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Acemace

By Acemace,
Posted on: 2009-09-12 10:29 in Champion

 

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Originally Posted by Silas View Post
I mean, someone must have pointed out the immense farm benefit of the new difficulty settings, I just think they decided it was the lesser of two evils compared to AE farming.
My personal belief is that they realize that it will happen one way or the other, regardless of what they do. The challenge isn't to stop farming altogether but rather to curve the gross imbalance between risk and reward that the current farming has shown.

 

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FTW

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Originally Posted by Stray Kitten View Post
...They realize that it will happen one way or the other, regardless of what they do.
Only way you can stop it is to put up all sorts of flagging systems to try to automatically monitor behavior that you want stopped and then have that monitoring system alert a GM. That would of course require ridiculous amounts of effort and would have the playerbase asking why the devs were acting like big brother on a game they pay to play.

Finally, it would lead to players giving them the finger and leaving. Devs Farming is going to happen. Realize it. Don't release borked systems that you don't think through. You have actual competition now. Remember that.

Depending on your definition of farming, farming will always happen. The kind people think is horrible, the kind people find mildly acceptable and the kind the badgers use almost daily.

This game is a game and it's meant to be fun. What you find to be fun may be different than the rest. Elf likes to 'pawn' people in PvP. Ping enjoys market flipping and being ... well.. Ping. I've been 'Ping'ing the market myself and if you all want the thing so damn bad, I guess you'll pay the price to have it.

PvP is 'less' fun in my opinion than it used to be seeing as originally PvP was fast, furious and exciting and now is kinda boring and slow. Right. Super Heroes and Villains move slow in combat. SRSLY?! Who the hell thought that was a good idea? Let's look at ANY comic book movie in the past however and they bastards are FLYING and RUNNING and MOVING and wow, fighting at the same time. Hell, they're probably chewing gum too. I had a toon that was slotted for speed in PvP and now it just seemed so nerfed when I came back.

I had more to say and then I realized that i16 while not letting me log in is letting me create a new character with the new system.

I must go NAO, BAI.

 

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Originally Posted by Darzer View Post
I think I still hold the record for longest without a purple drop at 8 months.
How about never?
I was given 2 purples by teammates, but I've never gotten one on my own.

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Originally Posted by BlackAmaranth View Post
How about never?
I was given 2 purples by teammates, but I've never gotten one on my own.

No wonder froggy's so sad.

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Originally Posted by BlackAmaranth View Post
How about never?
I was given 2 purples by teammates, but I've never gotten one on my own.

Out of say 300 itfs me and my wife ran last year, I got maybe eight.
If that's your aim you're better off farming the market for influence and just buying the purples you want.





 

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Originally Posted by Acemace View Post
Out of say 300 itfs me and my wife ran last year, I got maybe eight.
If that's your aim you're better off farming the market for influence and just buying the purples you want.
Farming the market IS what I've been doing. And I can safely say that the amount of TFs that I've done in the past year is over 100. Maybe around 120-130. One would figure I would have gotten at least 1 by now on some toon. But, nadda, nothing, zero, zitch, empty, beggered, bereaved, divested, left without, left wanting, without gratification, deprived of that which sought, parted from desire, robbed of prize..... pretty much "Munsoned"

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two of the last 3 ITF someone on my team, not me, got a purple. antidotally, 2 in 24, 1 in 12 or about 8% drop rate.

(on the other hand, 8 in 300 is about a 2.6% drop rate.)

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Originally Posted by Darzer View Post
*contemplates nuking Wents from orbit*
It's the only way to be sure.

 

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Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER View Post
I going to express my feeling even though the dev's might delete the post. I witness so many changes each issue that its simply retarded. I work so hard on toon investing hours and hours so I can put IOs. Finding out that it going be nerf on the next issue. (Fire/psi) dominator. The i13+ was hoping for changes and to encourage more players to PVP cause they were complaining that they would get owned coming to zone. Well Dev's those new players are still getting owned and the pvp is like pvping in water. An Single Origin Whatever would still have trouble laying a finger on a Shield Tanker... even my Purple and IOed toon has trouble hitting a tanker without build up. The heal decay is so lame and it slow me down activating my heal. Black Market and W.W prices are outrages...and now nerfing A.E. damn! I guess were going be force to go buy from ****** if we want show some love on a toon. F your changing colors on power who cares..pink emps? That should been done around issue 3 or somewhere on the lower issue. So DEV'S how about leaving PVP alone back to i12 status or not make a zone where i12 rules so simple.
If you want purple prices to go down then you want them to be valueless. In order to make purples valueless, ask the Devs for an NPC run store with set prices for Purples. All purples for sale at 30-40 mil, infinite supply.

The problem isn't their perceived level of scarcity, it's that there is only one way (defeating mobs) of obtaining them. If you could nab them off STF/LRSF completions etc...

OR...you can wait a while and see if the new mission settings cause an influx of purples into the Market.

That might be more realistic.

Maybe.

