Perfidy

Where you been? Don't think I've seen you post in a long time. But then...I'm not in these forums much these days, trying to stay out of trouble. I wouldn't want to get turned into a trash can again.

This is quite unexpected. I would have lost my retirement fund, as I would have bet the entirety of it this would have never happened. Interesting times.

The Flea is good. The Flea is wise.

On a tangent - the thing that made me fall in love with reading Spider-Man was the financial struggles he had as a young adult. The realism of a character facing the same kinds of issues we all face...man, that's what made Spider-Man so compelling for me. I certainly understand anyone thinking the market is boring, even though it's my favorite part - mostly because I'm better at going from zero inf to a billion than I am getting a level 1 character to 50 (outside of a farm). Neither is difficult, but for me, there's a fair level of tedium in both aspects of the game. Like the annoyance of clearing the Fir Bolg from a neighborhood when it's not real clear that there are any in that neighborhood. I end up having to pull them in the area to get credit before I can get on to the mission at hand. I'd rather churn through 1000 converters than do that. But, that is just me. Opinions and preferences are going to vary, and I think those should be embraced.

So, I completely see your point, and Yomo's above. But there are a number of folks who have no idea how this is done. Those 80-90% of folks who <gasp> have never even heard of Yomo, let alone knew to ask him for 20M no questions asked. They are just there to play, organically, without thought to how to kit out their characters, or any thought to how to finance the items required to kit out the character. So, their ignorance results in an artificial increase in the volume of cries about how hard it is to earn inf. Fun comes in a variety of different ways for different people. Some folks are NEVER going to accept the tedium of bidding low and selling high in a game. They're just not going to do it, no matter how fantastic the YouTube videos by Dahle and the written guides here by Yomo are.

At the risk...well, no risk, I'll just accept I'm being nitpicky about the terms being used. It's not market inefficiency. It's server speed inefficiency, or whatever the IT folks call it when the orders placed by players take more time than it should to be processed by the servers. And yes, it definitely causes a slight push upwards on the price of all items on the market. You want a pvp IO, so you place a low ball bid of 5M for that Shield Wall 5% Def(all) piece. Nothing happens. You figure another 500K won't break your bank and increase it again. Your impatience gets the best of you, and suddenly you're at 6M, then 6.5M, and suddenly it goe through. You don't know this, of course, but there's a chance it might have actually gone through at 6M, but the server was too slow to process the order, and you were too impatient. Or both. Ever place a bid on 10 items for 9000 inf? If the server that handles the AH is dragging behind, it will show something that the server is not busy enough for me to snip and sketch at the moment, but it will show a bid for 10 items at 0 inf, with (in my example here of 9k inf) 90,000 total. Sometimes, it takes several seconds for the hamsters to spin the wheel fast enough for the server to actually finish placing the bid of 9000 inf for each of the 10 I want. I've never noticed this when just bidding on one item. So, yes, no doubt in my mind the player's impatience and the server's inability to process the 1000's of orders being placed at any one moment in time (remember, the AH is across ALL the servers) is going to be a factor in final accepted bid price.

Or, you could be level 7 and need some salvage to craft a nifty recipe you got from the AH at a bargain. But the rascally marketing cabal has seen fit to bid higher than "normal" and have sucked up all the cheap supply, and then they relist it even higher prices. It's a short term manipulation that won't last. But, for that level 7 or other lowbie trying to craft something on the cheap - it's not so inexpensive to them. I'm just glad the damned things are capped at 10k inf. Also, it makes me want to farm just to dump salvage on the market cheap. But that's kind of boring.

I have not made this yet, and if someone snags it, I suppose that will have to be okay. Margaret Scratcher (play on Margaret Thatcher, of course). Not sure if she should be a spines/* or claws/* Heck, maybe someone else already made one before this post. I haven't checked yet.

Perception bias is real.

So, saw Todogut was made into a hero when I was in RWZ this evening. While I think it was a nice thing to do, I ask myself - I wonder what his origin is, and perhaps other details. I appreciate the sentiment of reproducing his avatar, but it'd be nice to read a little something about him.

It certainly looks like a LOT of hours went into building this. The kissing booth, where the guy is bored and tapping his foot, compared to the girl who has quite the line waiting was really amusing.

Not necessarily true. It depends on how the build is slotted. Anecdotally, my brutes outshine my tanks - but that's partly because my tanks are built to absorb damage, not dish it out.

Burn, simply because of it's accuracy. Anecdotally, I put a recharge in it for the initial slot, unlike other powers which get an accuracy. The second slot is also a recharge, then a damage. By the third slot, I'm usually ready for IOs, depending on if it's a brute or a tank. Unless I'm debuffed by spectral ghosts or something, I never see it miss, even against +4 mobs.

It is odd, isn't it? Some days, it doesn't take much.

Fair enough. I think the drama I've read on these very board by this person impacted my initial thoughts. But..yeah, they certainly could be simply mistaken. Thanks for the correction.

