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Hmmmm, hadn't really thought about it before... but if there are lots of people on Freedom to PvP with, and no people on Pinnacle to PvP with (just to pick on Pinnacle for no reason) then logically Freedom will end up with more PvP recipe drops than the low population servers.

I'm pretty sure that is true, and always has been, but it has never mattered before. As long as the drops went onto the market, they became equally available to all servers. But now, if prices really are going to be consistently above the price cap on the market, then it should follow that a significant number of pvp recipes will sell off-market.

And once the free server transfers vanish, that will mean that the recipes stay on the server where they dropped.

"... put your left foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around..."

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Because we can't have too many threads full of groundless speculation about GR...

When the devs were designing CoV, they had a problem. The basic requirements were contradictory. On the one hand, there was no way they could force zonewide PvP onto their playerbase. On the other hand, it didn't make any sense to have heroes and villains walking down the street of Steel Canyon together not noticing each other.

They solved this by segregating the villains entirely into their own zones, where they would never see a hero except in the newly created PvP zones.

Of course, this created more problems: if all the villains are off by themselves, who are they supposed to rob and murder and plunder? And who is going to stop them?

I've often gotten the impression that some of the current dev team don't really like the fundamental Paragon vs Rogue Isles design choice that was made back in the day. So it seems to me that GR gives them an opportunity to address the same issue, but this time to do it right... whatever they think "right" means.

It's still a challenge. Many, if not most, of the players in this game would be very unhappy if Praetoria was an open PvP zone. But it doesn't make much sense to have Loyalists and Resistance members riding the T together without fighting each other.

How do you think they'll handle it? Totally separate zones again? Or some kind of optional PvP flag? Maybe you can go "undercover" in a hostile zone, and no one knows which faction you are. I dunno. But I imagine it's something the devs spent a lot of time thinking about.

When I first heard the "no war walls" thing I was underwhelmed. I remember when the Rikti invasions started, the devs hyped the fact that the war walls were coming down. All it meant was that they were no longer visible to players, and the Rikti could go through them. The walls were not gone in any meaningful way.

Maybe it means something different this time, but it isn't a big deal to me however they do it.

1. Will characters created in Praetoria be able to get Halloween salvage right away, or do they have to wait until October or level 20?

Believe it or not, that really is the main thing I'm curious about, because it determines the character concept that I am planning to roll for GR.

2. In general, what are the marketing opportunities for Praetorians.
3. How are Loyalists divided from the members of the Resistance in terms of zones and PvP?
4. When will beta start?
5. Are they introducing the Spy archetype that was hinted at in that old marketing survey?

Population just doesn't matter that much. If the population goes down, then both supply and demand drop. Prices are a function of the ratio between supply and demand. When both go up or both go down, prices stay the same.

What's the difference between 10/10 and 25/25? Different numbers; same ratio.




(Yes, of course population makes *some* difference, especially in the amount of fluctuations around an average price, and when supply gets too low then people sometimes change their behavior in fundamental ways which affects everything... but generally speaking a simple increase or decrease in overall population does not translate into an increase or decrease in price since both buyers and sellers are entering or leaving the market.)

I don't generally bother with zone events unless I'm trying to help someone else. For my own sake, no. Why should I? I don't care about getting the badges, the xp and inf are very poor for the time spent, merit rewards on giant monsters are iffy, a lot of the zone events I find kind of confusing, and most importantly they just lack fun. There's no upside.

I think I probably had the worst computer in the CoV beta. I rarely got frame rates in the double digits, and never more than 15 fps or so. I'd like to think that my experience was somehow helpful to the dev team, but after a while I gave in and bought a new computer. I certainly can't afford to do that again for ultra mode.

But even with my old computer I never had any trouble at all playing CoH.

I bookmarked the 2009 AE Player Choice Awards, and I keep meaning to get together a team and run them.

As for defeat all missions, it's not a question of how many foes you have to defeat. It's a question of how long it takes to find the last phase-shifted spectral ghost hiding behind a ramp. I have wasted too much of my life running around almost empty maps trying to find that last stupid mob to willingly subject myself to that torture again. You can't drop an AE mission.

Rumor has it that some upcoming QoL feature will ease the pain. I hope it applies to AE missions as well as regular missions.

What does "appropriately leveled" mean? Within the level range of the arcs? If so, what are those level ranges? With all the autoexemping/sidekicking stuff, it hardly seems to matter.

EDIT: FPAARN? Really? I think that's a first for me.

No level 1's. If you can't contribute to a team, then joining it would be inappropriate. -theOcho

Congratulations on the promotion, War Witch! I know we've never met, but it really makes me happy to see you move up like this. I found this quote from the last time you were featured in "Ask a Dev":

Congratulations to all, but especially War Witch!

I'm not 100% convinced that the supply of money is going up. Prices don't seem to have changed much since the market was introduced. The price of salvage has barely budged. Same thing with common IO's. Set IO prices shift around, but I don't really see them going up. The price of purples went up, but I'm pretty sure the supply went down, so that's not surprising.

There are only two places where I see surprisingly large numbers: PvP IO's are insanely expensive, and the amount of money thrown around at costume contests has gone up by a factor of 10 or 100.

Besides, influence is an illusion. The real question is how many hours do you need to play in order to get an item? Think of it this way: $1,000,000 for a taco sounds really expensive, but if everyone gets paid $10,000,000 then suddenly that taco looks pretty cheap.

If you do want to see smaller influence numbers, then I think a good starting point would be to cut the value of common IO recipes above level 40. I haven't done the math, but I think those are a bigger source of income than most people realize.