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Yep. MA server is currently down.

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er...waitaminute...Rocket Packs? I guess I failed to mention that I have just come back after a LONG time away I thought I was just getting a grip on things like IO's / IO Set's, and now this? heh I swear, every day there is something that I haven't heard about. I guess I should just start with the patch notes from about 18 months ago and power read. I will read into rocket packs, good info! Thanks!

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In simple terms blueside - in each of the 4 Shadow Shard zones there is a Vendor who will sell you a rocket pack temp power for 10 000 inf.

Redside the vendor is in Grandville.

(the power is the exact same one as is unlocked by the Atlas Mayhem/safeguard)

So any rare recipe at level 50 for 100 000 inf ? (they sell to vendors for 10k). Meaning just about any common IO drop, could be sold to a vendor then a rare picked up in its place ?

If the devs had wanted a store they would have put a store in the game.

You are vastly over estimating the effect of RMT.

A minion has a 2.667% chance of dropping a recipe. Over a large sample, a recipe is generated for every 37.5 minions. From those, 1 in every 41 recipes is rare. Thats 1538 minions per rare recipe.
To get one of each of the 75 recipes in pool A at 45-50 you have to defeat 115311 minions

This generates 231 million influence for even cons.

In the all Lt case, it one recipe per 18.75 Lts, 769 Lts per rare recipe, and 57660 Lts for the whole pool of 75. This generates 397 million inf

Bring in bosses, you get one recipe drop per 12.5 bosses, needing 512.5 bosses for a rare drop and 38438 for the pool of 75. This generates 2.64 BILLION influence.

*Note Im not suggesting that an individual generates 75 recipes and gets one of each, but averaged over thousands of players generating thousands of recipes, each rare will be about the same numbers gnerated.

Of course over the course of this you would also generate 600 uncommon recipes, and 2400 commons.
The commons get vendored earning an average of 97188 inf per recipe (weighted average), adding an additional inf earning of 233 Million to the above figures.

Taking the least earning scenario of the minions. You have 467 million influence (from the 231 inf from kills + 233 from selling common IO recipes)
600 uncommons
75 rares

Split that up as you see fit to get a 'fair base price'.

(I haven't included the 5 million or so that vendoring salvage adds to the above)


Inf enters the game at an incredible rate when people play 50s. They want the 'best of the best', and will spend to get it. RMT really doesn't enter into it.

Any AT played at 50 gets earnings of about 1 million inf/hour minimum, running radios/scanners solo. Teamed you make much more inf from kills but less from drops, but in general its even faster earning.

(My thread collating this data got eaten by a forum purge, but this included such reknowned soloing powerhouses as an emp/elec defender, a mind controller and a FF defender)

It does not slow movement directly:

the only downsides I can think of are
1) use of a slot, so you dont get a +fly speed enhancement in there. (which could be an indirect slowing)
2) when triggered it stays active for 120seconds after the toggle is turned off. This can be undesired when taking screenies.

Just as an FYI, as long as the power is available when exemped, the level of the IO doesn't matter. Its like a damage proc in that regard.

To be fair, 10pm on Friday night is probably busier than most weekday nights.

Its use can be considered blasphemous by some.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy

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They do. It's a random roll, though.

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This. And its a roll from a 'pool' of just 6 salvage.

#1 add your arcs to your sig file here

#2 rate other peopels arcs and in feedback ask for them to run one of yours

#3 post a thread in the Stories and Lore section, and ask for feedback

Specifically what i would advise for that new character

Sell your 60 salvage. Make lots of inf (lots and LOTS right now)

Then bid on level 15 acc dam heal end reductions and recharge as needed.

5001-10001 is your max bid

Slot em when you get em.

Work out what you are slotting at 15, 16, 17 etc place bids early.

Sell salvage that drops during the meantime.

Then you will have the ability to bid for a full set of level 25 once you hit 20 or so.

Karl

thank you, you don't know how much that has defused my annoyance...

Sorry for this, but it was a long day at work and I wanted to kick back with a beverage and enjoy some interesting MA stuff.

If your are going to use a [tag]

DO NOT try to claim your farm is story focused.

DO NOT claim to have an in depth plot in your description, then be a durn Rikti comm officer farm with one unique character

IF you want to be left to your farms, do not try to pass em off as something else. If you are so durn sure that your are not exploiting and shouldn't be locked/deleted, then why go to the [censored] effort to pass yourself off as something else.

This rant brought to you by a very annoyed at having wasted my time zoning into several maps that were not what they claimed to be kitty.

Go about your business and Hai Mod8, lock this if you feel it is too ranty.

<self reported>

Not yet, however I'd advise against substituting letters in swear words in the future -Mod08

Of course technically speaking noon and midnight are neither am nor pm....

To the writers of this fluff announcements. Please use noon and midnight. It will solve a whole host of confusion up front.

I mean is it that hard to write 11am until midnight (Eastern) ?

Thats total clarity right there.

Of course then there is your use of EST, when the 'real world' East coast is on EDT right now.

aside from that:

Grats on the 5 years and I cant wait for the event.

more options is exactluy what tickets provide.

