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Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I do - I love the DC universe

Originally Posted by Westley

So... you're not going there because there's lots of other people there... you're going there because there's lots of other people like you there?

Got it!

Originally Posted by shikraria

Now that you have read my ranting and raving, I ask...
did I do the right thing?
What would you have done?

Originally Posted by je_saist

I've been noticing a lot of threads flying about on here promoting different methods of fighting in-game inflation. To set the base for this, lets define inflation in the game.

Inflation is defined as the cost of in-game goods in terms of influence / infamy as requested from other live players utilizing the auction house system.

Okay, with inflation defined, why is inflation occurring? Well, one of the simple facts behind in-game inflation is that the developers have very little direct control over the player-base's influence / infamy earning abilities. Some players can afford to farm for days or weeks on end, racking up huge amounts of influence or infamy. Some players specifically create certain archtypes and choose powers that make mass combat with no bosses quick and simple. Some players are able to get lucky with the drop system, get a rare recipe or item, and then list that item for a huge amount of money. Some players also sell items for more than the in-game influence / infamy cap... something the developers have commented on as a direct abuse of the system.

One of the big problems with many of the I have solved inflation with my solution here... such as the arguments for apartments or statues, or any so called influence-sink, is that these ideas are based on the idea that the in-game farmers care about such influence sinks. Such suggestions are based on the very flawed idea that the player base's activities are fully predictable and that all of the player base will agree to utilize one particular influence sink or another..

Originally Posted by LISAR

PvP in a PvP zone is not griefing.

Originally Posted by Scientist_16

Star wars has a lovely four-color morality that I've started to look askew at since I've been getting older. From entertainingly contradictions like that one to the whole 'From a certain point of view' line, the Jedi aren't all -that- morally absolute in their position. There would be a lot of fridge logic about their behavior if their primary opposites weren't kicking back in a power that gives you creepy weird skin conditions and evil red underwear if Knights of the Old Republic is to be believed. Maybe that gives strength to the 'Good/Evil defined by narrative' theory.


Those are awful, awful clowns. I like your signature, though.

Originally Posted by Alphabet Soup

All 4 hits 2B this particular weekend, they were varying degrees away from 2B each, but this weekends crazy sellers market put 4 of my 6 marketeers at/over 2B.

Originally Posted by Charnell

to DEVS-

Could you discuss pvp please? You made a lot of promises with the i13 "upgrade" yet there has been complete silence on the topic since.

Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic

They deserve worse if they think they have the right to berate those that are low on cash.

Originally Posted by SmegHead

So do you think I'm a jerk for PvPing in a PvP zones and not letting this guy get his badges, or just playing the game the way it was designed to be played? Should we have let them cake walk through it or do what we did and made them work for the badge?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Good and evil are not relative - there is absolute good, and there is absolute evil.
People who are more inclined to evil are also more likely to claim it doesn't exist.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

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Morality handed to someone by something outside of one's own logic and perceptions is meaningless to me...

Originally Posted by Zamuel

Which servers are most known for running Hamidon Raids? For both sides. Also, does anyone know of any screen captured videos of these raids?

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

Relevant to both the upcoming Going Rogue and the Hero/Villain relationship in City of Heroes, I ask you the subject line: Is Evil defined by action, intent, both or neither?

Let me use the example I used when I brought this up in Comic Culture well over a year ago... Meet Team Dark:


Taken from Sonic Heroes, Team Dark has always fascinated me. Sonic Heroes is about 4 teams, each with their own agenda, playing a hand in saving the world. What intrigues me about this team, however, is their behavior and motivation. They are as follows:

• Rouge: Dr. Robotnik is rich. Steal everything you can, manipulate everyone into helping.
• E-123 Omega: Dr. Robotnik offended me by saying I'm obsolete. I want to destroy virtually everything he owns out of spite.
• Shadow: Can't remember my past Rouge says if I help her rob this Robotnik fellow blind, she'll help me find my memories.
• Team Dark: Destroy Dr. Robotnik.

