Eva Destruction

Well, yeah, that's what it's for. That's 57,000 arcs in progress though...

I was there when you did the experiment. That's the only reason I bothered listing a bid at all, and it's probably how I got it. I cut in line. That still doesn't mean that I somehow managed to cut in line in front of 300 or so other people.

Well, yeah, if it's not a necessary part of your game enjoyment then of course it's put in just to shut people up, isn't it?

Or, you know, if something isn't game-breaking and it makes a lot of people enjoy the game more, then maybe, just maybe, the designers of a fun-time pretendy game should consider putting it in.

Not all prices are increasing at an insane rate. Which means that the stuff you sell isn't necessarily increasing in price along with the stuff you want to buy.

The most expensive stuff does not drop nearly often enough to keep up with the amount of inf being generated. Not all people generate inf by doing activities that generate this stuff; AE farming generates no purples and probably next to no pool Cs, regular farming very rarely generates pool Cs, high-level activity generates fewer mid-level recipes*, people who save up merits to buy recipes outright don't generate pool Cs for the market.

*I would actually be very curious to see how many people roll merits in the 45-50 range, thinking that will give them the "best" recipes.

Really? Cause I've noticed that purples have gone down in price since the large-scale AE farming was squashed and regular mission farming was made easier.

Things go up in price, things go down in price. If you pay attention to what a large portion of the player base is doing, you can pretty much figure out why.

Me too. Then I can ask them how they do it, buy up a bunch of a relatively cheap item, arbitrarily decide it should be worth three times as much and make a killing.

I got mine in a few weeks. I honestly don't think all those bids are for 2 billion, some may be remnants from when the IO was going for less. But your point still stands.

Fixed.

If you buy one at the crafting table and craft it it'll cost you about 900,000, iiirc. If you buy the recipe from the market and craft it, it'll be about 600,000 or so (or if you get the recipe as a drop, I'm counting the loss of inf you could have gotten if you'd vendored it.) If you have the badge and craft it, it's about 250,000. I craft commons and sell them when I'm bored. At times some of them regularly go for 1mil, even though that's 1) more expensive than making them yourself, and 2) way more than I list them for.

As someone who has spent about a month trying to buy "vendor trash" Sleep, Confuse and Fear recipes for my level 35 Dominator, I can tell you it's not an exaggeration at all.

You're one of those guys who mashes buttons and stares at flashy pretty colors, aren't you?

I'm not going to respond to every single relevant post, just some thoughts:

The CoT lore in CoV is rightly convoluted, since it all comes from the CoT or from the Mu. Neither would be particularly inclined to tell you the truth.

As for the CoT themselves, a good part of the confusion comes in when you don't differentiate between the Circle of Thorns and the Oranbegans. The guys you see walking around in robes with glowy green eyes? Circle of Thorns. Also known as meat puppets for the Oranbegans. Baron Zoria most certainly was (is?) possessed (you find his soul trapped in a crystal in the "Library of Souls" arc). The Oranbegans seek out those with the blood of Mu to possess because they're stronger in magic; presumably the higher-ranking Oranbegans get those bodies, while the redshirts have to make do with whatever they can kidnap. (I'm not sure whether the thorn-blade guys are possessed or not; the bios suggest they might not be but the glowy green eyes suggest they are.)

I'm not touching the Romulus/Requiem/I AM NICTUS thing, since time travel is only good for making messes and I don't enjoy playing Kheldians either.

The market loves the abuse. It's always ready to be abused and it doesn't discriminate; everyone can abuse the market whenever they want. It also thinks safety words are for sissies.

The market and Silver Mantis would get along really well.

It's not real. It's a video game. That's canon, deal. That means all this time your heroes have been selling weapons of mass destruction to people who have no real world experience fighting crime, but have gotten access to powers and items normally reserved for the most experienced heroes by playing video games.

/em Nelson.

The inability to set the level of random merit rolls.

Well, now that there won't be any more "merge the market" threads to entertain me, I'm going to have to find another dead horse to try to bring to life, aren't I?

So you are assuming that the government in the CoH world is both competent and well-meaning, even though there is nothing in canon that states that. And that the average hero knows everything that goes on with everybody. Gotcha.

Thank you for proving my point.

I don't make arcs for ticket gain, nor do I play arcs that are made primarily for ticket gain, so I don't have anything to recommend to you.

Nethergoat has already posted how he finds them.

Wrong, wrong and wrong. What I'm essentially saying to people who need the very basics of arc creation spelled out to them is "Learn2play."

If there is a "5th Column/Rikti/Freaks/whatever on a Steel Canyon map with a blinky to complete and "kill stuff" for contact text" option on the search filter, please, tell me where it is so I can unclick it.

Because somebody else has already written the EXACT SAME FARM. People who possess basic AE knowledge can find it, instead of being too lazy and making their own. It's like going to the video store and having to sift past dozens of copies of the same three Adam Sandler movies to find something you might actually want to see.

This just in: the literal-minded and rigid-thinking may not be as good at RP as they think they are.

Just because you can't stop someone from spraying graffiti doesn't mean you should hand out free spray paint.

You do that because you know what you are doing. You are sharing the how-to of farm arc creation with people who obviously don't know what they are doing, and are too lazy to learn, otherwise they wouldn't have to PM you. Do you honestly think someone who can't figure out the basics of AE will unpublish their crappy farm when they're done?

Yes, it is well known, and if you don't know, it's very easy to find out. That's exactly why you shouldn't publish a step-by-step guide. People who are too lazy to take five minutes to figure out how to do this themselves don't deserve to know. They're kind of like the people who come into this forum and complain that they can't purple out their Warshades.

And if you're implying that I tagged your thread as an exploit, I didn't, because technically it isn't. It's just poor form.

The way I read the announcement, the inf will remain stored on the market until you claim it. So unless I'm misunderstanding something, you won't lose any inf.

I run FA when I need to. Dark Consumption comes up often enough that I can do that. I can hit +4s reliably with it running.

Yeah, I'm still mucking around with the SL slotting. Fortunately Touch of the Nictuses are cheap, so I can swap them around until I find something I like.

Edit: Just took another look at that build...man I need to stop swapping things around, I lose track of what I'm doing. Yeah, what you said. Thanks.

If I'm fighting debuffers I keep a few purples handy, just in case. There's also the "run away screaming" tactic; beneath this tough, soft-capped exterior is the squishy heart of a Blaster. I avoid Arachnos because I'm generally sick of them, for anything else I'm usually ok. Besides, it's nice to know there's at least something my /SR does better . If I only had more slots...