graystar_blaster

Originally Posted by Obitus

I'd be happy to offer build suggestions if you'd narrow down your build goals. You really don't need to have an unusual collection of powers to get 80+% performance out of a non-purpled build. Meleers do have a harder time stacking recharge without purples (because so many of their powers share sets with the same 5% bonus), but it's not a huge impediment.

Originally Posted by Obitus

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Hyperinflation.html

"Hyperinflation is very high inflation. Although the threshold is arbitrary, economists generally reserve the term “hyperinflation” to describe episodes when the monthly inflation rate is greater than 50 percent. At a monthly rate of 50 percent, an item that cost $1 on January 1 would cost $130 on January 1 of the following year."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hyperinflation.asp

"Extremely rapid or out of control inflation. There is no precise numerical definition to hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless."

http://faculty.lebow.drexel.edu/mcca...obs/infl7.html

"The term "hyperinflation" refers to a very rapid, very large increase in the price level. Measurement problems will be too minor to notice on this scale. There is no strict formal definition for the term, but cases of hyperinflation tend to be expressed in terms of multiples rather than percentages. 'For example, in Germany between January 1922 and November 1923 (less than two years!) the average price level increased by a factor of about 20 billion.' Some representative examples of hyperinflation include ... [various examples of terrible real-world economies]"

http://www.investorwords.com/2365/hyperinflation.html

"A period of rapid inflation that leaves a country's currency virtually worthless."

Ten minutes of searching yields a lot of different takes on the strict, numerical definition of hyperinflation that you've so piously presented here as though iron-clad. Almost every link I found, including the Wiki article you supplied, goes on at length to discuss the typical RL causes for, and the inevitably devasting consequences of, hyperinflation. Among the long list of results Google pulled up on hyperinflation, there were countless alarmist headlines.

Words have meaning. Hyperinflation is not just a cut-and-dried numerical formula. There's nothing about the term that's neutral or ambivalent: when you have hyperinflation, it's always a bad thing. In an environment that doesn't have (more importantly, cannot have) the terrible consequences traditionally associated with hyperinflation -- not even by analogy -- does the term even have meaning anymore? To go back to a previous analogy of yours, is evidence of rain, even very heavy rain, proof of a typhoon? Using the dictionary definition of genocide, I can make a pretty strong case that CoH Defeat Badges fit the term, but I wouldn't use it. Would you?

Regardless, even if we all accept that hyperinflation has technically occurred here -- then what? We wouldn't be allowed to discuss the appropriateness of the term? Are seriously pulling the forum police card?



Is this the part where I say that most people probably don't have and probably don't even care about bleeding-edge builds, and you say that I need exhaustive population statistics to prove it? Let me save you the effort: I can't prove it, but happily not all unprovable statements are unreasonable. We have dev commentary ("casually purpled warshade") and the obvious, comparative rarity of purples to suggest that purples are supposed to be very high-end items.

Is it appropriate for me to point out that you claimed to have 70 billion influence banked (hardly a sign that you're panicking about the value of the currency, btw), and that perhaps your perceptions are therefore skewed?

In any case, I don't need population statistics to show that a great build can be made without purples or PvPIOs. UberGuy's 80/20 philosophy is spot-on, as far as CoH builds go. If anything, 80% performance for such builds is generally an underestimate.

Originally Posted by Rylas

You've linked that wikipedia page a lot. You are aware wikipedia isn't exactly the most reliable source, right?

Also, if you can't concede that the hyperinflation linked to doesn't take into account the economic system of the game, then it's not possible to hold a rational discussion. Unless you consider real world economic systems to be similar to the in-game one (i.e. people print the money, everyone has equal capacity to earn/sell/buy/create). Do you?



I'm really not trying to be difficult when I say, "I can't really tell if this post is agreeing with what I said or somehow trying to argue against it."

So you agree, one can easily follow prices of items, but one can't determine the level of inflation adequately since one can't determine the average of inf per transaction?

Originally Posted by BlackSun17

I can now claim this too.

Very glad to have this behind me....but it was fun for a while!

Originally Posted by Tyger

And today my main badger just unlocked his last five dayjobs as well as four accolades. He is done with them now.

My main redside hunter is working on her third bluside dayjob credit in the Shadow Shard so she's got another couple of months left.


And if we're adding things then why not focus on accolades using existing dayjobs. I once made a suggestion of a costume accolade tied to dayjob badges. Something tied to existing dayjobs would mean no more time spent logging out in specific places.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

I just got my last day job badge & accolade on my badge hunter (a day late due to the game not counting my location properly): Crey Scientist.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Two day job ideas:

1. Log out in the base where hero/villain merits are redeemed for 21 days and the dayjob increases Tip Mission drop rate, or instead a chance of a tip mission being awarded upon completion of any mission.

2. Log out for 21 days and receive dayjob that either increases shard drop rate or instead awards bonus shards upon completion of any mission. As to where to log out for that....aside from standing next to the contact in Ouro I'm not sure where else would be fitting for this.