FourSpeed

lol -- the both of you worry me....

Is it something in the water??? Where in heck has all the Ebil gone???

Geez, kick a dog or somethin' won't ya?? (I can live with kicking it gently - you don't
want to be ostracized like Obama's Fly Murdering episode, but still)...



Cheers,
4

So... Did anybody actually get paid the 400M for the posted builds???

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The lost civilization is, well, lost!.

And don't forget your & you're (oddly enough, yore is left out of such confusions!)

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Good Points.

Of course, the sort of person who can't be bothered to distinguish between your, you're,
and yore, is probably the same sort that doesn't know Ur ever existed in the first place...


Regards,
4

PS> Case in point -- the lolgrammur guy...

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I admire your tenacity, The_Dude73. I'm still trying to hold the line on comma
splices. It's hard, though.

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I'd be ecstactic if posters could simply get:

they're, there, and their correct, and since we're shooting for the moon here;

to, two, and too properly used would be nice.

Crowning the fantasy would be the abolishment, and disappearance of ur
(the "pronoun", not the ancient, lost civilzation)

Yes, I know... It's good to dream...


Regards,
4

A 500M sale... Nice. That'll boost the bankroll in a hurry.... Gratz!

Well Done!

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The only way to "protect the little guy" and cheese off those mean, nasty eeebil manipulators
is to shut them down entirely and only have stores.

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...and, as KeepDistance frequently points out, that won't work either. All that does is ensure
the BM won't do business from the back of a truck, but in a chat channel instead -- minus the
fees).


Regards
4

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Does anyone else use spreadsheets to track their investments? Or the market prices?

About every few days, I log in and record the avg price for a number of lvl 50 recipies and crafted enhancements. My spreadsheet then calculates the delta minus 10% for listing, 500k for crafting and about 1M for salvage .... Viola! I know which recipies I should go for.

Anyone use something more complex?

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Something more complex?

Seriously?

My process:
1) Look at prices.
2) Shrug and say, "Eh, what the hell?"
3) ???
4) Profit.

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I'm mostly here too... The only difference is that I assign toons to specific strategies...

My primary marketeers (one Blue, one Red) "rove" like that. My secondary guys, craft
common IO's, and my "active" guys vendor recipes... The guys below that aren't worth
worrying about, and don't really market much, as I'm not gonna catch dave_p anyway...
(I'm ok with that ... honest)


Regards,
4

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This is my favorite Frankenslotting guide:

The Viva Las Vegas Intermediate Guide To IO's

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Personally, I'm kind of partial to this one, (no offense intended toward Fulmens) but yes,
Frankenslotting is a beautiful idea that I personally use on most of my characters...

Not only do you max the key attributes, and save slots, but in general, it's also MUCH cheaper.


Regards,
4

...and burned 10M in the process...

Well done. Your Karma (not the IO) is assuaged...

Although, I'm really thinking we should revoke your "Ebil" card, or assess some sort
of penalty...

All this altruism is really creeping me out!



Cheers,
4

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I'm still getting that pop-up complaint box asking to upload all content (I forget the
exact msg, but it's caused by all the external avatar links).

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You mean the "This page contains both secured and unsecured content. Do you want to
enable unsecured content?" message? I just recently started getting that message,
like within the last two weeks. And it comes and goes. Usually it will go away when I
restart my computer, or sometimes when I just reopen the browser. Hasn't happened
to me yet this week. Knock on wood.

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Yep. That's the one.

I shut my work machine off every day without effect on this message - I still get it.
It does come and go periodically, but not due to anything I can pinpoint. Lately, it's
been appearing constantly each time I open up a post.

I'm not sure if it's an IE setting, or something in our site/proxy/netsense configuration
that's causing it, but I've yet to do anything on my end that makes it go away.

As mentioned, it doesn't happen at home on FFox.


Regards,
4

I find this an intriguing post.

First, I'm not sure there is a "quintessential blaster", or at least, defining that would
be all over the map...

I've said it before, but it probably bears repeating. Successful (ie. not dead )
blasters do two things well, imho

[*] Manage aggro well - ie. they're careful what/when they annoy mobs[*] They kill what they do aggro - quickly and efficiently[/list]That is how I would define "quintessential blaster".

Now, for me personally, the AT that meets that best is an E3 Blaster.

Looking at your described playstyle, I'll cover how I think it may meet your objectives.

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I enjoy lots of (big) orange numbers.

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All well-slotted blasters do this - it's part and parcel for the entire AT

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I enjoy seeing "You have defeated X" on almost every enemy when grouping.

