MTeague

For the record, I don't mean this guy: No, I mean the term "AH Flipper". What exactly do you file under that category? And what about it do you think is objectionable/not? And, I know, I know, I'm a dreamer and a lunatic, but let's try to keep this free of invective and vitriol. Category 1: Buy something on Auction House. Post the EXACT SAME THING to the Auction House, at a higher price. This I can understand people being angry at. "Now, I have to pay more. I could have bought it at the original price, but you wanted to be a middleman, and really what benefit does the community gain by you being such a middleman and taking an extra "cut" of the price it could have been?" However, an argument (rationalization?) can be made that now the same item is going through TWO auction house transactions, and therefore at least twice at much influence is being drained from the economy, which helps cut down on long-term-inflation. Unless someone is bragging about doing exactly this, it's next to impossible to know it happens, because of course you have no idea who bought what from whom, or who acquired what as a drop vs acquired by the auction house. Category 2: Buy crafted set IO's on Auction House. Convert them. Post the converted result to the Auction House. I don't object to the seller selling the converted result. They bought some basic ingredients, used some of their own resources to turn it into something else that is a more sought-after product. Not unlike buying a house/building that has been condemned, fixing it up, and selling the result. Now I do get, that even that can be touchy. in the real world, there can be concerns over not finding housing you can afford if the cheap places are all converted to something upscale. In CoH terms, maybe I really *WANTED* to use Serendipity or Reactive Armor sets, but I can't because they're all snapped up and converted to LotG or to Unbreakable Guard's. Or maybe I actually WANTED a full set of Gladiator's Net. But other people are buying them and converting them to Panacea's and Shield Walls and Gladiator's Armor and such. Category 3: Buy recipe's and salvage. Craft yellows, and some oranges. Convert them. Post the converted result to Auction House. In many ways identical to category 2. but some may consider this "different" on some level so I wanted to split this out. Others Categories??? I don't really object to any of the above. In part because I can use Converters to change most anything into most anything, and I'll get quite a few dropped recipies on any given night. I'm not thrilled with category 1 and I don't do it.... but every bit of influence consumed by auction house fees is a bit of influence taken out of the economy, and that helps fight inflation. I just personally like to feel like I have added value, and I can't quite bring myself to justify it to myself. I HAVE sometimes engaged in Category 2. I'll do Category 3 a couple times a week. If you consider this "bad", why? What would you say if not some random stranger, but a friend was doing it?

Here's how I see it. It's been a month or so since the Double Influence was disabled / nerfed / removed / your-choice-of-verb-here. There is NO WAY that the devs are unaware of the amount of pushback from people who feel that this was a serious mistake / insult / whatever. The dev have also had an entire month to collect data, observe what has in fact happened. Did a bunch of people quit? Has there been a spike of inflation or deflation? Are certain things posted less often or more often? Has this set out to do what they intended, and has it had unforeseen consequences? If they feel they need to roll back this change, I suspect it's really not that hard for them to do so. If they feel the cold hard numbers mean it's had the desired effect and is in the long-term best interests of their vision for the game, they will keep it. But I do not believe continued rageposting, OR rageobjecting, is likely to sway them in either direction. Now, full disclosure, I am in the camp that considred it something that spiked inflation too much, and I'm glad it's gone. You're entirely free to disagree with me. You're entirely free to file me under one of your numerical categories if you wish. I do not feel a need to "discuss the problem" becuase, frankly, in my view the problem has already been fixed. But if you disagree, there are zero other players who you need to convince. You really need to convince the DEVS. And I bet angry posts aren't going to sway them any more than they have already been swayed (not at all) over the last month. Calm reasoned arguments, backed up by as much data as you can provide, are far likelier to have an impact more than posting about "City of Haters".

I'm guessing Crey agents got to you and erased those memories. Or possibly Will Smith. 🙂

Experimentally.... (I just added one) Go to your profile click Edit Profile Type whatever you want into "Member Title" click Save shazam, you have a title above your avatar

To be fair, I would never assume a poster is a complete authority in any field. Case in point. Above your avatar, it says "Economics Professor". You may in fact be one. You may in fact be an undisputed authority in the field. But the fact that the label above your avatar says so, is a far cry from any kind of proof of that. I've said on numerous posts, that I've worked as a programmer for 24 years. And that's true. Unless I'm lying. And really, how would anyone else know? You may or may not have suspicous based on how I phrase certain things. But I would not in the slightest bit be offened if anyone say "yea right MTeague, keep blowing smoke". For all any other poster knows, I could be a very very clever labrador retriever who's learned to type. We **ARE** all "randoms" to one another, unless you know someone here in real life.

Of course, from "Hats without Hair", my brain leapt to "Men Without Hats", and now Safety Dance is stuck in my head.

I mean, some hairstyles do NOT make sense with hats. Especially the Road-Warrior-Style mohawk, or Mender Silos super-spiky hair, or the giant exposed brain. But I would like a "Hat Detail" option that let you choose what hairstyle, IF ANY, to have show up with the hat. this would allow for a bit more control, so you don't have to have part of a mohawk or exposed brain showing through a hat. Anything too crazy, you just don't allow for Hat Detail. You could start off with a fairly small list of choices.... short hair (like under the Fedora), long wild hair (like under the "Swabby" or "Pirate" hats), or long straight hair (like under the "Bandana" hat on females). I'd like "Low Ponytail" to be an option as well. That list could be expanded over time / with requests. Maybe the "Hat Detail" option would just be disabled / greyed out on hats that are to where it makes no sense (egyptian pharoah headdress), but enabled where it does make sense (baseball cap, fedora, duster, etc)

It probaby wouldn't be that that hard to setup a Hollows run, but I admit, that's one I don't see advertised as much anymore. I blame Twinshot and her arc for that, as well as DFB. Still doable, but you might need to start up in LFG chat something like: "Returning player looking for Hollows group! Starting on David Wincott arc! C'mon, help a new hero out!" I suspect that would get at least a few bites from people who are nostalgic for old Hollows runs, even if it's not a common levelling choice nowadays.

My experience has been that more people use the LFG chat channel to find teams than use the in-game LFG tool. It may be worth monitoring LFG chat and sending people a tell if they're announcing spots open for a group. (I'm on Excelsior, if it matters)

Babylon 5, "A Late Delivery from Avalon", Garabaldi: “What are you so nervous about? We went up against the entire Earth Alliance and two carrier groups.” Zack: “Yeah, but this is the Post Office. We could get in real trouble for this.”

OSHA was there. They're tied up in a straight jacket, still in convulsions, still screaming "It doesn't make sense! Why doesn't it make sense!!!"

And give every Council a Sapper Rifle. Every minion, every lieutentant, every boss. And have them all self-rez like Freakshow Super Stunners. (this is not a real suggestion. if this were an actual suggestion, I would be found stabbed somwhere)

I do not object to the suggestion "get rid of these caves" being made at all. People should be allowed to express displeasure with what they don't like. And just having the discussion can open up alternate means of resolving the issue. If the real issue is "I can't find the darn mobs", maybe there's other ways to address THAT, without ripping out the maps. I do enjoy the caves, and I do want to keep them, and I think the game would be diminished if they were removed. If there were no good ways to make locating the mobs easier for those who feel frustrated by it, I will say I have no strong preference if the caves were taken out of the rotation for radio or newspaper missions. I'd miss them some, but as long as the caves were kept in place for story arcs and task forces, and tip missions, then I will continue to see them plenty often enough, and it would mean existing arcs / stories keep their "feel". I think that's much less of an issue for the radio missions where I'm rescuing Joey Jones from the Circle of Thorns because of whatever 2-line intro the radio mission has. EDIT: example alternate fix: Maybe the Map should always show red arrows for mobs that are within X distance of you even if there's still 100 mobs left on the map, but continue to only show you red arrows for EVERYTHING when the count is below a certain number. Then you could still zip around the map, and you'd have a "radar" of sorts to find stragglers you missed far faster because of the "always on if within X distance" arrows.

Also clicky mez protection is superior because you can often have 2 or even THREE stacks of it running at once. That really spikes the magnitude of mez protection you have. A toggle would only ever have just the base values, meaning it would take far less Hold's or Knockbacks to affect my character.

QFT. This is exactly what I do on my Plant/Psi dom. Domination is auto'd. Hasten, I have to manually click. It's not that bad. now, of course, my Dominator is a Committed Villain, and has the Villain Alignment power (Frenzy), so I do have a "Fill my bar on demand, now-dammit-now" backup if I accidentally lose Domination. I tend to go 8 missions in a row with zero problems before that happens though. It's really not that hard to manually manage it once you get used to it.

I can sort of understand that, but do you find yourself hamstrung on that character if you flashback to a low level mission? (e.g. long pauses or holes in attack chain because you don't have enough lower level attacks?)

I've never had *quite* that happen, but I have had chefs come out and check with me when I want certain cuts of meat cooked more thoroughly than is considered "trendy". They never said "No, I will not do that, you are a horrible diner, get out!" But they did want to double check and said "Most people really don't like it that well done, and I can't uncook it, so... you're sure?"

If there's no Argo cap, then holes in the space time continuum mean you get liked 500 different copies of the Argo from Star Blazers showing up at once. The universe can't handle that many Wave Motion Guns.

While this IS true.... I do want to say, I have a Fire/Fire/Fire Sentinel that's an absolute joy to play. Fiery Aura, at least for Sentinels, can become quite respectable if you slot your character well. It may not be the best min/max choice, but he's plenty durable, without Tough, without Weave, and still a few levels short of having any Incarnates.

And noooooobody says no to Gamera. On the cave maps, honestly I don't mind them in the slightest. And I don't think heroes should expect that villains would organize their cave layouts and lairs specfically to make it easier for the heroes to find all of them. You learn the maps easy enough if you play them. Not once have I been unable to find where the last few mobs live. Though there were a small handful of times I spent 8 minutes looking for them. I feel what's far MORE deserving of attention is 4 and 5 story buildings with NO exterior windows, NO stairwells, and one-story elevators only in different corners of the building, NO fire escapes, NO fire extinguishers, NO kitchenettes, and NO bathrooms(!) Honestly EVERY office building and laboratory I've ever been to in Paragon City should be condemned.

I use Knockback in what I believe to be an intelligent and responsible manner. Will all players agree with me? No. Do I care? No, not really. If a team is uptight enough to kick me for it, I probably wasn't enjoying their company anyway. I do not enjoy teams that OBSESS over clearing missions in the absolute minimum possible time. Really, it's no great sin if we kill a mob in 8 seconds instead of 5. Life, will go on.

While Time may be infinite, Gaming Time, can be crushingly finite....

That's a fair answer. I admit, I'm seriously considering a possible respec on my Inv/SS tank, but a) also stuck at work, and b) mentally juggling the tanker ATO's and still needing X many qualifying powers to slot them into. And my tank is only lvl 33, so no footstomp or epic powers for me yet. Ah well. Not like I really need to decide in a rush.

Interesting. Would Boxing/Kick/Crosspunch get the Punch-Voke/Poke-Voke effect when used by a Tanker/Brute? Or would the extra AE / stronger punches come at some expense of aggro management? Or do you toss in the occasional Jab to get in misc taunting punches?