Nethergoat

its the same entitlement complaint you always make in a new dress and some lipstick.

which doesn't fool anyone.

swinging from nothing is lame.

we already have fly, applying a ridiculous graphic to an existing game mechanic is lame.

I mean you can like lame all you want, but it stays lame.

The existence of stupid graphics doesn't justify the creation of more stupid graphics, sorry.

It would look much stupider if they swung across the zone on lines attached to invisible angels flying overhead.

There's a big hairy fly in the ointment of your theory, and its called "supply and demand".

If, say, Alchemical Silver were abundantly supplied.....it would no longer be valuable. There's no motivation to hoard oversupplied junk.

In the very recent past an MA loophole supercharged the supply of rare salvage. Even knowing the loophole would be closed eventually, prices of rares crashed across the board. I'm sure some folk hoarded against the eventual return of the status quo (I know I socked away as many Hamidon Goos as I could fit in my various bases, turning a tidy profit), but supply was running so high it didn't matter. I was flipping stuff that usually went for around 3,000,000 on a daily basis, buying for 500k and selling for 1m.

Many people seem comforted by the myth that small numbers of players can effect meaningful, longterm price shifts on the market. The reality is supply and demand rules all and is dictated on a grand scale by the actions of the entire playerbase, or dev fiat.

why, so everyone can look stupid swinging from....what, the skybox?


naw.

Even my time isn't valuable enough to lament the few seconds a month I spend shuffling inf around. =P

If purples reach the point where a meaningful number are "worth" 2b it's going to be a long, long, loooong time from now. In the short term its a distinct non-problem.

Why?

Gleemail gives us basically unlimited inf storage by letting us shuffle stuff around between alts.

I mean I wouldn't kick if they raised it, but it's far from necessary.

in this game poverty is entirely and completely voluntary.
a "tight budget" would be a self imposed limitation, nothing more.

Why, when your earning power is skyrocketing right along side?

Again, anyone who cares to can make as much inf as they can carry.
So what does "rich" mean in that context?

In the current game inf is basically meaningless, as is anything which is trivially easy to accumulate. I support inf sinks and more stuff to spend it on not as a way to make anything more affordable but as a way to make inf mean something again.

I find it less tiresome than your proposed solution, "grind til your eyes bleed".
I mean they both work, but one is vastly easier and less time consuming.

you know what's easier than all that?

buying low and selling high.

not that the OP cares, he was discussing inflation not earning power.

On the contrary, a game economy is the ideal playground for free market ideology.

I like the gun drone trick.
Before the respec I also liked dropping caltrops then sticking an Ignite patch in the middle- nice defiance boost plus a surprise for rushers. =D


Ok, slotted in the last few enhancers and am now comfortably above the legendary 'soft cap'. As a test I ran my usual MA farm bumping it up to +2/x8. Piece of cake, nothing touched me- going was a bit slow though.

Dialed it back down to +0/x8 and ran a couple of tip missions.

Arachnos? No problem, mowed them down like grass. This was a mission that I'd found troublesome with my old build on +0/x3.

Had a bit of trouble with a Longbow mission (two deaths)- the problem seemed to be those stupid grenades the nullifiers toss. Are they autohit, or did I just get really unlucky? One I pinpointed the problem it was do-able- stun the nullifiers then mow everyone else.

Screens and whatnot to follow.

I'm thinking I"ll do another respec for tweaks- I missed my snipe and will probably drop it back in as per Plainguy's suggestion. And while the Ragnarok knockdown proc is hilarious in Caltrops, I need to either find another slot for a slow enhancer or pull it out for a slow. Higher cons get through it fairly easily- I'm so used to having it three slotted for slow (which was a borderline immobilize for everything I faced) it's sort of annoying.

Also, having some slight end problems due to a missing Miracle +rec. Dunno what I did with it. Put out some bids and should have it slotted soon.

it's basically a console game.
competition with coh is indirect at best.

I want to purchase my /e scarywallet emote for 2,000,000,000...why won't they LET me!

I have a dell and like it just fine- the problem with the current Alienwares is that they're charging a premium for a name that no longer carries the cache of cutting edge machines hand built by wild-eyed hardware geeks- it's just another Dell box. Which isn't necessarily bad, but isn't worth paying extra for.

My buddy has one of the Dell 'performance' rigs (XPS i think?) and he loves it.

*shrug*

Inf is never wasted as long as you have fun spending it.