Just select the other mission you want to do, and click the "Select Task" button. At that point, you can enter the newly selected mission, ignoring the previous one, or Abandon the now-unselected one.



Note that abandoning an active mission does NOT make it inactive; it removes it from your list.

Other methods of deselecting a mission include typing /leaveteam or logging out and back in.

That's been disproven already, just like all the other rumors about what's going on.

Edit: Hell, the article you linked outright said that it's probably just an internet rumor, and listed more facts that make it unlikely - like NCSoft's denial of the rumor, and Gabe Newell's refusal of EA's offer and his quote saying he'd dissolve the company before letting it be bought out - than ones supporting the rumors.

I like how he edited the offending part to say "**** off" in both, so that in his reply it says "I didn't tell anyone to **** off, what I said was "Blah blah blah ... play the game or **** off."

Since I was late to the party, I didn't see the unedited post, so I was scratching my head wondering WTF he was talking about.

It's a crying shame that this wasn't a dug thread, especially since he seems to be posting again.

Huh. I completely forgot about that one.

Yeah, Twilight's Son is only available in Hero Ouroboros, and Tesseract is only in Villain Ouroboros, so you will need to fully switch over to get that one. Fully switching to villain wouldn't be a bad idea though, especially if you've previously been a hero-only player. There's a lot of good content redside to try out.

What makes you think that SD was talking about appearances? I've met literally tonnes of people who look completely normal, but as soon as they open their mouths, the creepy factor goes through the roof.

First impressions start when you first see the person, but they don't end there. The entire first meeting, up until the point where you part company counts as "first impressions".

That wasn't the heal generating aggro. When you attacked, you were put on their aggro list. NOTHING short of your death, theirs, or a Placate will remove you from that list, though you can be bumped really low. As long as the enemies are in combat mode, they can attack anything on their list, though they show a preference for the ones at the top.

It's most likely that the tank was pushing himself over the aggro cap and shedding aggro on the extra enemies, who started going after the next thing on their aggro list - you.

Daos is not part of the Arc. And Khelds can still select a Patron and earn the badges, they just can't select Patron Powers. Preventing them from taking a Patron would lock them out of two badges, including the one necessary to start the Lord Recluse Strike Force.

No, you can't change it. As with any other contact, once you've selected them, they're on your list for good. And in the case of the Patrons, there is no other way to unlock them.

SSA = Signature Story Arc, the first seven of which are the "Who Will Die" arcs. They are VIP arcs, but can be purchased by Premium players.

Not that that seems to matter any more. Glad you got your recipe!

And you wanted to replace it with:

You would remove the NEW and NPC lines from the first and replace them with the same lines from the second, giving you:

And then you'd change the numbers so that it was:


I just used NPCs here to keep it short. There's a LOT more lines in the definition of a PC (or custom critter) model, so you have to make sure you get rid of all the unwanted lines.

Again, if you can post the code, I can take a look and see if I can find what's going on for you.

Damn, it's a sausage-fast in here.

I take umbrage to that statement! Boys are just as capable of being petty and quarrelsome as.... Hey, wait a minute!

I never said I wasn't nice. You sure do make a lot of assumptions about people.

I said no such thing. Prior to this very sentence, none of my posts in this thread contain the word "troll", except in quotes of other posters.

Reading comprehension failure.

I never made any definitive statements about the contents of your post. I stated what I thought "It seems to be". Many things are other than what they seem to be.
Also, claiming that I think I understand part of your post, but can't make heads nor tails of the rest is in no way a contradiction.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I'd post the picture to go along with it, but I'm posting from my phone, and doing so would be a HUGE hassle that would involve, at the very least, retyping everything in this post so far. Yes, my phone sucks. C'est la vie.

A cursony scanning of the thread will quickly reveal a post by Satanic Hamster that starts with "I need...". Which other post of his could you possibly have been thinking I referred to?

So this:

was directed at the OP, and not Satanic Hamster?

If so, you seem confused. If not, then I ask again, what question did Satanic Hamster ask?

Wanting to be heard is not necessarily the same as wanting the listener to act on the expressed needs or desires.

I never said anything about wanting taco is. You seem confused.

My point was that, just because Satanic Hamster stated that he needed something, does not necessarily mean that he expects that need to be fulfilled by the people reading it. It merely means that he was stating a need, and wanted it to be known. Likewise, I stated my desire for tacos because I want people to know that I want tacos, not because I expect them to rush over to my house and prepare them for me. That would be ridiculous.

Someone missed the point, but it wasn't me. You seem confused.

You posted on a public forum. You aren't allowed to dictate who is or isn't allowed to read, comment on or respond to your posts. If you DO want such control, then replies you want to remain private should be relegated to the provided Private Messaging system.

As to whether or not I am nice? I never claimed to be. However, I didn't taKe it on myself to write a huge scathing rebuttal to someone who posted something I felt the need to correct. I didn't post said rebuttal in a public forum, and then complain about people's response to it.

And just to make you feel better, I went back and read your diatribe.

I still have no idea what you're talking about. It seems to be some weird rambling mish-mash of your assumptions of what the OP said, some weird conspiracy theory about NCSoft polling us in secret, and a lot of stuff that I couldn't make heads or tails of.

By the way, what question DID Satanic Hamster ask after calling... someone ... fanboys? The fanboys comment was the last thing he posted before your rant. Even if it was just an error in tense and you were referring to something else... What? I don't see any questions from him. Stating a need doesn't mean that that need must be fulfilled by anyone in this thread.

I want tacos for dinner.

Does that mean that I expect someone in this thread to provide them for me?

Edit: scooped and one-upped in a single pony... er... post.

*were