I cannot believe some of the junk I heard yesterday...until I checked the global name. I was on PUG to do the Frostfire arc yesterday. The team was pretty decent for a pug. Only a couple of defeats. Some chatter was taking place and someone mentioned that if they were playing an MM, they would be using the pets a certain way. I joked that if I were on an MM, I'd be in a farm because I'm not very good at playing an MM, and even admitted that the reason why I'm probably not good at MMs is because I would level them up to a point in a farm. As you might imagine, there were different opinions, which is as it should be. But then, this one player, who frequents these forums and gets into all manner of debates, states that we need to clear the side rooms or the mobs will rush in the room when we're fighting Frostfire. I debated calling him out, but decided against it, because I hadn't played in a while, but I had just solo'd FF on an alt last week. So I know with a 0/1 setting, there is no ambush. I had to chuckle, but then I got a little miffed. Why was this person lying about it? Was he really that concerned that some folks might rush ahead and complete the mission? We hadn't seen any of that type of behavior in the missions previous, and the team composition hadn't changed. Same folks, all waiting at the door politely for everyone to train up before entering. Letting the mission holder click the glowies, as courtesy suggests. And, frankly, if the mission did get completed, the rest of us could have cleared the mission as planned. Has there been a change? I don't think so - but maybe there is an ambush that only occurs for large teams? Or it would occur if I remained in the mission long enough? I don't think so, as I did skate around on the ice a little bit. Why did this strange person mislead the team? Or has something changed that I missed in the patch notes?

Fair enough. I've already been corrected for suggesting that no opinions were right or wrong, to an obvious generalization that nobody is wrong all the time. I've already been accused for moving a goal post for saying that an absolute term is just fine. Someone disagrees with you, (not you, Neiska, just the general "you") and people must have the last word and try to move people closer to their way of thinking and seeing the world. I don't see that approach working in most cases, unless they know and respect you. And other than maybe 5 people on the forums, the rest don't know you to respect you. And half the regular forum goers probably have those same 5 people on ignore for reasons of their own, while they only know and respect a different 5 people. I can see now, these forums are the place of madness. Enjoy yourselves, I'm out.

Nothing wrong with absolute terms from time to time. And certainly nothing wrong with a gentle nudge in the right direction in an attempt to be helpful and more clear. But we're going to have to disagree on this point. And that's fine. To each their own.

I think I stepped in a mess here and now regret it. I wasn't asking why you put people on ignore - but rather, unless folks are insulting you specifically, why they would need to be stopped. It's probably a case of semantics and I misconstrued your comment. If so - my bad. The way I see it - there's more than a couple of perspectives to many of the issues we find ourselves discussing, so I don't want to put anyone into a specific box. It's one thing to ignore someone who's gotten personal. But it's another thing to recognize that there is such a thing as an argument, philosophically speaking, not to be confused with heated vitriol. Devs propose a change Player dislikes change for x, y and z. Other player likes the change. Other players tries to dig into x from first player. Yet another player looks at previous player's post, and proceeds to write, "Did you even test it? You can't say this or that until you've tested." Twenty players read and sigh, tab away and do something else. Nobody is right. Nobody is wrong. Passions run high. I encourage you to put me on ignore if you disagree with me. It will save me a lot of time. Some threads may look strange to you, seeing a person reply to me and you're left trying to fill in the blanks. But, so be it. I just see no harm in simply not engaging with folks who demonstrate a certain level of unreasonableness. But that's just me - you do you. I'd rather see what folks are saying, even if I think it's stupid. Every now and then, one of the crazy people here will share something I didn't know.

Ignore away, if that suits you.

So, I made one of these new illusion dominators. It's...interesting. I've consulted Bopper's Proc spreadsheet, City of Data (the uberguy site), and Mids...but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for, OR I'm looking for the wrong thing. Consider Spectral Terror. I know the range is listed at 60 feet. But, I can't find any measurement for the radius. Ultimately, it doesn't matter THAT much, but is there a known range? I was thinking of putting Cloud Senses in it and one of the powers is a proc. But, even at best, if it were a 1 foot radius, I'd only get a 52% chance of it firing, per bopper's spread sheet. So, I'll probably pass on the proc. But now, I'm wondering...what is the actual radius or area that the spectral terror works across?

This could be what the OP is referring to. Why do you want to stop them? Some people are going to be an ass on occasion, despite best efforts. Stopping them does not do you or anyone else favors. If they demonstrate by their own words that you have no concerns about anything they say - just ignore the post, or the poster and move on. There's no reason to seek to stop anyone. If we don't read posts that are in contradiction to our own, we'll never learn anything. Anyone with a semblance of intelligence should be able to take the meat and spit out the bone from any post, or determine there's nothing in the post worth parsing. But that's still no reason to stop anyone. There are no right or wrong opinions. As for facts, some sources for facts are dubious. So, some folks discount them. That's fair. But opinions? bring 'em on. We don't all have to agree. And we don't have to be offended just because there's something offensive.

Poor Yomo. (Figuratively) You can choose the precise piece of salvage. It's not efficient, not in the least. It costs 540 tickets for any specific rare salvage you want. They even have an easy way to find the specific one, if you know if it's arcane or tech, and/or what level range it normally drops in - 1-24, 25-40, 41-50. There was a time when they made threads a currency to exchange for AE tickets, with a particularly unfavorable exchange rate, given what the super insps might sell for on the weekend. But, it might be worth a crappy exchange if someone despises the idea of farming and has more tickets than sense or more tickets than patience.

You are not alone. This may come off as a bit offensive - for which I apologize. Get a 5th grader to do it for you. Somehow, these youngsters, while they aren't real clear on what the words "hard work" really mean, they seem to have an inherent understanding of file structures. My 9 year old grand-daughter looked at the instructions, rolled her eyes and made the install in about 90 seconds.

Certainly possible. Alternatively - the last 5 prices shown are a known glitch at times. It's probably easier to chalk it up to the display glitch, rather than assess a malfunction of the AH glitch. It's just a good thing the salvage has a capped price from seeded salvage, so our HC devs don't have to spend time investigating anything.