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Sometimes I send an email to myself, so the next time I log in that character I can get a reminder note of whatever I was in the middle of. Mostly I don't feel a need to keep track of anything.

What would a level 1 character want with 2 million inf anyhow? Were they trying to buy rocket boots or something? They still won't be able to fly until 14, or at least 6. Every costume piece except rocket boots costs 100k or less. Often much much less. The last 5 prices on rocket boots right now vary from 150k to 2mill, but are mostly 1 mill. Buying them before you reach level 6 isn't much of a challenge.

A level 1 character has two slots, four if you include brawl and sprint. The most expensive enhancements are healing and damage. A level 2 character gets 2 more slots, so that's six, and they can slot level 5 TO's. Six level 5 TO's cost, at most, 3000 inf. I think we've demonstrated that a level two character should be able to max out their enhancements with less than 30 minutes of vendoring.

I like this challenge! I took a stab at it. Tutorial --> WW --> NPC. Repeat. I only made it to half a mill in half an hour.

I thought I had a clever idea. I would buy up cheap accuracy and resistance inspirations, turn them into defense, breakfree, and rez insps and sell them for a profit. No dice. The bids don't fill quickly enough, and the slot crunch is too tight.

Common IO recipes didn't help either. The bids took too long to fill.

I made 50k selling rare set recipes at level 50, but I can only carry 6 of those at a time. The best I could manage was to buy SO's for about 3k and sell them for 10k+.

It may be possible to make 2mill in 30 minutes purely through vendoring, but you'd need some remarkable luck. Maybe the AE method will work, but not for me. I suck at earning tickets. Someone could try crafting, but it will be hard. Fundamentally, the market rewards patience. It's hard to be patient in a hurry.

I agree with the problem. I'm not sure about the solution. Tweaking the numbers doesn't seem likely to matter. Stopping people from 1 starring an unplayable arc isn't helpful. Marking things as stale might be reasonable, though I'm not sure a flag based on republishing is a great idea.

I think the whole search and rating thing is fundamentally problematic and needs a serious overhaul. I know it would be a ton of work, but I think it would be great to have features like:

* bookmarks, so I can easily find favorite missions
* Ability to share my list of favorites, possibly along with my comments on those favorites.
* "people who liked this also liked..." feature
* the initial list of missions should always be random
* it should be easier to find missions which are truly level appropriate

These ideas and many others have been posted many times, starting in beta before the MA was even released. I sincerely hope that it is something they are working on, but I have no grounds for hope.

I stumbled across this recently:

I haven't had much time to play lately, but I did pick up a few bronze rolls yesterday and scored a Karma -KB recipe.

My two cents on the disposition of drops: if it has 1+ for sale and 0 bids, I'm going to delete it. If it has 1+ bids and 0 for sale, I'm going to sell it. Take this karma recipe for example: 0 for sale, 28 bids. I'm going to list it for slightly more than the highest price in the last five, on the grounds that every other recipe must have been underpriced or else the supply wouldn't be 0.

Every other drop I've gotten so far I've deleted, I think. For the time being I'm locked at level 15, by the way.

I agree that having a social network makes a big difference, in this game, in other games, and in many aspects of life. I also think that the barriers preventing people from getting "inside" the social network are like one-way glass. From the outside, you can't see a way to get in. From the inside, you can't see that there is a barrier.

Right now I'm torn between mace and DM, I think. Mace has a lot of AoE, which spreads the punchvoke around, but DM does have some nice utility powers, like the self-heal. All the knockaround from mace might be just as good a mitigation as a self-heal, though, and it helps everyone, not just me. Hmmmmm....

One downside to creating new zones is that you further divide the player population, increasing the perception that the servers are empty.

They could have a player AE contest to generate a lot of the missions. Although that would really raise the ire of people who already feel like the AE is an excuse for the devs to foist their job off on the players. Wouldn't bother me, though!

Cloning zones is interesting. What if they cloned Dark Astoria and made the new version villain only. The "story" explanation would be that it's foggy, and you never see anyone from the other faction even though it is the same place. The fact that it's actually two different zones would be a mechanical thing, invisible to the characters, just like the characters aren't aware of the fact that stores are located underneath the zones they're located in.

