Talen Lee

Yeah, see, this is where you lost my sympathy when you complained about not having the time to read text designed for your information in a video game you choose to play.

If we're talking, say, real life safety management I might have more sympathy, but, we're very much not.

Well, yes, there is an important difference in that the former is observation and the latter is conjecture.

I do not disagree at all that the data supportrs a (massive?) bias towards 50s producing material. I have no qualms about that at all. But aside from urban myth and anecdote (which I am reluctant to trust), I don't have any good idea as to the motivation behind it.

Plus, from where I sit, only rolling at 50 is a wasteful or stupid process - as is rolling all the way up. Both of these behaviours make me wonder, because I'm curious about the why. If you design the right incentive plan, you can influence behaviour, but you need to understand the behaviour along the way.

Anyway, I didn't want to say 'you're wrong,' but rather, ask 'why do you think that's right,' so don't take me as arguing here, but rather, asking.

Your post seems to think there's only a binary set of options here; a massive overload of information, or the tiny window we have. There are many steps along this possible gradient.

Then again, the 'delete in 60' rule of the market was something that I sincerely, sincerely miss, since I loved watching people gnash their teeth and whine when they failed to read something that they were told to read. Much like the farm-creators in AE, I suppose.

I recognise that, definitely. But what I am curious about is hether or not that's a function of people failing to roll as they level, or if most merit-generating tasks are being performed at 50, by 50s.

How sure of this are we, Peter?

This is why it's a bad idea to make friends, because sometimes you'll have to say goodbye to them.

I actually have, in hindsight, a number of reasons to believe that Positron is, in fact, an idiot. Competent and has well-absorbed some good lessons from the industry, which he has communicated well, but when it came to the market, to in-game writing, to in-universe features and to interaction with the playerbase, he was pretty ordinary.

So I would say, based on this, that Positron was probably only ambiguously certain of the 'possible problems' he's talking about, but wanted to sound more legitimate when he said 'No, because I don't know why not.' The larger market is the same as two smaller markets. Pressures equalise over time, it's just the nature of the beast. Rather than make a move that had potential to be unpopular without knowing one way or another, he professed to sekrit knowledge that meant that he didn't have to justify himself to us when we asked him for an explanation.

And the goat take the hinder!

... I was serious.

This is an interesting perspective, and has pulled me towards agreeing with you.

It's barely worth mentioning, but you're wrong.

And in that same context, no less, a system that has been tapped by those same sources as potentially a route for harvesting... information.

BUT IT'S ALL OKAY BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE TO AE SO SHUT UP I CAN'T HEAR YOU CONSISTANCY IS GOD LA LA LA.

Hey, now, partner! No commenting on things like that! You've gotta propose an alternative, to fix it! Don't go on be coming all up ins here with your observations and common sense! Don't you dare try to actually point out things that are obvious!

The problem does remain that there'd be very little incentive to melee with them. It might be almost 'pistol scrappers in the back door' kinda thing. But I don't have such a big problem with it per se.

If we open the discussion to 'natural themed dominator set' what I'd rather is a control set that sacrifices its ranged options for PBAOE options, and is predicated on throwing knives. Assault set, the same, modelled after Blaze/Bitter Ice Blast, which sacrifice long range for increases in damage.

Just off the top of my head, mind. Maybe if they get around to 'fixing' Trick Arrow (which I hear has problems) they'll have the room provided for this kind of set to be created.