SwellGuy
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Quote:I may not be able to keep them from going into the options and turning it off but if they do I can keep them from logging in again for a very long time.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Just like to point out something Bill, Parents can't keep their kids from going into options and turning the filter off.
Now personally swearing and cussing doesn't bother me in the least, but I do understand that everyone doesn't share my tolerances so I respect my fellow players enough to keep it to a minimum on the public channels when playing. When I'm on the private channels where I know everyone and they know me then it's okay to relax and let loose with the vulgarity.
The same goes with the ERP chat. I don't give a rat's *** what people say in private channels, but it doesn't belong on the open channels where minors or the overly sensitive can read it.
I've done that when I see them being rude or obnoxious. Was Barney Fife the character that has the "nip it in the bud" quotes? -
I am amused by the filter in the sense that I enjoy seeing the words turned into bleep or !@!#!$ characters.
I don't know why.
I will never report someone unless they are in broadcast and deliberately doing things to go around the filter. And then I am not reporting them because their words offend me but their intentional effort to do it seems jerkish to me. -
I had never played an MMO but was interested with the announcement of Star Wars Galaxies.
My brother was playing EverQuest and told me I should get to know the basics of an MMO before SWG was out so he got me into EQ.
Then in November 2003 he told me about City's video on the website and I was interested in checking it out.
When City came out in May 2004 I picked it up and was hooked and cancelled my sub to EQ a few weeks later. When I tried SWG on a free trial it was lacking so many things I enjoyed in City I never subbed to it. -
With magic!
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Quote:As I can see those days getting ever closer I will fight them off and keep tying my shoes until my fingers refuse to obey.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
Did no one pay attention to the part in the video where the inventor said she made them to help old people, perhaps with arthritic hands?
>.>
What I really need is something to make it easier for me to game with these ever stiffening mitts.
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Quote:This is probably more for the growing number of people who cannot bend over and reach down that far. And this will help add to those numbers too.Originally Posted by sleestack
Thank $diety! I'm soooo tired of having to do things like bend over, manipulate objects with my fingers and then, after ALL THAT I have to straighten up again! That's just not right!
Perhaps it is time to sell a horse's feedbag designed for humans to wear. -
I watched it. I liked it. And I hope it doesn't go off on a bad direction and stink.
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Quote:Well here are ways it is dangerous/stupid:Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
All I'm saying if someone wants to pay $13.85 for a billion (thx Swellguy), not sure how thats stupid.
1. They may steal your credit card information.
2. If you get caught you get banned.
Personally even if it were 2 cents for 2 billion inf I would never take either of those risks. Besides the game works fine, even well, with just SOs. I've only gone nuts on two builds (spent around 3 billion plus my own drops over about a year) and while both of those characters are better than they were with SOs and common IOs they aren't enough better to justify buying inf to me.
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andQuote:I think its great you have that kind of a handle on the market, I actually dont enjoy spending much time flipping stuff...just me. Between work and family, I don't have as much time to farm/market as as I'd like and when I do have the chance to play, I just like to play. I can't imagine my situation is so different from most.
I would recommend do just play. Don't bother with the markets unless it is something you want to do. I hate stopping to go to the markets to buy and sell and often don't upgrade my characters as I am playing until I feel like going shopping.Quote:I'm going to have to spend more time at the market to make those billions a week.
The only characters people ought to spend time shopping for are PvP characters or ones you plan to play at 50 and beyond. Otherwise it should only be done as an diversion/amusement. -
Quote:I use Bing to get to the main City of Heroes website each morning rather than save it as a favorite and some turkeys bought the top spot because this morning for the first time an RMT site came up on top.Originally Posted by macskull
You are seriously overestimating the difficulty of making money in this game. If it were any easier it would literally rain inf. I can make billions of inf a week with only a bit of time spent at the markets and without having to farm at all.
I, for example, have dozens of well-built PvP characters across multiple servers and I've never even thought about resorting to RMT to fund even the most expensive of those builds.
I wanted to share the comedy with you all.
LOL hard to farm.Quote:At the time, we can supply City of Heroes Influence for you. Although it is hard to farm City of Heroes Influence, But we will try our best to keep our store full everyday, so that our customers can order it freely. And normally all orders will be transferred in 10minutes, Our expert workers in the delivery department have been ready to work for you .
As to their prices, $6.92 gets you 500 million influence and I have to wonder how/why anyone would buy 20 billion influence ($277.18)
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Nethergoat suggested in his heroic flipper thread that there be flipper Fridays but he wrote he was too lazy to do it.
I figure that while I am also incredibly lazy I would volunteer to choose a piece of salvage and an IO recipe for the flippers to descend upon like locusts each Friday.
So for Friday October 1, 2010 I propose the flippers swarm on:
Salvage: common Stabilized Mutant Genome
Recipe: level 35 Time and Space Manipulation: Stealth
Good luck flippers.
I debated about starting this on Thursday night but decided to give the anti-flippers time to stock up on the items. Though that would probably mean they are flippers themselves... -
I was thinking about the Goat's Flipper Fridays and I like it.
So I am going to start a separate thread on that. -
Quote:Same.Originally Posted by Misaligned
Srsly. I'm hungry now
And dinner isn't for over an hour. I has a sad.
I started thinking of all the things I could have with cheese in or on it and that made it worse. -
I really like Batman: The Brave and the Bold but Cartoon Network needs to air it more often so I quit missing it so often.
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Quote:I'm not sure it can be proven that the market would stabilize at a lower price without flipping. I'm not sure it can be proven that the market would stabilize at all without people flipping.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
No matter who was on the tracks.
Yes. You are 100% correct that you are stabilizing the price.
