Tenzhi

I've caught a lot of flak off and on as someone who 'hates the game' due to some of my negative opinions on certain aspects of it, and while I wouldn't go so far as to say "excellence" or "impressive" (substitute "adequacy" and "decent") I pretty much agree with the quoted assessment.

Six of one and a half dozen of the other. Which is to say that only crazy people would do things they don't enjoy to entertain themselves, lest we forget that this is a game and its purpose is entertainment.

When have I ever actually expected them to? I rarely even post about the Market, and when I do it's generally because an errant thread title caught my interest. But whether I like it or not, it's here, and I would prefer it to be readily accessible to more than just the IO Tycoons. That bit of mild hyperbole only exists because I wanted to say "IO Tycoons".

I do think supply/demand needs to be ironed out a bit, but I doubt it ever will be, and thus whenever I go to look for lesser recipes that by all rights should be abundant and cheap the supply will be practically nonexistant. And I suppose Nethergoat will look out from the top of his trillion-Prestige high-rise single-owner base that he made by converting Influence/Infamy and say that everything is peachy keen. That's more along the lines of what I expect, anway. And I say that with a bemused smirk and no trace of bitterness (beyond my own natural daily bitterness content).

I've never seen a crafting system or player market that was fun to deal with. I prefer fixed price stores of inexhaustible supply and somewhat reasonable prices (in standard currency rather than some ridiculously sparse Token currency accrued in miniscule amounts compared to prices by doing the most time-consuming and generally least fun tasks). I would've preferred such here with crafting and recipe/salvage drops simply being a potentially faster way to get the enhancements (and probably the *only* way to get purple enhancements).

But I don't expect that it will change to what I'd consider a more reasonable system. It's firmly entrenched and largely inaccessible to me (even moreso now than it was awhile back when I actually managed to mostly slot out a character with sets) and likely to remain that way (or become even worse). And my wistful musings and not-particularly-serious grumblings on the matter are just as likely not to change.

I tend to be disappointed that it doesn't have a lesser movement toggle rather than Flurry or Hasten. Or that Hasten doesn't at least have a run speed boost.

Presumably. In-game support also went down, or I would've petitioned the issue. As-is I'm relying on hope and the little info gleaned from my thread in the Tech Support section.

I definitely agree that the whole set-up doesn't seem very sensible. I've never run into it before (probably because I play so irregularly), but judging by the responses I got it's a somewhat common issue.

I've only used a Global Channel once - I joined a Giant Monster hunting channel. It didn't prove to be very helpful, but keeping up with yet another line of chat proved to be a bit annoying.

I thought that's what she meant. It's certainly what I meant. I had open extra slots that had already been placed on Virtue, but they were locked/unavailable today apparently because the store was down.

I know, right? It's crazy how people expect their entertainment to be enjoyable without tedious toil. People should learn from Sisyphus - there's a guy who knows how to have fun.

I've often pondered the viability of it, but for such market regulation to even have a chance all other avenues of trading would have to be cut off. I think there's the teeniest possibility that such removal would be upsetting to some few players.

Other things I've pondered:

Getting rid of specific salvage needs for recipes. Instead recipes would call for so many units of common, uncommon or rare magic/tech salvage.

Removing level from non-purple IO sets. Instead, such enhancements would give bonuses based on character level.

Becoming a bonafide deity, starting a religion/cult, and brainwashing Nethergoat and/or Fury Flechette into tithing me Influence.

But I labour under no illusion that these pipe dreams are the magic bullet that would "fix the market" and open up IO sets as a feasible option for a casual player such as me.

In much the same way as racing against someone when they get a substantial headstart is completely fair.

That's a pretty flawed system. And I believe the in-game message listed the store as one of the services being unavailable all day. Ah well.

That's because his landing counts as an attack which suppresses his travel power, so he switches to Combat Jumping real quick and proceeds to SMASH. Because Hulk just want to be left alone so his travel power will un-suppress.

This is pretty much my take, though I don't have a dozen characters to switch from redside to blueside. Any new villain-ATs I make will be made in Praetoria so as to avoid redside altogether. I have one Demon MM sitting at level 20 ready to do side-switching missions, and I may bring over my VEAT and a Fire/Pain Corruptor as well. I'm hoping to make a new Dominator in Praetoria, and probably a Stalker as well. Whatever I end up making, I'm just happy to have the ATs available to play in an environment I want to play them in.

Was his real name Ar-Dent?

If he were a choosy Dev, he would have chosen Jif as his user name.

Were this in place I might actually find it somewhat worthwhile to take Clear Mind on an Empath.

So they have access... except for when access is, in fact, forbidden them due to ridiculous time requirements.