EvilGeko

More evidence of the need for basic economics literacy to be required in high school curricula.

I had forgot you could trade from Blue Champion to Red Freedom that way. Lot of good mechanics changes lately. EG needs to unlearn what he has learned.

How do your hero characters know where the goods they buy at Wentworth's come from? As War Witch said, the paperwork is immaculate. You're using out of character knowledge for the benefit of your characters' souls. That's a mega-RP no no.

On that topic:

Do your hero characters only buy fair trade coffee?

Do your hero characters shop at Wal-Mart?

Do your hero characters buy foreign oil that supports terrorism?

Moar!!

I would be so pissed if they did this.

Ditto. Despite what the RP weirdos think, this will actually enhance the freedom to RP.

I have a few characters that I fully intended to switch to hero for no other reason than the markets. Now they can stay villains (or go Rogue) because I will have access to markets and can twink between the sides.

Based on the FAQ, yes. While they'll still be called different things when you're in Paragon, RI, it's all just INF.

There's also this thing called "information" in the FAQ.

EDIT: Beat by Arcanaville! (and not in the naughty way that she fantasizes about! )

The fight for Moment of Glory taught me to never give up. Strangely, people told me that the world would end if MoG was buffed too....

You're wrong and like many other naysayers will be proven wrong by the merger.

Prices will hit their equilibrium, marketeers will still make money as they always have, and everyone will have better access to goods.

Some prices will go up, some down. I imagine that heroes will have somewhere to sell all those pet recipes now, villains all that salvage that goes to waste. This will make lowbie characters on both sides money. Those that bother to post their stuff will do well. All will be right.

The fools who claimed that loot would ruin the game were wrong;

The idiots who claimed that side-switching would ruin the game were wrong;

The madmen who claimed flashbacks would ruin the game were wrong.

I've was for all these changes. Loot and Flashbacks have become beloved features and I'm sure that side-switching will as well. Strangely, I expect this market merger to simply fade into the consciousness of the game. Folks will come to believe that this is how the game always should have been. All will be right.

Wasn't that the point?

Not that any of your ideas are poor, but what's the justification for the change?

No, that's called a living breathing City that looks more like the real world. The only problem I have with in-game advertising is that there was only like one billboard.

So long as it didn't cause a performance hit, it would be cool if clicking on real life advertising billboards opened your browser and took you to that products website.

I take Swift on every single character I have, even ones that don't take Stamina. What's fun to you isn't necessarily fun to everyone else. I love passive powers. Substance over flash any day of the week IMO.

Immediately prior to the buff, the power was detrimental to use in nearly every situation.

I don't think "Instance" is the correct word. I think the OP is asking for a contested area, not something that would exist for only one team.