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Quote:I play on Triumph too. I don't stand around waiting to see someone to decide if people are there with all the zones and instanced missions because I don't expect people to come to where I am to let me know they are there.Originally Posted by Cambios
No, I'm not a doom and gloomer. I just resubscribed a week ago after 3 years away from the game. I'm not a hater. I'm giving CoX another shot after a long break.
I play on Triumph, and holy moly is it dead. I can go hours without seeing a single person. It is so much less than what I remember from a few years ago that it is shocking.
The point is, the game clearly doesn't have the population it once had. NCSoft kinda admitted that a few years ago when they stopped disclosing CoX's subscriber numbers in their quarterly statements. But so what - if the game is fun, that doesn't matter.
The part that DOES matter though, is when they keep the same number of servers, but don't give people a free way to do some transferring. Because there are a few servers that are super dead, and only 2 or 3 that are high activity most of the day/night.
My point is that a subscription is ultimately a lot better to have than a couple server transfers. Losing customers who get bored on low pop. servers can lose you a lot more money.
One final note: the red/yellow/green dots are all relative. They aren't raw numbers, so you really can't conclude anything from that.
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Quote:I'm not recommending you go hang out with a cat lady right away but if you have a loco relative that you can incrementally increase time with it helps in dealing with random random people.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Quote:To be fair it is what someone might read from this:Originally Posted by Casual_Player
That anger was so cunningly disguised, it escaped even me!
Quote:Originally Posted by Casual_Player
In comparison to this standard, the last year or two's collection of issues have been... lacking. And I mean Issues, not paid expansions- Praetoria is a brilliant piece of work that says the dev team still knows how to design and implement fascinating new places to visit.
Instead, we keep getting new game systems which I neither need nor use. PvP? Gutted and pointless, and I haven't used it since all the PvP'rs moved out of my home server. AE? Continually nerfed and drowned in farms. I stopped using it about 4 months after its debut. Going Rogue? Hopelessly entangled with A-merits. I've sent one character rogue just to see what it's like, got halfway, and stopped. I don't see myself ever using the system again. I'm told there are story lines buried in the random generator of tip missions, but it's harder finding them than it is finding something good in AE. Incarnates? The jury is still out. But I'll say that the problem I had with playing my 50s was NOT that they weren't powerful enough. I really don't see Incarnate powers/salvage adding much to my game.
The only new system I've used and enjoyed since its implementation is the market/invention system. Old-school rpg reflexes kicked in, saying, "Who doesn't love loot?"
So. Issue 20 seems likely to be all about the Incarnates. Fine, get that system finished and out of the way. But please, afterwards, can we get back to the good stuff? You know, the basic game? Revamp Boomtown, give us a space zone, an underwater zone, more Praetorian zones, more time travel set piece zones.
War Witch said that after Incarnates, they would be focusing on content. That's what I'm hoping for in 2011. A Return to the Gold Standard. -
Quote:Orange prison jumpsuit in her future?Originally Posted by Rylas
I always keep mixing up Isla and Amy. No wait, I mean Amy and Isla. I mean.... well ****.
Also, that photo of Lindsay would be better matched to an Oompa Loompa. -
Quote:http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Exemplar...n_EnhancementsOriginally Posted by Chyll
True enough, when running at 50, but what about when exemplared?
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My advice is to add piecemeal as you need or can afford. In the meantime check every drop for unmet demand in the market and see if you can sell it for more than the vendors pay and check your recipes to see if you can craft them and sell the enhancements for a profit.
Also place bids on things you want for less than the going rate and let them sit for a few days to a week. The reverse for selling here is you check to see if you can buy the crafted IO for less than the recipe plus salvage plus crafting cost.
Common IOs get dumped from time to time and you can get bargains there to tide you over until you get the set ones you want.
Me? I start IOs at level 7 as I can afford them since they don't expire like TOs, DOs and SOs. -
Ice gliding would be nice. I suppose it would be similar to blending Prestige Power Slide and Super Jump while generating an ice road underfoot that would fade/melt over time or distance of the character from it.
What would be the other 3 powers from the set or were you thinking just individual travel powers from an alternate travel power pool set? -
Quote:Fry would find a way.Originally Posted by Rylas
Wait, that's unpossible. How can they be clones and their own grandfathers?!?
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Quote:So scientific notation? Those zeroes aren't meaningless.Originally Posted by Megajoule
I understand this, but I would still, personally, like to see some of those superfluous and meaningless zeroes go away, if only to make the numbers easier to display, handle, etc.
Apart from that nothing other than deleting all inf from the game or changing to a new currency can do that and then they'd still need to limit earning and storing capabilities of players. -
I am finally watching Season 6. Just finished "Lighthouse" last night. At least now I know what the numbers referred to.
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Quote:PvP works well when players are limited in choices so it can be balanced but PvP with individual builds is problematic. I have never felt City was built well for PvPing even though it logically fits for heroes vs villains.Originally Posted by Charnell
Ok fair enough but I did post originally in response to Claws making claims about the game> So yeah I expected him to have at least a rough idea about the game. Travel suppression is quite an esoteric point to be familiar with compared to big issues such as open pvp. And seriously how many major MMOs have open pvp across the board? I know there are some but they are either ancient or niche.
And I can empathize with every single point about open PvP but it hasnt been that bad in beta and I know there is always the option of the pve servers.
And as far as I am concerned any superhero based game with heros and villains without a healthy pvp element is always going to fall short of what I personally expect from a superhero based game.
And playing in 4v4 matches as batman fighting harley quinn, bane, etc in arkham asylum is pretty damn SUPERHERO! :P -
Quote:I want that first idea of merit buying thing so much. I was just thinking that last night how I wish I could just buy my A-merit flat out with inf or buy the r-merits for it.Originally Posted by ChaosExMachina
If you can buy an A-merit (100 merits) for 20m + 50 merits, let people buy 50 merits too.
