Megajoule
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Quote:Pretty much, yeah. Kind of like my science character doesn't go down to Orion Labs every five levels and let them strap her to a table in front of a particle accelerator, and my tech character doesn't have ten (pairs of) cybereyes and at least that many artificial hearts, and I don't rail at the futility of arresting [Archvillain] when he's back in his lair 20 minutes later for someone else to defeat, and my lowbies pretend to be surprised by the various Shocking Revelations in six-year-old content.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
By the way, for those of you who RP, do you actually have to make a merged market "canon"? Like just because the game makes items available to both sides via the markets, you don't have to think of that as being an in-game thing - I assume most RPers don't try and work the floating damage and healing numbers or the player names above every avatar head into their "in-character" stuff, as they're just visible game mechanics to help make gameplay easier, so I don't see why it wouldn't be easy to look at the combined markets in the same way - an "out-of-character" game mechanic to make the game work better.
If you try to take this game completely literally, it will drive you insane. Some things are just better ignored (like the absurd setup they gave us for the Mission Architect feature). -
Quote:Does this mean you'll also be boycotting Architect Entertainment, a joint venture (no pun intended) of EvilCo™ and Lord Recluse's pet mad scientist? In fact, why haven't you done so from the beginning?Originally Posted by Venture
As I said, I don't see any way such activity could possibly stay hidden. The devs can fiat that it is, but just because the guy behind the screen says something does not mean the players have to swallow it whole. Tabletop players may be limited to refusing to participate in such circumstances; this being an MMO I have some flexibility. Wentworth's obvious corruption may be something too big for my hero characters to do anything about but they do not have to partake of it. If I'm the only one to act thus, so it goes. The majority can never replace the man.
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Quote:You're right, of course. It just gets a little irritating and/or silly looking at all those empty zeroes - insignificant digits. Prices almost too wide to fit in the window. This must be what it's like to live in a country with hyperinflation, where you need bills with denominations in the thousands to buy a loaf of bread.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
I'd like to remind you of the existence of 50 inf inspirations, and of level 1 enemies that drop significantly less than 100 inf per defeat.
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Personally, I'd kind of like to see 2 or 3 digits chopped off/rounded up. Prices, drops, bank balances, everything, across the board. Don't change or try to "fix" anything else yet; just make the numbers a little more sane so we aren't throwing around millions and billions.
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"Unfair", no. Indicative of unchecked, out-of-control inflation and manipulation, yes. (IMO, of course.)
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There are so many things in this game (yes, GAME) that make no sense; details of the market(s) and their supply mechanisms is somewhere down in the 100s. If it was my job to make it all make sense and I was given a completely free (iron-fisted) hand to do so, I might be able to accomplish the task; more likely, it would drive me to drink and/or straitjacket. But it's not my job, and I'm not being paid to resolve the many inconsistencies, contradictions and absurdities in CoX's background, and so my usual response is just to grumble about it for a while and then throw up my hands and get on with playing.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to figure out how to squeeze three more cybernetic hearts into my chest cavity. -
I honestly don't get all the RP-blaming. I'm an RPer, and I think a market merge is a good thing that's long overdue. I can think of a half-dozen RP justifications or excuses for a combined market, should I choose to acknowledge it in-character at all. The only thing keeping them separate was game design, which has apparently been rethought.
Don't blame players; blame the designers at Cryptic and/or Paragon who made and upheld the decision, and have finally reversed it. -
What you said, Rem.
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Barq's, my favorite kind. Have one empty can of it next to me on my desk right now. I also like A&W and other sweeter varieties, but they have to be properly chilled, not warm.
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Sometimes people don't question How Things Are until they first see something that hints that maybe they don't have to be.
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Quote:Yes.Originally Posted by UberGuy
You're joking, yes?
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Quote:Same here.Originally Posted by Ironblade
I'm patient. The free month of game time was more important to me than getting to use the sets early. And that was my choice.
And for that matter, I'm probably going to pre-order through the regular NCsoft site rather than take this promotion. I'm an established player, I have no real use for these weird mutant (not Origin) enhancements, and I'd rather my money go straight to the studio and publisher than have some of it siphoned off by middlemen/marketing partners. -
Quote:Sure there is, it's called Stamina.Originally Posted by UberGuy
There's no such thing as a global end reduction set bonus.
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The flipside, though, is that standard mobs are often underpowered, while AE enemies can (and in many cases, are required to) have access to the full range of powers that players get - some of which, like Build Up, can be devastating. This is especially true when three minions and two lieutenants all fire it off at once; you'll be face down on the carpet by the time the alpha strike finishes animating. Very very few stock mobs can do that.
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Considering their focus is all on GR right now?
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Does that include "fixes" that are acknowledged as inadequate, temporary stopgaps that affect everyone, including many authors who used allies and captives to create non-exploiting missions with objectives beyond a simple "kill all"?
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About time "hero support" got the attention it deserves.
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I think Aeon said they were working on a real fix as part of Going Rogue.
Which comes out two months from now.
"Well, I guess I'll just hold my breath." -
It's comics.
That's how it works in comics.
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Welcome back!
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I can tell a story in one mission. That others choose not to is a separate issue.
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Congratulations on your renewed progress.
A reminder, since it's been a while: when you get to 25-30, you might check out "Glory Days." -
If you want to indulge in nostalgia and reflect on how much the game has changed, I suggest that you go read Paragon Wiki's entries on each past issue.
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What I meant to say is that it's good that the market is optional, or players who don't have hundreds of millions of inf to throw around would be completely screwed. It has become its own game, feeding back on itself, with increasingly little connection to what spawned it.
I think I shall stop trying to engage it, and you, and go back to playing the parts of the game that I can. -
Quote:Perhaps that is due to the Devs' continued insistence that it is entirely optional. Which is of some comfort to those players who are barely able to afford a set of (say) Positron's Blast, let alone any purples.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
The belief that the market is some sort of alien parasite attached remora-like to the jugular of the "real game" is as ridiculous as it is persistent.