Nethergoat

hey that looks like fun!

=D

and welcome back!

If anyone has ever wondered what exactly the gibbering of a confused, deluded mind sounds like, this is your lucky day!

I used to be on the gimme new stuff instead of redoing the old junk side of the fence, but lately I've been running through a bunch of launch content with a critical eye, and in the interest of retaining new players it's got to go- either replace it, or re-work it.

As one of those old timers who got bored with the low level game a long time ago and started farming or PL'ing past it I'd actually forgotten how bog-awful it really is. Yes, you can largely avoid it if you know which contacts and zones to visit, but new players don't know that. They get dumped off in Atlas or Galaxy, most likely talk to their origin contact there and are thus cast down into the mire of wretchedly cookie-cutter, ridiculously travel intensive and pointlessly repetitive original content.

With the recent changes aimed at opening up all the game's content to every character regardless of level it seems like a good time for someone to make a pass over the low level launch content. Even if they don't want to trash it and start over, a team tasked with eliminating pointless travel, sprucing up mission text, imposing some varity and eliminating the plethora of idiotic fedex missions would GREATLY improve the experience.

I'm not one to hold the game's age against it on the whole, but I make an exception for the launch content. It wasn't that great 5 years ago, and it's ridiculous and embarassing that it's the first game experience new players are offered in the year 2009.

I'm playing him from a standing start as an experiment.
I retired him before ED so he was almost dead broke in his mid-30's and I wanted to see how much inf he could earn by 50 without much in the way of marketeering, just selling drops and crafting the occasional big ticket recipe.

So far so good, it looks like he'll have all the inf he needs by the time he gets to 50.

Anniversaries must have been in the air- my play time was also gimped by a landmark wedding anniversary.

I have one 'pure' farmer (my fire/rad) who grinds greens and blues to a fine paste on a map spawned for 8, but for the most part I agree that challenge makes the endeavor more fulfilling. I've been using the new settings to adjust the challenge level more to my liking- it affords much finer control for a wider range of characters than the old system.

I run my ar/dev at +0/x3. Enough enemies to make me think a bit and make him break a sweat, but not super tough individually (which is aggravating when the bulk of your damage is smashing/lethal).
It's let me make playing him feel suitably heroic (it is a rare spawn where he isn't flirting with defeat) without crossing over into slow-paced tedium.

The utility for farming got most of the pre-release press, but its actually been a bigger help for my non-farmers. Go figure!

Of course its a ploy to increase interest.
There's no other reason to say something like that.

And there's no point in pondering its "reality" since Positron is the only one in a position to know what he expected to announce and whether or not it really is different than what they told him he could say.

THIS THREAD IS A HEAD'S UP.
Who cares that the devs didn't hand-deliver the news to you on rose-scented lavender paper?
The forums and the main site are both hosted by NC and are both publicly available to paying customers.

Whining about getting information from one game resource instead of the other one is ridiculous.

Naw, he called you a liar because you told a lie.

Nobody needs to farm to get purples. That's simply not true.
When you publicly proclaim something that isn't true, it's called 'lying'.

Farming is just one of the efficient ways to make the boatloads of inf purples demand.

I've financed purples by farming, I've financed purples with pure marketeering (which is by far the most 'casual friendly' method, requiring at most a few minutes a day), and I've financed them by "playing the game" exactly as defined by legions of have-not crybabies; running contact missions & story arcs.

Do you even have a level 50 character? You don't seem to understand how fast they can pile up inf doing nothing but playing "normally". In the I16 world this is greatly magnified by the new mission settings. Pretty much any level 50 is overpowered compared to the majority of the situations they faced running regular content pre-I16. Now you can tweak things to give yourself a challenge, which also generates better and more rewards, which has the potential to greatly increase their already impressive earning power.


Which gives me an idea- it might be time to resurrect Cat's level 50 earning power thread for a new generation. I'm guessing the new settings will supercharge the earning power of efficient soloists and give most everyone else a pretty big bump.

Same here.

because mollifying the gaming press with 'scoops' generates goodwill and inspires more (and friendlier) coverage.

Then I'll do it for you-

OMG HEATs suck!

=P


'suck' in this context meaning I find them tedious to play and painfully inferior to VEATs using the Fun/Not Fun Meter.

I love this idea so much I want to marry it without a pre-nup.

And people like me, actually.
I only marketeer on a few characters, but that doesn't stop the rest from making bank doing nothing but running missions and selling drops.

And it doesn't take much effort above that baseline to rack up tremendous amounts of inf.
Even players who dislike marketeering for whatever reason need only memorize a generic IO recipe or two to join in the extremely profitable fleecing of the sheeple.

teaming already has all the enticing and desirable rewards it needs to be the dominant play style in the game.

none currently, but my ar/dev is saving up for when he hits 50.

none right now.
I'm not really into min/maxing performance, I just like making inf and spending it. Soft capping requires a type of planning I find tedious (someone else figured out the ar/dev build for me).

uh no.