SwellGuy
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Quote:After AE, it could be topsy turvy.Originally Posted by Fulmens
I feel that Billz has a high number as well, but I don't flip out about it. (How many of the people in the game have multiple 50's, compared to the forum population?)
But I want my City Vault. And I want forum populations to display with things like heroes/villains (and I suppose /praetorians soon) because it does my villain no good to have a high enough hero population to push a server down the list if he is the only villain on. (Unless I want to go to a co-op zone to team.)
For all the EQ zones I never recall all this angst about populations because we all gathered to scrap for our turns to camp spawns. I don't want that here.
Bottom line, even the allegedly lowest pop servers have enough people if someone is willing to put forth some effort to team and if someone doesn't want to put forth the effort, there is Freedom. -
Quote:Yet there was an announcement about it...Originally Posted by JohnW022
This. THIS...FTW!!
And it just happened tonight, UGH! I do not see any forum posts about server maintenance tonight. -
Quote:You seem to be taking his comment personally and very actively interested in discrediting BillZ's thread results. This leads to a reasonable assumption that you have a bias towards the question.Originally Posted by Chocolate_Bacon
102 people is not enough of a sample size to throw that number around like it's a fact. Even if it could be shown that forumites are a good representation of the playerbase, which I doubt, you'd need a larger sampling of players to have any confidence in results.
I'm not even sure where to go with this one. I always thought you were kind of a reasonable squirrel... -
I'd recommend Paragonwiki.com to the OP and checking out one of the linked build planners.
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I believe the title Praetor was used in the original Star Trek series when they found a planet identical to Earth except that Rome was never overthrown. But regardless where I first heard the word it was pray-tor so I have always read it in game as pray-toria.
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Quote:No worries. I am not spoiler adverse.Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Just be careful reading. I make references to things in Season 6 for some of the answers/themes for Season 1.
Of course, I don't describe anything too in detail, but I just want to warn you.
According to Netflix Season 6 is out on 8/24 so one week after Going Rogue I can finally get Lost.
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Terrific. I am still waiting for the release of Season 6 to finish up but this will entertain until then.
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Quote:The market is broken because people want to purple their warshades for 100k can't.Originally Posted by Emberly
How exactly is the market broken? Keep in mind that high prices are not signs of brokenness, and nor are a shortage of rare items.
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Quote:Why would anyone put Catwhoorg into a bag?Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
Shhh! We're not supposed to talk about our secret cabal of marketeers lest the unwashed masses become aware of our byzantine plots...
Wait.
Crap.
Oh well... I guess the cat's out of the bag now. -
I didn't either. I can't find the post where someone gave the steps to fix it. I'll have to check my settings at home. We use IE at work.
All I can recall off the top of my head was that it was some setting I had to do on the security tab. -
Do you mean the forums? Are you using Firefox?
If so it has something to do with the security settings. I will try to find the post where someone explained how to fix it. -
Quote:I could state emphatically it is at least (insert my age at the time of being asked) years old.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
a teacher buddy of mine has a handy litmus test when he suspects he's got an anti-science zealot in his class.
He asks "how old do you think the earth is?"
It hasn't failed him yet.
The rest of it could be the product of my warped mind.
Or I might say it is older than dirt. But he would probably have never asked me. -
Quote:I went on a purge last month of characters I haven't really played (all under 10) which even if I wanted to play them I was thinking of starting them in Praetoria so I am down to 126 on my 3 accounts.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
It sounds about right, I remember his thread asking for advice on his first character's look.
And - careful, OP. I've got... oh, the count's gone up, but I was near 170 characters on two accounts last I looked. That altitis sneaks up on you. (I should zero out my CGT account and just log everyone in - it'll take at least two hours, but I'd have an up to date count.)
In 3 weeks that number is going to climb quickly. -
Quote:You horrible goat! You're keeping the casual player down!Originally Posted by Nethergoat
here's another of my old tricks that's handy for building inf on low-ish level characters without a big up-front cost:
flip crafted generics.
This only works with stuff people actually want, so steer clear of holds, sleeps, all the usual suspects.
