Fulmens

Blueruckus said, while trying to defend an AOE KB power:

See, I got
this


which seems less useful.

Devil: Glad to have you doing stuff like this!

People are trying to solve at least two distinct problems with this, it is true.
Problem 1: Inflation
Problem 2: Undersupply of My Favorite Recipe

Any others that are getting rolled in here?

Minotaur said:

While I was thinking about the potential effect of a "lunch hour seeding" (every PVP IO at level 50 and every purple, one of each- something a Dev could do on their lunch hour, and we'd never know it) I realized a potential downside to this.

If you make a dev tool that allows you to add recipes to the game on the live servers, there is the possibility that the keenest of your 100,000 players would be able to find a way to use it as well. (they managed to turn one recipe into ten crafted at one point, early on...)

I suppose in the same way that the devs can log into the live game with a character with every power, they can log in with a character holding lots of recipes, but still... it's a potential danger.

I don't even know how many months I spent leaving bids up for stacks of generic 30 and 35 recipes. I was making like 100K per stack, selling those to vendors!

It's not for me, because without both Aim and Build Up I just don't feel like I do that much more damage than a Scrapper. And Scrappers are six times as hard to kill.

I ran a /Dev up to 29 or 30 once- enough to get the trip mines slotted- and I hated it because it was slow and annoying. Weirdly, I ran a Dark/Traps corr -as slow if not slower- up to 50 with no problems a couple years later.

I have no philosophical problems with AR; it doesn't seem like it's for me, but I respect it. /Dev is my last choice of secondary any time ever. Second last is /fire, but there's a huge gap between the two.

ALL Blaster secondaries [well, except Mental] are weak, put together out of leftover powers with unclear goals, but most of them do one or two things really well. What /Dev does well is not something I want to do, apparently. "Enough damage to kill them" is two stacked trip mines and I could drop two whole spawns in the time it takes to stack two trip mines.

What makes you think your build skills are so much better than mine?

By the way, Nethergoat: I think that lowering the inf available to level 50's is ALSO a good idea. We can have cake and pie both.

I dunno, the first day of the market I knew someone who was buying level 50 generic IO recipes on the market for, like, 1000 inf as fast as she could put the bids down and run to the vendor and back.

That was pretty utopian for her. I had the insane popcorn-eating issue where I was buying common salvage for 10 inf each and selling it for 250 inf and I _could not stop_ . It was free money, lying there! Even though I worked out the math [while running back and forth and back and forth] and the money was really really low... I had a Depression Era grandparent yelling in the back of my brain. You take the free money.

traditional warnings apply:

100 gets you 85
You could get a better rate from someone else
You could mail it to yourself in like a month

But I sent you a tell anyway from @Boltcutter.

Crud. Lost a huge post by hitting backspace in the non-text field.

Anyway, I have to disagree that market seeding would accomplish nothing. A billion of market seeded items would produce the same effect as ten billion in normal transactions. Farmers increase their personal wealth by WAY more than they actually increase the wealth supply in the game as a whole- by selling purples and rare recipes and whatnot, they are removing money from the game, and that's something like 2/3 of their revenue stream [based on TopDoc's numbers. Other farmers may be less efficient.] So they're not actually producing as much inflation in the money supply as you'd think.

And the "magically generated items" would take out a disproportionate amount of wealth. Spending a billion on MGI's is the equivalent, for money disposal, of spending ten billion on regular items.

Now 20% may actually be too much stuff to add to the market- my vague guesswork indicates that it'll take out about half the inflation, but I don't have any trust in that number. It could produce deflation. It could produce price crashes and take out much less inf than we thought. It could produce all sorts of unexpected consequences.

But I guarantee you it will pull inf out of the game, fast and hard.

Sonic's always struck me as a really good "+1" . It won't make a team on its own, but it will make just about any team clearly and visibly better, and it will do so with minimal fuss. It's very undramatic, but an extra doubling of survivability no matter what, and instant-on -Res in the hula hoops, make for a really good 6th or 7th person for any team.

(compare, on the flip side, that second Kin or Force Fielder.)

I've received much generous help from others- Werner, for instance, gave me two builds to demonstrate the difference between a really top-end build and a cheap build.

I tend to personally be the guy who, when you ask what time it is, tells you how to build a watch. So I'm more likely to ask a bunch of questions and then try to custom-create something around what YOU want.

Which is to say if someone came up to me and said "What's the build for Fulminator?" I'd tell them. But they'd probably get better results building their own thing. (Especially since Fulminator is a fire/elec blaster, and that's all play and no build.)

I know a bunch of people who could translate but I don't think any of them play this game.

Back in 2005 I had a good friend targeting through my Scrapper for a level and a half. On an Energy Blaster. When I finally figured out what was going on... I don't remember what I said, but I hope it was relatively diplomatic.

As Soulwind has said, a good tank tends to hit eight guys one time each. If you're targeting through, you might tap each one of them JUST after he does and maybe bust off some aggro, maybe not. You're unlikely to get any of them to zero HP, which is YOUR goal but not HIS.

Worse than that, Quasadu. It was 9999 . It was easier to buy level 50 SO's, give them to someone, have the person sell them back and accept the 40% transaction fee.

Minotaur: