SwellGuy
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Quote:ooo secret identities!Originally Posted by Zwillinger
On the nose.
Our personal accounts are no different than your personal accounts.
We just have the added benefit of not telling anyone who we are IRL
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Quote:8 years ago that was me. Unless your game time is actually keeping you from job hunting it is a very worthwhile diversion because there is no way to hunt 24x7 and hunting is very discouraging.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
I would quit looking for a job, buy a modest house and live off the interest while I sit around and play video games all day every day. The bulk of that money would never be touched in my lifetime.
Basically what I'm doing now, only with a house of my own and without the depression that comes from being unemployed and guilt that comes from playing video games when I should be looking for more jobs. -_-
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Quote:That's cuz I am going to win it.Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
According to CNN it might swell up to $640 million tonight.
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Quote:I wanted to add one other pro-laptop reason over desktop and one pitfall of laptops.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Unless you're moving around a lot and playing CoH from lots of locations, I recommend you stick with a desktop system. They're your most powerful option for gaming. They're also a better bang for the buck than "gaming laptops.
I like to sit in my recliner and watch TV while I play City and a desktop wouldn't work for me.
I have 2 different ones. The Dell weighs about 8,000 pounds (not really) and gets nuclear reactor hot (really) on my lap. The Toshiba is very light and blows warm air at my armrest which can get hot (the armrest) after several hours.
So if you like to be lazy and recline on a recliner and sometimes even a bed, a laptop is nice but make sure the thing isn't really heavy and that it doesn't get ridiculously hot. -
I'd be able to play more since work would become unnecessary.
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Quote:Enhancement or recipe?Originally Posted by Tidbit
Confuse Duration/Recharge - last sold for 300 mil. It's madness, I tell you.
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Quote:Payback's a you-know-what. It's time for all the vigilantes in the game to take on Manticore and for all true-blue heroes to ostracize him for killing his wife like Superman voting out Flash from the JLA for killing many years ago.Originally Posted by Kierthos
Well, it's Manticore. He's basically the Batman analogue, and therefore is allowed to be hypocritical about the amount of punishment he deals out to criminals. (E.g. Batman won't kill, but he has no problem putting criminals in full body casts due to the beat-down he lays on them. Never mind that anything could go wrong during recovery and the criminal could still die.)
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Quote:That's an unfair and false view. A villain who has redeemed himself/herself isn't inherently less pure than the hero who simply has not fallen yet. It would depend entirely upon the "story" of the character and the character of the character.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
That's only for the pure of heart
A hero could be a hero always, a hero turned vigilante turned villain turned rogue turned back to hero, a villain become rogue become hero, a Praetorian to hero, or a Praetorian to villain to rogue to hero.
In real life or in a crafted fictional story we would know more of the character of the hero but in the game it ought to be programmed to treat one who is currently a reinforced hero as a hero. They can view any villain, rogue, vigilante or even a hero with some vigilante tips done as someone to suspect but any full blown hero who just saved the world ought to be given respect. -
Quote:Never tell me the odds!Originally Posted by Plasma
Looking at http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Inventio...hancement_Sets is hard!
(I was only joking about the maths being hard because I know of some types which only have 2 sets at certain levels so I roll the junk set to go into the good set.) -
Before converters people threw reward merits from super packs at getting Miracles and drove the price down. Now reward merits get thrown at converters reducing the overall supply of Miracles again while the converters get used on purples and PvPs.
But 800M sounds like an extra 0 error.
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Quote:Sounds like maths to me! Maths are hard!Originally Posted by OneFrigidWitch
Randomly converting with a single converter can have exceedingly good response, if you know how to target it. It is possible to make it very... unrandom.
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Quote:This could actually be pretty well done. He would have a bone to pick with Longbow and Arachnos. All he really needs is a mentor or benefactor lending him some spine and brains.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
I think the only way they can top Darrin-friggin-Wade as a main villain, is to use Willy Wheeler as the mastermind behind SSA 2.
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Quote:+1Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The mere fact that we have to praise storytelling with "it's not horrible" is quite disheartening. But, no, Twinshot's arc is not horrible. It could have been a lot worse. Like Graves' arc. And it is most definitely worth running once. One and only once and never again because Twinshot really IS aggravating.
That's the problem I have with newer content - the sum total of its selling points are "it's not horrible and it's worth running once." Sometimes. -
Quote:To be fair, at 50 odds are you already put Recluse on notice by handing him his helmet and you aren't really under your patron any more if you finished their arcs. Though it would be extremely cool if someday the dialog could reflect whether we have done all that or not.Originally Posted by Finsplit
I'm still laughing over the end of the first mission. I'm standing there in my crab spider armor, talking to my own freaking patron, and he's earnestly trying to make sure I'm cool with working with Arachnos...
A fun arc, and it's nice to actually feel like the protagonist again after the "sit back and watch the NPCs do stuff" of #s 4-6. I'm not looking forward to trying to run it on my mastermind, though.
And if you are an Incarnate then you are even that much more awesome than your patron.
I really wish there was more villain stuff to do at 50 that reflected one at or even possibly above Recluse's power but then that opens the door to you are the new Recluse or even possibly Tyrant and everyone is gunning for you. A major pitfall of a MMO I guess. -
Quote:http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Will_of_...r_EnhancementsOriginally Posted by Nethergoat
I'll check it out- for now I actually *want* to run the missions so I'll wait on it a bit.
Okay, morning login...never thought I'd say this, but I miss the old login screen. Statesman's Crotch haikus aside, the new one just looks like a low budget Alex Ross ripoff. The old one was dated, but at least had some variety and looked like the game.
And HOLY COW, all my vet rewards arrived via email!
What's this CLAIM ALL button?
WOWOWOAAAAAH!
Now THAT is a gigantic QOL improvement. Even a little pop-up window warning me I'll have to pick an attack or pet or whatever.
Very, very nice.
I also just found several what appear to be level 1 IOs in my tray?
Will of the Seers, Might of the Empire, Clockwork Efficiency and a few others.
Much nicer than blowing inf on fast expiring trainings, but I wish I'd noticed how I got 'em.
Okay off to work.
More later.
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Quote:Coming soon!Originally Posted by Golden Girl
DfB = Death from Below - Drowning in Blood is DiB
Drowning in Death!
Death from Drowning!
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Quote:Word of advice on the Paragon Market, use the search box if you know any keyword to get to the item. It is much quicker than drilling down for many items.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Okay, off to chat with BAB and 'buy' my first item from the PARAGON STORE.
Neat interface, smooth transaction....if it works this nicely for 'real' purchases as for this badge color me impressed. I remember the endless struggles some folks had with paying for booster packs-this seems like a massive upgrade.
Check out what is there at the wiki. Lots of good stuff.
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Quote:Especially as each chapter had longer and longer cutscenes to sit through.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
You know, the three mission format may have been the first thing that shot the devs in the foot with the sig arcs.
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Quote:Heya 'Goat!Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I was nosing around this other free superhero game that was supposed to kill CoH (not the one based on an old RPG but the one based on the comic franchise).
The experience was so dreadful I was motivated to check back here.
My free time is still too limited justify a sub, but this 'free to play' revolution seems tailor made for my extremely limited schedule.
The new installer made me re-download the whole game so I haven't done much poking around, just logged in the Goat and checked the Sharkhead market (one sold item and 20 recipes purchased for some scheme I don't remember, wheee!). Limited slots is annoying but I haven't got the time for alt-itis so I'll just focus them on the characters I want to play.
The forum limitations are irritating- not sure how I'll live without my beloved market forum. Would it kill them to grandfather in players with 4+ years of paid sub time? Feh!
I'm going to work on wrapping up loose ends- finishing my uber l337 AR/Dev retrofit, finishing off the badges on my crafting guy, maybe throwing a few billion on the fire for SG prestige (if I can even do that with a leech account).
Anyway, howdy to all my old pals, and everyone else- hope to see y'all in-game.
You came back in time for converters to turn the market on its ear.
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So far I've had such horrible results with converters that I won't be buying any of them. When I get them as drops I will take the chance but otherwise I'd rather keep my merits for other uses.
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Quote:Not true. Need more enemies...Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Real Scrappers don't want or need for anything.
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Quote:I would point out it does not have to be 1, 2 or 3. It can be 1, 2 and 3.Originally Posted by Ukaserex
I spent the first few days of converter craze buying the pvp io recipes that I can only assume some of you were dumping at bargain prices because, well, for whatever reason. I crafted, kept some, sold some and made a very tidy profit.
And then it occurs to me - what am I gonna do with all this loot? I don't really pvp - at least, not more than 30 minutes every few months. But, I told myself, better to have them and not need them, then want them and not be able to get them.
See, I notice that there were some people that were paying twice as much for recipes as for the IOs themselves.
This means 1 of three things:
1. Several people pressed one too many zeroes.
2. Someone foolishly forgot to read the latest patch notes and wasn't aware that the prices were dropping.
Or
3. They have a lot of the crafted IOs for that recipe for sale, and they want folks to either burn up all their converters to get what they want, or pony up the inf and buy that persons IO at a price that by todays standards is probably about 10 to 20% higher than we've come used to.
I looked, but didn't see any post about Alignment and Astral/Empyrean merits being able to purchase the enhancement converters, but my understanding is that it will be possible soon. And, because for most of us, it's not that big a deal to get a toon to 40 and confirm alignment - even though there will be a cooldown, I suspect it won't take us long to use the other merits to get what we want.
I do see prices rising a little bit over time. How much? Can't say, but my guess is about 600 mill when things calm down. Greed will get the most of some folks, but impatience will get the better of even more people.
Purely conjecture on my part. I could very well be wrong.
I have come to the conclusion over watching the market behavior all these years that some people never compare recipes to enhancements even when enhancements are selling cheaper than recipes. Because of this I have always compared the price of the recipe and the enhancement before I craft my drops. People are really slaves to the perceived "price" of the items based upon the current last 5 sales or their own memories of what something is supposed to cost.
Also people tend to play at the same times and days of the week which means they often do not know that an item is cheaper or more expensive at other times of the week. -
There is also a weekly reward of 1 Astral Merit which you can convert on that character to 4 threads or send off to your account to be claimed as 4 threads via Astral Christie in Ouroboros.
But as Feefa J wrote each SSA gives you one reward one time as the first time reward for it but then all of them lump together in the once per week per reward timer.
So if you have not run any of the SSAs with your 50, run them all and get the first time reward for each of 10 threads and then run one of them again and choose the weekly reward of 10 threads. -
Quote:I skip it because I've done it enough times.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Much shorter tutorial than the last one. It is fairly epic. You get to run around by major heroes, fight a giant shivan. It is pretty darn cool.
But having run it a few dozen times, I just skip it now. I'm always a bit torn as to whether or not to do it, but I skip it. -
Quote:And there are also the two repeatable mission contacts but that's different.Originally Posted by Agent White
Yes. You repeat them through Ouroboros