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It comes up occassionally that I run into the "This name is already taken" situation. What I would propose is that the "Check for name availability" button be slightly revamped, offering instead "This name is taken on this server, but available on <List of servers>". Or, of course, "This name is available on this server and on <list of servers>"
For names that are on the unavailable list or in use on all servers, they would get "This name is not available on any server at this time."

This function would help people who want a certain name, but don't care which server, and people who want a particular name and do not know that character names are server-specific. Yes, there have sometimes been people, mostly new players, who did not know that.
Admittedly, it will not help (and probably not hinder) players who specificly want to play on a particular server.

No problem, just havin' a little fun. My wife pronounces it that way.

I don't think there's that much of a problem. Every character has the means to earn Salvage. If the price is too high for you to buy a piece of Salvage at the Market, then just run a few missions and sell what you've earned to get what you want.
If what you want to get is in a different level tier than what you are at, then either go get AE tickets (and take the "Random Common" rolls at whatever level you want), or get SK'ed/Exemplared accordingly.

When there was a major price difference between Arcane and Tech back in I-10, some folks would exemplar down to L24/29 via Ouroboros and ignore the arc to go AoE slaughter zombies in DA.

I think the reason that Salvage is expensive is Supply/Demand (AE runners burning tickets on Recipes, notice price drops on Rare Salvage and Set IO's?), not Marketeers bothering to try to manipulate Common Salvage. Which happen to be the most easily/quickly generated items, and thus hardest to corner the market on.

*shrug*

I'm trying to understand how various types of Market-Users affect the Market. So first I would have to catagorize the types of users.
That's where I need your help, oh Ebil Geniouses!

I'm not trying to define thier effects yet, so please bear with me.
Here's what I got so far.

1. Vendorers. Buy Salvage and Recipes at less than what a vendor will pay, sell to vendor, repeat.

2. Flippers. Buy an item (or stack thereof) when they can get it cheaper than usual, repost for a higher price to profit the difference (minus listing fees).

3. Farmers / Drop-Farmers / Wealth-Farmers. Run missions primarily for the drops accumulated, sell the drops, repeat. XP gains are secondary to the main goal, which is wealth. If thier inventory gets full mid-mission, they will consider whether to delete something (the least valuable) to make room for more, or to leave to sell. Often will team only with thier other accounts, so that drops aren't split between them and strangers.

4. Power-levelers / "XP-Farmers". Run missions primarily for the XP, usually not leaving a mission for a full salvage/recipe/etc. tray because leaving would jeopardize the main goal: XP. They might delete a low-value item from inventory to make room for better, if they remember or are willing to take a few seconds off of DPS/XP-HR.
Usually prefer teaming with as large a team as possible, despite most of the drops going to others.

5. Lazy-Casual Users. Not concerned about maximizing profits or getting into the complicated details of how every part of the market works. Not likely to pay attention to market trends. They will post thier stuff low for quick sales, and only bid as high as they feel something is worth to them personally. If thier bid isn't high enough, they will either let the bid sit as they wander off to a mission, or pull it to buy something else. They usually won't pay "Buy It NAO!!!" prices, but will seek other, cheaper wares instead. (RL equivalent: The guy who puts money into CD's and a 401K, but never bothers to read the business/financial section of the newspaper, but reads the Comics and Sports instead)

6. Frantic-Casual Users. Similar to the Lazy-Casual Users. However, they will pay "Buy It NAO!!!" prices if they can. Sometimes prone to posting angry rants about how they HAD to pay 1 Million $Inf to get a Common Salvage they wanted, and unwilling to hear any advice or disagreement from the viewpoint they already have. Sometimes they will post some of thier wares at very high prices, trying to recoup thier earlier losses, but if thier sales don't go through they will likely blame the Market, Flippers, Marketeers or pretty much anyone other than themselves (for posting higher than the other players would buy it for).
(RL example: same as the RL guy above, but writing angry letters to the editor about "Those durn fat-cats in warshingtoon!", and investing his money in lottery tickets.)

7. Crafters. They buy (or recieve as drops) Recipes and Salvage and compare it to how much the crafted product will go for. If the crafted product will sell for more than the Salvage+Recipe+CraftingCost, then they craft it and sell it for the profit.

8. Badgers. Working on Crafting Badges (to get more Inventory slots and perhaps even the grand poohbah of crafting badges, the Field Crafter Accolade Power), they fit with the Crafters above. Except they might be willing to craft items for a loss, if those items are what stands between them and thier goal, MOAR BADGESSES!!

9. Non-Users. Playing the game presumably using only SO's and maybe crafting drops.

Okay, Marketeers.....Who did I miss?
(Also, feel free to correct my names and descriptions)

If Player Apartments were implemented, and purchased/upgraded/maintained through $Inf (not Prestige), that could remove quite a bit from the system, couldn't it?

I heard that if you speak Jack's name three times into a mirror, you become equal to three white-con minions. :/

To answer your question: Maybe or maybe not.
Some players would add an arc to thier favorites list if they liked the story, others would add a farm or two to thier favorites list to make finding it easier. The farming type seems to have more of a penchant for repeating things, so I expect that they would use it more.
The players that read and enjoy the stories probably wouldn't keep an arc on "favorite" status for long, as you can only read the same story so many times.
Both types of players would use this system.

Would it be an accurate representation of how good a storyline is? I doubt it, but it would be a fairly good indication of how many players (regardless of type, (farmers or story-readers)) wanted to run it more than once.

You're (Generic "You" to the person who sent the note, but I have an idea) right, I did exaggerate a bit. Thanks for the -Rep.
But I would still vote "No, thanks." on this suggestion, and feel that while amusing, tying a badge to a recent movie makes me wonder why not consider others?
As for the Harry Potter/Croatoa reference, there is a University building there.

If I wanted to switch damage types, I'd probably want to switch all of the attacks to the same type.
I don't like to mix powersets together that seem opposed, like Fire Melee and Ice Armor, so I wouldn't want Punch to be Fire, KO Blow to be Energy and Foot Stomp to be Cold. But that's just me.

We don't need to add another badge every time a new movie comes out.
We get enough new badges every issue as it is. Recently, they added a whole bunch and then took them away.

We might as well add a "Quidditch Player" badge for hours spent flying in Croatoa, or an "Honorary Autobot" badge for destroying 200 5th Column Mekmen.

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