Yomo Kimyata

I'm trying to identify the problem that we are trying to solve here. Is it that not enough people are leading teams, so that hurts the gaming population for reasons X, Y, Z? Is it that "I'm tired of always leading teams and I want someone else to do it?" Is it something else? I think there is a lot of psychological work on introversion v. extroversion. Whether or not you *can* turn an introvert into an extrovert, I'm asking myself why you would want to? Personally, I get annoyed at seeing lots of single players LFT in the channel, but that's only because I'm imprinting my belief system on these nameless faceless people who in real life may not be natural leaders. So I shrug my shoulders, because at the end of the day it's not hurting me a lick and I'm only hurting myself by getting annoyed. I can kind of come up with a rationale that getting more people comfortable with starting teams would help with the longevity of this game, but I don't see it as a viable, NPV positive venture. People don't want to play videogames to be told they are wrong, whether that is their degree of comfort in starting a team, or going the wrong way on a TF. And I'm not inclined to tell them they are doing it wrong. There may be a way that seems superior to me, and I'll be happy to share that path, but I'm not seeing a clear reason why more people need to be taking the star. I'm very open to listening to ideas that may change my mind.

I didn't think it was possible to make the game even easier. I will always be amazed by this.

Every once in a while, I dust off the +4/x8 challenge. Where you complete the tutorial, ding 2, and set all missions at +4/x8. (Doing it from level 1 without Rest is a little too masochistic even for me.) No street sweeping, no teaming. I haven't given this a shot since i27, but now that we can easily buy SOs right off the bat, it should be much, much easier. Still tedious, true.

That's very kind of you @Aeroprism, thank you. Keep in mind I'm not posting about my epic failures. Much. Like early on when I was going to corner the Entropic Chaos market...

I think there would have to be some scaling. I would guess that the number of players with even a “mere” 100bn in inf cash on Homecoming is very low.

This even moreso than the badge idea. Signed, cosigned, resigned.

This was a long plan, and it worked out to a T. As many of you remember, six months ago there was no such thing as a lvl 53 HO. I, like many people, was using holding bids in the /AH to store inf. Lots and lots of inf. (On an aside, did you know that Synthetic HOs are fungible with regular HOs?) So when the beta notes for I27 broke in October, the first thing I saw was that there would be lvl 53 IOs. My thought process, and I certainly wasn't alone (see @EmperorSteele's great post: was that people could take 4 lvl 50 HOs (if not unlucky with a relatively small chance for meld failure) and make a level 53 HO. Step one was oh crap! take down all my bids and put the inf to work elsewhere. Step two was start collecting lvl 50 HOs so I could make lvl 53s and maybe collect some stored inf at the right price. Step three was realizing that I probably wouldn't be quick enough to take advantage of step two, so I replaced all my previous bids with an equal number of bids on level 53s that I thought were high enough to win a dump contest and that were low enough to make a substantial profit. On the day I27 went live, I didn't get on until pretty late in the process. I was still able to sell some of the lvl 53 HOs I had made for Step two, which surprised me, but yay! But my Step three noob traps worked well. And honestly I forgot about them until the other day when I logged on an old character. I would expect that someone would pay at least as much for a lvl 53 HO as they would for 4-5 lvl 50 HOs, so I think I got a good sale off there but not a fat finger error. In fact, I see a couple of 110mm sales in the last five when I look at it.

Reposting because this way I get to like it twice. EDIT: If I could like my own post, that is.

I'm pretty proud of this one.

I'm not asking for 100% agreement. I'm asking if it will hurt anyone's playing experience, no matter how much it would help yours personally. I believe it would. Ergo, nerp.

There's a whole cottage industry in the AH about buying ATOs and catalysts, superiorizng them, unslotting them, and selling for a profit. I don't partake, but plenty of others do. My basic question I have for stuff on the suggestions forum is: "Will this make everyone's playing experience better?" So, I'm not a fan of this particular suggestion because I don't think it would.

@Cutteryou have inspired me. For too long have I played alts v. EBs at sub 50, saying “I can always go back via Ouro.” No more, I say. No more. This evening I punked Nocturne and Arbiter Sands at lvl 21 on my broadsword/regen brute, Jingo Updog Esquire. I won’t claim it was simple. But clearly we need to nerf regen.

Boom! Good job!

Revert availability of converters back to Live standards.

This part is great and, IMO, should be stickied somewhere! Nice description from a person who knows first hand how and why this has been instituted. This has been gnawing at me for a few days. I'm gonna clutch my pearls here a little bit and say, yes, I do think GMs should be held to a higher standard than players. I do think it's funny that OP posted a story about getting bitten in the butt for sloppily manipulating a market (that I completely misread on first viewing, and I apologize for that.) And I am certainly not claiming that they violated the code of conduct ("This includes trying to deceive or otherwise cheat other players for your own gain"). But I can see how others might see it that way and say, "Well, if a *GM* is doing it, why the heck shouldn't I do it?" Again, pearl clutching on my part and frankly not a big deal in the global scale of things. Just something I wanted to get off my chest.

One thing that HC does that, to the best of my knowledge, no other server does is make converters extremely cheap and bountiful. In my opinion, overly so, but hey that's just my opinion. It is trivial to kit out a top-tier build on HC simply with drops and lots and lots of converters. On HC, you can exchange 100 merits for 300 converters. On Rebirth, for example, you can exchange 100 merits for 10 converters, and it will cost you 2.5mm in inf as well.

Every 5-10 pages I check in to see what this thread is about now. Pets. Ok! I'll catch up with y'all later then.

Dang it, I wanted to start over from scratch!

I hear you, and I admire your scientific approach. I question, however, if there is a need for a community board on such things. If Set D is so terrible, people vote with their feet (and their complaints on this forum). If the devs feel it is necessary to equalize sets, then they can. If they don't, then they won't. It's not game breaking in the slightest if set D is subjectively worse than other sets; it's not game-breaking if it is *objectively* worse. There aren't quotas here that I am aware of. And the game is forgiving enough that even the worst sets can succeed with flying colors. My two inf

You used to be able to trade recipes, but I don't think they drop on HC. Luckily, you can buy the powers themselves, like the St. Louis Slammer, from the P2W vendor.

I know, I know, this should be over already. But after picking up the double xp from the P2W vendor, I was resigned to running the Praetorian version of radio missions until I hit 30. After all, I had finished Vanessa's arc, and she didn't introduce anyone, so... And then I discovered that Mistress Maria was available at sub-30, and so I snuck my way into Night Ward at 27 and dinged 28 just before getting introduced to the Zombie Montague. There's some strange stuff happening in the Night Ward. I feel like I'm in Beauty and the Beast and I'm being attacked by anthropomorphized lanterns and candlesticks and flashlights and whatever else has a thirst for Miss T's ichor. The main reason I wanted to make this post, however, is because one of our mysteries has become more clear. At some point over the weekend, someone crashed the rare salvage market by selling something over 5k units (it could have been a lot more than that, I couldn't tell you). This helps to explain why rares have been on an upward path recently; Occam's Razor tells me that someone was accumulating them in order to see what would happen. It could have been ... YOU! Well, good for them! If it was, in fact, the same person, they got some entertainment and maybe a real life demonstration of Economics 101. They certainly didn't make any profit, but not everyone needs profit all the time. You know who's got two thumbs and DID make inf out of this? That's right, it was Two Thumb Charlie. Good guy, Charlie. I love events like this, which I term micro-macro events. I think of macro events as a fundamental change in the game, like new power sets, or lvl 53 HOs, or even discount prices on Winter Packs. I think of micro events as the day-to-day flow of supply and demand. This was an event that was certainly big enough to move the market in the short run. But you may be looking at the last 5 and ask yourself, wait, things look pretty much the same as they did last week?!? And that's probably because we may have reached a new equilibrium that is pretty close to the last one. I think of layers of unknown bids in the market for something like rare salvage as bodies buried in the backyard. I have buried a few myself, and I've observed where a lot of other people are burying bodies. But as time goes by, it gets more complex, and I'm less certain about where all the bodies are. And then someone clears out all the outstanding bids over a certain level, and it's like a backhoe just went through the backyard and cleared it all out. And now there are some new bodies! Miss T is sitting on about 1.2 large right now, and most of her activity is new niche related. The jury is still out on whether or not she will pursue this short- or long-term. But I did notice something the other day when looking at Reactive Defenses, speaking of buried bodies: If you see a trading history like this, you can feel pretty confident that some parasitic antisocial predator has put in a chunk of bids at that level. On the flip side, you can probably thank that parasitic antisocial predator for bidding higher than anyone else. And you can also probably thank them for making them into LotG recharges that you can buy at 6mm or under. To your health!

Well, in THAT case I'm putting the thorn back.

I did solo it. I didn't win, though.

Not for nothing, but if anyone figures out a way to sell Iron Wills on the /AH they’ll be rich, RICH!