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Thank you for your support in this thread, but I tend to think Memphis Bill's suggestion is in fact the best proposition...

Stormy

I like the idea, it seems reminiscent of DAOC and WoWs binding stones...

Stormy

Would love to get the priestess costumes from cimerora...

Stormy

Mmm...

I am not sure if arbitrary reductions are the proper thing to do...

But I seen the effect of players with sufficient wealth to corner the market and sky-rocket the prices of items at the market.

So its a very good question on how to handle this, after all the real world stock market does have full time police organizations insuring this does not occur. How you simulate that in CoH? Frankly I am clueless how to do this fairly and effectively.

I think, a competitive environment to the market could serve as an external regulatory price control mechanism. There are several already in-game price control mechanisms, which perhaps needs to be further enhanced:

1. AE tickets:
You can buy orange and yellow salvage with tickets, both specifically what you want or random salvage results. You can get random recipes of any type (except purple) through random rolls.

Improving AE to let you buy white salvage would be a good idea, also having it where you can specifically buy recipes with tickets would also be appropriate, but the limit in tickets a player can have has to be drastically increased so a reasonable recipe to ticket exchange can be created. This could also resurrect the use of AE to some extent.

2. Merit System:
You can purchase any recipe (except purple) by trading AE merits, you could as well random roll for them as well.

I can't recall if you can purchase salvage through the merit system, but it would make sense if you could both specifically and randomly.

I believe the price in merits for recipes really need to be revised, while I agree the most complex and valuable recipe is worth 250 merits, some minor recipes should cost as little as 25 merits and have a good graduation of recipe prices beyond the 125,150,175,250 currently used; there should be more in between prices.


3. Vendors:
You can buy inspirations, and enhancements (Training, doubles, singles) from your friendly neighborhood contact or vendor, you can even sell your junk drops to them. Why not have them sell salvage and recipes as well? In fact they buy the stuff on the cheap from us, why not sell stuff for say ten times more than what they would buy from us? In a way, if you think of it, it would certainly place a cap on the market for stuff. While crazy, scalping priced items would cease to be available or would never get sold, one could still play the market, for we could sell recipies in the market for more than the vendor would buy them from us, and less than what we could buy the recipe from the vendor. What would be needed is what is the range of sell prices; that is how low the vendor buys and how high the vendor sells, to establish the player potential profitability in the market.


There may be other ways, any thoughts out there?

Hugs

Stormy

Hi!

How many times we are engaged in a thread or TF which includes go kill a bunch of mobs at a certain place, only to find that an event such as zombies, banners, or what not is happening there. I remember the aggravation of doing a Numina and being so unfortunate that the Banner event kept moving to our next hunt destination; it was aweful.

I am not advocating to stop the events, in fact lets have these more often, they do help with game immersion. But unfortunately they can and do interfere with other game content and immersion activities; so how to solve this dilema?

One way to solve this is to autocomplete any hunt that is to be performed in an area there is an event in progress, even if you started the hunt and the event spawns midways.

or

Remove the "hunt" locations, instead of having say defeat CoT at Steel Canyon, just have it where you can defeat any CoT anywhere. This way if there is an event, it does not impact your activity. In general by the time you do say a Numina, the mobs are below the groups level, so experience and threat is not an issue if the group goes hunt somewhere else than the original intended area.

What do you all think?

Hugs

Stormy

I am getting way too many temps, and somehow I am beginning to believe my chances of geeting an invention are now greatly reduced, and that i sreally bad.

I done a couple of ITFs, and normally I mdo get a reasonable number of invention recipe drops with some rares sprinkled among them. Lately I get droves of worthless temporary powers, and almost no invention recipes; I don't like that.

Stormy

Thank you so much...

Is there a way to get the characters' bios besides pulling them up and writting them down?

Sue aka Stormy

Hi:

I am in the process of writing my alts' bios in our SG web page, unfortunately I can't highlight, copy my ALT's bio so I could then copy it on word.

I figure, the bios for all of my alts, are to be located somewhere in my computer as opposed to the server; but I could be wrong.

If it is in my computer, where would the file be?

In the same vein, where are my characters' binds stored at?

Hugs

Stormy

Mmm...

I was asking last night about these temp powers and if drops were broken...

I am getting way too many temp powers and it seems at the expense of getting "real" recipes.

Like others, I hope this is only temporary, kinda of an introduction thing. Also would be nice if the temps had a description of what they really did.

