Minotaur

I'd love to meet up with some of the UK players in a social environment (I play on the US servers so having CoH available is not desperately relevant). I have exams in October, so would have to think carefully about your proposed date though.

Far be it from me to correct Fulmens, but LotGs are 200 not 240 merits so 10 rolls rather than 12.

One of the most efficient items to sell (and I'm publicising this as I want to see more merit rolled and sold to bring the price down) is the 35 Kinetic combat dam/end. This only costs 125 merits, and is selling for 125M hero side, and was 150M vill side yesterday and is 180-190M today once crafted up.

[QUOTE=Madam_Enigma;3058523]Er, cryo rounds do -recharge, not chem rounds. Chem rounds do -damage.

I don't understand the problem, I've fought nosferatu repeatedly solo, usually on my forms PB who's about as ill suited to fighting him as anything (there was an arc that gave very good merit rewards for a while), and I had to fight him in nova form to do enough damage, but inspirations made it fairly easy even in a situation where I couldn't get out of melee range.

I presume the two versions of Nosferatu are not wildly different.

CoX was my first MMO, and I've always been Minotaur in game and on the forums. The toon I use as my avatar, Mr Minotaur was my first 50 in early Jan 05.

I use different board names for unrelated stuff, I'm a high level bridge player and use something completely different on boards for that (a variation on a nickname).

Frogfather, that's one of the most patronising replies I've ever seen, it is partially correct, but not entirely.

Supply and demand does work in this game, but not quite in the same way as in the real world as the in game economy has some constraints/freedoms that real economies don't have and vice versa.

As an example, while loss leaders exist, you don't get many people dumping stuff on real world markets at ridiculous prices to get badges, and there is not very often a fixed price option to sell stuff the market says should be cheaper (vendors). For something that works the other way, if my business is doing well, I can't get a bigger shop, my number of market slots is restricted in game.

Flippers make the in game economy more like the real world economy.

In the earlyish period of the market, I used to get to level 6, and place my (ridiculous lowball) bids for a load of unique IOs. By the time I hit level 32 2 or 3 weeks later and wanted to slot them, I'd bought most of them (I never paid more than 500K and rarely more than 200K for a steadfast res/def for example, a friend got all 3 of the big healing uniques for like 10M total). If you want a nice brand new car and only want to pay $100, you're likely to be SoL in real life, but before the flippers arrived, you could get that sort of bargain in game if you had a modicum of patience.

A large part of the inflation and supply shortage has come with AE. That has distorted the drops significantly, and particularly the level of the recipes/enhs that turn up. Also it has decreased the amount of rare salvage that hits the market, as if you're trying to make cash then bronze rolling is better than rare salvage. It's much worse in the days of exploits when toons are going 1-50 very rapidly and not generating much stuff, but then wanting full IO builds.

Now here's a thought for an influence sink, what if you could buy additional market slots for say 5-10M x (the number you've already purchased +1). Would this be a useful influence sink as I suspect some of the serious marketeers would pay up for some of these, and it might encourage them to list some slightly more marginal stuff. I know I'd love to have a couple of slots more on some of my toons.

Or you could just wait a month and transfer it yourself.

Fortunately I got away with mine, put up a bid for 10x what I wanted on a gaussian's rech/end in the mid 30s, left it for 3 weeks, came to day job shuffle time, and nobody had sold one in the whole period.

More vills than heroes, but some heroes too.

Join one or more other Justice global channels too and there is often stuff going on (I use Justice United).

It's just flat out buggy, has cheated me out of about 20M so far, 14 of which I've got back via petition.

If you have a stack of salvage stored in your top market slot, and try to list an expensive enhancement in your last slot, you click the large liusting fee dialog box, check it that you don't want to see it again, and try to list the enhancement. At this point, some of the time you end up with 10 common salvage listed at 25M each swallowing a huge listing fee.

Also it drives me mad that you can't permanently get rid of the "useful salvage" warnings, every time you want to store stuff in WWs.

A poor game, almost impossible to referee, no fun to watch until extra time, the right team won.

I was really disappointed with the Dutch, didn't expect them to spoil in the way they did, but it nearly worked, if Robben has gone down the second time he was through one on one, he was definitely pulled back, and the Spanish would have been down to 10, and he should have scored the first time he was through.

There seems to be more controversy about the refereeing than anything else, I felt he made one clear cut mistake, the free kick the Dutch took that took a big deflection off the wall and was given as a goal kick just before the Spanish scored. It was a horrible game to referee, I haven't seen replays from the right angles to be able to tell, but I think the ref's view of the De Jongh boot in the chest was that De Jongh had his eyes on the ball all the way and was as surprised as anybody when he connected with a player rather than the ball. There were a couple of other incidents that he viewed in a similar way.

You might well want to do both. The other thing you might consider is whether you only want your "mega toon" to work at 50, if you want to exemp, you're much better pegging another toon at a lower level and obtaining your recipes at say level 33.

The other thing you might want to consider is if you're generating stuff at level 50 and then selling it to buy lower level recipes, is that some things (Gaussian's rech/end being the one that comes to mind) just never seem to turn up at levels other than 50, so you might have to merit buy them directly.

For pure cash generation tickets is better, and if you're going to simply buy level 50 pool Cs it's probably all you need to do, but if you're slotting lower level IOs, you probably want a mix of merits and tickets.