EarthWyrm

The market's also really flush right now on a lot of crafted uncommons and rares that you can get from rolling bronze. Lots of crafted stuff at 50 in particular seems to have taken a nose-dive in price over the past few weeks, if it can be gotten from AE. I'm interested in how long the effects of this thread will linger, actually!

Unless, of course, the inability to post/retrieve items/inf is due to simultaneous local (that is, on your server, possibly in your zone, possibly using the same market rep to access) connections to the market server not being able to be processed. In which case it does matter what server you're on.

I'm a heavy market user. I've had problems on Virtue, but never on Victory.

It worked that way for a while after they put the cap in, but they fixed it. I suppose it's possible the fix stopped working.

It wasn't just purples. It was all Pool A recipes (common, uncommon, rare, and purple). I put a lot of hours into gathering data with Archie's DropStats program for that...

As to the OP, it's a fun conspiracy theory, but random is random. I mean, a lot of folks also believe that our government is secretly in league with mind-reading aliens who don't allow us to say anyth!@#$DFSFFA!Q^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^D

The truthiness, it burns!

If I put quotes in my sig, I'd fully steal this.

Reason 2:
The mental image of Thulsa Doom squeeing almost made me hurt myself.

Oh, and because the markets are finally getting merged!

Thank you, devs!

I just wanted to say that this quote reflects the attitude that keeps me happy to pay for this game after almost five years, even though I don't use tails and the addition of this tail doesn't affect whether my accounts will be getting this pack one bit (they will).

The lack of badge credit for non-leaders may be an unintended side effect of this week's fix to flashback end-of-mission rewards.

Would that be in the American Journal of Psychiatry or some other journal? I glanced through the most recent issue's abstracts and only noticed one study with n<50, and that was for an international survey that was predictably going to have a smallish population. Given that I was only viewing abstracts, I don't know what the response rate was, but that would need to be taken into account.

I suppose that, if we're talking psychiatric research, we have to keep in mind that some psychiatric populations are difficult to sample, and researchers tend toward longitudinal designs. A sample size less than 50 is potentially less troubling in those circumstances, though as I'm sure you're aware, any critique of the sample size without considering the statistics used is little more than hand-waving. The sample size requirements for adequate statistical power vary from test statistic to test statistic, after all.

The key to good research, and why I'm disinclined to call things that are published in any refereed journal "bollocks," is always peer review. The peer review process is designed to maximize the probability that studies with serious methodological problems don't see publication (though there are a lot of trash journals out there...). When your peers tell you something is good enough research to publish, that's a good sign. When your peers tell you that your research is flawed, that you have self-selected your sample and defined the inclusion criteria in such a fashion that it creates the results you wanted from the beginning, that's not a good sign.

It also presents some compelling arguments for bothering to roll random pre-50. The demand is present, the supply is zero, and the seller literally has the ability to set the price in the market as it stands.

I used a variation on this technique to fund a villain to 50, starting in her 30s and doing the occasional play session of AE, followed by random bronze rolls. There was nothing crafted, and very little raw, for good mid-level sets (Efficacy Adaptor, Doctored Wounds, most of the decent damage sets), which meant I had the ability to ask prices that came close to or exceeded the prices for level 50 versions of the same stuff. And get it.

Yeah, that was a surprise. I'd guess that the of awarding double end-of-mission xp/inf in flashbacks wasn't as bothersome as the potential doubling of Chronologist drops, large inspirations, salvage, and other end-of-mission rewards if people chose to set themselves up with a ton of day jobs and run fast flashback missions.

Even with all of that, it wasn't worth the time to exploit, even with the fastest badge missions. Too much set-up for too little pay-off.

I also only had this start over the past few days. I also play on virtue.

The thing that I've found that is helpful, at least in claiming things I've bought, is rapidly double-clicking the "get" button. This is much more dangerous when I'm trying to buy things, though, since a few times I've double-ordered when the AHUI randomly decides to take both clicks after a long stretch of single-click ordering not working.

But double-clicking "get" will usually allow me to claim what I've purchased, at least.

Additionally, if you read down the page on Amazon, ordering through them also gets you $5 of mp3 download credit. So someone who buys music through Amazon will pay 39.99 - 6.99 (item pack) - 15 (one month of game time) - 5 (music credit), or about $13, for the Complete Edition. With free shipping, if you don't need it fast, or free fast shipping if your wife accidentally didn't cancel her free trial of Amazon Prime.

