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Quote:Stuff like this does really make me feel like the market should have an effective floor. More specifically, I'd like the idea of 'thematically' the NPCs buy up the market salvage if it's below the price they'd pay for it as a vendor.Originally Posted by SpaceNut
For less than 100 inf, it's been bought. I'm talking about the super common invention salvages. You know the ones, with 10000 for sale and 0 bidding. If you had it listed for 100 inf or less, I bought it yesterday. I was really bored, and wanted to see how much I could make without selling anything on the market, so I started buying commons for 100 inf and selling them for 250 inf at the vendor. 2 hours later I had purchased an estimated 10,000 pieces of salvage and made about 1.5 million inf.
So yeah, go get your inf.
(I just wish there was some way to see if I show up as a spike on the auction server logs.)
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Quote:Yep, Bad Influence editted their post.Originally Posted by Cake
I didn't actually see a new way to get merits listed in original post, did I miss something?
Dunno why, may have been a exploit, or may have been a case of not being quite awake
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It's mostly just a reflection that we don't read letter by letter, but by words.
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Quote:I believe september's stipend was pre-delivered with i21 launching.Originally Posted by Utakata
Sorry to bother everyone...
...I've paid my dues 2 days ago to continue my subscription. But I haven't recieved this month's supplement of 400 points as promised. Is there something else I need to do? Or was there a change of policy? Or is a bug? -
Quote:As opposed to the attitude that would rather fight against illegal gambling instead of child slave labor.Originally Posted by Rodion
This is the same cynical attitude that was made against the establishment of child labor laws in this country, or the slave trade, or prostitution, or illegal gambling, or police corruption. "Oh, everything is bad so we can't do anything to make it better."
As a sidenote, no, my point isn't that everything is so bad, we can't do anything about it. It's that there are far worse things that most folks are party to without realizing it.
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Just to clarify a bit more, perhaps. Prolly just end up muddling it more. Disassociating with someone because they support/endorse one trade practice, but not when they support/endorse another trade practice [chocolate, electronics] that is a far worse problem [both in scale and from my perspective, in terms of how deplorable the practice is] is a kind of selective rage. -
Quote:So, pretty much except for compromising a video game account, the same as the chocolate trade?Originally Posted by catwhowalksbyhimself
and it isn't. All the things he mentioned really do happen as a result of RMT. The worst stuff takes place in faraway countries where we can pretend it doesn't happen, but I have heard of people having account hijacked and empties of everything of value so the RMT people could get more inf transfered to their accounts. And the treatment of the people used as forced labor to produce inf for them is pretty horrifying. Look it up. Not over-reacting at all.
Just to clarify something with this remark. Pretty much every industry externalizes some very horrible costs of their products. It is important to realize what you are actually paying for, but at the same time, don't cherry pick which causes bring outrage.
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I think it's more the speculation of the increased audience [launch event] that's causing the ad spike.
That and perhaps hopes of trying to cash out while there is still some hope of folks preferring to spend their money on a third party transaction for currency instead of a first party transaction for goods.
Could always implement auto-squelch. It is effective, you just have to have CS be willing to review the instances to catch false positives and abuses. -
Personally, I prefer to play Villains. Pragmatically, many of my chars end up playing rogues over content and grouping access. Less incentive now, however, that the WSTs aren't really pursued [a shame, such decent potential there, but oh well].
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Mechanically, the Alignment merits are a great way to produce funds [perhaps less so now, but time will tell], and potentially a path now to get purples without going batty. -
Quote:Looking cool?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
What were they doing on the hoverboards apart from flying?
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And you must take Fly.
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Quote:It's bright green, and ... hmm shimmery. Not glowy like a click glowy, but it is a bit glowy. I missed it a few times myself, I blame the oranbega map though. It's very easy to see Oranbega map and assume "Oranbega" map, without realizing that it's slightly different.Originally Posted by EricHough
I don't remember it being bright green and glowing. Mind you, its not hard to spot IF you know where to look and are not panicked because the timer has run down.
The real problem here is that there is not enough info in the mission to know what to do - you have no way of knowing that killing groups of igneous will add to the timer, so most folks rush to the original exit, which burns up a good chunk of the timer, then if they don't happen to turn in the correct direction when they get the message about the exit not working they can easily miss the cave door, since they are not expecting it on this map. I first did this mission with 2 other very experienced players and none of us figured it out - I had to ask on global channels to find it.
The overall problem here is not that its hard to complete the missions once you know what to do - its that the first experience can easily be very BAD - and thats not a good idea for the first introduction to content the dev's are pushing as a 'bonus' for VIP's and that they want to sell to premium players. -
Quote:I personally find the problem to be more with the blue backdrop. Thankfully that's pretty easy to fix.Originally Posted by DarkGob
Fine, the color itself isn't necessarily hideous, but against the blue backdrop of the forums it clashes awfully.
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Quote:I like Keyes far better than UG on my Bot/Traps... Not really due to mechanics, because they don't bug me too much. But because of the bloody tunnels. Often end up spending most of the trial with no pets out because 24 people + tunnels isn't fun with pets, especially since Desdemona has her legion of pets out all the time [and I usually end up being the one guiding her, stupid fast load time].Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
You're not the only one. I have sod all fun when my Bots/Traps MM is made to feel like Antimatters little punching bag when I ran the Keyes. I have yet to run UG, but I'm getting put off by the horror stories.
