Andreah

I'll put some emphasis on this. Not only do they have limited time, they're also motivated for their own reasons. One can't just assign a volunteer developer a project and expect them to work on it like one would with a paid employee. They need to be individually invested in their projects to get real work done. This complicates big projects and expansion plans because you have to plan around the developers you have and what they're willing to put effort in to. So I don't expect a lot of new content from them. I'm okay with that, since the game as it is is still a lot of fun and enjoyment. For most people, "Alt-itis" really is the current and foreseeable endgame, and they're happy with that. There is a vast panoply of possible characters to try out, and they play differently even in identical content.

Rain of Fire is a good power; I couldn't imagine myself not taking it.

Epic AT's should be locked out as the first character on a new account, as should also Going Rogue starts, and they should be required to do one or other of the tutorials. I'm minded to recommend the first character on an account be required to be level 5+ before they are allowed to leave Atlas Park or Mercy Island, but maybe that's too much.

I should total these up too. I'm probably not at Yomo's level, but I've sold a good share as well.

I agree with him. My impression (I have not looked at the source code) is they implemented an in-house priority queue (heap) and this is the behavior within a single leaf node on the tree.

Overall, excellent write-up! I hope people confused by the market give it a read. Furthermore: Sleuthing can be both fun and HIGHLY profitable. ^_^

I think this example has a typo in it; where in step 2, did the Bid of 120 come from? We left step 1 with only having one bid at 100 in it.

Over the years I have listed a great many items in volume to both buy and sell in increments of 1 Inf between stacks, or groups of stacks. I have never seen them execute out of price order. The reason I do this is so that I free up market slots more quickly doing bulk buys or sells. If I have thousands of something to sell (e.g., salvage or converters), and only 200 market slots, and I price at the same exact value, then they tend to sell out sort of randomly (as Yomo noted, not purely randomly) and leave a mess of partial stacks occupying my market slots. However, if they're posted in increments, then the lower offers always sell out first (and higher bids always buy out first), and this frees up market slots more efficiently so I can post even more for sale (or bid).

One caveat is you cannot buy something you have listed for sale from the same character. One can do this using two characters on the same account, but the auction won't let the same character buy something the character has listed for sale (or vice versa, you can't sell something to your own bid). Sometimes it may look like this is happening due to pre-existing bids or offers though; but in this case you just bought someone else's item that was priced right, and sold your thing to yet another person who had a bid just right.

You don't have to wait an hour --- all you need to do is find one of the exploration badges in Pocket-D, and that will enable to the long range teleport to it. The long range teleport needs to be enabled as well. You can get it from the P2W vendor, or by getting all the exploration badges in any one zone.

I've advised some acquaintances you're still running this -- and I hope a few of them have recently taken advantage of it.

I don't like the Thumps-up or Thumbs-down reactions. The reason being they're interpreted (and usually intended, I suppose) as judgments about the quality or soundness of a post, and by extension, the poster. Getting a number of self-selected, non-random, emotionally engaged, and unrepresentative people to indicate these is about as useful as voting over whether water is wet. I would rather have reactions that clearly indicate agreeing or disagreeing with a post. Make one a Letter A, and the other the Letter D, and there is no value to either in terms of reputation. Agreeing or disagreeing with a post says less about the post, but more about the one reacting to it.

I've had this problem before as well. Unfortunately, I don't recall how it was resolved, but it was entirely a problem client side and helpful people in the HC discord helped me figure it out.

You could also use the "custom.window" facility to make button panels that will show on every character identically. You make a plain text file named "custom.window" and put it in your [CoH]/data/customwindows folder. It would look like this: Window MyMacros 0.1 0.1 150 300 Button Hello "l Hello$$em wave" Button Thanks "l Thank you!$$em thanks" Button NH "l Are you ok and do you need or want help?" Button YW "l Your very welcome!$$em yourewelcome" Button L0 "setdifficultylevel 0" Button L1 "setdifficultylevel 1" Button L2 "setdifficultylevel 2" Button L3 "setdifficultylevel 3" Button L4 "setdifficultylevel 4" Button "CC Smokebomb" "cce 0 CCSmokeBomb" Button "CC Backflip" "cce 1 CCBackflip" Open 1 End The indentation is done with "Tab" characters and there must be a blank line at the end. The four numbers at the top are the fraction of your screen it is from the upper left corner and how big the button window will be in pixels. You can resize it in game, and clicking on the title of the window will collapse it up into the top left corner to hide; re-clicking that title will open it back up. Edit: It will have a "New Command" button at the end that you can use to continue to add more commands to it later on. You can also right-click on existing buttons to change their names, edit the commands, or delete them. The game saves these files whenever you change or move the menus, so don't leave it open in your text editor while you play.

I differentiate between leechers, people on the league who're just not putting in a fair effort, and kill stealers, people outside the league who're not clicking doors and just stealing kills from others. AFK leechers annoy me, but I was generally kinder to them. Often they would at least run shared buffs or auto powers that helped others. I would send them tells and ask them if they were AFK, and requested they participate more. Worst case, I would boot them, and not let them rejoin for my duration leading that day. Kill stealers outside the league who refused to join and especially ones with "attitude", I had no patience for, and added to my block list. I run other kinds of teams and leagues, and they will never get on them.

Or park a singularity or kin Repel next to a mailbox and watch the Postal Service cry.

I've played many variations. My current favorite focuses on these: Self survivability - I won't be very effective if I'm defeated all the time or frantically trying not to get defeated. Maximize primary set buffs/utility. My primary set will be as strong as I can reasonably make it. Tactical flexibility from things like teleport, soft controls, ground patches, and so forth General team support from leadership, hybrid, etc. Burst "save-the-day" capability. I play mainly on teams, and I like to think people were glad to have me along, and get that excited glint in their eye if they see me join up the next time around.

I think from the OP is has to be a power a player can choose to take for the build from a primary or secondary powerset, excepting the vanilla Tier-9 nukes. If we were to open it up to all the powers in the game, then I'd have to pick a GM power that deletes a spawn. :D

A streamer friend of mine is well over 500. :O

The travel pools have been changed and improved enough I think you should take pains to try each of them fully. And also a no-travel pools trial, as well. See how well you can do without any of them at all (hint: pretty darn well).

If they're a developer they enter it directly into the database. There may be some fancy scripting involved, and it might need to go in as multiple chunks, but having backened access to the database means the usual rules we as players have (limited market slots, stacks of ten, etc) to follow don't apply.

I agree its possible, but that's spending 80 Billion to get stuff that would be worth half that in a few weeks, and that could have been bought for half that a few weeks prior.

I think it was a number of people. Those of us who've been using the markets for a long time in big ways generally wouldn't spend that much in so short a time when we know the prices will be back down in short order. But people with a stable of new fifties and flush with cash from ToT and selling prismatics might not batt an eyelash at spending 2 Million each to get booster right nao. The daily spikes in numbers of bids to buy -might- have been a flipper trying to buy a lot at 10% or more below 2 million to resell at or above 2 million. It was a thing of beauty for those of us with the reserves of boosters and merits to draw on and sell :D

I'm certain people do this anyway. One of the things I do is set up test sales to monitor ranges. e.g., for common salvage, I'd out in 1000, 2000, 3000, ... 9000, and 9999; and then see which sold overnight. This costs a lot less to do. :D

I think the best time to execute such a test would be right after a server restart -- before everyone gets back on to be posting more of it to sell. I would be interested to see how many one would need to buy per hour to keep it empty of non-seeded posts. I'm not sure one person can bid, retrieve, and delete fast enough to keep up with it.