Yomo Kimyata

Ok, I've gotten to the point in the pandemic where I've subscribed to Marvel Unlimited for (almost) unlimited browsing of comics on my tablet. My question is, what has happened since the late 1980s (when I last spent time reading monthlies) and what should I be reading? I've seen just about every Marvel-associated movie (including the Dolph Lungren Punisher, which was the best, fight me!) so I'm trying to catch up with the universe and catch the great stories that I've missed. What do I like? Well, I have to admit I started with everything Marvel Zombie, so there's that. As far as what is my favorite style, I love Sandman and Neil Gaiman, so I've also read his Eternals series. Outside of that, I'm kind of picking and choosing. Any thoughts?

I would guess those were parking bids.

It appears there were a small number of 1bn bids still out there, and a larger number of 100mm bids. I'm not sure if the latter are still there or not -- I soaked up about 10 of them (but missed the big fish). Also, my noob traps were moderately effective...

I don't like the incarnate system. The interface is ridiculously bad. Half the powers are extraordinarily overpowered, and half are generally harmless. Most of the time it makes a near god-like character into full god-like. But it does a terrible job of making a mediocre character into a great character, imo. My incredibly unpopular suggestion: Make all incarnate salvage fungible by rarity and lock it account-wide, so you can move incarnate salvage from one character to another. Then lock the number of incarnates per account to one. You want a godlike character? You get one. You want two? Make a new account or demote your other god. One thing about living in Paragon City I never could stomach, all the damn godlike characters.

It is my hunch that a reason that they haven't made this update in a while is that the population has dropped a lot since March, which is fine with me, but may result in a lot of DOOOOOOOM(tm)ing.

I just had my major oopsie. Made a new villain as a tanker, took him through the tutorial, opened an email holding 999,999,999 in order to buy some things from the P2W. Ran a few missions and decided I'd like him better as a brute, so deleted and remade him. And finally, as I was wondering why my new brute had no inf, it struck me.

I've been thinking about this for a long time. Very few of my characters get significant play once they ding 50, and I keep hoping that I'll find that magical combination that will keep me interested for a while. I think my criteria are: 1. Melee oriented, so brute/scrapper/stalker/tanker. 2. Damage aura preferred but optional. 3. PBAoE Heal that takes Accurate Healing and Damage Procs. 4. Has at least one attack with KB for FF +recharge proc. 5. Positional defense oriented, rather than typed defense. 6. PBAoE friendly in both primary and secondary. 7. Endurance tools available pre level 35. 8. Can solo AVs/GMs without temp powers. So far, I've probably come closest with my quartet of lvl 50 Staff/Bio // Bio/Staff, yet I really don't feel much desire to pull them out for a "spin". I was hoping to get some real affection for Rad Armor or Energy Aura, but they feel "meh" to me.

I will never forget the first time I discovered the Shadow Shard on Live. I spent weeks in there. I wish, how I wish, that there would be a Rularuu invasion again in dreary old Paragon City.

Millions are big numbers! Big!!!

Pricing strategy is an astonishingly large component of success in the AH.

About half of my alts have no bios, and I should work on that. About half have pretty decent backstories. And about half are pretty much, "Was bitten by a radioactive [wombat/VCR/accountant]."

Yup, here's your problem.

You are blowing me out of the water. My base across all markets is assuming a 2mm profit per marketing slot, so my bottleneck is how many transactions I can do per minute, then wait. But there is no way I can make 1-1.5bn profit per day in 10-15 minutes. I just can’t process the raw materials that quick and if I’m reposting cheap items, I can’t count on replenishing them every day or even weekly.

I honestly would not have a problem if HC went to a fixed rate economy, where you can buy whatever you want from any vendor. A lot of the entertainment would go away, but I would find other ways to be entertained.

Yomo woke up on New Years Day much like Yomo does most things, begrudgingly and with some white spittle in the corners of the mouth. New Years Eve 2020 was a special event, presumably. Still trying to figure out how and why there is an honest-to-god sheep in the bathroom, but hey, wait, what? 2020 is over? That means that everything is going to be back to normal! *Logs on*. Oh. Oh well, at least the virus went away, right? Right?!? *Steps outside*. Oh.

YES!!!!

I hear you, but I think the economic impact of "accidentally" giving away a few extra packs here and there is healthier than people buying hundreds of thousands of packs in total. I'd vastly prefer it if there was no discount this year (or any year), but I'm hoping the devs will look at this as an alternative to making the rich richer.

Cutting prices on Winter Packs will do more to keep inf in the hands of the already wealthy. How about giving away 1-5 packs to each account instead? of course, I’d prefer neither happens, but I’m ebil like that.

A healthier winter gift would be to grant 1-5 free Winter Packs to every account.

Normally, I thirst for the tears of those who meant to lowball but accidentally did the opposite. OP, in my opinion, was trying to pay a fair price for a Posi Blast -- that's what I pay when I need one soon(tm). @AngryJesusMan, check out my giveaway (in my sig, on the clicky). I'm happy to more than make you whole on your loss.

In my opinion, the devs should absolutely not put Winter Packs on sale for 10mm this year or any year going forward. In my opinion, the devs absolutely will put Winter Packs on sale for 10mm this year and every year going forward. My argument for the former is too much supply in the hands of too few. I was blindsided (by my own blindness) when the packs went on sale last year. That was where I had put my excess inf bids because I didn't trust that the devs wouldn't introduce lvl 53 Hami-Os (*duh Duh DUH*) and I figured that If I bought something at a 60% discount I could probably figure out a way to make inf out of it. I accidentally bought *thousands* of them. So I started paring down my exposure, and guess what? I made a $#@$-ton of inf off of them, starting from day one. The "markets" seem to have set rough values for ATOs and Winter-Os at 80% of the cost of the pack, which jibes well with my rough observation that I tend to get about 1.2 IOs per pack in bulk. It's the "other stuff" that determines your profit. Winter-O packs give way too much "other stuff". Despite the fact that prices on the other stuff has dropped a lot, even if prices remained at 10mm forever, smart money would buy the Winter Packs because they (anecdotally I admit, but it's very clear to me) provide more "other stuff" than ATOs. This keeps the rich richer, in my opinion, and I don't see that as a particularly healthy thing for the game. The rich in this simplified game are absurdly rich. It seems to me that the only thing stopping ridiculous market shenanigans is good will. And that will hurt the casual gamer. HC seems to bend over backwards for the casual gamer, and yet I think that putting Winter Packs on sale will hurt the casual gamer in the AH in both the short and the long term. But they will put them on sale, because for every ebil marketer who buys a few thousand packs, there will be one dewy-eyed "newbie" who will moan how unfair it is that they can't buy a single pack at discounted prices. My two inf.

I was visiting family in Hawaii, and one night I was reading in bed. As I reached over to turn off the light I caught a scurrying movement on my chest out of the corner of my eye. Knew instantly what it was, and leapt out of bed to grab the nearest shoe. The 8-inch centipede ran under the bed and I couldn't find it after looking for about ten minutes. Slept in the other room on a couch with a shoe in my hand. I hate those bastards.

Thanks for posting this! Homecoming is the land of milk and honey, and there is no reason that every single person shouldn't be swimming in inf. By describing different methods, you really demonstrate how people can find their own groove. Well done!

I have 90% resistance to toxic.

This was from last week when I was selling a bunch of converters: