Organica
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Ran it last night, no problems.
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My favorite blueside is Freakshow Wars, can be run in 45 mins to 1 hour for I think 33 merits.
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On the other hand, their fix for the Numina TF hunt was just to remove the Galaxy City hunt entirely.
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I see it just fine.
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There was a period there last week where the price of a large heal inspiration dropped to just 10,000 to 15,000 influence, due to all the new characters trying to sell theirs. So naturally, I placed a bunch of bids for stacks of 10 at 15,000 influence each.
Anyway, I obviously like threads like this, I'll be interested to see how you do. -
I did go back and check, and Organica's taken. Not sure if that means someone name-squatted me, or just decided it was a good name for their character.
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The answer you guys are looking for is: butterscotch penguins.
There, now anyone can find the answer to their question in this thread. -
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rodoan
There's bound to be several tributes to Doctor Who and the Time Lords (sounds like a British Invasion-era band)(Zoidberg)Quote:Originally Posted by Shadow Walk
Doctor Who and the Time Lords? I love those guys!
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Quote:The barbarian top I'm talking about is the chainmail bikini top found under tops with skins.Originally Posted by Johnstone
Yeah, you're lucky you have what you have. I can't use any of the barbarian stuff with any jackets.
edit: I really mean that they do not show up as options, not that I can't because of clipping or some other reason.
I can understand why the corsett tops under chest details might not be allowed due to clipping issues... though that doesn't seem to be a problem with the Victorian corsette thing, but it was specifically designed for the Victorian coat options... but there should be no reason that the barbarian top can't be used, it's not a physical 3D object just a texture map on the skin. -
Aside from the missing gloves, my main problem is that the barbarian top is available with sleeveless jackets but not with sleeved jackets.
I was trying to get a combination of Victorian short jacket, magic fur, and barbarian steel bikini top... but right now it's not possible. Barbarian top only works with sleeveless jackets, magic fur for shoulders only works with the jackets with sleeves.
I hope they fix that... the magic fur + Victorian jacket makes a nice kind of barbarianesque top that would work well with the steel bikini, I think. ^_^ -
I really liked the new "tutorial". It felt very epic -- unlike the mind-numbing original (hero) tutorial.
I really like the new Atlas. The new contacts are a lot of fun as well. I find it hard to believe that people are lamenting the loss of the old contacts -- were any of those really worth playing through in 2011? What I think is not more than 1% of the gaming populace even ran those contacts -- instead they joined a sewer team to level up quickly, or an AE team to level up even more quickly. Because, frankly, the first dozen levels or so were a terrible introduction to the game if you tried to run through the ten-year-old contact system, and people have been complaining about that fact for years.
The new contacts are fun. Sure, it'd be nice if there were more of them, but if I get bored with them I can skip straight to the Sewer Trial. The major problem with Mercy (for most people at least) wasn't the limited amount of contacts, but the lack of a "sewer run" alternative such as existed blueside.
1. I outleveled at least two contacts just running through the new contact solo.
2. I find the later game more interesting. I'd much rather they invest their time in designing more content for later levels than in supplying people with more options for levels 1-6. -
You have to PM a mod.
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I really liked using it in my base. That said, it's hardly useless without that. I buy my salvage from the market anyway, so I can craft and sell to my heart's content anywhere in the game outside of an instance.
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Main account: I was an 84 month vet so I didn't feel compelled to "catch up" on Vet rewards. I spent 15.00 for some extra points and grabbed the barbarian costume, beam rifle set, and the 6 transfer sale. I think that was it. Oh, and a 6th costume slot.
Second account: I haven't played my second account yet. I'm afraid I'll be tempted to spend more money.
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Someone on VIP may well be Organica (or Mouse Police). I don't really care either way. ^_^
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Quote:Same. I don't need to buy it.Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
I'm doing just fine without it. It is no MUST buy.
It's ridiculous in a game with so many travel options to say that a new power that lets you go 5% (or whatever the percentage is) faster is somehow bad for the game. Like your other travel options are suddenly useless? -
I got some good names. I did not bother to protect either the name Organica or the name Mouse Police, not interested in having more clones of those. But my global, Shinobu, I grabbed. I don't have that name on any other server besides Pinnacle where the original Shinobu began.
