Yomo Kimyata

The only thing that makes Winter Packs unique is that there is/was/has been a "sales" price. They are not fundamentally more or less useful on 3 January than they are on 4 January. As that goes away, do prices start to move higher? Then do people unpack or sell their packs to drive prices lower? There are all kinds of undergraduate economics theses that could be written about some pretty basic understandings of both traditional microeconomics and behavioral economics. I bought 2,000 packs. Hardly a huge number and hardly insignificant. I'll be honest, I'm mostly hoping someone tries to drive prices up on something so I can hit their unsustainable bids!

I *constantly* boo things like this, and so far my stepdaughter is the only one who gets the reference. She's awesome!

And NOW I have a new alt named "PG Gargleblaster".

Sorry, I already took it.

Merry new year!

Why not do both? I announce in LFG that the team is full, and I respond to anyone who sends me a tell as well. Seems like common courtesy?

I admit I assumed you wanted to farm from your comment directly above. And if you don't want to farm, great, I don't understand why you're so annoyed about it. Fight other enemies.

I'm truly sorry you are offended. One of the reasons I mentioned AE is so you (I think) can make custom enemies that don't resist the things that your character was specialized to do. Heck, make enemies that have -50% resistance to whatever damage type you use. That would seemingly solve your problem and wouldn't harm anyone else. Or, you can just choose not to fight the enemies that are too vexing for your play style. That would also seemingly solve your problem and wouldn't harm anyone else.

And increased beatings. Don't forget about the beatings.

As an experiment once, I ran a character that was only allowed to get converters by buying merits at 1mm per (making them effectively worth 333,333 each). After I made 1bn profit, I considered that proof of concept. Converters are truly magic, but I recognize that many many people would rather dump their merits than use them to make even more inf. I am very very thankful for those many many people.

How about when you stun Crey and they wander off stunned at about a million miles an hour? No, we're good. That's what they do. If you want to farm xp, make an xp farm in AE.

Nemesis!

Nemesis?

Boo! Boo!

Sure, I'll... (looks left at your stats) do no such thing, noob!

Counter proposal: cut Council and Freakshow xp in half.

Listen, we all know that how good a person you are has nothing to do with how many numbers you have next to your name on some stupid website. It has to do with (looks left) having your green number higher than your white number. That's it!

I can assure you I have no idea what you are talking about.

I believe that the way it is supposed to work is that they are bucketed by type and level, like SOs. A level 48 Lysosome is equivalent to a level 48 Delta Particle Exposure. You can sell it as one and buy it as another, and you can combine different names. I can vouch for all this by experience. However, something funny has been happening since DSOs were introduced. Things that hadn't had problems with false trading histories have started glitching. Level 53 Nucleolus, for example, has been inconsistent where I had never noticed any glitches pre-DSO. It's possible it was always happening but I just didn't see it.

There's a cream for that (Snarky biting, that is). I usually use multiple builds on support alts but only then. A "solo" build and a "team" build that I update while I level. Respecs are cheap and easy and are a lot cheaper and easier than making full alternate builds. I can easily imagine having a exemplar build if you're a 50 and you spend a lot of time both at 50+ and at <40.

Um, you lost me at magic origin. Santa is an Omega class mutant, duh. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Claus_(Earth-616)

My conversation with Ukase (via message) covered some of this. Winter Pack discounts only help to make the rich and/or knowledgeable richer. They do nothing to help the rank and file player (although I hardly believe those exist anymore unless they just joined up, but that's another topic.) I can't speak for him, but a lot of marketing for me has been about trying to outsmart others, especially those trying to manipulate markets. I have nothing left to prove, no further goals to achieve. And yet, I still am heavily involved in the marketplace, because I just cannot stand the idea of some other corporate fat cat getting my rightful inf. So maybe the word you are looking for is "spiteful"? I've said it before and I'll say it again: the best way the powers that be in Homecoming can alter Winter Pack policy is to make them periodically drop as extremely rare drops. But I don't think the technology exists to make that happen. Maybe I'm wrong? I hope so.

Well, this isn't going to help the OP any, but I just reserved Sick Rimes for an Ice/Poison corruptor on Excelsior.

You rang? I recently wrote a guide on the Character Items menu and how it relates to packs. (You should read it, it's not my finest work, but it's good! here). If you look at the probability tables @Bopper put together (All hail Bopper), you see that the tables for Heroes and Villains are essentially identical to Rogues and Vigilantes (the only difference is what flavor of ATO you get.) They are also *very* similar to that of the Winter Packs, except that saleable *other stuff* is slightly more in the Hero packs than the Winter Packs. That got me thinking. Why are WOs fundamentally more valuable than ATOs? I can make the argument that ATOs in general are more useful, more necessary to top builds. They both cost the same number of merits at the merit vendor. Is it simply because the packs are more expensive? And I believe that yes, that is exactly why. When Winter packs were 10mm last year, I hoovered up thousands of WOs at about 6mm (although many traded much higher). Now, with a 15mm buy-in, WO floor prices seem to be about 10-11mm. And when packs were 25mm, WO prices were roughly 20mm. As of now, it looks like about 130k packs have sold, and I don't remember how many sold last year. I ended up buying 1,000 packs and about 3,000 WOs (and eventually buying about 1,000 more packs) and flattened my inventory by around October iirc. So I'm estimating that I can probably stand to open and resell no more than 5,000 packs per year, and that would be pushing it. I'm still not sure what to do, but there's no way I'm buying more than 10,000 packs.

But I'm not trying to fix anything? I'm trying to make the best of what we've currently got! Great start everyone! This is really *resonating* with me!