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4 minutes ago, Dazl said:
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. What people find fun about the game will vary greatly I suppose. If nothing is really fun anymore maybe you should take a break from it for a while.
I could - but the last time folks took a break - the game shut down!
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7 minutes ago, Dazl said:
Hummm something you can’t buy with all that influence, maybe that’s a good thing. Getting out there to earn the emps might give you a new goal to work to. You can get 4 emps if you do one round of the 3 round hami raid on Excelsor, and you could pick up more if you do some server surfing to the other raids.
I have to be careful here and be more receptive to perspectives that I haven't thought about. I don't want to bemoan every suggestion. So, I hope I'm not coming across that way.
But, how many times can someone stomach doing the same thing over, and over, and over again? I earned ...maybe 800 hero merits worth tanking hami a couple of years ago, doing that every day for months. The only reason I do those now is for the buddy badge. Once I get the 100 buds, I stop, until the next character wants/needs the badge.
MSRs and Hami raids are a great way for folks that need the influence that those merits from those tasks provide. I almost feel guilty for taking up a spot as it is!
Yet, perhaps if I can buy whatever I want - that would also detract from the game itself. Maybe it's for the best. I dunno. But I know I'm going to opt to farm for the foreseeable future for those emps, rather than attend Hami raids & msrs (though I do have several characters who will be in pursuit of buddy badge and those two irksome MSR related badges for Ukon and the bombs)
Even so - 4 emps per hami raid, per character.
You'd have to do that same thing 45 times to get the necessary emp merits. I've already done that thing 1000 times, at least! Enough of that tired story. The chatter while waiting used to be somewhat entertaining, but the more amusing players have left, gone on to other games, it would seem. I don't mind repeating certain things a number of times, but that's too many times, and you can only get 4 per day. (per character).
I could swap characters, and send the emps to a specific alt, but that's still doing the same thing ad nauseum. I may as well farm. I can get a few vet levels, I think, before a triple run hami is completed. (maybe not...I'd have to check & verify that. I think I can, tho.)
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15 minutes ago, Krimson said:
Ooh.. what if we had Enhancement Converter superpacks? Spend 10 million, get like 150 or something which works out to about 66667 INF per converter.
Would save a lot of clicking, to be sure. I'd go for that.
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I just remember the first July when HC opened. I'd reached 50, and I looked at the prices of the items I wanted. I knew how to market, was familiar with farming from live. But I lacked the resources to really do either with any efficiency.
I think I got lucky, when I'd stumbled upon Catalysts. I saw they were selling for 5M a piece. So, I used some merits and sold a bunch of them - and then I discovered the price difference between an ATO and the superior counterpart.
At the time, given the hassle of unslotting after making them superior, it was barely worth it. But when the cat prices dropped to 2-3M, it was certainly worth it, and that was where I made a quick ton of inf. And it was tedious. I didn't really enjoy it. But it seemed necessary to outfit my characters in the manner in which I deemed them worthy.
I had a choice. I could nickel and dime as I went along, just getting by, or I could just invest the time and make enough where I don't have to do it anymore. It would seem I was there quite some time ago. But, when they changed the AH experience by seeding salvage, and later by putting winter packs on sale - I had concerns. At any time, they could change things. Email could stop holding influence, or it could disappear.
Items that were or are selling for X, they could suddenly be seeded by the HC devs for less than the price I've been expecting things to be. Bittersweet - as the resources I have would go further, but the time I'd invested would have been wasted.
So, I opted for "FU" inf. No longer do I feel compelled to do a weekly TF with a pug with folks I don't know. I can choose what I want to do, when I want to do it. Seems to have worked out. I just didn't stop soon enough, and well, someone has to keep Yomo in check. -
2 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:
Once you and I are both over 500bn, we should have a winner-take-all dance-off.
There was a movie I saw with John Wayne, when I was a kid. Can't recall the name of it, but his character said,
"I don't dance. I don't trust men who do, and I don't trust women who don't."
When I was a kid, it seemed like a perfect excuse to avoid dancing. As an adult, I'm not quite sure the comment makes any sense, but the case remains - I do not dance. And I ain't giving you 500B just cuz of that. -
Ah...the price would incentivize more farming...I didn't think of that. But, without it - I'm farming for the emps. Either way- more farming.
The only way I'd do a trial without a badge on the line would be if the league was formed up and ready. I just can't stand all the waiting around in ouro or pocket d. It's just too boring to wait around and ..do nothing.
Maybe I just need a break from the game. -
I'm not opposed to giving inf away. But,
1. It has to be my idea. Nothing is more stinky and creepy than a beggar.
2. Anecdotally, the only time I've given inf away and that player kept playing the game is once - and despite my telling them it was a gift, they repaid me in a few months. It's just anecdotal, but folks I've given large sums of inf to - they just stop playing.
I should add, it's clear you're not serious (although you'd likely accept it, lol). So I'm not labeling you as stinky & creepy.-
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So, I have a thought, and left to my own devices, I'd implement it, and not sweat where it would lead.
But, that's probably why I'm not emperor of the universe. Or even mayor of my own humble city.
I've got billions (of inf) And billions. like about 400 of 'em. I ask myself, where can I spend this? My characters already have the usual - TT, ATT, Base TP, Summon pets, etc. My email is quite full of winters/ATOs, and the goodies that come with winter/hero packs. So much so, that while I do have bids for 10M on winter packs, I really don't need any. The ones in my inventory and stuff in my character email will likely last me until December 2022!
So there is one thing I find myself wanting in game that I have to "Grind" for, and would rather not. I mean, I do it, but I'd rather not. And that's doing the same stuff for emp merits. Aside from doing them for badges, I'm simply NOT going to do an iTrial, nor am I going to do any DA arcs. I refuse. I've done them on over 100 characters, and I'm weary of the same dialogue, same story.
It begs the question, if I'm not going to do those trials and arcs, what do I need emps for in the first place? Well...to get t-4, of course. Can't really be complete without getting t-4 in all, now can I?
My dilemma is there are 6 incarnate slots. The very rares cost 180 emps. That requires vet level 30. That's a long time in a farm. And what happens in that farm is I make even more inf. The pile keeps getting bigger.
Now, I could just force myself to do content and let threads drop and drop...but in my head is the idea that I want to do the content with the t-4, not enroute to earning it. Maybe I'm being unrealistic.
Anyway, I thought - wouldn't it be nice if I could buy a transcendent merit for a billion inf? Is that too much? Not enough? Or is the idea of being able to buy them simply too ...crude to even contemplate?
I could put this in suggestions, but before I made the suggestion, I figured I'd ask what other thought about the idea. -
My preferred characters are typically not truly villains. They tend to have come about their morality, or lack of it, organically - but they aren't evil, just pragmatic and opportunistic. Scratching and clawing their way from level 1 with nothing to as much influence as they can earn by level 50 t-4 in all 6 slots.
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15 minutes ago, OmegaOne said:
Well, just because Homecoming is free doesn't stop people from playing or spending money on other games. I mean personally I play all kinds of other games besides HC. It's not really a question of either/or for most people I think.
I did mention that some folks had no issue paying to play other games. The question will be - will they keep paying if the game fills the same kind of void? Whatever it is - it's got to be somewhat different and offer something HC doesn't.
Even though I've got some "free" goodies for being on CoT's kickstarter, they're going to be charging money if/when they finally get things going. Am I going to pay to play that game when I can play this one for free? I have to wait and see. I'll certainly see what they did with my $75. But odds are, once more cash is expected to part ways with my wallet, unless there's some reason to keep playing, I'm not going to keep paying. -
So, I was reading all this ...and really, just fascinated, and impressed with the level of detail with all the maths. Good stuff, and it's posts like these that can plant a great seed and turn a casual player into a real nerd, and that can't be a bad thing. Really good stuff!
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At present, no way to get level 53 recipes. A pigg diver might be able to shed some light, but my best guess is there were plans at some point to make them available.
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Personally, I think HC is a huge disruption. Why? Because it's essentially free. Some folks donate, but the window closes quickly, so it's free for most of us.
So..I get that most of us can afford a different game, and would likely fork out some cash to investigate a new game - but how many would continue to do so?
What void would those games fill that HC:CoH doesn't? In order to succeed long term, there has to be some sort of competitive advantage. Whether it be content, or compelling game play, or some other facet of gaming, there has to be some offering that the others don't have, or don't do as well.
Even though I was in the initial kickstarter for CoT, how long has it been, for this volunteer staff? A damn long time. I'm not complaining - just stating a fact. Even though they're all essentially volunteers, they've yet to complete, and it will still be another year - AT LEAST - before a Beta is ready. To be fair, they are in Alpha stage now, if I read correctly.
But given that HC is free...how are these Successors going to compete when they'll have to charge money - while HC is free? And odds are, at least a few of those folks are using the spare time they were putting into the game into playing this one. I don't know this, but I suspect it's the case.
As for Ship of Heroes, I'm connected with McGeever on LinkedIn. The dude is every bit as legit as Jack Emmert, as far as game executives go. That said, the concept of a bunch of heroes on a ship just sounds silly to me. I'll probably wait until the ship lands.
So, yeah, I read the article on Massively, and I do think that HC is a big problem for any game company that's going to try to capture and keep market share with a free game like this available. But - hey, I've certainly been wrong before.-
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9 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:
I checked after DD's post on Tuesday morning. Last patch notes were Oct 5.
One reply above has been updated with the link to the Oct 19 patches, but they were not posted until yesterday afternoon.
I can in no way fault the Devs for needing a day or so to post the notes, but that is a kinda sorta long period of no-info/confusion.
I apologize if I was in error. I honestly didn't realize there was a patch on the 19th!
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Honestly, I didn't even know they existed until I set out to get all the badges back on live. I must have played for a couple of years before I was aware of them. As far as I can tell, the game never calls attention to souvenirs, and it's under the tab called "Clues". Because of this, and my familiarity with the content, there's never, ever been a reason to look in there and see what's there. Aside from the badges for them, they're useless to me. Until now, I guess, explaining how this PsychoMetronChrono thingie gets destroyed.
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There's Agent G, a blue side contact in Faultline, and there's Mr. G, a red side contact in St. Martial.
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On 10/18/2021 at 12:55 PM, Krimson said:
At this moment. Rebirth claims to have 13351 Registered accounts with 37711 characters...
Also at this moment - 20 players online.
Costume bits might draw people to that server, but it sure looks like they don't keep them there.
What may not be widely known is that Rebirth has things set up in such a fashion where they encourage multiple accounts. It's not an unusual thing for some players to have 8 accounts on at the same time.
The reasoning is partially due to the tiered reward system, which I would think most are familiar with. Once you get to that tier with the hero/villain packs, getting 2- 4 packs each week, with 8 accounts...you can get your ATOs & purples now, for free fairly quickly. And the outrageous 5 reward merits and 250K for one converter exchange...and the packs tending to have a lot more reward merits than HC's does, for sure, your alts can do the converting when your primary runs out.
The folks there are every bit as knowledgeable as many are here, and yes, they have some clueless folks there (and here) as well. But overall, the community is the same, just smaller.
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10 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:
Now, now.
All snark aside and all due respect to the Devs and their precious donated time... not all of us Discord. The website would seem to be a better primary place for game notes etc., maybe with links from all the other nexuses. Nexi? Nexicles? Necksicles?
