Nethergoat

So terrible, it really is high time someone made a thread about this awful plague on the forums!

Obsidius, ur my heeer0!

the thin pretense that inf is anything but cold hard cash tore wide open with the introduction of the market in I9.

That they keep insisting on it to this day is either hilarious or pathetic, depending on my mood.

However you 'usually' play the game, do something else for a while.

Mess around with the market, run some TFs, team if you usually solo, solo if you usually team, try a new AT you haven't played before, try playing a familiar AT in a new way (take the 'bad' powers, roll up a melee-centric blaster, build a tank for damage dealing, build a scrapper for survivability, etc etc).

The game provides a pretty robust range of options, one that a lot of players mostly ignore so they can do their 'regular' thing.

Do stuff you don't usually do and you're bound to fined some new stuff you enjoy.

Well, I'm giving your rep to help balance out the dummies.

Don't take -rep personally, especially the stupid stuff (I got -rep for "double posting" the other day). As the old tune advises, Acc-centuate the positive...

well, 'dead broke' as in Ted Turner Broke.

You can still afford more or less anything you want, but you're locked out of truly ostentatious displays of wealth like upgrading your personal jet every 6 months, stuff like that.

I see the discrepancy now.
These days I consider anyone with less than 100 million or so to be 'dead broke'. In my stable, only new-ish alts I don't play very much fall into this category.


If 20 million was all I could muster on a per-character basis, I'd probably worry about consolidating my bankroll too.

Why, don't you have any friends who can help you move inf around if you want too?

And I don't see the utility of concentrating your inf on one character unless you're into bigtime marketeering.
What's the attraction?


Why?

Why?
Let the inf fall where it may and people can buy their own stuff.
Or a richer character can buy it for them and stick it in base storage.
It seems to me you're needlessly complicating the whole process.

Devoting several ROOMS of a base to storing junk that can nearly always be bought for a few thousand inf?
What an INCREDIBLE waste of resources.

Again, what an INCREDIBLE waste of resources.

You know a better, simpler, more efficient, easier and more value-stable way to do all this?

1: Sell everything that drops for a big pile of inf.
2: Use that big pile of inf to buy what you want when you want it.

It works great.

If it isn't super convenient, very few people will bother making the trip more than once. It's not like inf is hard to make on either side these days.
And I don't expect them to make it super convenient. I doubt it will be especially difficult, but I do expect it to require a fair investment of play time.

Redside has been "dying" since moments after it was released.
In spite of that, they keep making content for it and people keep playing and enjoying life in the Rogue Isles.

A lot of people will take heroes across the border just because it's something new to do. It's content, and players will always check out content.

Whatever swapping goes on is pretty much guaranteed to even out in the long run. People who like playing villains will mostly keep playing villains, people who like playing heroes will mostly keep playing heroes.

Well, there's a glut of certain stuff right now because everyone is out basically street-sweeping zones for the Halloween event. I say sit on it for a least a little while longer and see what happens.

But in the general course of events, I don't bother listing stuff that won't make me a substantial profit and I have no problem deleting or vendoring junk that doesn't look like it will turn over fast.

of course it is, only a metal defective would think otherwise.

but it's nice to get some "official" confirmation of the obvious, although I don't expect it to have much impact on the paranoia lobby.

Very little, or a slight positive bump.

Yes, some villains will skip town, but heroes will cross over too. And there are a LOT more heroes than villains.

I remember when giving everybody access to both factions was supposed to "kill" red side...this is the same deal.

I roll 35-39, except on my lowbie mastermind (who i really should re-name 'The PROC-Tologist'). 10-14 is the 'home run or nothing' range, and the really big inf is in the lower level -kb's and whatnot.

See, there's a reason Karl Rove Man is known far and wide as an evil genius.

Presumably those rules also apply to rep ranking comments?
So, we've already got a system whereby victims of genuinely abusive vituperation can seek redress, yes?

What's the point of moaning on about the rep system again?


Moderation around here is like feeding time at the preschool- the loudest babies get all the attention. I'm surprised you haven't figured that out yet.

Except this isn't a shared work environment where we all have to play nice so we don't get fired, it's an internet forum for a video game. And we're not co-workers, we're total strangers who happen to play the same game.

Then why are you bothering to whine about it?
Or do you want them to disable THE FORUMS, to spare the fainting couch crew potential exposure to uncivil discourse?

I made rude and inflammatory comments to his face in that thread.
Are those somehow better because they were made in public, where everyone else could see them, instead of in a dark corner of the forum where only MageX can see them?

Uh, no.
If it were a tool I could do something useful with it, like open a bottle.

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Either that, or you simply do not enjoy aesthetics at all as a contributing factor to your entertainment.

I appreciate them until the point where they become wallpaper, which is, in my experience, after a couple of hours of play.

Remember the first time you wandered into Oranbega? How freaking cool it was after hour upon hour spent running missions in offices, warehouses & generic caves?

How long did it take for "hey cool!" to turn into "OMG not this nightmare again!"

Graphics are like that. They give an initial hit of enjoyment, but if what you're doing isn't entertaining they can't make entertaining.

And, for probably the 5th time, I understand the market forces that make giving GR a graphic makeover a smart marketing decision. What I'm saying is that I personally would rather they expend those resources on actual gameplay, instead of a pretty candy coating.

It would affect my gameplay not one tiny iota if my characters woke up one day with five fully articulated fingers and an expressive, mobile face.


Maybe if they were releasing CoH in 2009 it would be a valid thing to whine about, but the game came out in 2004.

It looks great for an old gal.

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and I would love to +rep whoever added the hilarious Preemptive Whining tag, if I only knew who it was!

In the words of the Talking Heads, STOP MAKING SENSE!

=P

Reminds me of my thread (long since devoured by the forum monster) where I ran a new villain up to level 10 and compared the value of their drops on the BM and what it would have been if he'd sold on Wents.

As I recall it was something like 3-1 in favor of Wents, junk worth less than 100k on the BM that would have gone for 300k+ at Wents.

Ditto.

It would be hard to be any more abrasive than I am, and yet I get enough +rep to drown the -rep.

I think it's because I'm only mean to layabouts & jabbernows who deserve abuse but kind and helpful to everyone else.

=D