Yomo Kimyata

You hit 50, you are incarnate, you are grinding level 50 content, and you want more rewards? What exactly do you want to be rewarded with? I'm all for more shinies. Badges galore. If you like playing your 50 and that's not reward enough, I'm sorry.

I'm flabbergasted, and I run this mission on all my alts. You can kill this mission in three minutes. You want to cut that time to one minute? I vote that developer attention should be spent on larger issues, IMO.

Possibly a topic for a different thread, but I'd love it if there were an intermediate level between EB (which are generally easily soloable) and AV.

Oh, this is about power gaming? Maybe OP is playing the wrong game if squeezing out that last erg of power is necessary to them. To me, power gaming in CoH is kind of like playing tic-tac-toe for Russian roulette. It's really hard to lose.

I think, in general, I am grateful for what the devs have done, and that we have a stable server with a large user base. Personally, I’d be fine if there were never any changes in content or sets. I’m a prolific alter, but I’m nowhere near having played every set or every mission. As for new sets, I’d much rather see a cool concept than power creep that takes all the best parts of other sets. The skill level it takes to succeed with the worst combinations is so low, that a new overpowered set is to me a ludicrous idea. as far as player input, I appreciate that they listen to us, but there is no way I’d sign off on letting the lunatics run the asylum! If you want that much input, launch your own server and run it how you want! I’m supportive of whatever HC does and if that changes I’ll go somewhere else or launch my own server.

My experience: * I seem to average about 1.25 ATOs per pack * Selling the ATOs generally covers the cost of the pack, with "everything else" being profit * I suggest diversifying by buying 10+ packs at a time rather than just one at a time * When I kept track, ROI seemed to be around the 25% area. * It gets really tedious really quickly

That's it, I'm gonna make an alt that does nothing but street sweep! Obviously a staff fighter of some sort (with the broom skin).

Exactly. Well, in theory you could bid more than 100k, but you can buy all you want there. I don't know how much of this was HC and how much was on Live, but this current incarnation of CoH does a great job of keeping the market in pretty tight bands. Between salvage seeding, fungibility, converters, and merit/ticket vendors, I'm not sure there is anything that has a restricted supply. Maybe Hammy-os?

What's been your favorite part so far? For me, it's getting a new alt up to about level 22, so I end up with a lot of alts and I rarely take them to 50 and incarnate.

Not sure v. Regular drops, but for ticket farmers who normally sell rare salvage, it looks like about 75k would be a break even price for yellow. 540 tickets for random rare v. 80 tickets for specific uncommon, ratio of 6.75:1. Assuming a 500k price for rates, that’s just under 75k for yellows.

I’m not too concerned. I don’t craft like I used to, but an extra few thousand inf is a rounding error when I’m making millions per craft. Frankly, it’s probably great for anyone who is a seller of salvage and it’s putting inf in their hands.

That's awful! At least you could give them converters or something useful.

I'm working on a Archery/Pain corruptor, and it's really bad.

Who doesn’t, really?

Nailed it!

At lvl 17, every one of my alts gets a Miracle and a Performance Shifter for their birthday. From there, I see what happens.

Why don't you spend some time on Thunderspy and report back to us? That's the beauty of the code being out there -- if you want different providers with different stuff, there's nothing to keep you from playing on more than one!

Based on the feedback I've seen, making this badge associated might be problematic. I mean, the serious badgers sometimes go nuts at the even thought of a new badge that would be, in their opinion, too onerous to add to their collection. Could you imagine if you threatened to take one away that they already had?

I have the same question. If I boost a level 30 IO to +5, and exempt to 27, does it act like a lvl 35 IO? Or is it useless since it is considered to be too high to be used at lvl 27?

OK! Almost 1000 to go then!

Does 1000 alts count?...

I thought I was perfectly clear, but since you reiterated, so will I. Who are you to decide how people spend their merits? Efficiency in terms of inf (which will vary based on market value of converters, boosters, etc.)? Efficiency in terms of time spent on the AH interface which you may not like? Other? Sure, it is more efficient in terms of inf to spend 100 merits on 300 converters, sell them for (maybe) 25mm after fees, buy an ATO for (maybe) 10mm. That takes a number of steps, a certain period of time, a little bit of knowledge (and luck), and other people on the other side of the trade. But who are you to decide if someone just wants to lock in their ATO for 100 merits if they don't want to use the AH and wait for a buy or a sale.? Are the devs to reset values for conversion if market rates on converters shift daily? I continue to disagree, marginally less respectfully this time. This is absolutely not a problem. If you really think it is, then you should embark on an education campaign so that everyone who is not using what you think is the most efficient way knows what your opinion is.

I've been sick...

The Hollows revamp was awesome, and Faultline was created with a built in story line. I’d love it if there were reasons to spend time in other hazard zones other than the occasional mission assignment or GM spawn.

Also, your post title reminds me of: