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    Insect Control: A Proposed Controller Powerset

    in Suggestions & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Obus Form
    Additional insects

    Love the presentation, design and feel of it.  My general overview of the numbers suggests they align with current numbers.

     

    What we need next is.... INSECT SUMMONING!

     

    Edit: 

    Insect Summoning (Master Mind)

    Insect Armor (Melee classes + Sentinel)

    Insect Blast (Ranged)

    Insect Therapy Affinity (Support)

     

    Picture for Insect Blast

    giant ballpark – Judgment of the Pharaoh

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    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

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    10 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    The best part of this 1300+ entry thread is the clear demonstration that people dump things they don't want for practically nothing into the /AH, pay prices that they think are too high for the things they do want on the /AH, and never seem to realize they are buying back exactly what they dumped.

     

    Now THAT, my friends, is rich, in several meanings of the word!

    I see why you are so influential.  On and off the market.

    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Obus Form

    13 minutes ago, ForeverLaxx said:

    Once again, this is not a counterargument. The issue is NOT that people have lots of influence. The issue is that farming was GENERATING too much out of nothing. "Playing the market", as you suggest, does not generate new influence; it merely REDISTRIBUTES IT somewhere else (usually to one person).

     

    I repeat, for what seems like the hundredth time at this point (a feat, considering I don't have 100 posts to my name), the problem is influence being added to the economy, not influence being moved around within that economy.

    Stop Sir!  Your facts and logic are not welcome here!

     

    Separately, I also rescind my funding to the World Health Organization.  

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    Purples should be removed from the AH

    in Suggestions & Feedback

    Posted

    Diablo 3: Account bound, random drops

    OP you cite Diablo 3.  But every class and every spec in Diablo 3 is a DPS AOE-damaging class that essentially farms itself by running Torment 13 maps for crafting mats, and rifts for end-game stats on drops. Account-bound purples essentially means low DPS classes in COH will, outside of extremely lucky RNG, be forced to team themselves with Brutes/Scrappers capable of fast clear times on level 50 +4x8 AE farm maps.  It would possibly lead to people selling +4x8 farm maps, which detracts from the entire "a City of Heroes" game idea.

     

    If Purples dropped were randomized (and still account bound), to maximize your chances of receiving the purple you want, you would have to Brute force Spines/Fire +4x8 AE maps hoping RNGesus drops your 1 purple to complete your Controller's build, which is 1/60 (0.016%) on a very rare class of IOs.  You could potentially never finish your build.  Someone previously mentioned, this forces play time on a toon that you don't want to play, but are forced to play to maximize your chances of winning the Purple lottery for the toon you actually want to play.  

     

    You cite game longevity, but Diablo 3's intial release and Dev data cited player frustration that legendary drops, which were extremely rare, were randomized and an unreliable source of gear upgrade when a legendary/set item was found.  This led players to believe that Diablo 3 Devs were forcing end-game players to buy via the Auction House.

     

    Diablo 3: Tailored drops

    If you cite Diablo 3's drop-rate mechanic tailoring 90% of drops to be usable for that class, that doesn't work in COH because each AT has powers that can use IOs normally used for other ATs.  For example, the melee focused Scrapper may want to 5 or 6 slot Apocalypse (the Purple ranged damage IO set) in their Epic Power Pool, the ranged focused Blaster may want to 5 or 6 slot Hecatomb (the Purple melee damage IO set) into their melee damage powers, and the Controller may not want to use Absolute Amazement (the Purple stun IO set) in any of their stun powers.  You can't tailor Purple drops in COH Diablo 3 style because of the nature of IO slotting.

     

     

    Current HomeComing Devs

    The Devs currently aim to minimize the influence gap between new players and veteran players of COH Homecoming, which is tantamount to diminishing the amount of play-time required for new players to fully IO (including ATOs, Winters, Purples) themselves.  Account binding Purples doesn't minimize that time gap, it exacerbates it. Now, new players will say "Oh God, I have to farm for how long to potentially get this drop?".  If you ever played Ragnarok online, and if you recall the drop rates 0.05% or 0.03% for extremely rare cards (Ghost Ring card, Golden Thief Bug card, etc) the grind was unreal for new players.  Feast or Famine.