I completely agree. I have no idea why HC uses Discord. Never even heard of it until HC made it's existence known. But, it's their game, I get to play for free, so I'll deal with it if/when I need to.
That said, I read the patch notes here in these forums. There's never been a patch where the notes haven't been in the forums. It may not be instantly, like as soon as the servers are up, but within 15-30 minutes.-
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2 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:
You get the device to Penny, who in turn uses her psychic powers to destroy it.
From the souvenir:
"...if a powerful enough psychic were to order it to alter it's own history so that it would never work again, the threat could be neutralized, permanently. As Agent G explained, the amount of psychic power that would take would be beyond Aurora Borealis, but would be well within the limits of the most powerful known psychic on the planet: A girl named Penelope Yin..."
To this day - until this post, I have never, ever read a souvenir!
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I have this page bookmarked and find myself referring to it prior to slotting a proc. To work the formula, I have to have Mids open to see the specific values.
Rule of thumb - a superior Winter-O, a very rare (purple) - those have a 4.5 ppm and can reliably be slotting in any single target power with a base recharge of 10 seconds or more. If you slot a recharge in that power, you'd have to plug in how much of a recharge boost you've put in to determine the odds of the proc firing. Using procs, you're best off relying on global recharge from set bonuses, rather than specific recharge IOs in that power with the proc (s), unless the recharge is long enough to allow them and still have the proc fire consistently.
Caveat: if you stumble across a build in the forums or reddit or whatever - half of these folks are so clueless about procs (and builds in general) that they genuinely have no idea how bad their builds are. If a build has a proc in it - verify the odds before you slot it. If it only has a 12% chance of firing, I see no reason in using it. Opinions will vary, however.
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Really? Let me think when I first did this...Eden Trial was the weekly...I tried to look back, but they screwed up the weekly tf displays so I can't look back, only forward. My guess is the Eden was about 6 weeks ago, and it was the time before that one..so maybe 4-5 months ago, about 19 weeks. Stitch & I and a few others ran at least 20 of them, maybe even 50. It was a lot. Made a small fortune off the 53 cytos. (They're all in the same bucket - a Hami-O, a Titan-O, a Hydra-O, as long as they have the same buffs & same level, they're in the same bucket.
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4 hours ago, Tailcoat said:
I was looking in the AH at Dark Watcher's Despair. There were listings for recipes and enhancements up to 53, but nothing was for sale (from what I saw), so I'm not sure if that's some kind of bug? There were other IO set enhancements like that and I don't think any were for sale. I didn't check the merit vendor.
oh my. For a fellow who spends as much time in the AH as I do, I should have realized this was the point of confusion. <smacks own forehead>
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1 hour ago, macskull said:
While these special enhancements can be combined, they can only be combined with an identically-named enhancement (no combining Hamis with synthetic ones, or Titans with Hydras, etc. etc.).
Because I am often mistaken or wrong, or I might misunderstand words even when English is my native tongue, I figured I would spend some influence and actually prove this is not accurate before I do any correcting - even though I was pretty sure @macskull is mistaken here, or misstated things.
So - as we can see below, I over-paid for some trash-O's (hami-Os).
I slotted the level 48 Titan O first - then combined it with a hami-O with no issues.
My best guess is Mac was trying to unload some micros for more than they're worth. Good play.
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I saw this doing Agent G's final mission today.
If I'm supposed to destroy the PsychoCronoMetron and it's in the helicopter - why don't I see it in the helicopter? Why can't I target the helicopter to destroy it? Seems like something is not adding up.
Done this mission at least 4 times and it's the first time I've noticed this.
Influence sink...good? bad?
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How would one do a scavenger hunt? Not like I can leave a hero pack on the ground somewhere?
Still, you raise a good point. I was going to give each SG member a large amount of influence, but I was discouraged by the SG leaders because they feared it would lead to a lack of motivation.
So, I think I'll just start giving away various goodies in game. But still, I sure would like to "buy" a ton of emp merits.