Not that I approve much of iContent after the Alpha slot anyway...see sig for answers.
I've seen some folks remark on their pets getting confused on AoH and starting to kill leaguemates, but honestly, I don't think that's as big of a deal as folks make it out to be.
But, you also know that I really don't have problems with Keyes, so take that for what it is.
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Quote:So, say if a player had the retail key to the architect edition, you also feel that they should have full access to AE if they are not a subscriber?Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
Personally I've never said None subscribers should get access to the entire of the Incarnate system, just the Alpha slot which was originally marketed as part of GR.
Or a retail box of CoV, which does have MMs as a fairly well advertised feature.
The only real difference is that Incarnate abilities aren't obtainable through any other means, but that is different from a premium subscriber being denied stuff that they purchased. It is possible for a premium subscriber to not have those Reward entitlements, so the issue is the same to me.
"Nope, you bought it a long time ago, but you have to pay for it again now. Or you can buy it indirectly through other market purchases!"
And the issue as to if a specific feature should be obtainable without a subscription is really just a design decision. -
Quote:Since I feel like sharing the insanity.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
What is this I don't even
Zalgo isn't quite lovecraft, but it's a meme done in the style of lovecraftian horrorQuote:To invoke the hive-mind representing chaos.
Invoking the feeling of chaos.
With out order.
The Nezperdian hive-mind of chaos. Zalgo.
He who Waits Behind The Wall.
ZALGO!.
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Quote:Folks fullhealing AoH because they don't realize they're confused bugs me far more than the disintegration fails. And the pulse isn't as annoying to me as the spore infestation [ mostly as I have to load up on BFs/Clarion instead of Greens/Rebirth ].Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
Antimatter pulse. That's my complaint with the trial as a whole. Of course, Disintegration is almost impossible to keep track of - just because you see them shout it, doesn't mean you can find their name in the league (my league window is usually small due to MSR runs).
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Quote:I don't know. I think now it suffers far more from a case of bad press than anything else.Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague
Note to devs - this doesn't mean upping the reward again - it means FIXING THE TRIAL.
May just be a case of differing personal opinion, but I really don't like the UG trial [in COX] that much, yet it's getting a very good bit of play time now. -
Quote:Significantly less common. I want to say Confuse is the least resisted of the control types. And perhaps one of the more frustrating for players to be hit by.Originally Posted by NightErrant
However, they are a lot less common that healing powers. If there was some thing Desdemona did that blocked Confusion, and a badge for doing the trial without it, then people would be cool.
But right now, they just seem frustrated.
As a general statement though.
Being gimmicky isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's really the only thing that differentiates a fight from being tank and spank. The issue is often the nature of the gimmick.
My experience with UG has been pretty hit or miss wrt to Hami. Either cascade failure due to confusion [sidenote, hitting Rebirth/Barrier while confused = bad] or roflstomp when we have enough confuse protection.
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Quote:Because some of us has found how to change our posting group to VIP [User CP, Networking, Group MembershipsOriginally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Can they really? Then why are some names white and some names orange?].
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Quote:That is quite possible, however, I'd still contend that 400 for 10 missions wouldn't be a good value. First Ward may well be on the cheap side of things, but I still think it's a fair point of comparison.Originally Posted by Justice Blues
Zwillinger has said the later arcs are higher level and will get longer. I would guess that they set a standard price for the arcs and that is what they cost, no matter the length. So 400 for 3 missions is not that great, but when it is level 50 and 10 missions, it will still be 400 points.
7 parts + finale [I haven't done it, wanting to do it with level approp isn't of exemping, so I don't know if the 'finale' part is a 'full arc' or not to be honest] + the new zone for 600 points.
I can easily see 400 points for the entire series [Who Will Die?]. [edit] It's just odd to see that sort of price disparity in fairly similar content. -
Quote:Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!Originally Posted by rsclark
Note, it's not "game breaking" in the "too powerful" sense, it was game breaking in the sense that it broke the game. I think one of the things happening was slotted enhancements being eaten randomly - and not just from those three slots.
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Quote:Oooh! Gravity/FF!Originally Posted by Brillig
Name even one, please.
But I find that being level 50 doesn't help me out there much either unless you could Ion Judgement.
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Quote:I imagine most of them would have a greater problem with the hybrid model itself. And well, if not, there's also the realization that the hybrid model is different from a traditional subscription model.Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk
So now that this has actually come to pass, where is the outrage. So it is heresy for a guy to suggest something like this, but when it is actually implemented everyone is all alright with it? Where is the hate threads?
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Quote:That doesn't really work either.Originally Posted by Gangrel_EU
stick to tip missions....
At least alignment missions do force your dialog.
Also, the intro-sides villain side do a bit of proclamations [depending on how strict you want to be with your rule]. -
Each of the signature story arcs are actually independent arcs. They don't depend on each other mechanically, only in terms of their story.
You should be able to bounce between the sides quite easily, just as note, the rewards would still share the same cooldown.
Also, once the arc is introduced they remain in game, they aren't time limited.