Andreah

One thing buying up or at least, trying to sustain a doubled or triples price-target on converters would be to secondarily increase the prices of unslotters or boosters, as people who might have used merits to get those to sell went for converters instead. And unslotters are interesting. We kind of need these to finagle our builds around without respeccing; so what if a marketeer consistently bought them all out? Minor annoyance, or serious issue with further ripples? And for that matter, what if a marketeer resolved to buy up all the respec recipes? Would the prices really go up much and cause consternation, or would people just use alternate means, like running more respec trials outside of when they are the WST?

Well, you certainly have set an ambitious goal for yourself! I would love to follow your progress. If you were willing to share it, say, by creating a thread somewhere in the forums and occasionally post an update, I would follow it, and I think others would too.

IMO, the most interesting dimensionality of space is 11-D, because we may live in one.

True. I've explained in-game chats several times what they are, how they work, and where to buy them, for all three kinds of packs.

They're also more valuable as gifts when they're not on sale.

Leveling is already so much faster than it was in live, say, by ten-fold, it's like having a90% free level to 50 ride already. Do we need that last ten percent skippable? My opinion is no, we don't. Also, the "poweleveling to 50" is enjoyable to some, and especially, for the teaming it produces. Some of my most enjoyable team experiences have been on somewhat casual "RP friendly PI Council Radios LF7M, any level welcome" groups, both on my top end level 50 characters and for my lower level characters as I level them up. Players get to chat, banter and so forth, even roleplay, while testing out their powers and abilities without there being huge pressure to perform at maximum. These are especially fun and satisfying for the higher level players to lead them and for the higher level players who join them for casual farming and to help out levelers.

I agree, it is odd. Most US Cities have significant numbers of religious buildings, architecture, and visual iconography. I believe the original developers chose to omit them out of a general desire to avoid overt religious content and symbolism. One could make a case that the occult symbols in the game would or should count; but I suppose there's more of a tradition of these for comics content. Overall, I think it was a wise choice to avoid them for the major religions. When I consider the supposed population of Paragon city, I feel the mapped out city zones are wholly inadequate to show the true scale of it. So I assume there's huge areas that are present implicitly, and if someone were to reference, say, a church in steel canyon in their RP, I'd assume it's there, but not part of the game representation of Steel Canyon we play in.

Another thing I like about selling salvage (and other drops) on the auction is it preserves supply and removes some inf from the economy as the 10% of sell price market fee. Selling to vendors deletes the item from the economy and creates influence in its place, which is basically inflationary. In the big scheme of things, these aren't that important, since excess salvage and recipes end up being vendored by someone. But at least some influence gets removed along the way. :) One of the things I wonder about is a more or less closed-cycle economy; where vendored items go into a pool from which mob drops are drawn, and influence sources proportionately take inf from a pool filled by market fees and vendor revenues.

Wow. Are you going to max out the Transcendent Merits and Hero/Villian Merits too? I mean, you'd need to earn what; half a million emps?

Is this a completionist project, to have the maximum of every kind of salvage on one character? My mind is boggling at how difficult this should be -- are you including all kinds of salvage, or just invention and special salvage? If you're including incarnate salvage, well, that's a lot of iTrials to run. o.O

You could buy 2,000 items fives times each at 5 million inf. Hrm... not bad. Are there even 2,000 unique items after bucketing?

I think down is up. ... but I could have it backwards. Or it could be a five-dimensional scale.

One late night at The Secret Clubhouse for Moustache Twirling Top Hatters, while lighting cigars with million influence bills and having good laughs over Gini-curve jokes, you accepted a gentle challenge to burn a paltry 50 Billion of your liquid wealth to create as much economic chaos on the Auction House as possible. Now, purely as a thought experiment, what would you do? Buy up all of what? Corner market of which? Dump all of something when? You're not trying to make money, just to create chaos by burning through this stash. As a for example, with 50 Billion, a player could drive the price of, say, Enhancement Converters up fairly high for a while. How high could it get? What effect would this have? How would the main player base respond? What secondary effects on other goods would result? How long could it be sustained? When you ran out of the stash, how long would it take the economy to recover? Rate the chaos created on the Moustache Scale of Ebil from 1 to 10.

Hire people to do it with you!

Those of us who accumulate money just to have it pile up ever higher keep inflation at bay. :D Money you never intend to spend may nearly as well have been removed from the economy, after all.

Okay, so how would I actually do this? There would be a few steps. Rename Winter Packs to Legacy Winter Packs. All of them, even in auction listings, emails, and inactive character inventories. Remove all seeded sell listings of Legacy Winter Packs. Seed in 10,000,000 buy orders for Legacy Winter Packs at 25 million each. Notify players their existing Legacy Winter Packs can no longer be bought, and should be either be opened or sold at this price within the next year. Create all-new account bound Winter Packs. These cannot be sold or traded, only opened or emailed to one's global handle. Seed in 10,000,000 sell order for these at 15 million each. (Sale price). At the conclusion of the Winter Event, reseed them at 25 million each. At the start of next year's Winter Event, remove the Legacy Winter Packs. The point of this would be that player listed Winter Packs would no longer overlap and interfere with or be-interfered by the seeded ones. They would still give most players opportunity to get discounted winter pack drops during annual sales, and even to use this for money making by opening and selling the drops, but not purely from buying and relisting packs in mass numbers. However, it's probably too much bother to be worth it, and the Coefficient of Ebility is fairly low and unsatisfying to the truly villainous among us.

I'll make a bold, poorly thought out, and probably non-original suggestion to make winter packs account bound, and then put them on sale again at 10Million each. For bonus points, don't tell people about the account binding. :D

LOL

I almost always pile leadership onto my characters if there's room for it at all. When half or more of a team is running maneuvers, tactics, and/or assault, it's just hugely beneficial for everyone. And vengeance just adds up on top of that. Now, if only Rush of Victory had a modest +rech in it ....

True. My ~10% off suggestion, for the alert, would mean they couldn't be resold after the event as-is at a profit due to market fees. :D

It's because what you sell them for, even if it's twice the original buy price, comes from other players, it's not a net gain to the whole economy. The original seeded packs price does leave the economy entirely. In fact, 10% of the resale leaves the economy too, as market fees.

Maybe this year it will be a ~10% discount.

This was really cool, so thanks! :D A question I would pose is, do you think the original developers had a canon document they worked from which went into detail on the hellish/demonic material, and that their writing over the years stayed consistent to it? Or do you feel successive writers just did their own thing?

Exploit the fact that your phone doesn't need to breathe! Put it inside a zip-lock baggie, use it through that, and then throw the bag away when you leave the bathroom. Solved!

Once you have a multiverse with infinite dimensions, how could there not be?