Smurphy

Malicious Multiplicity is an all Mastermind Supergroup in the Repeat Offenders network on Freedom.

Most Repeat Offender (RO) teams become a mesh of various RO SGs. All-XX RO teams aren't all that common. However, there are lots of players in RO and if you schedule a time for an all-XX team players usually come out in force.

I'd assume Corruptor, Defender and Controller would all be considered "ranged". If that was the case then this competition/race would be quite silly. Ranged would obliterate Melee... hence me saying I'd place 5 billion Inf on Ranged.

5 Billion Inf on the Ranged team if I can be part of it and if Corruptors, Defenders OR Controllers are considered "Ranged".

I'm unsure of the best but here is my build of SS/ELEC w/Regen

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=195080

That thread has some good ideas and numbers.

My SS/Elec. Build might be slightly out of date. That's the Brute I used to post most of the #s from several threads in the Brute forum recently. I use Soul for general play. Mu is a little more effective for AoE carnage but loses Darkest Night.

I think it is a "little" effective at mauling bad guys.

I think I see a spot on the graph that could be altered.

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.

Why not just increase the drop rate by 25% or 20%?

I can respect not wanting to share one's build. However, the concept of "I'm not telling anyone so no one will figure it out" is quite ludicrous and amusing. There are no "secret builds". There may be billions of possible build combinations mathematically but there are very few options realistically once the general direction of the build is understood. "Secret Builds" simply don't exist.

*Unless one intentionally makes sub-optimal choices to throw people off the trail to their "secret build". That right there is a cunning plan.

Running AVs was the only shortcoming of the various Emp teams I've been on. Usually you can just walk with them and shoot them. Since I can't get a nice Immobilize with Sonic blast I'll see how the Taunt plan works

Yes.

Before I load my settings, accept my Vet badges, close the first pop-up window, or anything else I hit /hide.

Vengeance doesn't stack. If two players hit Vengeance on one body likely only one Vengeance will occur. Vengeance only stacks when both are hit at the exact same time according to the server. This can occur on rare circumstances in regular play when two players hit Vengeance at the same time. The "normal" way to stack Vengeance is to have two or more players with Vengeance queue up the power and have another player teleport the body into range.

Vengeance doesn't refresh: if a player has Vengeance up and Vengeance is hit again it will not reset the timer to 120 seconds. Thus, if you see Vengeance blinking like it is going to wear off in 10 seconds and a teammate dies to refresh it and you...
1) Press Vengeance immediately --> Vengeance wears off in 10 seconds and the 2nd Vengeance is wasted/does nothing
2) Wait for the blinking to cease and Vengeance 1 to wear off and THEN press Vengeance --> New Vengeance will last 120 seconds.

I strongly recommend having both Vengeance and Fallout.

I copy/pasted this from somewhere else. If you think items are "too difficult" to obtain or "too expensive" to purchase you should ask for increased drop rates and/or reduced merit prices.

1. The market fee is a significant Inf sink.
2. Prices stabilize around a balance point where inf created is roughly equivalent to inf destroyed.
3. This stabilization point often shifts upwards due to changes in the game:

1. more players being level 50
2. easier to reach level 50 (patrol XP, XP curve, more experienced playerbase, difficulty settings)
3. double Inf drops for level 50s
4. generic recipes and other things being sold to venders increases Inf earned
5. mission architect where most players receive more Inf than items

4) Prices, recently, have been near that stabilization point



In general, purple prices have plummeted drastically. Prices for salvage have stayed mostly the same. Pool C prices, in general, have risen slightly. However, there are many examples of significant drops and significant increases in prices.

I recorded roughly 100 purple recipe sales redside on July 9th at midnight. The sales totalled 11,115,000,000. One point one (1.1) billion Inf was removed from the game, redside, from purple recipes alone yesterday. Bionic_Flea's LGTF today, to use as an example, produced him 7M Inf in 2 hours. Purple recipes alone, redside, today, destroyed the equivalent of a little more than the Inf earned by 300 players doing what Bionic_Flea just did.

