No information has been released but I would expect this is on the Devs' radars if not already in their design plans.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
I am betting that there will be some version of both the black market and the auction house available for use in Praetoria.
After all, the Resistance needs to move goods somehow, and a respectable chap like President Cole can't be seen as getting in the way of business.
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My baseless speculation is that you are assigned to one of the markets as a default, based on your AT (i.e. a blaster would be blue by default).
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I should think that it would be based on your "alignment": Resistance or Loyalist. I am under the impression that that might get picked as early as character creation.|
Originally Posted by Ironblade
My baseless speculation is that you are assigned to one of the markets as a default, based on your AT (i.e. a blaster would be blue by default).
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I think you pick it afterwards, but soon. The problem I see with that is it seems arbitrary, since those are independent of hero/villain. i know that currently I have characters planned for both resistance and loyalist that plan on going hero after 20.
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Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
I should think that it would be based on your "alignment": Resistance or Loyalist. I am under the impression that that might get picked as early as character creation.
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At Hero Con, Positron said that there would be one or two markets in Praetoria, and that they'd be linked to WW and the BM by some kind of "interdimensional trading" - in other words, there'll be a WW and BM in Praetoria, but they'll be called something else to fit in with the game world.
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Something tells me that they might reverse in Praetoria. Loyalists might use a version of WW's (as it is the legitimate trading center) and the Resistance might use a version of BM (since they are operating outside the "law").
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
At Hero Con, Positron said that there would be one or two markets in Praetoria, and that they'd be linked to WW and the BM by some kind of "interdimensional trading" - in other words, there'll be a WW and BM in Praetoria, but they'll be called something else to fit in with the game world.
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I was thinking that too - make them "mirror" markets for the Praetorian dimension|
Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Something tells me that they might reverse in Praetoria. Loyalists might use a version of WW's (as it is the legitimate trading center) and the Resistance might use a version of BM (since they are operating outside the "law").
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So does anyone have anything more concrete than baseless speculation on how anything split by red/blue is going to interact with Praetorians once GR goes live? It seems odd to have no groups and no markets until level 20 when you are forced to choose a side - and I seriously doubt they will create a third completely separate faction given how bad the result of separating red/blue already is for the market.
Both solutions - no market vs third market - sound terrible.
I do think it will be interesting to have 20 levels where there is no twinking possible (at least at first) might be interesting, so I'm not as concerned about groups and the mail system.