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Does anyone know what the scrapper specific Archetype IO set is like? I've done some poking around, but I can't find much. I saw something about a % crit increase, but no details.

I think the only appropriate place to post this is in the Questions forum. But I think the answer is that the unlock applies to the server. If you move the character, you'll be moving them into a locked slot. That will leave an empty unlocked slot behind on the old server. I haven't tried it myself, but I saw a thread complaining about the fact that it worked that way.

I don't normally participate in any of these games for a variety of reasons:

* I never won back when I did try
* The odds seem lousy
* I don't have that kind of time to spare during the day any more
* I'm not that good at any of these things.
* I only read the dev/community digest posts from the day before.

I realized that most of those quibbles don't apply to this contest, so I decided to give it a shot, but it didn't work out. And it seems like that is happening pretty consistently. So I really wonder why other people aren't participating in this contest? Is it about the contest, or the way the winner is chosen, or something else? Not much point in asking that question in this thread I suppose. I think choosing a winner at random might help. It's worth trying, right?

Max, a German Shepherd puppy with superpowers, wanders away from his mother one day, and accidentally finds his way past the guards in Atlas Park into the Hollows.As he sniffs around some trash cans, a Gardvord approaches and offers him a handful of green powder, saying "You pretty dog. You want 'Dyne?"

Max's motto was that everything was food, even if some foods tasted bad or made you throw up. So of couse he ate the whole thing and trotted off towards Grendel's Gulch. In Grendel´s Gulch he met a man named Talshak the Mystic.

Max wagged his tail and danced happily around Talshak, hoping for another treat.


If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

I don't think we're on track to hit 20 posts.

Max, a German Shepherd puppy with superpowers, wanders away from his mother one day, and accidentally finds his way past the guards in Atlas Park into the Hollows.As he sniffs around some trash cans, a Gardvord approaches and offers him a handful of green powder, saying "You pretty dog. You want 'Dyne?"

Max's motto was that everything was food, even if some foods tasted bad or made you throw up.



If I am a winner, I permit NC Interactive, Inc. and NCsoft Europe Limited to use my name, likeness, photograph, hometown, and any comments that I may make about myself or this contest that I provide for advertising and promotional activities. I also certify that I am at least 13 years of age and am eligible to participate in this contest.

By the way, prices on the cheapest recipe in the PVP Resist Damage set have more than doubled in the past week. I think these converters are already having an effect.

I haven't done it yet, but I've always assumed that it would help to make the agreement over tells/email in game, so if someone does rip you off then the GMs can review the game logs and see what was agreed to vs what happened. Whether or not they'll do anything, I don't know.

I think it will have an impact in inverse proportion to its cost.

I think the best way to think of the converter is as a do-over button for the RNG. You see those big purple letters flash across the screen and you're really excited to see what purple recipe you got, and it turns out to be something you can't use and that is worth far less than average for a purple recipe. Hit the do-over button! It's like getting a second spin from the RNG. Maybe you'll get another low value purple, but maybe it will be that ranged triple that went for a billion inf the other day.

By converting relatively low value purples into higher value purples, we'll see some evening of the price curve there. "Cheap" stuff (as cheap as purples ever get) will get more expensive, while the most expensive ones will get cheaper.

You could use the converters on a trap of the hunter uncommon, but I think that would be pretty silly. You'd almost certainly get some other randomly worthless recipe.

The other place these might be valuable is on PVP recipes, again raising the prices of the cheapest ones and lowering the price of the most expensive ones. In fact, I'd guess that will be the primary use of them at first.

Again, how much of an impact they have will depend on how expensive they are. If each converter costs a few dollars, no sane person will ever use one. If a pack of 100 converters costs 100 points, I'd get some, and probably some other people would as well. The problem is that you don't get one conversion per converter. The number of converters you have to use up depends on what you're converting and what range of randomness you can live with. In general, it's about 10 converters per enhancement. So even 100 converters doesn't go all that far, when you figure a lot of the attempts won't produce anything more useful than what you started with. I'd like to see them even cheaper than a point a piece, but I doubt if that will happen.

Some people are getting seriously bent out of shape at the idea of spending real money to get something that can benefit you in game, or spending real money on something with random results. Personally, I don't see it. Pay to win doesn't much bother me in a game where I'm not competing against anyone. And we all spend real money just to play the game, and almost all the rewards in game are random. Whatever. It's going to get loud.

Seriously? You bought 4 of the +3% defense glad armors in the market in the past week? I've had bids out at 2 billion for months on both the recipe and the IO and they still hadn't filled yesterday.

But now that they are talking about converters, I think I'll cancel my bids and wait and see how the converters play out.

In all the discussion of comic book colors vs movie colors, I didn't see anyone mention Dick Tracy and the 1990 Warren Beatty movie. That bright yellow trenchcoat drew a lot of flack.

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Personally, I thought the costume slot was a good deal when it was on sale. I was happy to buy that and don't regret it a bit. I might have bought it for the full price eventually, but that seemed just a little bit too steep. I only bought one slot and have no intention of buying more. Having two costume slots at level 1 without fussing about Halloween salvage is totally worth 600 points for me. Probably worth 750 points. It wasn't quite worth 800 points, which is why I waited for the sale. Having yet another costume slot is hardly worth anything at all to me, so I'm unlikely to ever buy another.

I'd like to get the enhancement tray someday, but it does seem way too expensive to me at 1600 points.

I'm really glad I unlocked the auras. I would have been happy to pay a lot more for that. By the time my characters are high enough level to unlock the auras in game, I'm usually pretty happy with how they look, so I seldom used auras before. If I feel like a character really needs an aura to look right, then I probably won't ever roll that character at all, because I can't stand to go 30 levels with a character that looks wrong. That's no longer a concern. So, yeah, I would have happily paid double for that unlock.

Same goes for the cape, but less so. Still, I was happy to pay 160 and would have paid more without complaining.

I bought the beam weapon set and haven't used it at all, so that was a bit silly of me. I don't begrudge the points, though. I just wish I had more free time to play more alts. I learned from that mistake and haven't bought Street Justice, and probably won't buy Titan Weapons. Not until I have the time to devote to a new alt.

I'm very excited to see the dog in the game. I think it opens up the potential to do lots of cool things in the future. I'm not going to buy it, though. It's too expensive for me. Also, I'm pretty miffed that we can only have one useless pet out at a time now. Not that I bother to use my useless pets very often, but I liked to be able to. And we can't even walk the dog? And it behaves in a ridiculously unrealistic way during combat? Nah. Love the idea, love everything they did with it, but there is still more that should be done, and I don't love the price. I hope some of my friends buy it, though, so I can see it walking around when we play together.

Rocket board? I really like it. It's totally cool. I didn't buy it, though. Rocket boards don't generally fit my characters, especially if I can't choose the color. Even so, I would have bought it for a lower price. It's on my wishlist, waiting for a sale.

I bought the Halloween stuff, mostly on impulse. Not a great use of points, really, but I don't regret it. I'll probably get some good use out of that stuff before next Halloween, so I don't mind having bought it. I love the jar head, especially.

I bought the whole barbarian set when I made a barbarian character. It's ok. And the price was ok, I guess. But only because I was making a suitable character right then anyhow. And I do like having the baggy little shorts. Very He-Man.

Other than that, I don't think I've bought anything, and there is nothing else which has really tempted me that I can remember right now. And I'm ok with that.