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I'd park my truck crossways behind that and go inside for a leisurely lunch.

You expect that they should. Why?

Why do we need another "Double the XP but not the recipe drops" weekend this weekend? Come to think about it, it's always a freakin' weekend. Why not a week? Monday through Friday.

How would that work? Would the precrafted ones just be random glowies introduced into missions, popping power icons into your power trays?
Or drop like enhancements do (from fallen foes) into your enhancement tray and then be sellable or able to be dragged into your powers tray?

Interesting idea though.

Honestly, reduce the Stealth level to that of the 1st tier Concealment pool power and make this a Temp Power Recipe.

I'd put in bids for it RIGHT NOW!!

*runs off to Wentworths to park character*

Yep.

And of course there's "Well, since I'm here I might as well just dump all my stuff on the Market rather than waste my time at a Vendor. This way *someone* might get some use out of it, even if it's just vendoring it themselves to make quick pocket change."

The problem would be with the pet A.I.
It would spend several minutes drawing out the fight with the AV using powers like Brawl instead of just using Laser Sword: Disembowel at the very start.

Ah, the vendors. No wonder you're broke. Seriously.

If IOs cost a lot of Inf, then go to the Market and sell the ones that you get from killing the bad guys. Then you'll have a lot of Inf to buy what you want.

Link: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Enhanc...iversification

WoW is the exception, not the rule. If you want to compare us to another MMO, compare us to just about anything else.
We're doing a lot better than Tabula Rasa, for example.

Yes, more advertising would be good.

Feel free to PM a redname.

One set of L40-50 (mixed levels, averaging L45 or higher) IOs, six slotted into a power: 66% to Acc, Recharge, EndRed and 99% Damage (after ED takes it down a bit), plus Set bonuses that apply to every other power in my build. I'll take that over a build that could ignore ED, but was SO-only.

I was there in 2004 and the Good Ol' Days don't hold that much nostalgia for me that I want to go back.
Well, they could make Integration a toggle again though.

More like:
"If someone's trying to coach a Little League team and insisting that the kids use thier face as the bat....." in the case of Team Leaders who insist on such play.

(Frankly, I'd ask if the coach is also the town's main dentist.)

Sometimes I hate cutscenes.

Add:
...or when I get around to it.
...or when I get tired of seeing the warning.
...or when I lose power.

I'm gleefully inconsistant, but I'm the only live account on there now.

So...on the way to L44 you didn't get ANY decent recipe drops? On every character I have in that level range I have decent (by my standards, yours may vary) complete sets in every power that would benefit from it. And still have money left over for three of whatever come L45.

Have you been wasting your money by buying SOs when Common IOs drop like rain? Teaming maybe? You're a MM, you carry your own summonable team with you, and they don't suck up the drops like live teammates do.
Fine. I don't bother with Purples either.
That has not been my experience. If you take "Market" to mean buying things to resell at a markup, then No, I do not Market. If you take "Market" to mean dumping my IOs at roughly half to two-thirds the average of the Last 5 (or just 100 Inf and go), then using the proceeds to purchase what I want, then Yes, I do "Market".
Not sure about your definition.
False. When I hit L50 I already have decent non-purple IO builds.
Those sets that I have where the IOs vary wildly from L35-50? They are capped in thier main attribute (damage in the case of Crushing Impact or Thunderstrike, etc.) and good enough in thier secondary attributes (Rech/endred/Acc in those two sets) for my taste.
No, I don't bother with garbage like "Airburst".
Other than obvious Vendor Trash, I actually DO just toss it on the Market. Evidently though, I just price it low enough to sell quicker than yours.
I play one to two hours a day, 6 days a week. That's far from being a slave to the computer.
(Solo, regular story arc content. )

This, seeing that one person can pay the base rent doing two missions or less every two weeks.

My current SG is me, my alts and my stuff. It's also a chat channel for my friend, his brother and his son. It's a place where I can play with the base editor if I want.
It has all the stuff that I need, so there's no incentive to recruit. If I want chatter, there's the Global channels.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Might explain why redside the arcs give out fewer merits IME, but loading screens for the umpteenth time zoning for a mission arc from a contact who won't give out his cell until the last mission?
Running Emmert-era blueside arcs send me back redside after a while.

Both of those things (farming, the market) are completely optional.


I do. I sometimes hit the {One Random} button for the sheer lulz of seeing how bad of writers some people are. I'm mediocre, but holy crud some folks are awful!

Individual missions each worth merits? Interesting. Team Leaders might run missions other than thier own and teammates might get merits for mission-holder's mission.
You use the word mission in the above when sometimes "mission" works, and sometimes "story arc" would work.
I would expect that the first thing we would see would be strings of very short missions on very small maps to minimize time per mission. Number of merits rewarded would have to reflect this.
Regarding #2, there is no need to be so lenient to allow two or three free passes and then a slap on the wrist. When you click {I Agree}, you agree not to use "Exploits or Cheats". Not great PR? Maybe, but is it great PR to be known as being just a place where farming/grinding is the norm and leveling normally via content is a lesser option? Think of MMOs with that reputation and decide whether that is a positive aspect of thier overall reputation.
Regarding #3, I'm wary of this. I remember an AE thread where the OP went on a tirade about farming (as in the MMO definition) and how there were so many cheaters and exploiters and yada yada. Then they posted over a hundred mission arc numbers that all had the word "Farm" in them. Many of those were farm-themed (as in barnyard with horses, chickens and bales of hay kind of 'farm') and were in no way indicative of farming as we know it in an MMO.

Ditto.

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I like it.