blueyedsoul

How about:

CEO - Helipads at the top of skyscrapers

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<ul type="square">[*] Scrapper / Katana - Modified Katana cast times to match new animation times. Most powers are now faster activating.[/list]
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Does this mean that Ninja Blade didn't receive the animation changes?

And because in business it's way cheaper to write off the cost of a good you've produced than it is to purchase something at retail or even wholesale to give away as a promotional item...

FPARN

Hey Screwloose, what about the procs from IO Sets? Do they trigger in the same way as criticals (i.e. one chance per attack, no matter how many tics of damage there are?)

Same question goes for procs used in PBAoE Damage Shields like Death Shroud...

That raises another question... if you kill yourself with ET, do you still receive debt? I would assume so, but having never done it, I don't know.

/e thinks of another way to phrase that...

If you kill yourself in the forest, and there's no one there to see, do you really die?

Don't mean to play necro (raising this thread from the dead) but I've been curious about this as well. Anyone care to describe your experience with Placate + ET?

I just wanted to add that this is happening for Mastermind Ninjas as well. My Jounin had at least 2 doubles last night when using placate. It doesn't seem to be only for Golden Dragonfly either - he accomplished it with Sting of the Wasp and Soaring Dragon. I don't expect it to last, but quite lovely when it happens.

Hey, don't mean to stir up any trouble here, but it looks like your 1.5mil plot only has seven rooms. You need 8 for a raid base, as you have to have 6 dimensional anchors, and they can't go in the vault or the entrance room. One more room wouldn't cost a ton, but I thought I should point that out.

I would consider plowing through missions in SG mode faming prestige, mainly because of the reduced/removed influence gain at higher levels. I'm sure there are more efficient ways that involve a repeatable process which may be more appropriate to call "farming." That's more of a semantic issue. Anyway, that wasn't my point. My point is that very few people will be spending 100% of their online time collecting prestige for their SG, either now or in the future.

The funny thing about a lot of the mathematical assumptions in this thread is the hours played variable. When you talk about average hours played per week, do you all mean specifically hours spent farming for prestige, or total play time? The way its phrased, I tend to think the latter, and if that's the case it causes more problems for the optimistic speculations. My SG is fairly small - the roster is probably close to 30, but really I only see about 10 people max on any kind of regular basis. That compares to the "average" numbers being dished out. However, most of those people have contributed 10k or less to prestige. The fact is, people want to do different things with their play experience. If everyone just wanted to try to rack up currency (prestige in this case) and build bases (although only a select few get to do the building for any given group), why wouldn't they just play the Sims? This is the main reason the costs are prohibitive. Over a long enough time frame, everyone's interest will drop, and sustained prestige gaining will become more and more difficult, making the rewards even more difficult to obtain, which reciprocally lowers interest even further.

The funny thing is, the devs must assume that at some point, some group would exceed the upper limit. Else, why put it in? From what we're stating here, that seems highly improbable, and to me, that indicates that they should re-examine prestige gain, costs, or both.

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Also for future reference, rent rate = 0.000278049 * Prestige ^ 0.2596

Or, Rent = Prestige * ( 0.000278049 * Prestige ^ 0.2596)

This formula has a near perfect for the rent info provided so far.

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Does this formula approach 3.8% as its upper limit? Or does that need to be artificially established by a domain?

Magpie, I totally agree with the spirit of your post, but one point of clarity - aren't taxes due every two weeks instead of one?