Players, likely, do not have the data collection capabilities to calculate how much players earn and how much they destroy. However, players do KNOW that there is a balance point where Inf destroyed is roughly equivalent to Inf created. In other words: prices cannot rise above a certain point because players cannot afford those prices. In yet other words: the same volume of luck charms cannot be sold today at a price of 200,000,000 Inf because players can't make that much Inf. Some prices are out of reach of players. If such a scenario did exist more Inf would be destroyed than created.

Prices generally rise mostly because the Devs keep creating systems that allow players to produce more Inf than they did before. The point of balance keeps being shift. If such systems were not created (which none have been for the past several months) prices remain relatively stable. An example of relative stability is the past 3 months for Pool A, B, C recipes, enhancements and invention salvage. Will the Incarnate System and Going Rogue allow players to produce more Inf than before? If yes then prices will rise.



If the Devs wish to reduce the amount of Inf in the system then they should reduce the amount of Inf being created. The amount of Inf earned by level 50s for defeating the same foes (defeating 100 standard even con minions) is more than double the Inf level 49s earn.

Perhaps the picture above should look more like a gentle slope than a soaring skyscraper.

I've been away a few days. I do plan on taking Challenge and Provoke on my Emp/Sonic.

Are there any maps that have the potential to drop purple recipes that are efficient to run and where Burn is effective? The only potential candidate I can think of is the Snake map in Mercy with the eggs and oodles of bosses. That one is uh... difficult... but do-able... sometimes.

On maps where the enemy groups are spread out, the individuals in each group are spread out, and where the aren't ambushers I have been unable to leverage Burn in a manner that would make it efficient to use. Liberate and other "standard spawn maps" all fit into that category. On these types of maps I have been more efficient with my SS/Fire by NOT using Burn. Burn has been extremely effective on maps where the enemies were already very tightly packed or the enemies ambushed me and become very closely packed on their own.

I would be greatly interested in someone demonstrating to me what, if anything, I am doing wrong on standard style maps like Liberate. Burn's small area of effect made it difficult for me to use for anything besides finishing off a boss I immobilized. I'd fence, burn, and leave him to his fate. This strategy did not generate much, if any, increased efficiency. If you can generate better #s using your SS/FA and Burn on Liberate than the #s I provided a few posts up and are willing to show me what I'm doing wrong please send me a tell, PM, post here, share a video or somehow enlighten me. I can bribe you if necessary I want to learn.

I am not against adjusting the rate at which Prestige is earned.
I am against adjusting the Inf to Prestige rate to a point that would make it "too efficient."

At a certain Inf to Prestige Rate it becomes more efficient to earn Prestige by playing outside of Supergroup mode. I consider this rate "too efficient", I consider that "bad", and I am against adjusting the rate to such a point.

You have defeated Operation Engineer
You gain 6,396 infamy.
You have defeated Operation Engineer
You gain 3,198 infamy.
Repeat Offenders Legion gains 16 prestige.

From this one example Inf converts to Prestige at ~200 Inf to 1 Prestige. (3,198 Inf / 16 Prestige = 199.875). If the Inf to Prestige conversion rate was 100 to one then it would be more efficient for me to play outside of Supergroup mode to earn Prestige. If the rate was 100 to 1 I would earn the standard 16 Prestige and 3,198 Inf for defeating Operation Engineer inside SG mode. If the rate was 100 to 1 I would earn 6,396 Inf outside SG mode. I could convert half that Inf to prestige and gain 31 Prestige. Thus, I could have more Prestige and the same amount of Inf playing outside of SG mode. I consider that "bad" and something that should be avoided.

I am not against adjusting the rate at which Prestige is earned. If the Devs wish players to earn Prestige more easily then they should adjust the Prestige drop rates and/or keep the rates at some value higher than 250:1. Perhaps an Operations Engineer would grant 31 Prestige instead of 16... or 50... or 100. I have nothing against any of those examples. Other enemies, obviously, could be adjusted in a similar manner. If the drop rate in Prestige is changed the balance point for the conversion rate would change as well.

Everything in the quote box has to do with Inflation and thus is best suited for its own thread and not discussed here. If you wish to discuss such a topic I suggest starting one and copying the information below. Feel free to claim it as your own, alter it, change it, etc.