Nethergoat

I'm sorely tempted by the animated barbara bush.

Uh...or rather, I will be when the 24 hour timer LETS me!

Accurate terminology describing a specific action, i/e informing on other members of your clique/faction/demographic.
Whether or not you feel justified and righteous in your actions, it's still informing and use of unflattering synonyms by someone who disagrees with the pursuit is completely justified.

In my experience, those who go in for informing usually buy the whole package.
If you're not one of the folk who get their jollies reporting 'copywrite infringing' characters, then I apologize.


Your choice of metaphor made the intent crystal clear.
Unless you just have a very loose command of the written word?

If you don't like the suit, don't wear it around town.
(this is an example of how you can use a descriptive phrase without freighting it with an insulting subtext.)

Everyone here is judged by their posts.
When I use unflattering synonyms for proud, self-confessed informants, I'm interpreting what they happily admit they are. They see their position in one light, I see it in another. But we both agree on what their actions are and I meant exactly what I said.

But when you equate players with criminals and garbage, that's not supposed to be what you meant at all.

Yeah, sure.

It's interesting that you choose to equate some fellow players with criminals and garbage because you disapprove of the way they dress or the way they play.

The community is the community.
Last time I checked there was no "trash", just players enjoying the game. And yes, I'm one of them.

But I understand maintaining a bloated sense of moral superiority requires an "other" to hate & blame, so I'll leave you to it.

It's dirt simple, there's absolutely nothing difficult about it.
Even a child can make billions if they want to invest the time.

There are any number of guides detailing simple relatively foolproof methods over in the market forum, interested parties are urged to check them out.

Please explain how generating MORE of an item somehow raises the price and makes it LESS available.

I won't hold my breath.

They wouldn't be.
It's a convinient justification for snitches to pretend they're public servants instead of informers.

Justify your snitching however you like, kid.
A rat is a rat.

The excess cash hasn't got anything to chase except purples and stuff tickets don't generate very efficiently (low level uniques, for instance).

MA has been an absolute bonanza for our friend the 'casual gamer'.
The price on most things has crashed while earning inf has never been easier.

Unless you want a purple build or are into PvP you're in the clover.
And neither of those things is the hallmark of 'casual' play.

I have a feeling the devs are mostly happy with the current situation.
Most stuff is readily available & within reach of nearly everyone, while the super l337 stuff is less available and more expensive than ever.

I don't think things played out in the way they expected, but I think they got the result they wanted.

But this has always been true (since I9, anyway).
Inflation has nothing to do with it.

This is true.

I ended up with a ton of tickets on an experimental level 13 mastermind who I was leveling solo in MA. Eight or nine hundred. I blew them all on the lowest level bronze roll and deleted everything except the level 10 Steadfast -KB.
Now that character is set for life.

This is an impressive edifice of bent logic and delusion, even for you.

Farmers generate supply. That's all they do.
More supply = more availability.
More availability = lower prices.
Just as the specious "farmers make everything too expensive for the little guy!" argument is a crock, so is "farmers make everything too cheap, so you can't earn enough inf to buy anything!"
The "good stuff" is almost universally cheaper than it has ever been right now- the only exception are things you can't generate through the MA system, like purples.

One thing would happen- prices on everything would shoot through the ceiling as availability dried up.

Why are purples so expensive right now?
Because all the farmers are in MA, not generating purples.


Watching you discuss the economy is like watching Bozo the Clown give a lecture on the Middle East peace process.

Positive rep applied for having a bitchin' forum name.

Well, barring MA exposure there is zero reason for anyone to ask who 'wrote' anything in the 'real' game world.

I begin to suspect they were having you on...

Or maybe they were just crazy!

But for someone who "grew up" in MA it is an obvious question with practical application.

Searching by author is a good way to find arcs you enjoy playing.

Of course not- he's being passive aggressive, playing the victim while taking oblique shots at the competence and intentions of the devs.


But I note he has no problem attacking other posters.

All he did was accurately interpret the subtext of your post.

Your comical overreaction tells the observant reader all they need to know about your intentions.

So, hooray for hall monitors?

Do you also demonstrate your superior moral fiber by hanging out under the globe and ratting out homage characters?

They should add an "Informant" badge for people who habitually rat out other players.

I bet they shuffled the hamsters around....

Happy to report Triumph was running like a top. =D

It's hard to take this claim seriously after you've called someone a "dev nuthugger" in this very thread.

In fact, its impossible.

poke around the User CP area, there's a list of rankings including comments, if any.

I've been surprised by the generally positive nature of both. =P