Stormy

Aett, I totally agree, but there was no somewhere else to go to get that last 0.05% I was after.

Hugs

Stormy

For clarification purposes...

My power set up currently is:

1 Hami Acc Buff/Defense/Endurance, and 5 x IO Defense Buffs.

Before I was contrasting the overall effect of the present set up versus:

6 x IO Defense Buffs.

To my great satisfaction, the current set-up gave me the same defense boost, and the benefit of endurance reduction too!

As a result, it made me wonder about the ED mechanics some.

Stormy

Mmm...

Have you checked your laptop's update settings? There is nothing like windows self updating, or the infamous virus checker updater, or any other programs which may want to update anytime they randomly feel like; to wipe your bandwidth and take you to rubber-band-ville.

Hugs

Stormy

Hi:

I have a working understanding on ED and how each time you slot the same enhancement you get a diminhing returns. So far so good.

last night I was dinking in Mids trying to get a build just right. My original configuration was 1E and 5 Defenses, ya, I know I was desperate for that last fraction of a percent, but I still needed 0.01 to get to 45%, and I could get it by replacing the endurance IO with another Defense IO. But that meant I had no endurance hedges, and all 6 slotts were filled with Defense Buffs. So at a lark I replaced the endurance IO with a Hami Acc/End/Def enhancement. To my surprise I got to the 45% and gained endurance relief as well.

So after this long line of talking, giggles, does ED does its reduction of performance based only on the same type of enhancement, but if a second different enhancement which happens to give the same benefit not be counted against this stacking diminishing returns? That is the Hami diminishing performance has its own count, indpendent of the Defense Buff IOs?

Hugs

Stormy

Thank you, thank you!

Stormy

I have used the search feature trying to get "red name" or at least authoritative information that the Blessing of the Zephyr defensive bonuses are getting drastically reduced.

I don't know if it is true, a very solid rumor, or what.

I searched and searched with no luck, can someone please tell me if this is true, and if so what the new downgraded values will be? When will this be done? Are the developers making any allowances for "refunding" the cost of the IO?

Or point me out to a link, please, please?

Stormy

Please use the official thread linked in the post below. Thanks! -theOcho-

Lol that is funny!

But don't we have that already? Isn't the support classes (non-melee) for all practical purposes acting as side kicks? By becoming buff bots, heal bots, and good ole support to the melee classes?

Beyond that, interesting concept

Stormy

I understand how the Honoree can be a pain, depending on group composition. Since at Champions we have Thursday mothership raids, its easy to get lots of Vanguard Merits, and I make sure all o fmy alts have the HVAC robot. It is nice to have them as a back up capability for instances just as Honoree becoming to tough for the group, because we are shy on debuff.

Usually a single HVAC is enough to provide the debuffs needed to defeat the Honoree.

Hugs

Stormy

Mmm...

First welcome to the game, hope it grows on you as it has to many of us.

I am concerned with your post to some extent, but my experience has been that my Atlas contacts would refer me to other contacts in other zones, mainly King's and the Hollows.

Normally when you start the game, you get assigned to a contact, Azuria for those who are magic based such as I, but by the time I am done with her she has passed me on to another contact, and eventually I am referred to a contact at the Hollows or KR. I am wondering if somehow the process is broken and you did not get a reference.

I would suggest you return to your contacts at Atlas, and in the interface you should have a choice for being introduced to another contact; click it and say yes to the choice provided, often you are given several choices, read the descriptions often these choices are related to character power source, so if you are a tech type, look for a contact that would give you missions that gives you tech salvage.

Hugs

Stormy

Mmm

You all make a great point, and perhaps I have missunderstood how GR is going to work.

Here is my understanding, you all please correct me where I am wrong.

Hero goes Vigilante:
Hero retains access to blue missions and WW only.

Hero goes Vigilante then goes on to Villain:
Hero is now a Villain, has access to red missions and BM.

Villain goes Rogue:
Villain retains access to red missions and BM.

Villan goes Rogue then goes to Hero:
Villain is now a Hero, has access to blue missions and WW.

I did not gather from the information provided on GR that a Vigilante or Rogue would have access to content on either side or markets thereof; is my interpretation wrong?

Would be so cool if it was...

Stormy

Giggles, I had, but maybe you did not notice the subtle difference of what I am suggesting. My suggestion allows for both heroes and villains to operate within each other's domains with out changing your alignment. Changing your alignment thru GR would be practical some of the built in zone harrassment I suggested when visiting the other side.

Stormy