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One word. NUKE. That said, you need to get to L32 to get it and that seems problematic
currenly. Prior to that point, Fire/* blasters are among your best AoE choices.
E3's are multi-target AT's, but they deal with them individually more than AoE.

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I take pride in my characters being (almost) completely self-sufficient.
I never like to be the first man down every time.
I don't mind being at range or in the fray, but I like having both options available.


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I think these are areas where the E3 is pretty good... It has good damage, some strong
meelee powers, excellent holds, and when you can drain End - excellent mitigation.
Grab an Oh Sh*t power or two (etheral shift or hyper-phase temp, for instance), and
not only will you not be the first guy to go down, you won't go down at all, even when
the occasional crap does hit the fan...

I don't know if that will work for you, but I enjoy my E3 (first L50 - back in I3, and I still
play him often).

It takes a more deliberate and thoughtful playstyle to use all the tools it has well, but
if you can, and you're not antsy to level fast, you may find this AT worth the time...

In any case, GL.


Regards,
4

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There is really a huge gap between your 16 billion and those so-called whiners.

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Yes. It's called "Lack of Knowledge and Lack of Effort".

Easily curable, but all too frequently left to fester in favor of endless whining...

@OP - Funny post dave. Thanks for the chuckle (and I still love that pic)


Regards,
4

Call me skeptical about the "fixed" part

I'm still getting that pop-up complaint box asking to upload all content (I forget the
exact msg, but it's caused by all the external avatar links).

That just seems to happen here (at work - shhhh), so I'm not sure if there's something
I can do to fix that (it doesn't occur at home on FF)...

Also, and this has been true for several weeks now, part of the boards *are* broken.

If you look at the top of this posting page (before getting to the very top titles) there
are two live links... the leftmost one goes back to the main index, and the rightmost
one goes back to the topics in this section (Player Questions).

If you look at the AT sections (ie. Blaster), those links are broken inside a thread
(the left one is gone entirely, and the right one isn't clickable)

Hardly earth shattering, but I personally find that a navigational nuisance as I use them
all the time (in the sections where they work right).


Regards,
4

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Why is everything soooo expensive, i mean the items aren't but a simple small
room is like 60000+ infamy. How do you get all the infamy? Do you get like infamy
bonus' for every person in your SG? Help me please.

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Operating under the assumption this isn't a troll post I'll list some ideas: <ul type="square">[*] One correction - base item prices are in prestige, not influence/infamy[*] We (the players) don't know how the devs decided on these prices[*] Bases are intended for groups of people, presumably in cooperation - ie. sharing costs[*] Along that line, each toon (of the first 15) added to the SG gives 20K prestige[*] Playing normal content in SG mode builds up prestige relatively quickly[*] You can also exchange influence for prestige at an exchange rate of 500:1[*] Most prestige costs are liquid - ie. you pay 100K for a room... if you later delete
that room, you get that 100K back... An exception is for crafted items (teleporters,
for instance)[*] Many of the prices were recently reduced, so they're actually better than they used to be.[/list]While there is a lot to their implementation that is arguably questionable, the simple
fact is - that's what the prices are, and you'd have to ask the Devs why, and whether
they'll be changing in the future...

In the meantime, GL and welcome...


Regards,
4

-QR-

I've always been in the PB camp.

While I think the purply WS looks slightly better, visually,
the PB playstyle has always appealed to me more, and
I find it much more fun to play, overall.


Cheers,
4

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This is actually pretty good. All I would need to do to start this would be start
a thread in the Base Builder's Forum.

Yeah, that'll work.

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Can I sell tickets to this event?

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Are you talking about Old Defiance here?

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Very probably - the concept where dropping health increases damage output is what I was
referring to... I think it taught a lot of blasters a very unwise approach to tactics and
aggro management, and I think it lead to a lot of (foolish/needless) faceplanting for
quite some time.

During that time, I totally detuned the word "defiance" from my consciousness.

Blastering was (and is still) about:
* Be careful what/how you aggro things
* Kill whatever you do aggro quickly and efficiently

Failure in either of those points is a (well deserved tbh) hospital trip.

If Defiance 2.0 has gotten rid of the initial idiotic approach for something useful, then
that's all to the good, but it still doesn't change the two fundamental rules listed above.

Sorry for any confusion caused to due poor clarity of communication on my part.


Regards,
4


PS> It still comes down to "Blasters aren't broken" (imho)

PPS> I don't get hit with Mezzes much... First, because I have an E3 Blaster with 3 holds,
so those guys get locked down quickly, and 2nd, because I play solo, so I don't often
get into fights I didn't start myself - which means I kill the dangerous targets first...

