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Are Hero & Villian Market the same?

Another_Fan

By Another_Fan,
Posted on: 2009-11-09 06:25 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight View Post
Something else that no one has yet pointed out directly but ties into Uberguy's earlier post.

The market is entirely player operated. There is no bid or offer in existance that is not posted by a player...

This means that the size of the market is entirely limited by the number of total transaction slots available. Per capita may be the same (caveat to follow) but over all goods are not in large enough supply.Many red side toons may have fewer total transaction slots than their blue side equivalents due to this and may even be made worse by the apathy that may be triggered by this.
The real market size is less than the theoretical total number of character transaction slots, being the total number of slots currently being utilized in the market. I imagine some players do not utilize all, if any, of their market slots apart from selling drops and even less so on their more dormant characters. I doubt it's so much as whether they have fewer or more slots per character as it is whether they use them. If player population figures and the current number of market transactions are any indication, I would guess that the vast majority of available market transaction slots on all player characters as a whole are inactive.

 

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The Hero an Villain markets are not the same. If the markets are merged then all the zones and all the missions should be merged and heroes must be allowed to trade with villains. There would be no separation between a hero and villain it would be City of Anything Goes which does not make sense. Not that it matters, but I vote no to market merger unless you merge everything!

 

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I fail to see how merging the markets equates to merging the zones. Could you clarify why you think that?

 

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Originally Posted by Goodwill View Post
The Hero an Villain markets are not the same. If the markets are merged then all the zones and all the missions should be merged and heroes must be allowed to trade with villains. There would be no separation between a hero and villain it would be City of Anything Goes which does not make sense. Not that it matters, but I vote no to market merger unless you merge everything!
That's esentially what Going Rogue will do. It will merge every thing but the markets. Heros and villians can all ready team together in coop zones like RWZ and Cimerora. Going Rogue will allow them to switch back and forth between non-coop zones.... but the markets will still be separate. Which is one of those things that make us scratch our heads and say WTH?!?!?!?

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