Eva Destruction

I'd throw a few Dark Miasmas (mas rez) and Rads (with Fallout) in with the Blasters.

And by doing so you essentially acknowledge that the majority of them will be crap. No matter what tools are provided, the majority of everything is crap.

Malaise Lunatic farms: Standard critters. Meow farms: Standard critters. Bubble farms: Standard critters. The Mastermind thing: Standard critters.

Also, as Fredrik said, people using customs to farm generally only need one or two.

No, you do not. You choose to.

And yet there are a lot of people out there with access to a gun who have managed to not shoot themselves in the head yet.

And as for blaming me, well there are those people who blame Oreo cookies for making their kids fat. They're not right either.

If you don't want, don't use. This dead horse of yours is starting to stink up the joint.

That mission is pure distilled Scrapperlock in a bottle.

I'm sorry, I didn't notice you leaving, hard to see through the red haze and the pile of body parts.

I would be leery of doing what you did. It's a single critter in a single mission so that's probably why you got away with it, but I would suggest erring on the side of caution.

It isn't necessary to use the names either; if you create an angst-ridden vampire with a sparkle aura and nothing to angst about, everyone will know what you're mocking.

Well I'm sure you're all enjoying your awesome Doms for a fraction of what some of us spent.

Now how does any of that help the guy looking for a level 35 Stealth IO again?

The next day. Seriously. I put arcs up for people to play, not to wait for some GM to maybe come along at some point who may or may not know what they're doing to approve them. Same goes for other people's arcs; if you put it up, and I want to play it, I want to play it today, not when some GM gets around to unlocking it.

The rating system already leaves authors too vulnerable to the actions of a single jerk. Let's not make them more so.

Your claims of putting together a high-performance build for under 250 million in 3 days become far less impressive and far more irrelevant to the debate at hand when you start tossing around qualifiers like "Mind Dom" (which can use several low-demand sets with good bonuses) and "except for <expensive item X>, which doesn't count."

You can't purchase Gladiator's Armor uniques through merits, but there are ways to get them without using the market. Therefore, if I use those means, they shouldn't factor into the cost of my build, should they, just like you're not factoring in the cost of the expensive IOs you used.

If by "easily" you mean "if you have a few hundred saved up," then yeah, sure you can.

By that same logic I can softcap you for under <x amount>. I don't count the Gladiator's Armor unique because it's not a set, the build only relies on one and you can easily get one through PvP.

My TP room is right next to the entrance and yet people still always go the wrong way and complain they can't find it.

What we really need is the ability to make signs for our base. Or have useful items marked on the minimap.

Don't forget it would require the devs to stop hating villains.

Forcing rolls is bad, especially for those people who are insane enough to lock a character at a specific level for rolls.

It might actually be detrimental to supply, as it will cause an oversupply at low levels where few people buy recipes while not allowing those who roll at levels of reasonable demand and low supply (30-40, for example) to save up.

And in the last year we have had:

A massive amount of AE farming, resulting in a reduction of merit farming and an increased amount of inf.

A massive increase to the earning power of 50s, resulting in inflation. Merits alone don't account for the rise in prices, especially on items that can't be bought with merits.

It's that people who aren't familiar with the market or recipe pools aren't aware of what stuff sells for, what their chance of getting a worthwhile recipe with a random roll is, or that random roll is random. They roll, get a Trap of the Hunter, deem merits worthless, and start saving up to buy their LotG directly.

The ability to fade out like ghosts do would be nice too.

This is where people go when they're looking for help with the mechanics of arc creation.

"Stories and Lore" is where people go for advice on the story aspect of an arc, ask for arc recommendations, and it's where people advertise their arcs; threads advertising arcs or asking for a specific type of arc are usually there.

The blueside trial contains an unavoidable time sink. No matter how good you are you can't speed up the trial. The redside trial's completion time depends entirely on how good and how fast your team is.

As far as I'm concerned, handing out what essentially amount to free merits for running laps around the core is poor design. Not to mention that the blueside trial is horrendously boring because of the unavoidable time sink. Add a "next wave" trigger and the completion times, and thus the merit reward, will be more on par with the villain-side trial.