Eva Destruction

It would be nice if personal spaces could be accessed from bases though. Such as through an "apartment door" base item, with various styles available, that when clicked on took a player to their personal base. It would still be a separate instance so as not to affect item limits, but from an immersion perspective you'd have your own apartment in the base.

Of course there would have to be another way to access them for people who don't have an SG, this would just be an option like the vault.

Yeah, I was in for a rather rude surprise when my trip mines, colored blue 'cause I was Archery and I had a blow with a blue laser and wanted to match, started blowing up blue. I think the secondary color you pick shows up in the explosion too.

It would be nice to be able to see these in the editor. It would also be nice to be able to see what all our toggles look like together (Dark Armor, I'm looking at you, or at least I'd like to before I use up a costume token) something I vaguely recall BaBs saying he would look into but we never heard another word about.

50s are usually richer than everybody else, and many are perfectly willing to pay a "convenience tax" to get their shiny sooner.

I also have to wonder how many people 1) consider IO sets to be something to do at 50, and not before, and 2) don't ever plan on exemping once they get to 50. For those people, recipes below max level are indeed worth less than level 50s. That too will only get worse as people become more invested in their Incarnates, since Incarnate abilities don't exemp.

Because those last four pairs are the last four pairs EVER and there will never be any more. Also, Nikes are the only shoes in existence and everyone must have them. You don't need any other kinds of shoes because Nikes are the best for everyone for every situation. All those other people can't buy a different kind of shoes, or wait for more Nikes to come in. We'll have to go barefoot forever, all because of your greed.

You can't get purples through merits. Or did you mean a-merits? Yes, everyone agrees it sucks, especially since you can spend all those a-merits you would have needed for just one purple on something else, sell it, and buy a whole set of purples with the proceeds.

But again, you have to sell. Do you not sell anything? Is that what the problem is?

Well somebody obviously bought a Steadfast for 40 mil. There is no need for somebody else to bid 60 mil just to have it faster. They're going to anyway though, so why shouldn't you take their inf? Remember, the LEAST greedy seller gets the sale.

Funny, I did. Pretty much every character I've leveled to 50 since i9 has had a good portion of their build done by the time I hit 50, and that's without inf transfers or heavy marketeering. But again, you have to sell, and you do get more drops/xp running your own missions than doorsitting for someone running on +3.

Or by IO do you mean create a multi-billion inf build with purples and PvP IOs within days of hitting 50? Yeah, the devs don't want you to do that.

Those poor poor people, forced to slot all those overpriced purples.

Base raids could be hero vs. hero or villain vs. villain though, so I don't see why that would be problematic.

I think there was a bug a long long time ago that allowed people to get into the opposite sides's base, and to add items to their storage. This allowed people to transfer items from heroes to villains. Of course the storage bug has been fixed now, and with a merged market it doesn't matter anyway, so I don't see any reason why bases shouldn't be co-op.

It wouldn't necessarily make it harder for pure villains to get on a CoP trial either. Didn't they change it so you can leave the zone on a co-op TF without being booted from the TF? So just form up teams in the RWZ or Cimerora, and use the base portal there. The CoP is perfectly justified in being co-op, what with Rularuu wanting to eat our whole dimension and all.

It also seems sometimes that all these people do is PL to 50 and then buy stuff. I'm loving the price of mid-level salvage when I'm playing a mid-level character. I love that purples are so expensive when one drops for me. When you play, you get stuff, and you can sell that stuff to impatient lazy people for a lot of inf.

If you don't play, PL to 50 then continue not to play and sit around the market whining that you can't afford to IO out your uber build in a fraction of the time it took you to PL to 50....well you'll get no sympathy from me. You found a way to speed up the process of leveling, you can find a way to speed up the process of acquiring stuff if having it NAO means that much to you.

A level 36 may be cheaper than a 35, but the 35s sell three times as often, so I'm going to bid on the 35. A level 35 proc might be cheaper than a 50, but the 50s sell 20 times as often, so people are going to bid on the 50. It's a vicious cycle that I don't foresee getting any better any time soon.

What they need to do is make the sliders affect the level of random rolls, and somehow incentivize rolling at lower levels...maybe make a lower level roll cost fewer merits/tickets than a level 50 roll. Not sure what they could do with A-merits though, maybe a % chance to get a sixth recipe that goes down the higher the level you roll at?

Cause it's fun? And if it isn't fun, why are you doing it? And if it's so not fun nobody wants to do it without an exclusive reward attached, then isn't that a sign it should be looked at?

Who said it would be equivalent and not totally random?

Black Scorpion's initial post on the subject specifically said that one per side would be chosen, and that you couldn't take advantage of this to double your shinies for the week by side-switching.

He said not all of those builds actually exist, not that none of them do. Some of them belong to min-maxers who are willing to earn the inf they need to make those builds happen. I'm sure many more belong to people who consider them a long-term project and are currently works in progress.

Back on-topic: WE know inf isn't dollars, we know higher prices affect both the buyer and the seller, but to your average player who maybe hasn't used the market in a while there is quite a bit of sticker shock. Perception does matter, in a user-driven system.

This is Venture's insidious plan for getting rid of everyone who disagrees with him. He directs them to TVTropes, hoping they will become inescapably trapped in a sea of links thus rendering him right through lack of dissenting opinions.

It's kind of like luring political dissidents to the gulag with promises of hot chocolate and cookies.

Not at all. I don't expect realism, because that would prevent me from setting people on fire and not feeling bad because they'll be ok. I expect a plot that makes sense, and is plausible within the context of the setting. "Malta wants to control the mediporter tech so they can use it to kill heroes" is plausible within the context of the setting. "Malta is hiring Sky Raiders to do their dirty work, throwing their name around, and a level 20 hero is being sent to stop them" is not, without Malta suffering some serious character derailment (which admittedly has been happening since i7) and throwing the whole idea of threat levels out the window. The mediporter part of the plot has holes big enough to drive a Kronos through, and that's also bad.

Except that people like Indigo, Crimson, and your higher-level friends won't think you're insane at all. They know Malta exists. They don't tell you because you're not powerful enough to do anything about it yet. But now that you know....and apparently you are powerful enough to do something about it....what? Are they going to do what Malta should do and send a squad of Sappers and stun-grenade spammers to your house, knowing you can't fight them off? Are they going to wreck your reputation knowing you don't have enough of one yet that your past good deeds will make any such smear campaign unlikely to work? Nope, they're going to forget all about you until you hit level 40 and Indigo pretends you've never heard of them. And why? Because a mission writer was told to write an arc for the level 20-30 range and couldn't be bothered to come up with a story that actually fit that range.

Why wouldn't they? The more participation there is in the market, the better it is for the people using it. People who like to use the market want as many other people as possible to use it too. It's in our best interest.

A lot of people on the market forum agree that inflation is out of hand. People go so far as to do Stupid Marketeer Tricks in a token attempt to purge some of the excess inf.

All the blame falls on the devs, for increasing the earning power of 50s (and it has nothing to do with whether you use the market or not, since playing the market generates no inf, just moves it around, and in fact destroys some inf through market fees.) but not giving people anything to spend their inf on.

The inflation threads usually have little to do with the "stuff costs too much" threads though.

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