Fulmens

They've already made some significant changes, because people weren't using bases as expected. They've made some changes [you only pay rent on things with a function, not on plotsize] that suggest that they're trying to ... avoid penalizing... people who primarily view bases as a way to make works of art.

In fact, if I remember they ADDED the combo unit to allow people to have functional starter (or single-person) bases.

The devs are neither angels nor demons. I would guess that they're trying to keep max-function bases as "slow-unlock content" (something to work for, like a purpled-out warshade) but I know less about their mindsets than you do.

Not that I know of. I've got a thread in the base builders forum, though.

I welcome competition!

If clarification is needed: My previous post was responding to this:

I accidentally brought a level 27 villain down to about 200K influence with orange SO's the other day. Without sugar-daddying I'm at 13 million the very next day. You too can make millions of inf while you sleep, etc.

I did hear someone complaining in a public channel about Brutes that don't take taunt. I basically responded with the Angel of Ruin story... my Elec/Inv brute got confused once just before Lightning Rod landed. Half the group lost half their HP and my instinctive response was "Do I look like I care who I kill?" Proudest Brute moment ever.

Excellent ! Now invest that 20 million and 50 merits, and roll FIVE times!

(That's two more of the Big Three than I got in my last 55 rolls. What is it they always say when you're buying stocks? "Past performance is no guarantee of future results.")

NinjaPirate: You clearly need to let your investments percolate while base editing. *nods*

If the market system was efficient, it would have been about the same price for randoms vs. custom buying.

If the market system was efficient, crafted IO's wouldn't cost ten to eighty million inf more than recipe + ingredients.

Original system, randoms did in fact get you more inf. Once the weighted rolls came into play it just got more so.

Actually, I'm worse than an ebil marketeer... I'm actively trying to destroy inf. The tragedy would be that this inf didn't take any other inf down with it. Still and all, kind of startling.

I know, I'm a little late to this, but I love the Ghoul special power... now that I figured out why it happens.

PHASE 1: "Man, they take a long time to die."
PHASE 2: "Huh, so when they're flailing around they have green waves coming off 'em."
PHASE 3: "Wait, that green wave healed his little friend."
Phase 4: "... THEY'RE STOPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIGHT TO GRAB A SNACK !?!!?"

It is not only a really excellent power from an rules-law standpoint (herd THIS, monkeyboy) but it's disgustingly wonderful from an RP standpoint.

Someone said "Good thing ghouls don't rez" and I was like "They'd never finish. 'Still hungry...' "

I've got around 50 characters. Actively playing, at the moment, about six.

I've used second builds three times- and in two cases,have never shifted back to the "original build". [Tanks, going for a solo/team build early in their career;once enough slots accumulate, the same build seems to do both well enough.] The third case is an Empath with Green Machine-style and conventional builds. Duoing with wife's empath? There goes Fitness, won't be needing THAT.

Edited to mention: Regardless of the seekrit hidden agenda of the OP, it is in fact an interesting question.

By default, I think the "Combat" log has ToHit numbers turned on. (If you see two rolls on the same attack, and one is a suspiciously neat one like 20.0%, that's the proc- chance of stun or whatever.)

When you're facedown, pondering your life choices, why not look at those numbers and see what actually happened?

Slag Golem bosses hit HARD, I'll say that. And the nature of +Def is very weird. Going from 25% to 37.5% means "Add half as much Defense and live twice as long." 37.5% to 43.75% means adding half as much as THAT and live twice as long again. Go from 45% to 90%, though, you live pretty much exactly as long. . .

Fun factoid: Global servers are down. The day after I gleemailed several hundred million to myself.

NO I'm not nervous, why would I be nervous?

I already bought Numina's Uniques for 16.5 million, Devil. The decimal point is correct, there. So yeah, there have been some price drops.

Right, so, "lower level TF" with 90% of the work of making a whole new TF. Got it.

I would expect a secret-bid auction here to give better results than "I'm thinking of a number, guess something higher" listing there. You're selling to the most extravagant bidder - I put 100 million into a level 29 generic IO for no good reason, didn't I? - and not the first one to match your guess.

Also, with the lack of history anywhere in the last 10 levels, there's a real game of chicken going on. I sold a stealth for 120 million, but I'm pretty sure I could never do that again. There's another one within ten levels of mine for sale now.

Edit: And a bunch of wimps listed low and got 30-ish million for theirs.

Everyone organizes their trays differently. For the last six years, I've had a first row with "9" for my travel power and "0" for Sprint. It is only natural to me to use 1-4 for hotkey attacks- anything that goes in the 5 or 6 slot takes effort to hit, and anything in the 7-8 slots means I have taken my hand off the WASD keys.

Random is, in fact, random. The good news is, much of what you got can SELL on the market at "their going inf rate". My first 35 didn't have any of the Big Three, but I had several sales over 50 million and at least one sale over 100 million. (The Big Three are now, I think, the Big One; I was buying Numina's unique recipes at level 50 for 15 million last weekend. LoTG is still in demand, though. )

check this thread:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=236287

Freedom.

Your first morality gives you 50 reward merits (so you can buy a merit), all after that give you the hero merit directly. I don't know exactly how side switching works- I thought you had to pay money for the first h/v merit on the new side. I'm realizing I don't know if that's true.

Well, didn't see THAT coming... wasn't paying attention and rolled eight 10-25 rare salvage.

DOOF!

... are they also outrageous prices when you're selling? Just defensive, don't mind me.