100k*level to take an enhancement off and into inventory
100k*level to move a slot to some other power (only if empty)
Add every temp power to a NPC where you can simply buy it with inf, much more expensively but more conveniently
I also like your suggestion of buying temp powers. I am all for simple options and it doesn't get any simpler than pay X inf to get something. -
So long Number 8. Watch out for #2 and best wishes on your moving and new place.
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I used to like the market teleport power but with the linked ferries and trains I find I don't need it as much. Now I've been getting the arena and PvP zone ones for the defense toggle power.
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By my definition of 'marketeering'*: 0
By the mass anti-market forces' definition of 'marketeering'**: all of them
* - flipping, buying recipes and salvage just to craft and sell for a profit. I did this 3 years ago for a while when I was working on my 22 Field Crafters. I also used to craft common IOs for profit like End Mods but haven't done that in over 2 years.
** - selling my drops in the market and buying what I want for my characters from the market. -
Quote:Have I ever mentioned how lazy I am?Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
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Quote:There's one under news and announcements for SG recruiting.Originally Posted by alyssa_jones
I read it all. Even some of the hyperlinked info. Feeling overwhelmed? Yeah, but a just a wee bit. A lot of it appears to only matter when I reach the higher levels, and since my highest toon is only 10, I got time lol
I noticed the SG subforum disappeared. How do I find one now!?
....it's so lonely
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Quote:That isn't what caused the I19 spike. It was AE monkey farms.Originally Posted by Auroxis
Inflation spiked post I19. Sure it slowly grew before, but I noticed a spike. I was wrong to say that my suggestion would fix the inflation, but it would help bring the situation back to what it was pre-I19.
You cannot solve a problem until you identify it and its cause. The cause of inflation in the game is too much influence chasing too few items.
We generate inf at insane rates with little to spend it on and as long as that is the case inflation on the better and best things will remain.
Meanwhile trash remains trash.
And I am still waiting for anyone to show that inflation on the better and best goods in a game is a problem. It's not real life where food and shelter are negatively impacted. -
My favorite part of you Crazy 88s are some of the names your characters have.
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Quote:But your premise was wrong and would not solve the problem.Originally Posted by Auroxis
Not really. If I had a problem with a lack of influence, why would I make a thread suggesting something that will make me more likely to lose influence?
Why did I make this suggestion? I think inflation isn't good for the game, and I had an idea on how to fix it without consuming dev resources or making players feel like they are losing out.
Inflation was there before I19 so shards are not the cause and how would running lower level TFs/SFs reduce inflation?
The inf is based upon the character's real level so an exemplared 50 is going to earn just as much inf from defeating foes as if they were fighting 50s.
I would also submit there isn't a problem with inflation existing because the reality is it can only exist in the market for the premiere goods and if it gets high enough it makes hero/villain merits even more valuable in getting those items.
So what if most people cannot afford a 2 billion PVP IO? So what if they don't want to pay 300 million for a purple which only a level 50 can slot any way?
If we're talking about anything else reward merits, hero/villain merits and AE tickets are the great equalizer if people are willing to make any effort. -
The official announcement said it runs through today. I expect it to be turned off during the Tuesday maintenance window. In the past they would have used Sunday's date and ended it during maintenance this morning.
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Quote:That stinks. I wish I could use my inf to get you a new card.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
If you have more than you know what to do with I will happily take it off your hands and convert it to prestige for some new bases.
(As soon as I get a new video card so I can play again.)
It's not that I have more than I know what to do with it's I have more than enough for what I can do and nowhere near enough for the 1 billion and higher things. So using a real life example, I can afford to go out to eat once a month without hurting my budget but saving that money for a 1960s Batmobile is out of the question so I just keep on going out once a month.
If I ever get to storing inf bidding on level 51+ items then I will have more than I know what to do with though and I'll PM you.
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Quote:You've kind of hit my nail on the head. I cannot understand any complaints of inflation unless it comes from "have nots" even if some people try to couch their positions as if they are standing up for others and not themselves.Originally Posted by Stormfront_NA
Ha ha ha
That is funny, buy low sell high...
The reason I interpreted the OP had a problem with lack of influence, was simply because he "is" having a problem due to inflation.
Now you may be wondering how I am making such an assertion that the OP has an influence issue?
If you have a tight budget, and the prices of what you want sky-rocket, as they had; you experience anguish. Now if the anguish is great enough, it is a natural reflex to post in forums seeking a way to relieve the pain.
If you are rich, and have influence coming out of your ears, you think you would notice inflation? Doubtfully, and extremely unlikely you would open a forum thread to seek relief over the inflation.
So my post, was advice on how to get rich. Even you, in your sarcastic filled posting, down deep in your mind; you knew it was lack of influence the actual problem and as a result you also gave advice as well on how to become rich, ha ha ha, "buy low, sell high"; I swear I heard that in some comedy movie...
Stormy
But I cannot take any solutions seriously because inflation will remain as long as the game keeps cranking out inf and drops from NPCs unless the devs went mental and capped us all at every level to 10 inf. -
And then what?
People at level 50 will still buy what they want and email it down to their alts to hold.
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Quote:First post after Hickman.Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Sorry for the delay, but I'm vacationing in Vancouver, and the wendigos are particularly thick this morning.
While I'm here, I'll remind everyone that Twilight Guardian #1 is due out next week, knock on wood. For every copy you buy, it extends your life by a year.
Well, OK, that's not true. But it'll make you WISH you had another year of life so that you could read it THAT much longer...