Those motivations don't seem very noble, do they? Rob, destroy, and "do whatever it takes to get what I want". Yet, in the story of the game, the level of destruction that they cause and the Chaos Emeralds Rouge steals are absolutely vital to weakening Robotnik's army enough to save the day. Also, they don't cause any standing damage to anything "Heroic" like a bystanding city or civilians (After all, their quarrel isn't with them).

So, for selfish, violent, and greedy reasons, they play a key role in saving the world.

Are they heroes or villains?

Is "Hero" defined by the intention of your action or its result? If it's result, Team Dark is one of the greatest hero teams in Sonic Lore. If it's intent, they need to be locked up alongside the Eggman.

Discuss.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I like using the market to buy things that are out of season, like Halloween Salvage. So maybe we should keep the market and "obolish" IOs instead!

Originally Posted by LISAR

Kill, would you kindly?

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Interesting read. Not that you asked, but I feel the complete opposite. A small group of people caused this, and it wasn't the devs.

Originally Posted by Lord of Aardvarks

... except that nobody seems to be able to use it correctly. This is something that I've noticed popping up in the RP community as a whole, both in World of Warcraft and now here. Someone who is RPing will use the word "would" in a way that makes absolutely no friggin' sense. For example:

Captain Extraneous Character would settle his ruggedly handsome frame into the seat with a satisfied yet grim look on his handsomely rugged features. "I believe I have taken care of the problem which Arachnos poses to us ... for now."

Whenever someone writes something like this, I have to restrain the snarky side of me from chipping in with something along the lines of "but he actually doesn't, because ... what?"

The word "would," when properly used, indicates either a habitual action:

"On Tuesdays, his uncle would take him to get ice cream at the store on the corner."

or something that might happen if a particular condition was met which either isn't or is uncertain:

"He would have taken his nephew to get ice cream that Tuesday, if it wasn't raining."
"He would take his nephew to get ice cream on Tuesdays when it wasn't too hot out."

or to put it another way:

"I would be able to tolerate the way some people choose to RP if they had a proper understanding of how grammar works, but they don't, so I am driven to the edges of frothing insanity on a regular basis."

Anyway, I'm posting this to ask: where is this coming from?! What maniac started this trend?

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

Didn't mean to step on any toes, Bill, but I would qualify a few hundred million as being plenty "rich" enough to manage about 85% of what the game offers, even fancy IO sets. I frankenslotted IO'd my old villainous main completely out the wazoo for less than 50 million.

If you want to achieve that last 15% of the game shenanigans, you're expected to expend at least a little effort. At least, I do.

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

Syndyr, you're a nice person in game, but this is a bad suggestion. If you need help in making influence, I'm happy to give you a few pointers. I even got KiTTY to the influence cap.

Originally Posted by xeaon

QUOTE: it's better when social pariahs don't host these events.


You are assuming I am not 1 ?

You missed my :
1-Lag RV to annoy ppl, plot, last night
2-Screw up last night red side Hamid Raid, and several team wipes.
3-My Kill the entire zone, in January (failed first attempt at red side nuke raid).
4-Severals ITF/LRSF/LGTF, I go w/out giving instruction, rushing crap, and make my best to kill my team .... its a pure joy to see, my whole team dead on ITF 2nd mission, MOUAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!

**cut**, i cant believe i exposed most of my plots just like that, lets re tape this part....

**euh** sir, ... you insisted we do this , euh, live....

**cut it, cutit up**** DOH!

Originally Posted by xeaon

yes
....
YOU host it!
...
or maybe i will someday

Originally Posted by Not_Epsilon

Sounds decent, I still no b3ttr onez, iz supa srs sekrit bznz mayne

Originally Posted by xeaon

Chartreuse is unhappy, my job here is done, :P

...lag was horrible at some point...