Nethergoat

News flash:

Farming is playing the game.

the only value in 'bind on pickup' is to make something LESS AVAILABLE.
That's its whole point.
A dev team who wanted players to be able to choose their reward would not be amenable to such a system.

Your "ideas" are so laughable I'm surprised you haven't melted away from the sheer embarrassment of mumbling them in public.

Upping drop rates to the point where our buddy the "casual gamer" can get what they want without recourse to the market defeats the point of the system.

If they wanted you to be able to get all the stuff you want with a very limited investment of energy, they'd have made a store not a loot system.

I'm not a fan of redundant systems and wouldn't miss tickets or merits.
The market does what it does exceptionally well, there's no need for other avenues of acquisition. The devs like them as additional timesinks and sops to the crybabies, but they certainly aren't necessary.

They are.
Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of perseverance can get as many purples as they can slot, and then some.

Then go make your own game, cause that's never happening here.

It isn't a question of ability- ANYONE can 'get' purples. Anything you can buy with inf is available to everyone in the game. Earning inf is child's play, anyone can do it.

It's a question of motivation- not everyone is WILLING to get purples, because it takes effort and concentration.

Anyone who comes here with an open mind gets all the information they need to earn billions. We actively recruit for Team Eeebil 24/7, the more market billionaires we help create the happier we are.

That's the opposite of 'preserving the status quo'.

There are some people who refuse to help themselves, which is nobodies 'fault' but their own.

Never have I seen such banal twaddle rendered with such hideously criminal typography.

I'm ignoring you so that I never risk seeing an abomination like this again.

I'm referring to a long thread where you disregarded every costume piece added to the game since the advent of the Wedding Pack in a failed attempt to claim we'd never get anything "good" again without paying for it.

A character's powers are every bit as visible a manifestation of their identity as their costumes- sometimes more so. The ability to customize them is a HUGE addition to character creation, on par with the release of CoV.

Nobody cares.

So the largest addition of character customization since the game launched doesn't meet BI's requirements.

Surprise, surprise!

What, they weren't allowed to team in MA?

I wonder what all that broadcast chatter was about, then.

Having a lot of players concentrated in a small area like Atlas creates many more grouping and socializing possibilities than having those same players spread out across a bunch of different zones.

Why would it?
The rather draconian changes to custom enemies seems more likely to discourage the participation of story-driven authors than otherwise.


You didn't like MA farms- great. Don't pretend that getting rid of them will usher in some incredible golden age of teaming and authoring. All it did was shuffle players around the game world, it did nothing to change their basic predispositions.

There's a segment of this community that puts "content" in a straight jacket and says if it isn't a developer created story arc then it's worthless.

Which is ridiculous. Content = new stuff to do.

The mission difficulty changes alone re-make the entire game, if you choose to explore them. The same with powerset proliferation. These kinds of structural changes give us new ways to explore the existing game structure. And that's content.

So is power customization. I spend a lot of time at the tailor fiddling with my characters, and I'm not alone. These changes give us the ability to integrate our powers with our costumes and open up new vistas of character creation. I've already dumped a bunch of time into exploring new looks for existing characters, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

New canon-advancing story stuff is coming in GR. In the meantime, I'm very happy with all the new toys the tech crew has given us to play around with. They do change the gameplay experience, they do provide new ways to experience the world, and they are content.

Ran my zombie map spawned for 8 twice tonight, got 1 IO and two generic recipes. Bogus!

But I didn't mind, melting all those zombies was just good clean fun.

Sounds like it's time for a trip to the Forgotten Icon in IP!

only if you have the eleventy billion month vet badge.

Just take Fireball.
If you're fighting a million wimps you'll waste a lot of time lining up tentacles and getting in position to burn.
With spines, what's the point?
Fireball > Throw Spines > Spine Burst, then clean up the stragglers and move on.

Yes, because grinding radio missions is so much more moral and upstanding.