Let's say you decide to work level 30 damage IOs. You can either dial in your numbers by watching prices for a while, getting a sense of the high end, or you can take the shortcut, check once during 'prime time' and place a bunch of bids for somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3rd of the "going rate". Sometimes you can get stuff even cheaper, but the goal here is turnover so I try to bid high enough to be certain I'll fill up before my next login.
Once you win a bunch of stuff at discount rates, re-list it for well below the 'going rate' but at a high enough point to ensure a worthwhile profit for yourself.
This same principal works with set IOs, but the amount of inf involved can be prohibitive for relatively 'poor' characters, and the timeline is usually a bit longer. If you make a mistake flipping generics, it's no big deal. If you make a mistake flipping the more expensive stuff, it can take a big bite out of your nest egg.
I've been doing this almost literally since the market started- back in the day level 50 flight IOs were my bread and butter. That it still works like a charm is a testament to how little attention the average player pays to our little corner of the forums. =P
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Quote:He's only in his first month though. He's well on his way.Originally Posted by ZanderCross
If you only have 3 heroes and are doing a 4th I have to disagree with you on the Alt Syndrome.
lol
As for costumes I hate that the best I can come up with you need the 39 month vet reward for would be the boxing set then replace the arms with robotic arms.
In the place of the real boxing stuff I would go with sneakers for shoes, baggy pants like sweats and baggy shirt like a sweatshirt with the two robot arms.
As for names I would try to get:
Unarmed Boxer/Fighter
Mostly Armless
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Quote:No good. They'd want the level cap raised above 39,149,119.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Easier solution: Rename "Experience" to "Level"!
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Quote:What is really sad is how many people will miss your point by focusing on the specific.Originally Posted by Fulmens
That reminds me of someone I worked with once saying "Well, if you believe in evolution, I don't see the point in even having this discussion."
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Quote:I keep telling the other people I see on Protector and Triumph that they aren't there but they don't believe me.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
however voluntary and inaccurate, it's better than what we have-
some disgruntled yay-hoo in the Suggestions forum screaming I haven't seen anyone on Protector in three weeks, merge the servers!
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Quote:The AE room doesn't despawn pets.Originally Posted by Tempus Fugitive
Lots of people complain about toggles never being turned off, noisy pets (don't get me started on demons) etc. My suggestion is that within the boundaries of the protective death field there be another field that suppresses all powers just like the room in AE. I hope you all like it. I hope the devs like it even more.
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Quote:Same. I'm just glad I couldn't tell you the episode number and other such trivia.Originally Posted by Decorum
I'm such a geek I don't even have to click the link.
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Quote:I wish we had things like this. The doomsayers are going to scream doom anyway so why not let us know the numbers.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
curiosity killed the goat!
I got to wondering about WoW server populations and found this site.
Hours of fun! -
/petcomall dismiss
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Quote:Of course if you continue to team your individual enhancements are not as important either. Solo you have to be able to do it all.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
undeniably true- teammates stealing your drops kill earning power.
also, generally speaking you'll level faster on a team than solo, which also cuts into your bankroll. -
Quote:Each one varies. I tend to see how much the enhancement sells for versus the recipe since usually people pay a lot more to buy the enhancement. For example a Steadfast Protection: KB Protection can go for many millions more than the recipe but the salvage to craft it are cheap.Originally Posted by Driver 8
Gracias! That's a rule that even my leaky memory can retain.
What about the recipes that do something special? Is there a ballpark price for those, or do I just need to sit on them and watch the market?
Typically I cannot afford the listing fee on my first one without twinking so I list if for as much as I can and take what I can get because I just don't feel like wasting more time than I have to at the markets. -
Quote:Any idea on what the other person considered "fail" to mean? I think some people have the belief that we should have all the servers go yellow/red on August 17 from a sudden influx of people and anything less than that would be a failure in their minds.Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
A couple of nights ago I got into a rather raucous argument with a person who belongs to the same global chat channel. He was going on and on about how Going Rogue will fail, how the developers don't know what they're doing and that current studio is using software development methodologies one step removed from card readers and vacuum tubes.