If villains get too close to the hero entrance, the police drones could zap them back to the villain entrance or something. The villain entrance could be on the opposite side of the zone, hidden in a crypt, linked to a magical gateway or something.

Each version of Dark Astoria would be the same except for contacts which give out faction specific missions. Heroes try to save the world. Villains try to acquire ultimate power over the universe or something. Of course, that leads to a problem inherent in villain content. When heroes succeed, they maintain the status quo. When villains succeed, they change the world.

I think I'm sold on invuln. I was never fond of the graphics on unyielding, but now I can turn them off. And it sounds like I'll be able to tank everything I need to, especially if I throw a little money into the build.

Now... what about a secondary? It looks like ice can lock down a sapper with one touch, not that sappers often live more than a nanosecond against a good team anyhow. Battle Axe and War Mace have choppy smashy fun built in. I haven't heard good things about energy lately. Fire could be fun. Super Strength is classic. Any advice? Again, damage is a secondary concern. Holding aggro and surviving aggro take precedence, so the knockdowns in axe and mace might be handy.

It's funny how people are so much louder when they complain about nerfs then when they are happy about buffs. I remember hearing all the complaints when invuln was nerfed, but I don't remember hearing anything about the buffs. Or maybe that says more about my memory.

Anyhow, I have a level 1 invuln/mace tank languishing somewhere. I seem to recall that mace was buffed as well. Do those two sets play nicely together? Invuln is weak to psychic attacks, as I recall. And if invuln benefits from being in a crowd, then how well can it handle AV's?

I have no idea what my teammates will be playing.

Electric/stone sounds interesting. /stone has problems with recharge and endurance, and electric helps with both of those, right?

I'm planning to roll a new tank in the new year. I have very little experience with the AT. I'm wondering what powersets would suit me best. I plan to play as the lead tank for a static group, so I'll never be solo. I don't plan to neglect my secondary, but I don't need to be a major damage dealer either. I do need to be able to take the alpha, pull aggro, and survive. Some of that will be skill of course, but I'd like powersets that support that job, not make it more challenging.

I'm not worried about the toughest stuff in the game, like the STF, but I would like to be able to survive most anything that gets thrown at me on the way to 50. I know every tank has some kryptonite, but I'd like mine to be manageable. I don't want to turn into a squishy for an entire task force because we're going up against a faction that I just can't handle.

I was thinking about fire/dark, because I like the idea of the double self heals and double endurance recovery powers, but fire seems less durable than most and the extra damage isn't a good trade-off for me.

Shield/Electric looks fun. I have an electric/shield scrapper on test. Lightning rod is a good way to tell the team which mob you're attacking next! In fact, I was thinking of recreating that character on live as a scrapper or brute when GR arrives, so I'm not sure that I want to use those powers for my tank.

I've already played a DA scrapper to 50 and I'd like to try something new. I'm not sure I can stand the speed of a stone tank. I'm also underwhelmed by the graphics. I've heard that willpower has trouble holding aggro, and invuln isn't what it used to be. Ice doesn't really excite me, but I'm willing to be persuaded. I don't know anything about electric armor.

Thank you for your advice!

I have a stalker who is an avenging undead spirit. He's a villain because he kills pretty much everything he comes across, but I can see how he might gradually come to realize that he really only wants to kill the people responsible for his death. He's a stalker, but the same character concept could work as a necro mastermind, if he brought along a few undead friends.

Oooh, the main character in Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book is sort of a necro master mind! Kind of. He's very nice, and it's not at all his fault that he can talk to the dead. They are very nice people, even if they are dead, and of course they want to help him, and to keep him safe from the bad people.

The movie Ghost? The dead person is the good guy, trying to protect the woman he loves and get justice for his murder. Whoopi Goldberg isn't in charge of him, but she could still be a mastermind character. I have a mercenary mastermind who is actually a prisoner of the mercenaries. He's a science nerd, and they force him to develop weapons and traps for them. A necro mastermind could be a medium who is forced by the spirits she communicates with to facilitate their quest for justice against the criminals who killed them.

Yeah, it's a fine suggestion. I'm sure someone would complain that they had done it by accident, but I agree it would be a nice option.