Want to convert common recipes into uncommons and rares - run MA arcs and grab recipe rolls

Want to get more recipes than salvage, well roll all your tickets as recipes.

Want to get more salvage than recipes, well roll the as salavge

Want a random mix, well run non-MA stuff, or roll a complete mix to simulate it.

If I can find them cheap enough, I'll grab level 15 IOs on my characters not in Global Heroics. (GH provides 'free' common IOs to everyone, just drop your enh drops in a for sale bin)

all character at 25 grab common IOs to suit, and then fill up on sets as a when.

So personally my break points are 12 and 22

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But everybody poops!

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Speak for yourself.

I 'use' a litterbox

Just as a heads up. The Footsteps Initiative is back to HOF as I type this

I think the lack of info on drops is more recent (and may not be deliberate at that).

I12 is when the drop tables changed to the above.

Enemies and enemy groups that will drop Arcane salvage only: Banished Pantheon, Bat'Zul, Black Swan, Cabal, Cap au Diable Demons, Carnival of Shadows, Cimeroran Traitors, Circle of Thorns, Coralax, Diabolique, Fir Bolg, Ghosts, Hellions, Infernal, Lanaruu, Legacy Chain, Luddites, Midnight Squad, Minions of Igneous, Mother Mayhem, Psychic Clockwork, Red Caps, Rularuu, Shadowhunter, Shadow Shard Reflections, Slag Golems, Snakes, Spectral Pirates, Tsoo, Tuatha de Dannan, Tyrant, Wailers, Warriors, Winter Horde.

Enemies and enemy groups that will drop Technological salvage only: Antimatter, 60's Arachnos, Arachnoids, Battle Maiden, Bobcat, Cage Consortium Guards, Crazed, Crey, Dockworkers, Family, Freakshow, Gold Brickers, Hydra, Infected, Knives of Artemis, Lost, Loyalists, Malaise, Malta, Marauder, Mooks, Nemesis, Neuron, Nictus, Outcasts, Paragon Police Department, Peacebringers, Prisoners, Rikti, Rogue Island Police, Rogue Robots, Scrapyarders, Security Guards, Shivans, Siege, Skulls, Sky Raiders, Spetsnaz Commandos, Thugs, Trolls, Turrets, Vahzilok, Werewolves, Zig.

Enemies and enemy groups that will drop both Arcane and Technological salvage: 5th Column, Arachnos, Axis America, Chimera, Clockwork, Council, Council Empire, Devouring Earth, Dominatrix, generic/mission heroes, generic/mission villains, Longbow, Rogue Arachnos, Vanguard Shield, Vanguard Sword, Vindicators, Void Hunters, WISDOM, Wyvern.


The salvage drop tables changed in I12.

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As for the flags, this was something that I was in favor of but according to devs is not likely to happen because of the possible outcry from players in countries that are not represented.

My solution was simple. Only do the flags for the countries where the game is actually distributed. Add flags as distribution area increases. Can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can make the ones you're catering to happy.



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Thats why I gave the whole list. Its only 203 sovereign states long in total.
193 are unarguable (UN members + Holy See)

With Sexy Jays talents he could knock em out quick... I mean its only (insert code rant) a coloured skin over a flat background.

Per the wiki:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Missio...ct_Unique_Maps

Yes.

It shoulld be under Unique -> Caves

They have to complete the base changes first, some sort of pathing check is required for there to be any base raiding.

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Sexy Jay just needs to release capes created from the flags of 'generally recognised sovereign states', as well as their over seas territories. (and in the case of the UK, the constituent countries)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

Waves $10 ready to pay for this pack

get to it Jay
*cracks whip*

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Then you can make Captain Kenya and stand around singing "We got ye tigers, only in Kenya. Come to Kenya we got tigers!"

On the topic. I'm actually surprised we don't already have a turban available considering all the other hat choices we have.

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I cant do that as Mr Kenya would smack me silly.

Meanwhile, I'll take the opportunity to plug Global Heroics on Triumph (www.globalheroics.net). A mature and fun group to play with all with a Mr/Miss/Ms Countryname theme.

Even better, run the arc "A Nation Goes Rogue Arc " ID#2369 (under @Mr Falkland Islands) and get to meet a couple of the characters from the group.

*shameless plugs over*

Sexy Jay just needs to release capes created from the flags of 'generally recognised sovereign states', as well as their over seas territories. (and in the case of the UK, the constituent countries)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states

Waves $10 ready to pay for this pack

get to it Jay
*cracks whip*

Whilst it would be convenient, my one concern is that the proliferation of tables leads to a downgrading of the 'worth' of the accolade table.

Its already limited to being a convenience in most zones, and Cim is one area where it can actually be significantly useful for the team to have someone pop one out.

Thats a minor concern I admit, but it is one I have

Thats a bad idea.
Crafting costs are one of the biggest inf sinks we have in the game (the other big one being market fees).

Easier reuse of IOs, leads to reduced inf taken out of the system and further inflationary pressures.