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Yes, but the 10% fee could be on the sale rather than half of it on the listing, which would take care of the influence sink. And there would still be a risk in marketeering of wasting your time or buying things for more than you'll be able to sell them. But it would reduce the risk, and that might be a good enough reason to keep the fee.

I still think that the listing fee distorts the market and leads to lower prices and empty shelves. Meh. I guess it's not that interesting a thought.

Ha! The truth is, BAB's puts on a new sarcastic hat each day. He was wearing almost twenty of them when I took this picture of him.

Hmmm, maybe. If I were playing that kind of game, I wouldn't relist very many items at one time anyhow. Still, that's a good point.

Ditto, and I'm very glad you told me. I often put in Google searches like "paragonwiki invention enhancements" and the Wikia stuff always comes up on top. That always annoyed me, but I had no idea there was such a simple way to do something about it.

I think of those as a kind of #6. "You're all so stupid that you don't realize how much better things would be if all my ideas were implemented, or you're all so evil that you don't want things to get better, like they would if all my ideas were implemented."

When those brilliant ideas are price caps and bind-on-pickup and the like, you just know there will be a flurry of 7's soon to come.

Well, when you put it that way... HELL YES! That would be awesome. It looks like we might get some of that anyhow, thanks to the Mission Architect.

One of my favorite parts of the game is the market, and that's nothing but numbers.

I have a friend who, after reading a comic book, couldn't tell you what anyone said. He knows mostly what they did, but not why. He doesn't think at all about plot or character. But he can talk for an hour about the use of shadow and something about the coloring, and the composition and on and on and on. After I read a comic book, I can tell you exactly who said what and why and what they were doing and why they did it and what it shows about their evolving characters and the hints of backstory and foreshadowing and so on and so forth. But I don't remember much of anything about how stuff looked.

Have you looked at the prices of level 25 common IO's? They're about as good as an even level SO and they will last until you're level 50. You should have more money by then. If you have some patience, you can probably buy the level 25 IO's for less than you would have spent on your SO's.

If salvage and recipe prices are so low, then use them. Why buy SO's if IO's are so cheap? I just bought my brand new Warshade a bunch of level 15 Acc/Dam ranged set IO's for dirt cheap (less than 10k per IO). It's way better than DO's, and I probably won't replace them until I'm level 22. DO's would need to be replaced at 17.

Where did I get the starting inf? When I logged off for the night, I put in a bunch of lowball bids on SO's. When I logged back in a week later, I had a tray full of SO's I could vendor for 10-15k. Dead easy.

Is event salvage dropped only by the mobs that arrive via TRT, or do the banner event mobs drop event salvage too?

That is a very depressing possibility for those of us who invested unwisely.

How about buying enhancements off WW's and selling for 1,000,000 extra?

I'm over halfway done IO'ing my Dark Defender. I started with about 25 mill, and now I have more like 34 mill. I haven't left WW. How do I do it? I figure out what I want to slot, then buy twice as much as I need. One I slot, and one I sell. With patience, I can consistently buy cheap and sell dear.

Actually, I only do that for stuff that has a significant cost, like the Positron Blast set I just finished slotting. Some things are so cheap (0 bids, 20 for sale) that it's not worthwhile. With rare salvage, I tend to buy 10 at a time and sell 9.

It is a slow process the way I do it, but it took me about a year to reach level 50. It doesn't bother me to spend weeks or even months collecting IO's. I have other characters to level. I just check in on my bids every couple of days and make steady progress.

(By the way, the markets are cross server. Prices are the same on all servers.)

You did a lot better than me. I've only tackled it once. I was on a team with about five people. We all had the mission. First time, we zoned in and we were already under attack. We stood there fighting that spawn by the door for what felt like ten seconds, and then the mission failed. We set another person's mission and went back in. This time we decided to head straight for the generators. We found one and waded in. A few seconds later, mission failed. We set the next person's mission. We zoned in. We went looking for a generator. Mission failed. We hadn't even found one.

After that, there was no way on earth I could convince my teammates to try again.

In retrospect, we probably shouldn't have spread out so much looking for the generators, but I'm not at all sure it would have mattered.

The Midnight mission to save Lady Grey I rather enjoy. On a defender, it's fun to try to keep her alive. On any other character, it's fun to laugh at her as she commits suicide. I did succeed once by sneaking past her and clearing the entire map, then coming back and rescuing her. I agree her AI could use some work, but the consequences are so low that I just don't care what happens to her.

The Croatoa one has never been a problem for me when I'm on a team. We always seem to have enough immobilizes or slows or AoE's or something to take care of it. Solo I have failed it on some characters, succeeded on others. To me the biggest problem with that mission is that it just isn't very fun. The mobs tend to come too slowly, and I hate standing around waiting. The Respec Trial, heroside, is like that too.

The five minute mission I've only managed once, and only thanks to my teammate. He was an ice tanker, and nothing could touch him. He somehow memorized where all the glowies would be and he ran over and clicked them. Nothing could interrupt him because every attack missed. I was on a regen scrapper, and nothing missed me. I could survive, but I had to wipe an entire room full of bad guys just to get enough clearance to click one glowie. He did all the rest.

I think it would be great if the game allowed for greater mission variety and storytelling options, but we're not there yet.


EDIT: Another reason why that Croatoa mission isn't fun - it doesn't seem to matter what I do, only who I am. If I'm on a controller, then I just hold them, which is what I do to everyone. If I'm on a scrapper, then I beat up one while the rest of the spawn runs past me and vanishes. One way succeeds and the other fails, but in both cases I'm doing pretty much the only thing I can do, and the result is depressingly predetermined.

Will it? I don't believe I've seen that announced anywhere.