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Better yet, establish a fee system whereby you convert influence to prestige
in exchange for a fee paid by a supergroup's members. Now you are not only removing
influence from circulation and providing a public service, but beginning to take a slice
of other people's bankrolls as well.

Essentially you'd be converting inf to prestige at a better rate than City Hall. I'm willing
to bet you could do a ridiculous amount of business this way, actually.

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This is the first idea I've seen that provides leverage. Well done! I'm impressed!

Charging a group 250 per prestige and paying 250 yourself gives you 2.0 leverage in destroyed inf.

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Except that you can't trade prestige - afaik...

Now, if you don't mind the tedium of being invited to an SG - accepting their influence
in trade, converting for them at say 300:1 (while it costs you 500:1), and then getting
kicked from SG you may have something... assuming prestige doesn't get lost post kick.

Seems like a LOT of effort for a (relative) drop in the bucket - given that a couple hundred
billion inf (conservativley) enters the game monthly...


Regards,
4

I agree with Postulate 1, but I'm not sure Postulate 2 logically follows from that, and
I'm pretty sure I don't agree with it (or at least, I've never heard any compelling
reasons to agree with it).

That said, it's your project.

I can't think of any reasonable way to get rid of other people's influence (ie. your leverage
factor of 1), but the quickest thing I can think of that removes inf from the game, while
still being (marginally) useful, would be converting it to prestige.

That's a 1-way transfer at a 500:1 rate, but you still end up with a commodity that
can be personally useful - build yourself a seriously kick-a$$ base....


Cheers,
4

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My personal observation after 3+ years and playing every AT with a very wide
array of powersets is that blasters are the ONLY AT that can struggle at what they are
designed to do without outside help

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Since we're discussing anecdotal perception, your feeling on it is valid. Just as my
feeling that the bolded part is mistaken is equally valid, according to my experience.


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I ask again- is it my imagination that blasters faceplant more than any other AT?

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My answer to this is that *bad* blasters faceplant more.... I'm also one of those
silly guys that said "Defiance is dumb" from the very minute that they raised the idea.

I'd add that blasters who frequently get to the point where defiance even applies....

are playing the AT poorly (imho)...

Further, I'd also wager that they are, unsurprisingly, most often the ones who end up
padding the faceplant statistics...

To each, their own playstyle, but I'll state my own opinion that the AT isn't broken, and
most accomplished blasters that I know don't share the same perception as you.


Regards,
4


PS> Not that it matters, but I've been here since beta... and that toon (and my first
L50) was an Elec/Elec blaster...

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And if you're new to the market, and you're trying to move your life savings...
bad time to have an obvious-after-the-fact learning experience.

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Which, of course, brings us full circle to the "Protected Purchase Method" at the bottom
of the page Zombie linked to way up top.

Do it right, and it's perfectly safe.

In fact, I'm tempted to put out a challenge to prove it along the lines of specifying
a day, a time window, and a type of trinket I'll use to make a modest transfer and
the challenge would be for someone to intercept it.

My feeling is they cannot... but only with that specific approach do I consider it safe.


Regards,
4

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From years of first-hand observation I've noticed that directing a barbed post at a fellow
forumite who prefers to handle their own business, Evil Ryu for example, will garner no rebuke.

Direct a much milder post at a thin-skinned type who's preferred method of discourse is
tattling to Daddy and *poof*, things tend to vanish.

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Sadly, this echoes my experience as well...

Accurate depiction doesn't count, but if it makes baby cry, the feces contact the rotary oscillator...


4

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The latter. Someone named Gnomercy had a post once explaining how he made
something like 450 million just looking for histories like "100/100/45,000,300/100/100"
and buying those TO's and posting them for 1 inf.


It was a jerk move, but well within his rights. If you buy something on the market you
do not get to control who sells it to you.

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It is exactly that issue that the "Protected Method" solves, when done properly.

As for your prior point about simply making the inf, you can, and I can, and most market
folks can, but a lot of people can't, or won't (a mindset our guides try to change), and
even for those who can, it still takes time.

A quick little cash transfer is often quicker and easier and/or provides the initial startup
funds to get the self sufficiency ball rolling from there.


Regards,
4

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You can do it using the market, as mentioned. There are a number of ways to screw it up, though.

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That said, OP, if you use the "Protected Method" properly (at the bottom of Zombie's
linked page), it works quite reliably, and safely (imho). I've done it several times.

The drawback is making sure you do it properly, and, of course, the 10% market fee.


Regards,
4