     

     

     

     

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    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

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    41 minutes ago, MunkiLord said:

    I think if a pack for purples was to be added it should be priced 60-75 million. Assuming the same average take of 1.2 enhancements per pack, that would leave plenty of room for normal price changes, still be priced appealing enough for some people to buy, but not so appealing to crash prices. I think the Windfall temp power having a significantly higher chance to drop from such a pack could be fun too. 

    I wish the email UI would allow the sorting of Pack drops into inspirations, IOs, temp powers, etc, and allow the claiming of all of each type of item with 1 click.

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    March 31 patch and its effects on the marketplace

    in The Market

    Posted · Edited by Obus Form
    Oops

    GOT IT!

     

    Like PVP seasons resetting every few months, make an Influence Ladder, except do it via a unique badge or title (like homecoming-sanctioned costume contest winners) biddable on the AH.  

     

    Once a month, the unique badge/title will be sold to the highest bidder.  Like the normal /AH, the last 5 bids will show (the last 5 winners of the badge)

     

    I would expect the biddable amount to be able to handle 1 trillion influence to account for future inflation. 

     

    Edit: Oops, I thought this was the "Inf sink ideas" thread.  Anyway, idea still suggested.

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    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

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    Posted

    1 minute ago, parabola said:

    Yeah I wasn't advocating that they extend the converter system just pointing out that they could and that it would really shake things up. I like the idea of a purple pack though.

    A purple pack essentially price ceilings the purple IOs, much like winter IOs being 20-25 million, and ATOs being 8-10 million.

     

    Curious, not questioning your request, do you want a price ceiling on most IOs that are essential/rare like PVPs, Purples, Winters, ATOs, etc?

    Gameplay wise, I would prefer not all good IOs (purple, pvp, ato, winter) come from loot boxes since it detracts from the gameplay itself.

    Technical Analysis

    in The Market

    Posted · Edited by Obus Form

    3 hours ago, ceres said:

    Volume is amount bidding + amount for sale. Just to get an idea of what times during the day are more active.

    This was just messing around, going to do a day long one every 30 min to get some better data.

    Appreciate you doing this @ceres

     

    I would imagine it is something similar to @Crysis , which matches my experience in the WoW auction house that had real-time and extremely accurate tracking via The Undermine Journal, my bots, and addons.  The experience being, people buy a lot before Tuesday raid reset (to slot/enchant/craft gear before raid), and dump it all after Tuesday/Wednesday raids for the hardcore guilds, and dump it all on Friday/Saturday night after casual raids.  Sunday people are sleeping so the markets slow down.

    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    But regardless, time is money.  I think.

    100%, this is what all jobs are.

     

    We are capped, in real-life, by X hours of life time.   The very wealthy have learned not to trade life hours for $.  So the most profitable way to make money is have people trade their life-hours for your $.  But you need initial seed $.  Hence you can get a normal job, use a line of credit, mortgage, etc and run a restaurant, run an Air BnB, etc.

     

    In COH, your initial seed $ is farming yourself, actively or passively.  Once you hit 50 million you can start marketeering (properly) and monitoring results.  Without having to trade your real-life time for in-game influence in a measured 5-6 million inf/hour like a job, with  practice/knowledge/patience/risk tolerance you can now trade several hours for hundreds of million of inf, like a company owner.  Now I'm trading real-life time in a measured 500-600 million inf/hour.

     

    Others choose to AFK farm via multiple accounts, similar to running a company in real life (you are AFK while others trade their life-hours for your $), except it is at the start of the production process (raw materials) rather than the end (converting and selling to end user).

     

    Still some choose to AFK farm and marketeer, having expanded their business vertically.  More power to them!

     

     

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    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

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    2 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    I see a lot of posts (not yours!) that say things like, "I have four jobs and eight children and three wives.  I have forty-five seconds to play CoH every other month, and you expect me to be able to compete with those slack-jawed yokels who are playing 26 hours a day, 9 days a week?  No, just give me my purple IOs for 10,000 inf each and give me a temp power that will let me solo Hami during my leisure time."

    HAHAHA 😄 love it!

     

    4 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

    There are a lot of things in life that are a lot more important than this silly game, but if you are carving out any time at all to play it, you probably have five extra seconds to put a number other than 5 in the sell box.  If you are playing today, you probably will be able to play again within the next few weeks and pick up your buys and sales at your next log in.

     

    What the buy it NAO and sell it NAO crowd is paying for is convenience and the lack of patience.  Typing 5 is a lot easier and faster than determining a better sell price to get a little more return. 

    I think you're right, and I recall a similar discussion in the /Market forums.  Impatience and convenience make people buy NAO.

     

    But then I think this "choice" boils down to education or lack thereof, metrics or lack thereof, risk aversion, and "other factors" that knowing/trying/doing XXX is not "worth your real-life time".  <-- Not judging anyone here, just making observations based on person life experience.

     

    If one religiously carves out time to play, would it not be in their best interest to spend some of that game-time to learn to maximize inf generation?  So then I dive deeper into "desire".  Nothing replaces true desire for.... success, influence, money, fame, power, etc.   If someone truly wanted to learn COH Homecoming inf maximization, they will learn marketeering, and they will learn it whether or not the devs wipe clean the /Market forums because you can do math and determine, based on /AH prices, how much 100 merits is worth (1 purple, 1 ATO, 1 winter, or tons of converters).   The /AH price difference in those 4 items, but each costing 100 merits, is what sparked my 1st thought of marketeering on homecoming.  If one decides (for whatever reason) that marketeering isn't for them.... discussion over.

     

    On a macro scale, I think us marketeers make money based on our desire for influence, the spark of curiousity, or some other innate desire.  On a micro scale, I think some transactions pull through due to impatience and convenience (i'm looking at you, catalyzed-ATOs-on-the-AH!)

     

     

    Discussion: Disabling XP No Longer Increases Influence

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Seigmoraig said:

    If somebody wants their money NOW there is a path to do so and it is their right to get it. If the person wants to get their money and craft their stuff to be ready for the next gaming session before logging they can and will do that and no amount of bitching about it here will change that.

    Time.

     

    Nearly 100% certain that for all of us, real-life time is most valuable.  

     

    I'm a marketeer responsible for raising prices on salvage and sometimes flooding markets because I desire maximizing value (inf generation) per minute of real-life time spent gaming on COH.  I often don't want to "wait until tomorrow" because my life circumstances may or may not allow me to come back to COH tomorrow.  Also, tomorrow may or may not have another nerf somewhere, or another real-life health crisis.  As long as my sell price is met, I will make inf.  I will buy/craft/convert/put-for-auction.... today!

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    Spines/ Dark Armor Build Advice

    in Brute

    Posted · Edited by Obus Form

    No need on oppressive gloom because its Mag 2 stun is useless against Boss mobs (require Mag 3 stun) and anything worthy of your attention in iTrials of Boss type or greater (Boss, EB, AV). 

     

    Your best survival tactic is reaching 45% S/L defense softcap for normal content.  Eat 1 purple to be at 45 + 12.5 = 57.5% S/L, which is 1.5% away from softcap for iTrials. However, because there is so much pure energy damage in iTrials that is not S/L based, you may need to eat 2 purples or use Barrier.  Else, 6 slot your /Dark Armor heal with the PVP Heal IOs to get 60%HP heal on 1 mob, and  100% HP heal on 2+ mobs.

     

    From experience tanking iTrials, /Dark Armor's Mag 2 stun, and Mag 2 fear are useless.  

     

    1 hour ago, Psyonico said:

    I haven't played Spines/Dark (way too end heavy for my preference) so I really can't comment too much on a build.

     Because one of the Brute's ATOs has a unique proc that reduces your endurance consumption, you can 6 slot your /Dark Armour damage aura, or /Spines damage aura with that IO set to always have a endurance discount whenever you are in melee range of mobs (which is always when hitting EB/AV).  Essentially, your Spines/Dark Armour brute is always at maximum endurance and never runs out, even with Sprint and Super Speed running.

     

    Will attach a build tonight

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