2 billion per enhancer

I set up a build this weekend while away from the game. I logged in this morning to price the build. Many of the enhancers I were looking at were 2 billion PER ENHANCER. Do the developers really think that people want to play a game that only full time farmers get stuff in? I have 42 months in this game, most of my toons are SO'd, and one, ONE, has a couple billion in it. These things are selling for 2 bill each, so, let me think, I would need to game about 20 years at my current rate to get one toon filled with these things.

Do the developers really believe this is what makes for a happy gaming community? I think I am gonna log for a month or two. I can workout, play music, do art, but I'll be damned if I sit and farm for 3 months to afford like 3 of the things that I figure i'll need 18 of.

Aside from some PVP IOs, what's selling for 2bil+ per enhancement?

I frankly do not care if they are specifically PvGod enhancers. There is no underlying logic in the world that justifies 2 billion per enhancer in this game economy. They can fix it or shove it as far as I am concerned.

The sad thing is that a few of the enhancers are actually selling off-market for more than 2B each. The incarnate system in i19 is intended to be a way for people who don't want to make the push for PvP and Purple IOs to power up their normal IO enhanced toons above what is currently possible.

I expect we'll see the price on some of these things come down once incarnate system is live cause people will have an alternative empowerment route.

Alternately you could do hero/villian tips missions (hardly farming) to get the required alignment merits to buy these things w/o inf.

You really don't NEED these things though. Despite the fact that I have 100's of billions of inf worth of value in my bases, I don't have more than 1 toon fully spec'ed out. Honestly I don't need the one too I do have like that. None of this stuff is needed its intended to give people something to strive for once they're 50th....and thus not shockingly are designed to be a grind to complete.

Do you get mad when you see things in RL you can't afford too?

I believe that they are going for 40-45 of the new merits. correct? Call it 40. So that is 80+ days of gaming for 1 enhancer. and 16 months for a set of 6. a little over that if it is 45 per. Yeah, they fixed it. Woo hoo. everybody throw a party. The Devs fixed it, yeah. ROFLMAO.

If they didnt want them in the game, they should not have made them. if they do want them in the game, they should be available to a regular gamer. on a difficult, not impossible, scale to get. Otherwise they irritate consumers. which is such the intelligent market strategy.

I look at enhancements such as PvP IOs like this:

First: Shiny! I want that.
Then: I see how much it costs.
Then: I look for a cheaper alternative.
Then: I find it after a minute of looking.
Finally: I pick the cheaper alternative for a fraction of the cost.

Usually I can get enhancements that are at leasy half as effective as the purples/PvP IOs I was looking at for less than 10% of their price.

Besides, the price of everything on the market is determined by players so shouting at devs won't help. You're barking at the wrong tree.

Yeah. I do not think the vast majority of the posters are feeling me. i am a 42 month Vet. I did not arrive in the cities yesterday. I understand what you are saying about diminishing returns. I am saying, there is no feasible way for anyone to get one toon fully tricked out with purples and PvP enhancers unless they 1) farm all day every day for a year. (farm, not play) 2) buy in game cash from china illegally.

So, the Devs have set up this situation. the Devs need to fix it. Most people want to spend 3-6 months on one toon, and have something way cool to show for it. if the Devs do not get that then they need to have a serious conference style think tank day.

Probably shouldn't point out the 88 thread...

My bot/traps MM is decked out to the gills on PvP and purple IOs. Its taken me a little over 4 years to get her that way (from creation, to right now) I started her when i11 dropped, and the invention system was just new.

I can solo AVs/GMs/TFs and basically do anything the PvE enviroment can throw at me.

I also have about 10 other 50s, all of them with a decent enough IO build. Heck, while waiting for i18 to drop to live, i decked out all my level 50s with accolades and IO builds cuz i was bored. The money basically fell on me due to my marketing, smart buying, and just playing the game (not farming at all), so i really don't know how you came to the conclusion that people can't afford these prices.

Especially when the PLAYERS set the prices. People are obviously able to make hundreds of billions of inf to be able to pay for the prices the things are going for, as the devs have next to 0 control of what players want to pay for items.

Seriously, between A-merits, regular merits, increase in random drops due to mission completes, increased inf that 50s generate, random dayjob increase in drops, and the market itself, its really no wonder that prices are skyhigh, inflation is a pain, and i do so hope the Crazy 88s are really impacting prices are much as they would hope.

i very rarely buy purps, usually im just running a lot of lvl 50 toons/content and about 50% or more of the purps ive gotten are from drops, most of the ones ive bought are cheaper ones (less than 200 mil)

i dont bother with PVP ios for 2 reasons, the first being i basically never pvp, and as mentioned in the previous posts, the pvp IOs arent any more effective than most of the non PVP ios except for the purps whcih are all "superior" rating enhances, most of the set bonuses for pvp IOs arent all that special either

as of now i have 1 toon which is completely IOd and i dont think i spent more than maybe 2 bil on his build and he has 15 purps slotted, im currently working on like 4 other toons right now, one is missing only like 3-5 purps and the others are missing up to about 20 purps, while it is a lot and more annoying now with the inflated purp prices, its still possible to wait for them on drops especially if you run a lot of lvl 50 content

couple of easy peasy fixes to the market.

A)Cap all market prices at 250 million. the only people who will cry about this are 1) Farmers 2) China Farmers 3) Farming China Farmers

B) Set it so that in an average 3 month playing at 50 content ( 20 hours per week let's call it, so 240 hours at 50 ) there is a 90% likelihood of getting 6 high end enhancers, purple or Pvp.

This will not crush the game system, and I can tell you why. As has been previously stated, It is a law of extremely diminishing returns. the more you throw of these high end things on one toon, the less you get back. even if 2/3 of 50s were purp'd and Pvp'd out, it would make little diff to content.

this will make your average gamer extremely happy. How nice for some 12 year old to get there first 50, a week later get a purp, sell it for 200 mil, and finance SOs for there next 25 alts for a year. Or be able to build a really nice toon in 6 months, by their own effort, without spending 60 hours a week running the same boring farm. wow, almost sounds fun. wait, i made it fun, danged, sorry Devs, I know you hate that.

Okay, kill fun. Make it even harder to get these things, cut the drop rate by half, and triple the merit costs for them, and please raise the market cap to 5 billion per sale. and the cap for cash on hand to 20 billion. You will make 14 people out there soooo happy. The rest of us can go pound sand.