I'd seriously consider that option for the second account and my wife's account if I didn't want desperately to be able to play with the new shinies as soon as they go live.

It sounds suspiciously like there's a *lot* of ruined wasteland on Praetorian earth in the aftermath of the Hamidon wars. If I were writing the new material, Cole would have had technology that kept portals from opening anywhere in or around the "nice" parts of his world, and it would only be in the cities that he and his cronies bother to put on the pleasant public face. Now, something has changed there, and he's allowing portals to open to the decent areas.

There's no retcon needed. Worlds with a few shining cities and people whose public personas differ from their less public personas are relatively common in both fiction in general, and comics in particular. Maybe you'll view that as a retconning. If it's done properly, though, it will continue to be a deepening of the story as we learn about the world from other perspectives than the limited one of, "There's this alternate universe that wants to take over our world! Oh noes!"

Things will be what they've always been -- Cole and company will still be wanting to take over our world, but now they have day jobs as well.

And better costumes.

I dunno. If I get a drop that never sees the market and I put it into storage (I'll assume crafting it, because... well, why not?), then supply hasn't gone down on the recipe in question. It's the same as if I never played the game and got the drop to begin with.

I actually don't care about not being able to store recipes, since (a) it's easy enough to store enhancements, (b) we have a limited number of storage items in bases, and I very much doubt we'd get a "Filing Cabinet" that let us hold more than 100 recipes at a time (at which point, recipes and enhancements take up the same storage space), and (c) crafting the recipes I want to save for later often forces me to use the market a little more to get the salvage to craft what I want to keep.

What it comes down to for me is that I don't think recipe storage would change hoarding behavior at all, unless for some reason the devs took leave of their senses and let us store more recipes in a single storage item than we can enhancements. I think it would be far more likely that we'd get something with a 30-50 recipe capacity, though.

Same here. Tried it on a villain and bouncing around Grandville didn't hurt, nor did entering a mission with sound-intensive enemies (Arachnos). Seems like the issue is resolved for me as well, though there were only 4 villains total on, and my problems tended to compound the more characters were around me. Still, I give this patch a preliminary thumbs-up, and look forward to it going live.

Thanks, Television!

Mine got better when I turned off all in-game sounds and music. As in, no LCTM messages at all and no disconnections since I did that. Footstomp is no longer quite as much fun without the satisfying "THUMP!" but the game is playable again.

So part of the problem is I17, wireless, and sound, at least for some of us. Given that they changed how some sounds were classified (e.g., mission complete fanfare) and added some new sound effects with I17, there was probably something wonky in the code that interacted badly with the reclassification of sounds and/or the addition of more ambients. No way to know what did it, and I don't envy them the task of trying to figure it out.

Try turning both music and game sounds down to 0%, then exit the game and restart it. For some of us, that's resolved the repeated mapserver issues.

It's the little "scale" avatar to the left of the message, beside the Online/Offline indicator. Absolutely rep Skeet for this - the legwork is all his/hers.

I included a link to the thread in my last update to Support.

I'm an idiot.

I changed the sound settings, but didn't log out and back in after I did so.

The first time I logged in with both sound settings at 0%, I was able to play the game fine. A couple of lost packets here and there, but no LCTM, no disconnects - nothing but playable game!

I think you and I have different rigs, but if the same solution worked for both of us, maybe whatever we have in common can help Support zero in on something specific for engineering to work on?

Unfortunately, this is where my problem diverges from yours. I went in game and set all my sounds to zero (music was already there, other effects were at 10%) and the problem remained. I even turned the volume control on the main control pad down to 0%, and still got LCTM within a few seconds.

Thanks for continuing to work through this. Since my problems are exactly the same as yours (down to the lessening of lag spikes when I window out to something else), I guess I can skip the part where support wanted me to completely uninstall Avira and wait patiently for a more permanent fix.

One curiosity, though; when I was on Test a couple of days ago, and there were 5 people logged into the whole villain side of the game, I had no trouble. Was the game just not transmitting enough data, even with its priority up, to significantly interfere with everything else?

+rep for you, btw...