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I think it was a early case of swine flu when dev's decided to make changes. Who wanted slow and retarded pvping? If the dev's wanted to please the new comer pvper they should made a zone for beginners. Real simple! and for the market there should be cap or better oppertunities to gain purples or rare recipe.. maybe earning a purple for completing a hard taskforce or for gain certain accomplisments.

 

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A cap on prices would create a player-run "black market." For all effective purposes, you would be able to wait in line and pay capped price with about 500 other people, or you would be able to buy it directly from "the source" for twice what things cost now.

 

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Originally Posted by Stray Kitten View Post
A cap on prices would create a player-run "black market." For all effective purposes, you would be able to wait in line and pay capped price with about 500 other people, or you would be able to buy it directly from "the source" for twice what things cost now.
More likely the latter.

It's perhaps a sign of incipient dementia that this is what ELF's thread title brought to mind for me.

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Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER View Post
and for the market there should be cap or better oppertunities to gain purples or rare recipe.. maybe earning a purple for completing a hard taskforce or for gain certain accomplisments.
Listen to the deer! Do eet!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

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Originally Posted by ELF_STALKER View Post
I think it was a early case of swine flu when dev's decided to make changes. Who wanted slow and retarded pvping? If the dev's wanted to please the new comer pvper they should made a zone for beginners. Real simple! and for the market there should be cap or better oppertunities to gain purples or rare recipe.. maybe earning a purple for completing a hard taskforce or for gain certain accomplisments.
Yeah well first they would have to add some new content because hard taskforces in this game do not exist.

 

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Originally Posted by iltat View Post
Listen to the deer! Do eet!

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.
i sort of like that idea. A hard task/strike force that gives a chance of getting a random purple would be pretty cool. i'm thinking a drop table that has SHOEs and Purples. Even the current "Master of" T/SF's are really only hard if you PuG it, so it would be the perfect way to justify adding at least one new T/SF.

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LMFAO, it took you guys 2 years but now you are saying EXACTLY what i have been saying. Welcome to my world, and i only use one account and don't farm for my IO's (maybe i should have but then the game would be "work" and that is not why i am here).

This thread is hilarious considering you guys are the pvp junkies that made pvp NOT enjoyable.

Go ahead and respond, as usual, i know better than to return to a thread like this.

 

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Originally Posted by Felecia_Divine View Post
LMFAO, it took you guys 2 years but now you are saying EXACTLY what i have been saying. Welcome to my world, and i only use one account and don't farm for my IO's (maybe i should have but then the game would be "work" and that is not why i am here).

This thread is hilarious considering you guys are the pvp junkies that made pvp NOT enjoyable.

Go ahead and respond, as usual, i know better than to return to a thread like this.
But apparantly you're not smart enough to stay away altogether and not put your foot in your mouth. Don't you have half the server to be ignoring?

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Originally Posted by Felecia_Divine View Post
LMFAO, it took you guys 2 years but now you are saying EXACTLY what i have been saying. Welcome to my world, and i only use one account and don't farm for my IO's (maybe i should have but then the game would be "work" and that is not why i am here).

This thread is hilarious considering you guys are the pvp junkies that made pvp NOT enjoyable.

Go ahead and respond, as usual, i know better than to return to a thread like this.
I hardly ever PvP. I'm complaining. Not a PvP Junkie.

I don't think you know how to farm IO's. Not sure you know what a challenge is besides trying to alienate the entire player base. That one you seem to be rising to admirably.

Welcome back, Trollvine. How are your SG only costume contests going? Respond, please if only to give me more ammunition.

 

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What was that?

The ravings of a lunatic mind

So if she's not going to check back for comments, why post a comment in the first place? (I won't even address the incoherence of the whole thing.) Should I feel guilty acknowledging that I found that post hillarious?

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Originally Posted by Peterbilt View Post
Should I feel guilty acknowledging that I found that post hillarious?
No. You should be giddy with excitement after having found so obvious a flaw.

 

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Did you hear that? You all RUINED PvP!!!

Welcome back Felecia!!! (I knew something was missing from the boards lately)

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Ignore the girl back to business....

We need more villain pvp'rs....c'mon you hero chumps

 

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Did you hear that? You all RUINED PvP!!!

Welcome back Felecia!!! (I knew something was missing from the boards lately)
A distaff version of Stryker's delusions of grandeur was missing from the boards? Really?

Oh, also the just plain delusions and incomprehension of nuance in general, and the game's mechanics in particular, but without Skyppy's functionally illiterate writing style.
Well at least F_D still supplies the Bungee of Conclusion Jumping. (And a mighty bouncy bungee it is.)
(Stroke Victim Smiley agrees with me.)

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1 MORE TF'S AND CONTACTS BOTH SIDES
2 i dont know...... more NEW powersets
3 LEAVE PVP BE FOR CHRIST SAKE LEAVE IT BE
4 increase the dam drop rates
5 new zones red side and less blue ( who goes into Dark Astoria to do mishes?)
6 bring back base raids ( i've wanted to base raid the Rogue Isle Mafia for the longest time)
7 .....A new AT maybe......for heroes and vills
Elf great post, and the above suggestions.... dev's, I hope you take a serious look at this list.

Pink imps????

R U SRS?


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