Zombie Man

I wish we could stop all these intestine arguments over the length of the reactivation period!!

Oh, so *you* are The Coming Storm!

The majority of capital in the stock market is there as capital investment, not for speculation.

Really, there can be no more discussion if you have such profound misconceptions of economics and the stock market and make such unfounded assertions.




You know nothing of economics or how the stock market works. You take the unintended and abused aspect of market speculation and think that's the whole of it. Asserting otherwise doesn't make it true.

You're not misunderstanding, you've got it right.

Of course, you're forgetting that their are other restaurants. The restaurant you frequent is overcrowded to the point of getting poor service. You lament that they're advertising for more customers.

But there are other restaurants with lesser crowds and great service. Over the past year, you were giving coupons to join them with a free ride to their door. But, you chose to stay in the overcrowded restaurant. Enjoy your free hamburger there!

Ummm... no.

Buying a stock and selling it for a higher price is *supposed to* happen because the value of the business, which the stock represents, has increased. It's called investment and stocks are a *tool* to invest in a business.

The misunderstanding comes from you equating buying and selling stocks in the way that *speculators* do. Speculators buy low and sell high not so much on the increased value of the business the stock represents, but on the *perceived* value which is driven by lots of things other than actual value.

Perceived value of a stock that is *thought to be* 'hot' makes it in high demand, whether or not the business is doing well. High demand drives up its price. But if the quarterly returns show the business is tanking, then the value drops greatly and all those who bought on the bubble going up are now out a lot of real money.

Speculative bubbles nearly destroyed this country in 1939 and almost again in 2008 -- partly in thanks to flippers who were buying and selling on perception and demand (i.e., speculating, i.e., flipping) rather than on a reasonable real value of the stocks.

When people have a retirement account, they are structured to assume a return of about 7% interest per year which is in line with historical growth in Gross Domestic Product. IOW, the gains come from actual increase in value of the business which the stock represent. That's not flipping. Flippers speculate and try to game the stock market to get much higher yields, thus destabilizing the whole economy.

So how's that for irony? This thread was to applaud the supposedly stabilizing influence of flippers. And when flippers point to stocks, it pretty much indicts them for doing something truly evil... in the very ethical sense of the word that the cutesy 'ebil' tries to hide.

This is the problematic part. You assume non-flippers never creep up their bids. You assume that they say, "Oh, since I'm buying an uncommon salvage, I'll bid 5,000 regardless of what the sales history says or an attempt on my part to find a lower sales price."

A flipper already beat them to that lower sales price, cleared the market of all the ones selling at a lower price and now have them listed at a higher price.

That does indeed affect the price.

And yes, players compete against each other for the low priced item... but then so do the flippers, increasing competition.



Wow. One rarely sees this kind of pulled-out-the-rear straw man. Would you mind quoting where I demanded sales be instant please?

All the authbits we know about are just the ones currently in use listed above. The new one just added is for the Party Pack and the Authbit is RecreationPack.

No matter who was on the tracks.





Yes. You are 100% correct that you are stabilizing the price.

BUT, you're stabilizing it at a higher average cost than if you didn't exist.

Proof? Your profit. From where did it come? From other players. Your profit doesn't magically appear out of thin air.

This thread makes the judgment that this service of stabilization is overall a good thing for buyers and sellers. That is where the economic voodoo comes into play.

If left alone by flippers, the market would stabilize at a lower price. Just because there is volatility doesn't mean there is DOOM for buyers and sellers (who actually produced the good and will consume it). A little patience and time would stabilize the market.

Flippers capitalize on volatility. Which does indeed reduce the volatility -- I'm not arguing that that is not the case. But that 'service' comes at a cost. The cost of the profit of the flippers. Which winds up driving up the average price of the goods.

Arguing that the average price is not driven up by flippers is pure self-serving willful ignorance.


BTW, 'flippers', if flipping actually creates a market for sellers, then make Kinetic Weapons worth selling.

The Queue would become active again, just like when GR first came out.

Most time in the Queue was under 10 minutes and only at its peak was there a half an hour wait.

This is why adding a 2xXP weekend on top of a reactivation weekend is a BAD IDEA.

When a 2xXP weekend comes around, let those who want to take advantage of it, you know, actually pay for it.

While intestine has a secondary meaning which people are unused to and is correct in its usage here, it's primary usage makes it an unfortunate choice since that is what most people will think of.

A better choice would be internecine.

In context, the Dev is referring to editing six year's worth of existing missions so that the NPCs in them don't get confused by the player's alignment and attack when they shouldn't and become allies when they should.

Ever wonder about those HERO and VILLAIN designations some of the legacy missions mysteriously got months ahead of GR?

Exactly what Castle said in Beta.

And both Castle and BAB are on record, that a longstanding bug is never to be considered a feature and its being fixed is never to be thought of as a nerf... a fix is a fix. Period.

Although, on rare occasion, a bug in the player's favor was later judged to be allowed to continue as a feature.

But, if it's considered a bug, time never makes it immune from being fixed. It's just that low priority fixes are low priority and may take a long to be fixed (if they even know why it's broken... bug hunting takes time and resources).

Updated links for the Going Rogue upgrade/purchase button.

ZOMG! A grammar nazi post without any grammar mistakes! And not only that, proper use of emboldening, quotes, hyphens, and ellipses!

I love you!

She's a Lead Designer, not Dictator.

As I mentioned above, it is the powers team (Castle and friends) who give the NPCs their powers.

Man, are you posterior sore because some AV pwnt you that you're crying about their power levels?