BUT, you're stabilizing it at a higher average cost than if you didn't exist.
Proof? Your profit. From where did it come? From other players. Your profit doesn't magically appear out of thin air.
This thread makes the judgment that this service of stabilization is overall a good thing for buyers and sellers. That is where the economic voodoo comes into play.
If left alone by flippers, the market would stabilize at a lower price. Just because there is volatility doesn't mean there is DOOM for buyers and sellers (who actually produced the good and will consume it). A little patience and time would stabilize the market.
Flippers capitalize on volatility. Which does indeed reduce the volatility -- I'm not arguing that that is not the case. But that 'service' comes at a cost. The cost of the profit of the flippers. Which winds up driving up the average price of the goods.
Arguing that the average price is not driven up by flippers is pure self-serving willful ignorance.
BTW, 'flippers', if flipping actually creates a market for sellers, then make Kinetic Weapons worth selling.
I will accept that they raise the floor of prices but there's no way to determine what would happen to the average time of execution.
Sure the average prices could be lower but the average time to get a sale/buy might grow too. I value time over play money so I prefer their stability in time to execution of sales.
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Quote:Like that ever stops them.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Since flippers operate within the rule structure of the game your example is a leaky burlap sack full of fail.
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Quote:Yet they gave a-merits to get purples and PVP recipes. Merits and a-merits to get other IOs.Originally Posted by Lothic
As long as you're talking "normal" merits and not A-merits that'd probably be fine.
Assuming of course the Devs ever consider -any- alternate method to get these things.
So they gave two alternate paths to most IOs and one alternate (a-merits) for all IOs.
It's pretty ridiculous to maintain that costume unlocks are more precious than IOs and they increased the costume recipes drop rate when people objected to their rarity 3 years ago.
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Quote:I can already tell you their canned response to your reasoned comment:Originally Posted by Misaligned
Oh for crying out loud...
Who here has a retirement fund?
*Looks at all of the raised hands*
You're all flippers. Every last one of you. You're buying something with the sole intention of selling it for more than you paid for it.
*shakes head*
Imagine the stock market without "flippers".
Works pretty well, doesn't it?
"This is a game and it's supposed to be fun not work."
Of course the counter to that is that the flippers are having fun. -
Quote:Maybe we could all PvP for a month?Originally Posted by Nethergoat
We could form a union with the farmers, call a general strike then watch the 'casual gamers' go all Mad Max on each other.
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Quote:Are you keeping score when your new Talen supplied signature gets 'used'?Originally Posted by Nethergoat
You do not win a bid without offering the highest current price.
You do not sell an item without having the lowest currently listed price.
These are foundational pillars of the CoH market and as such a 'general truth'.
Honestly I wish it were possible to get all flippers to take a month off and watch some real whining on the forums about market prices.
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I used to keep track of my time to 50 and I mostly solo.
#1 dm/inv scrapper: 481 hours
#2 fire/fire blaster: 599 hours
#3 inv/ss tanker: 422 hours
#4 bots/ff mastermind: 454 hours
#5 warshade: 345 hours
#6 grav/rad controller: 339 hours
#7 energy melee/energy aura stalker: 317 hours
#8 fire/fire brute: 174 hours
#9 fire/psi dominator: 175 hours
#10 ill/storm controller: 190 hours
#11 spines/fire scrapper: 157 hours
#12 arachnos soldier: 224 hours
#13 peacebringer: 255 hours
and my widow will get there sometime this week though I would have to check a civilian for time.
I'm not seeing any onerous efforts to solo to 50 especially in the past 2 years and if you can run at x1/+1 you level significantly faster than x1/+0 but even my peacebringer and Arachnos soldier didn't take that long. -
a-merits, r-merits, I don't care just let us buy the unlockable costume pieces already.
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Quote:Well not everything. This is just play money. I'd never treat my real money the way I treat inf. Unless of course I could earn it as easily and quickly as I earn inf.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I find it refreshing, or perhaps horrific, that this thread exemplifies everything that is wrong in the real world of finance these days.
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I find two aspects of tips to be annoying.
The first is the max of 3 or remaining open fame spots. I understand not getting more tips than you can use up to a point but it is such an artificial limitation and I enjoy the tip missions.
The second is the 5/day of the 10 slots. I would find it far less annoying if we could get one more than half per day. So if 10 slots, able to get up to 6 or reduce the slots from 10 to 8 and leave it at 5/day. It would still take at least 2 days but would alleive some of the urgency you can feel about getting them. -
Quote:Considering the source it's not that surprising.Originally Posted by Frogfather
Thats disingenuous at best.....the devs put alternate forms of supply that mitigate market interaction for those that dont want to deal with a consignment house. Flippers do not equate to the market, nor can you define the original intent.
I especially enjoyed the assumption that AE tickets are an anti-market tool as opposed to simply an alternative to regular drops for the players. Not to be outdone was the introduction of merits to thwart people running just one TF over and over.
But it does serve to illustrate the "thinking" of those who see the dark magiks of the flippers as the source of all the things in the market they don't like. -
Quote:Why do you think you NEED an Obliteration IO?Originally Posted by plainguy
When someone is selling Obliteration IO for 50 million.. To a player like me it might as well be 1 billion.. I just tried my chance to get a Obliteration IO from rolling silver rolls which gives me a 50% chance to get a rare from table A and rolls from table B.. Since both tables had Obliteration IOs I gave it a shot.. I tried to roll for lower levels since it was slightly cheaper. After spending 6000 tickets I didn't get a single Obliteration.. I did get a crap load of turtle something from the slow set. 6K worth of tickets is about a months worth of work.. Pretty much all down the tubes.