Nethergoat

Bahaha!

Given the early returns from CO, we seem to have deported that particular problem to another franchise. =P

Never.
They 'broke' the fog in a patch one time and the zone looked as scrawny & miserable as a Persian cat after a bath.

And anyway the zone isn't popular because there's nothing to do (well, unless you're a weirdo like me and find nuking big spawns of zombies incredibly entertaining).
Add stuff to do and the visibility becomes a non issue.

There are Tsoo and CoT as well.

They could get a population bump, certainly.
But what I'd put on my wish list is an expanded variety of BP.
Throw in some more varieties of undead (ghouls, anyone?), add another rank or two of Shamen, come up with some litch-style bosses.

This I'm all for.

All of the surviving original hazard zones have become redundant in the aftermath of I16. You can re-create them at your whim by spawning a mission map for 8.

Faultline-style revamps all 'round would be a tremendous addition to the game. Failing that (considering the resources such a project would consume) at least slap a contact by the doors and assign a couple of interns to write a couple of story arcs, or at least some Hollows style repeatable missions.

exactly.
Bad taste is not a crime.

And we already have community tools to deal with the "problem".
If someone with a hot pink dispersion bubble gets kicked off a couple of teams for being an eyesore, presumably they'll take the hint and go for a more subtle hue....or start soloing a lot.

That's a good point, but it only applies to efficient characters who can deal with larger numbers in a timely manner. The devs don't seem to mind hyper-efficiency as long as access is limited and it doesn't become 'the way' to play (as noted by Cat). The # of ATs that can push the solo envelope that far may be small enough that they aren't concerned.

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And, a thought occurs to me given the way changes in one issue have been predicting changes in later issues lately- what if at some point in the future teams are given a way to increase spawn sizes beyond 8 players?
Said without giving a thought to any balance issues it might present, but as an off the cuff counterbalance to the big boost they just gave soloists it makes sense.

Uh no.
Their goal was to rejuvenate an aging franchise, which you don't accomplish by tarting it up around the edges and delivering more of the same thing you've brought in the past.
MA was a revolutionary step and an investment of time that will keep on giving going forward.

To paraphrase an overused maxim, give a player a mission and they play for a day. Let them make missions and they can play for the rest of their lives.

"Quite limited" my hairy hindquarters.
Pool powers & philosophical limitations aside, it lets you do just about whatever you want. And chances are they'll be tweaking it in the future.
It's freaking fantastic for a first swing.

One, yes we have.
Two, who cares.
As noted, when your intent is revitalizing the game you need to think bigger than "here's some content much like all the stuff that's already in the game". That isn't going to entice any new players.
And as I've noted over and over, the MA tools are for the devs as well.
I'm guessing the upgrade from spreadsheets and post-it notes to a robust, intuitive graphic interface will net us quite a lot of 'story' content going forward.

On this we agree.
The actual formula is time = reward, but it wouldn't be politic for the devs to fess up to that one.

respecs are a special case, they're one of those recipes where supply always outstripes demand EXCEPT right after a freespec.

the support and aid of your friend the Market Forum!

=)

that's kinda the crazy thing about a market, the stuff that does cool stuff everybody wants is highly sought after and thus more expensive and less available than other stuff.

99% of the stuff people complain about in here is WAI.


If you take all those merits you'll get for running all those TFs you think you need to grind to buy exactly what you want and instead roll random with them....guess what, you'll be able to afford anything you want.

Uh....so stop sniveling about being poor?

Only if you're really stupid.

Case in point, I had a bunch of purples in storage for my fire/rad because I was too lazy to respec him and didn't want to overwrite the good sets he already had slotted.

Come MA and the Purple Drought, prices went sky high.
Come the announcement for I16, I noted here (and other places) that purples were going to start falling the minute the farmers bailed on MA for their old farm maps spawned for 8. So I sold all mine for about a billion in profit, and in a few more weeks I'm going to buy them all back for a fraction of that bankroll.

And nearly everything on the market can be picked up at a substantial discount if you're patient. If you insist on valuing everything according to the BUY IT NAO price you will get fleeced. If you don't mind waiting a week or two, you can often get that uber-expensive recipe for a huge discount. The more patient you are, the less inf you have to spend.

You remind me of those clowns back in the early market days who bragged about all the rare arcane salvage they had in storage in case they needed it, because by gum they weren't going to pay any 4 million for a Prophecy!

When the ITF hit and running the wall in Cimeora became a farming hobby and rare arcane salvage went into the toilet, I laughed really hard.

Inf is the most stable thing in the market, the least prone to sudden devaluation because the devs changed this or that and the herd stampeded to some new pasture.

Good luck with that.
personally, I'd rather have crafted IO's sitting in my characters builds helping them kick butt, crafted IOs that I purchased with inf I got from selling the junk they didn't need on the market.

But maybe that's too simple for you.
In fact, I'm sure you'll be better off with your wily scheme of never selling anything good and sticking it all in base storage and thus being too poor to buy any of the stuff you want.

He got fired, so who cares what he said?

The guys running the show now have executed their program more competently, efficiently and with more foresight than that clown Emmert was ever able to

the wet paper bag you were carrying your brain around in broke, you stepped on it, and you've been getting along ever since with a few gelatinous chunks stuck in the treads of your boot.

Or do you have some other explanation for one of the most ridiculous things ever said on this forum?

Have fun on my ignore list with all the other delusional mooncalves.

I recently picked up one of my oldest characters, an AR/Dev I haven't played since ED. Yes, old timers start off poor as dirt- he was 35 or 36 and after dumping his hodge-podge of SOs and DOs in a respec he had around two million in seed money.

Now he's 43, nicely slotted (cheap, good sets or frankenslotting) with a 250 mil bankroll, the vast bulk of it from selling drops (some crafted). He did dabble in flipping uncommons during the heart of the MA-generated salvage drought, but that was just for fun, he wasn't making any real inf from it.

And I solo nearly exclusively. I haven't run a TF in years except for a couple of pre-merit Katies (never got a good roll either). The inf piles up like crazy with minimal effort, whatever your playstyle.


Of course the nice thing is that we can have a great time on any budget- SO's still work great, a really nice IO build can be had for a few million, and 'the good stuff' is out there for players who develop a sweet tooth for l337 set bonuses.

hey now!
I resemble that remark!

>:

My concept stalker (played 'casual' style: all story arcs, stealths everything possible, never kills more than absolutely necessary to complete the mission) earned 30 million by level 30 with no marketeering, just selling drops.

How many alts do you have?
How many hours a week do you play?

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also, anyone interested in filling their swimming pool with gold doubloons to swim around in follow the link in my sig- it encompasses everything you need to become filthy stinking rich.

I've already seen plenty of complaining from the Eeyore crowd. They don't know anything about it, but they're positive it will disappoint.

The more details we get, the louder the whining will become.

Har!

I just ran that mission and actually laughed out loud at the entry text.

The best rewards requiring the most effort is an intentional design.

'The System' isn't configured to get the best 'gear' in the hands of every mouthbreathing layabout who ponies up a sub, it's meant to reward the players who extend themselves to earn it.

When 'The System' is as egalitarian as ours, complaints about it are hard to take seriously.


Whatever alternative they design will require a roughly equal (or greater, see 'merits') time/energy investment.

What you actually seem to want is a handout.

that would be pretty disgusting, except as a base for a sauce.

an edible peanut butter recipe would read

peanuts
oil
salt

in various proportions.

Only the stupid and/or indolent are 'hurt' by 'the system', which offers equal opportunity to all players. Which is in stark contrast to most MMOs of my experience.