Yomo Kimyata

I only want two new badges: Dr. Evil, for burning 100bn inf, and something for soloing the Hamidon.

I'm coming at this from the angle that some people don't want to do certain things, like do raids or use the AH, so why not give them an alternative. Albeit a ridiculously expensive one, but an alternative nonetheless.

Hear me out. I'm coming at this from the angle that some people don't like to do certain things, like use the AE or use the AH. Tickets are one of the ways you can buy specific items (or random rolls), but the only way you can get tickets are through the AE. It's difficult to find quality non-farm missions on the AE, and you don't get merit rewards like you do for TFs or story arcs. Personally, I find that random drops through regular content are a lot more profitable than selections through AE tickets, and that is almost certainly by design. But I am an avid and active user of the AH, and if people don't want to use the AH, I'm all for giving them an alternative, even if that alternative is a small fraction as efficient. On a related note, how about the option to select specific common salvage items rather than random rolls? Again, it's all fungible in the AH, but if someone doesn't want to use the AH and they need a luck charm, why not let them buy one for 10 tickets rather than roll randomly for 8 tickets?

I'm getting tired of saying "You can buy almost every item" so let's add these! ?200 merits?

I’m not asking for a wipe! But it certainly would shake up the AH!

I wasn't dictating, and this is probably a topic for a different thread. There's one in General about ease of the game that you may want to weigh in on. In that thread, I made an analogy about how CoX is a chessboard, and you can use it to play chess, or you can use it to play a simpler game. The problem I see with your solution is that it seems like you want to play tic tac toe, and you want the rest of us to play with you on your 3x3 board. I can't advocate making the entire game fundamentally easier simply because you have a problem with the current 8x8 board. Happy hunting!

Now you're just haggling over price. Currently you can buy almost any item in the game for 100mm inf indirectly, and I'm all for making that direct for the people who don't understand the two step process. What you seem to be saying is that 100mm is too expensive for a purple. Ok, then buy one off the AH for a lot less. If that's still too expensive, then I'm sorry. Maybe you can do without it.

There already is a soft cap on almost everything, but no one seems to understand that, so I'm going to give up and advocate the vendor idea. I would support a vendor that will sell you any item in the game for 100mm inf. That way you cut out the middle man of the merit vendor (currently you have to buy 100 merits at 1mm each, then spend up to 100 merits on your item). I would not support one inf cheaper than 100mm.

How about a tutorial that teaches people how converters can be used? Like the crafting one in Steel Canyon.

I disagree, but I see your point. The problem with people using the current AH interface is about 5% lack of good information, 5% display bugs (which really erode confidence in people who are already scared to use it)., 90% pebkac. Currently, the "economy" consists of a lot of people dumping their drops into the AH for 5 inf, a few people spending a few converters and transforming it, and a lot of people buying back their drops for a lot more inf and then complaining about it. More information isn't going to help them bid better or offer better. They will still buy it NAO and sell it NAO because NAO, and they will yell at the devs because they can't have everything they want instantly at the prices they want in a player run economy. Honestly, the best thing the devs could do is put together a mandatory tutorial on how to use converters. Like the crafting one in Steel. I'm gonna put that on the Suggestions board.

Converters are ridiculously magic. If every single player had to take a tutorial about everything converters can do, then there would be peace in our time.

Yeah, making this mandatory was a bad idea. It's bad enough all our kids are home all the time now in the real world.

Would you mind removing ceilings as well?

This is as good a time as any to invite you all to peruse the Market forum. Like I said earlier, we're not hoarding any secrets. You may learn something. We may be ebil bastards, but we're YOUR ebil bastards.

I agree with both of you. Farmers gonna farm, marketers gonna market, meriters gonna merit. I love in the other thread though how so many farmer-based inf makers are saying, "Well, since I have less money to spend, I'm going to raise prices." It's stagflation!!! It's been 12 hours and a literal gold mine in the AH from my experience. Maybe because I'm about ten times more active than I have been since last summer.

In fact, most rare recipes are now vendor trash.

There already are ceilings on almost everything and they are a lot lower than 250mm. I’ll bet, however, that they are higher than you want.

I thought so too, but the some of the hardcore badgers get really bent at the idea of new badges that aren’t trivially easy for them to get.

Personally, I’d hate that, but I’m just one person. They’d have to get rid of the AH, and they’d have to set those fixed prices. Dollars to donuts that price fix would be a lot higher than current AH prices.

I said this in another thread but if yesterday, farmers were making X inf per hour and getting Y drops, let’s assume the inf got cut in half so now they are making X/2 inf per hour and getting Y drops. If they want to keep their inf generation steady and work for two hours, they are making X inf and 2Y drops. Unless farmers rage quit en masse, this could easily increase the supply of drops from farming as they work longer hours.

I’m seeing a lot of “let’s encourage [certain behavior] by offering more rewards.” What else can possibly be offered? Even with the nerf to lvl 49 farming, inf and merits and incarnate godlike powers are currently thrown around like they are nothing. Even the godliest items and achievements are trivially easy to get.

I really wouldn't mind a wipe. It would be simple to make it all back. The mythological "average player" would be devastated, however.

How about an AH server/email wipe?

I'm not sure I understand the (not Jimmy's) antipathy for people who are familiar with the market. Read some of the posts on the Market Forum. Send one of us a PM. As someone said in another thread, you literally cannot get us to shut up about how you can make inf. We are literally giving away inf to anyone who wants it. Not only are we giving away free fishing lessons, we are giving away free fish! I understand that some people simply don't want to have to market, just like some people don't want to have to farm. That's the beauty of this game! You don't have to. Nobody has to.

Or a hundred yellow salvages that you can magically sell in order to buy the couple of yellow salvages you need? I swear, if yellow salvage went to zero, then people would come out of the woodwork complaining about how they couldn't sell them for anything anymore.