Andreah

I profit a billion or two per week, depending on how ambitious I've felt.

I would like to see the number of players who logged on in January-February this year who had not logged on during the previous twelve months of 2023, and as a percentage of all accounts which had logged in during Jan-Feb.

I've had nothing but good experiences with petless MM's in pick-up groups.

You may, on very rare occasions, see people with an extra level shift showing on your HUD if they have used a "Ultimate" inspiration. They're most often seen in the Magisterium trial when players desperately need that extra bit to fight Tyrant, or in other places when people need extra teleport Magnitude, like in the Mothership Raid for Fold Space / Shadow Slip / Wormhole to pull level 54 Rikti bosses into the bowl. And other places if they have money to burn.

Yes. Monitor it, then jump to Ouroboros, then pick a low level Ouro-arc, then drop the arc. Then return to a regular zone. It'll take a second or so, but it will update in near real time as your level-shifts activate and deactivate.

You can also monitor your active levels shift from the Powers -> Combat Attributes panel. Right-click on the entry for Level Shift and it will show in a tiny relocatable window for you.

All this would mean to me is they're level fifty and planning to run it at +3 difficulty. Which honestly, isn't exactly needing all level shifted players, or even all 50's. For the sake of argument, if someone does request specific levels in their advertisement (I usually don't for my high level non-TF/trial teams), then it's on the player to know what their own level is and not send a tell if they're not a match. I usually say something like "All levels welcome" in my advertisements, and I still get people sending me a tell like "Is level 8 okay?" and I just invite them. :) Won't be level 8 for long! ... which is worth another gentle warning I ought to put in my welcome to the team macros -- lowbies will level fast on this team, and if that's not what you want, then at least disable xp earning.

Even people who aren't habitual marketeers are complaining about this this in chats -- it's gone mainstream! :O I hope there's something fixable behind it.

I used to buy prestige for new RP Supergroups by the million, and the 500:1 ratio seems about right.

I have noticed this too.

We had a Crazy-88's chapter on Virtue, too.

You can disable earning XP and join a high level team for a bit, just for the inf and drops and such. No one will mind, and they can be a lot of fun. That way you get all the drop benefits of a high level, fast moving team, but not level out of the stories and missions you'd prefer to do. Unless you do want to level fast, in which case a high level team will be great to earn XP on, too.

They were also a marketing group on Live :D They ended up still wealthy. :D

Student: "Master, what is the greatest lie told about the market?" Master: "That listing for 1 inf benefits poor players."

A mini-carnival strongman?

Since Fulcrum Shift does not accept sets, you have limited but still very powerful options for slotting it. Two 50+5 accuracies and two 50+5 recharge IO's will get you far enough. You could also mix in, or entirely use D-Sync Provocation special enhancements, but bring your (in-game) wallet. Those individually buff Accuracy, Recharge, and Threat. Threat won't do anything for Fulcrum Shift, but Accuracy and Recharge sure do.

(Verse 1) In a small town, where the winters are cold, There's a person, with a story yet untold, Lost in a whirlwind, their world turned upside down, Oh, this tragedy, it's a country song renowned. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Verse 2) Influence slipping through their fingers like sand, Twenty-five trillion gone, slipping through their hand, Yet amidst the chaos, they found a silver lining, Cause losing their ex, well, that's a blessing in disguise. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Bridge) Through heartbreak and sorrow, they rise above, Finding strength in the simple things they still love, The beauty of a sunset, the comfort of a friend, In the depths of despair, they'll find a way to mend. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Outro) In this country song, we find hope, we find grace, For even in the darkest times, there's a smile on their face, They'll rebuild what's lost, with a heart that won't break, And with every verse sung, their spirit will awake. Who says AI's aren't good for anything.

We've all been there and did that too! :D And, in the big scheme of things, it's s tiny bump on a very wide, long road.

It would be awesome if you could have more than 10 bars of patrol xp, so long as you couldn't earn more than that much just from being logged off.

Whenever I run a Death From Below, there are at least a few people who want the badges and we try to get them. I suspect it will be the same. Many people will notice if they get one of these badges, and sometimes, if the roster looks close to getting one or the other, someone will speak up and ask about it or offer to swap to get it. Yes, there are people who don't care about it at all and think it's a waste of effort, but that's true about almost every game change.

I am generally pleased with this change. Making the reward for role diversity a badge is huge improvement over the previous means. It will still cause people to stop and think about team composition, but with the counterbalance for Archetype Duplication, I think it will get people to think about how the game supports player choice, and doesn't pigeon hole a team into roles. Badges are important and noticeable, but won't skew team building on an ongoing basis like a compensation with in-game financial value would. This now leaves me in a neutral position. I may not love it, but I don't hate it.

IMO, a build's slotting can only be optimal in the context of the purpose for which it's intended. Do you have different slottings for different purposes?

Yomo may not toot his own horn every time -- so I'll do it for him. He is, to my knowledge, the first confirmed Trillionaire in Homecoming. I'm not too far behind. And I don't farm at all. Others are up in the hundreds of billions too. Some might be past Yomo and have been quiet about it. Hard to say. Yes, people with this amount of game-wealth could spend 3-10x the going prices of things just because they can, and not even slow down their wealth gains. But that's generally not the kind of personality that enjoys the market game. Overpaying for things is, to me, an affront to reason, frugality, and all else that is holy. Those I call Marketeers hoard their wealth as a way of keeping score, often privately, to measure their success. And it has a side benefit to other people. My hundreds of billions are sequestered out of the economy, never to be spent. What I do spend is ever only a small fraction of my market gains. Marketeers are a "Money Sink", we permanently pull money out of the game economy. It sits on alts we never play, in emails we never claim, and in market bids that can never have filled. If you recall your basic economics, inflation is caused by "too much money chasing too few goods". Marketeers attack both sides of that equation -- they remove money from the economy, AND create those goods the markets demand. Those LotG +7.5% global recharge enhancements didn't show up from nowhere; people like Yomo and I made them out of trash no one else wanted or cared to bother with. You're welcome. IMO, the prices are already fair -- and if a person disagrees, they don't have to pay them; no one forces them to. And they could make their own LotG's out of trash drops too.

I have a warshade with Shadow Slip too, and it's just as fun and effective as Fold Space. I've even wondered about using a second build taking the teleport pool TOO and getting Fold Space so I can cast both of them interleaved in rapid order. :D :D edit: .. and my purse overheard me and just called for ambulance. :D

I've never published my personal one, which depends on being absolutely, embarrassingly, rich in-game; but this thread is recent and has some good older ones linked.