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But if the processing of the orders was quick, you would expect those prices to fall again quite rapidly. Good info. Now the market suddenly seems much smaller (and more open to manipulation). I also agree with the assertions about supply being low. It seems that there are fewer farmers or the farmers that do exist have perhaps declined to sell yellows. As Andreah states, "their time is more valuable than that". So the supply is probably the issue, not the processing, even though that does appear very slow sometimes.

Fewer players also means less demand. Can we conclude that there's been a change in the type of player?

Ah, that's who it is, then. Didi and Gogo await!

For the avoidance of doubt, "Market Inefficiency", in this instance, means the inefficiency of the Market code in processing orders. Does the slow processing of players' orders cause prices to spiral? I think so. Oftentimes I see prices rise and rise as impatient people outbid one another because the processing is slow. What on earth is going on? The market code seems... considerably sub-optimal. Why do we see weird shifts where suddenly the price of yellow salvage goes to relatively high levels of influence each for weeks on end. I believe there should be an OPTION, when setting price, to have the asking price decrease over time. This would allow old orders to eventually fill. It's an alternative to having the offer expire after a time period. Look at how much Yellow salvage exists on the AH. At the time of writing 10,021,032 for sale. And yet the price is quite high. It's a failure.

X-Ray eyes from Atomic ... Blaster? It could do with proliferating as an alternate animation, but hey, I think most animations should be proliferated prolifically.

Nabbing that name right now...

The Divine Comedy - My Lovely Horse TBH they should have done Eurovision.

I agree with you. It IS counter-intuitive. That's why I'd like to read the opinion of a blapper. 🙂 Sorry for the slight derailment.

Do dead people want to be remembered as boring "stone" memorials? Or would they rather be remembered as something alive, vibrant and fun? I know I'd prefer the latter. Perhaps if someone who knew the person can make that decision, based on the person's personality? I know there are an awful lot of boring old farts still clinging on.

Any blappers care to share your opinion?

1. We definitely need a point hat. but 2. I think there's scope for arcane effects applied to existing powers as alternate animations. It shouldn't be a huge ask to apply those fancy arcane circles around one's arms or feet or back or whatever whilst at the same time doing the vanilla animations. It might be massively difficult to implement because the tools aren't sufficient to quickly convert modern, conventional files to the ancient, seemingly unique filetypes that CoH uses. In summary, I think the vast majority of power requests can be solved with a broader range of alternate animations, but that's a lot to ask from a dev team that's stuck with duff tools. 😞

Ah, perfect! Good job you. And the developers.

It looks like they're publishing them again... or something. Probably in the wake of the Critical Role surge. https://palladium-store.com/1001/category/Heroes-Unlimited.html

That's cool, I like that - but please take a look at the rest of my message. In it I suggest that these event alerts get brought into the gameworld. So instead of spending time gawping at a chatbox, like we're playing some 1990s MUD, we can see alerts in the world itself.

100%. It's completely pointless and annoys your friends. Why would anybody use, let alone pick it? It's the low bar. If it were me, I'd make it work on all your own pets, regardless of range - which would give it a purpose but only for a few classes. Then I'd look at replacing it entirely with something fun. Perhaps move afterburner into the pool instead of having it on that annoying popup. Why should you get that free? That's USEFUL. Hey there's the first thing I'd do. Swap Group Fly into the annoying popup and afterburner in the pool. Easy peasy, problem solved. ... and that's just off the top of my head. I'm amazing!

Is green™ copyrighted?

This one's funny. He doesn't fight crime, he just hopes that the Invisible Hand of justice sorts everything out for him. His real name is Thomas Hobbes. No, that's not right, Hobbes warned us about Natural Law. This would be someone else, but Hobbes could be his Nemesis ... that would make this guy a villain, well we knew that when we saw the name. I'm too tired to sort the intellectual intricacies at the moment 😞, but there's a good joke here, I can sense it.

Superadine sounds an awful lot like GammaRays to me...

I was thinking how you could do an event like the burning building. I came up with ... Assault on Precinct 14. I haven't got much further than that. Thugs attack a cop shop. If players don't stop them the thugs win and... er.. something. Like the burning building, probably no consequences, but still.. maybe a badge if they manage to succeed, whatever that looks like. I suppose that's much like this already existing demi-event in Nova Praetoria.

WEEEEEE! FREEDUMB!

I think we could do with alerts of in-game happenings, and more happenings. I want the city to seem alive and the players to interact with the world, not just mobs placed upon it (which is another suggestion altogether, which is another suggestion <- one for the Police Squad fans). The lazy manifestation of this would be just some "Occurrances" chat channel where things get spammed when they're on. I don't like this idea at all, it seems too meta, too check-listy and non-organic. Instead, I'd like some kind of thing you can check on your own terms, so you whip out your stolen police radio or newspaper and, perhaps, a UI element pops up with currently occurring things on it (and time remaining, because how many times do you just get there when the burning building or troll rave is ending?). Or there is a ticker on a building with HAPPENING NOW, or BREAKING NEWS: on it. Or a video screen, a LED/LCD advertisement board (hello 2023) or some other non-UI in-world element indicates the emergency. Maybe you're a tech origin with a wrist-mounted news feed or something?

There's a power called gang war. Why aren't there any street fights? Would it kill the processors to have some gang-on-gang action? I mean, make the city seem more alive and less about "pods" of "mobs" waiting to be "farmed". A good example is the fire events in Steel Canyon.

Aww, what did our corporate profiteers ever do to you? Oh.

Er... nnnno. Crackers are these: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/264902491 Ignore the disgusting price. That's just 13 years of.. oops, nearly got me! Haha!