Nethergoat

I bought rocket boots for a stranger quite a while ago, it was very satisfying.

plus you can stuff it with awesome IOs!

he wasn't the anti-christ, just an underhanded slimeball with delusions of grandeur.

fire/ice

outrageous amounts of AoE damage, extreme survivability (for a blaster anyway) thanks to /ice.

I've got a couple of costumes like that.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to accommodate unsupported costume options with Power Customization.

You cant even cross the street without tripping over a dirty cheating hacker, can you?

A good idea is much more likely to pan out than a terrible one.

this packs the wallop of a cup of warm milk & honey served up by my dear old maiden aunt.

Here's hoping you improve- keep being this wrong and you'll get plenty of practice at it.

You say ridiculous things, you catch flack for it.
You respond to the flack with hysterics, you get more flack.

I don't have the time or inclination to provide 'proof' for things that are self evident to any rational observer of the game. The sky is blue, water is wet- if you don't believe me, look for yourself. I don't need to write a textbook to make it true.

I'm enjoying playing him again even with just frankenslotting, which I didn't think was ever going to happen. I'm hopeful that some optomization will make him, if not the man he used to be, at least on par with other blasters.

You're one of the people who will jump over a gate to get a reward instead of blowing it off. That % gets smaller the more gates or the higher the gates developers construct.
You're still part of the gamer groupmind, you're not off on your own special island of uniqueness.


One of us bases our statements on long study of the topic at hand, one of us pulls ideas out of our pants and yells LOOKY WHAT I FOUND!

There is a qualitative difference in the resulting posts, and I trust the community to decide which of us knows what we're talking about and which one of us is fingerpainting on the walls with their own waste.

Back to the debunked points you are so assiduously trying to distract us from:

1: high end IOs aren't aimed at 'average' gamers, their availability to this demographic is meaningless.

2: inf falls like rain in this game, anyone who does want those l337 sets can earn them with very little effort. Anyone, no farming required.

3: very few people bother with dual builds, fewer than that bother putting 'the good stuff' in a dual build. They aren't increasing demand by any meaningful amount. Readers are free to believe your "everyone I know has l337 DBs therefore demand is doubled!" blather if they like- the reality is profoundly different.

4: gamers aren't intended to IO out every character they have with super duper awesome IOs, so it taking "several lifetimes" is meaningless.

It applies to you as much as anyone else, sorry.

You can lead a horse to data, etc etc.
Nothing you've said has risen to the level of 'attack'.
You're just some uninformed dude who thinks he knows it all.

Players who understand the game will see the validity of my points.
I'm not interested in convincing you of anything.

MA has nothing to do with PvP or the generation of PO's.
Nothing at all.
Zero. Zip.

I read the OP, had an opinion and posted it.
Oh well.

I don't think badges have any value. Other people collect them obsessively.

Such things are in the eye of the beholder.

It may be a well populated zone, but the only location where you'll see more than some random team is the BM, and they aren't just hanging out they're buying and selling stuff.

It's like they purposefully designed CoV zones to discourage public gatherings.

I don't care much about badges one way or the other, but it's stupid to degrade the achievement of people who got their the "hard way" by handing them out like candy now.

Things that require no effort have little value.
I'm more annoyed than entertained by the FLOOD of badges I get in MA now for doing absolutely nothing of note.

MA badges are like medals for the Special Olympics- COMPETITOR, I WIN!

Your don't need numbers to draw logical conclusions based on gamer psychology.
Every minor hurdle you put in the way of the gaming horde eliminates some % of them from moving forward- they just can't be bothered.
There is still endless whining around her about being poor, not being able to get 'the good stuff' etc even though anyone can do it and the market forum regs have been telling everyone exactly how since not long after I9.
Why? Because going to the market and using it is one extra step in the game, and some folk can't be bothered. They'd rather be poor and complain than raise a finger to help themselves.

This ties in directly with dual builds.
IO'ing a character out is a substantial investment of resources- which is why not many people do it. Once you've sunk that energy into a character, the imputes to do it AGAIN is near zero.
Most people have a lot of alts. If they're going to create multiple IO builds, they're more likely to do it on some new alt than to re-IO the guy they've already worked over.

Simple psychology.

The difference, as I've already noted, is properly interpreting data.
And lol at the post count attack- it's been years since I got one of those.
I thought they were extinct.

Keep shooting off on tangents, that way you never have to answer factual attacks on your nonsensical babbling.

MA has zero impact on PO's.
It has reduced the supply of purples by hoovering up all the farmers.
It has generated a vast wave of supply for set IOs.

Experience is meaningless unless you can interpret it correctly.

OMG the whole game must be exactly like you!

Very few players bother with high end sets- fact.
Very few players bother with dual builds- fact.

Saying that a tiny fraction of players with bother with a dual build using high end IOs is an entirely reasonable statement.

MA has generated the largest increase in set IO recipes in the history of the game.

You are delusional.

It has tangentially decreased the supply of purples (since the farmers are all in AE not getting purples), but it has generated an unprecedented flood of IO sets on the market.


Keep up this kind of gibbering and you may be the first person on the 'new' forums to make my ignore list.

Anyone who watches the market like I do and can see the ripple of different changes to the game reflected in the ebb and flow of what's selling and for how much.

It isn't an exact science, but most marketeers have a pretty good sense of what's going on.

Exponentially better than your ridiculous braying about "twice the demand".

And I think that estimate is still wildly optimistic.

They don't want farmers in AE.
Their previous punitive campaign to move them out was an unmitigated disaster.
Adding team size to the mission slider is an obvious effort to draw them out by improving the rewards available via 'real' content. It's a feature that will appeal only to farmers and powergamers, there's no point to it except as a lure to get those types of players out of AE.

Don't listen to what the devs say, watch what they do.
The intent behind this move is obvious.