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Originally Posted by Lohenien

Yes people using lowball bids will get things more often - that is the point. Players will be able to see prices at a low end more often, and they may try to bid higher than the lowballers but still lower than their relist range. Even if people just remain ignorant and lazy, the influence is still draining out of the system to some degree and supply is improving.

Originally Posted by Lohenien

I'm a well to do multi billionaire in-game, this idea is suggested purely as an idea to improve the market for other users. A random 20% increase in most (not all) market items may or may not improve the market supply enough and may or may not reduce prices, but it will remove influence without taking away from the 'casual' players at all.

A straight reduction in influence earned will probably hurt casual gamers more since their limited time is now worth less in possible inf gain, meanwhile farmers will just adapt.

A straight increase in drop rates doesn't remove influence as much as my idea would because even if all of the extra drops were sold on market, that would only be 10% taken away in fees.

Originally Posted by Smurphy

Use the mechanics that exist now to accomplish what you want. You want to increase the drop rates and destroy Inf. So... increase the drop rates for items... reduce the Inf drop rate.

Originally Posted by Another_Fan

Not saying everyone on this thread is being so disingenuous but when someone is representing that a server is alive well when said server can't even muster up a Hamidon raid for a month at a time

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...hlight=hamidon

because the few people are taking a break, its not that healthy. A reasonable person might even call it dead.

Originally Posted by SerialBeggar

So I was going through Wentworths to see what Base Salvage pieces were actually going for. There seems to be someone buying up some of the mundane ones for about 13K. I also noticed quite a few had no history which I guess they hadn't had any activity since the last Market server wipe (what was that for again? I don't remember.) Would this mean that they are particularly rare?

Then I came across this baby:



My first thought was that someone used this salvage for an old school Influence transfer. However, we were given the ability to email attachments and Influence to ourselves 2 months prior to this transaction date and that's a lot of outstanding bids to risk such an maneuver. Was this a massive fat finger fumble? But the particular amount 1,400,000,005 argues against it.

Originally Posted by Fire_Minded

Ever heard that song? "Anything you can do I can do better!"

Iv been on the Hero side of things alot due to a Biast of Villians, but now with the approuch of GR, its been easier to look at Villians because of the diffrence in some power sets I can get Hero side.

Now Im starting to re-roll my Defenders into Corruptors.My Scrappers in Stalkers.I even Plan on making my Controllers into Dominators.

Ill be keeping a few builds like my FA/FM and SD/Axe Tanker and a Energy/MM Blaster.Other then that, theres almost nothing a Hero can do that a Villian cant do better.

Iv listened to people in PvP zones tell a Hero thats getting completly destroyed by 1 or more people and stated that Villians where too strong get replies along the lines of "NU-UH!Heroes are stronger!"

Which doesnt seem to be true...At all..

Except maybe in the case of maybe a Blaster or 2.

Then again, a Dominator "Claims" that a Blaster will still beat them, even if they are Perma-Dom'd and holding that Blaster for 8 seconds because that Blaster can still fire while Mez'd.

Not once have I seen a Blaster beat a Dominator in PvP without ganking it or getting the surprise drop on it to get the first few licks in.

Blasters have to BU+Aim the majority of the time, and if they are the highly talked about Psi/EM Blaster (which iv still never seen by the way), they still have to hit there Increased Range power up.Meaning thats even more time for that Dominator who is like a Juiced up Blaster without BUs get the first hits.Mezing the Blaster and ripping it into shreads before that Mez'd Blaster can even target the Dominator.

Then I come to the forums and see a whole diffrent side of things.People swearing up and down that such and such build owns in PvP, and then they post up a Mid's build of a Character they are just as likly to never make.(Hence why I dont see these mysterious and elusive Psi/EM builds running around in PvP).

Its a diffrent ball game in game vs the forums entirly.

Villians seem to have the edge over heroes in a massive way, and to me, going from Heroes to Villians because I can switch there sides is like taking the training wheel off of a bike.

Im not sure how everyone else here ont he forums feels, but forum goers are prolly not even 10% of the games population, maybe less.

Im curious if anyone here on the forums plays the game more then hey do sit on these forums playing with builds they may or may not ever use.

Originally Posted by Killer_Krock

Are there any plans, any possible solutions to the spinning out of control in game economy? Am I alone in thinking the markets and economy in the game need a fix? Maybe it is just my perception, but the price on items some of us want goes up and up like a rocket putting some things out of reach, seemingly forever. My veteran characters have several hundred million influence and infamy, and seem dirt poor. I can't play 10 hours a day to get the influ and merits I would need to build the character I would like, and I do not wish to be part of the problem, by purchasing influ from the web sites that sell "in game money" for real money. It appears to me the inevitable outcome is that one day I will log in, and everything in the market will cost the max (2 billion?). Is there any way to stop it? Please help. (fyi..I love the game that is why I feel so strongly about this)

Originally Posted by Slashman

Doubt I can find the link now. It was on the old forums. But if memory serves, the comment was that we were not above either 150K or 100K...I can't be absolutely sure which it was. I'm thinking it was 100K, but maybe not.

Originally Posted by Slashman

I also remember BABs posting a year or 2 ago that we were definitely not over 100K subs.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

You need to look more closely. They are running XP 64-bit so SP2 is the most current for them. There is no SP3 for 64-bit XP. HiJackThis even detects it as Server 2003 since XP 64-bit is built from the Server 2003 codebase, not the XP codebase.

Also, since those drivers all share the same characteristics on the dates I'd suspect it's not a US version of XP 64-bit or they have the date set to a format other than MM/DD/YYYY. That is common in non-US installations and apparently not something that Zloth was able to account for in CoH Helper. Since they stated it's the latest Catalyst driver they could find for XP 64-bit, I'll tend to take their word for that.

Originally Posted by Judas_Ace

Giving bonuses with a preorder is great for people that are thinking of buying the game and looking at it. The issue is how do you get more people to look at it in the first place?

Originally Posted by SPiNE

Yea, that would be challenging, but it's not really the kind of challenge I'm looking for. Just trying to find a Blaster combination that may make things more challenging. I don't really want to skip my entire primary and secondary and I don't really want to go from 1-50 without any enhancements lol. Just specifically looking for a combination that people think are challenging to play in general.