Off the top of my head, some of the other names I was happy to get:
Grace
Bell
Princess
Hime
Eva
Gretchen
Megamisama
And a half dozen more or so, can't remember right now.
*edit* Okay, here's the rest of my list:
Alita
Ozma
Miko
Mint
Priss
Shin
Jalia
Akane
Super Model
War Maid
Attempted and failed to claim: Luna, Neko, Alice, Gally, Angel, Faith, Hope, Mina, Valkyrie, Valkyrja, Maid, Supermodel. -
Quote:Steel, you've got problems.Originally Posted by Steelclaw
What am I most looking forward to?
WHAT AM I MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO?!
Being able to bloody well PLAY the game again since I couldn't play my new Tournament until the freaking game caught up with the new rules system for it!! I've been waiting three or more weeks without playing for this flippin' Issue to come out! An' all I gotta say is.... NO! Let me go! I've been waiting a while to tell the Devs exactly what I think of the way they treat me and my Tournament! Get your hands off me! OUCH! What the heck wazzz zat? Wuzz an owie... ooooh... pretty colors.... zzzzzzzzz...
Announcer's voice: We are sorry to interupt this response to the "What I'm most looking forward to in Issue 21" thread... It was Steelclaw's nappy time.
I know, I know, you realize this, but...
You've got problems.
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Personally when I identify an IO that I like to use in builds and that is always in critically short supply or very expensive, I like to place a bid for 5 or 10 of them at a mid range level and a price I can live with, and just let the bids sit. You can do this on an alt that you don't play very much. If you purchase anything, craft and store away in your base.
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Draconian?
Hmmm, let's see... I come from one of the earliest MMOGs, the one with the elf mascot, where I had a high level shaman crafter who was very good at alchemy, baking, sewing... and I had a gnome to practice tinkering, and I'd played with blacksmithing too... and if anyone remembers that game, you didn't have recipes to tell you what to combine, you had to experiment or find out from someone else (search the web), ingredients were often very hard to come by and/or very expensive, and you were very likely to fail and lose all of your stuff... and if you DID succeed, you had a very small (probably less than 10%, maybe less than 5%) chance of increasing your skill.
And then later I moved on to another fantasy game where you could buy recipes and components and craft very easily, and the only problem was that at higher levels the process to craft took longer and longer.. 10 minutes.... 20 minutes... 30 minutes. For. A. Single. Item.
So... yeah. I think I've seen Draconian.
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Quote:This sounds familiar. ^_^Originally Posted by mousedroid
I have the same house,
The same car,
The same job,
The same pets,
And the same friends,
I haven't gotten married, or divorced; haven't had a child; haven't gone back to, or graduated from, school; haven't taken any vacations to exotic places, or made any life altering decisions. In short, my life hasn't changed. And thus the reason I don't have a Facebook account.
Started playing the first week of launch.
* I have anew apartment. Woo! The old one got torn down.
* I have a new car. Yay! All paid off now. (My old car was stolen and used in a kidnap and attempted murder, for which I got to testify that yes, those were my jumper cables (that they tied up the victim with), I can recognize them because one clamp was broken off... but I do I get to actually testify that they'd stolen my car? Oh no, because that would prejudice the jury. Maybe I let them borrow it because we're good friends or something, I have no idea what the jury might have thought on the subject.)
* Same job. Check. I live a lot closer to work now. Less time in traffic, more time to smash bad guys! Also, I switched from working nights to an early morning day shift, which would have done wonders for my social life if I had one.
* My cat died. I haven't had a new pet since.
* Same friends. But we don't hang out as often because I moved so far South.
* No Facebook account. But mostly because Zuck is evil. Or I'm just too lazy.
* While I've never married, I have two nieces that I didn't have in 2004, and my other niece and nephew are much older. In fact, my nephew is not only about to graduate from high school, but he's been addicted to MMOGs for several years. Only, you know, that other game... the really big one that most of my friends play. -
Quote:Purchased the last of a set of Obliterations tonight. My bid was out there for less than 2 weeks -- probably only since Sat or Sun actually. This is on Shinobu Hime, my $1.99 third account that I picked up on August 17th. ^_^ I paid 21 million for an Oblit proc, level 31. Level 30s are selling for 30-40 million, level 50s are selling for 30+ million.Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
That's as may be. But I just know that it was only when I switched from buying level 50s to buying level 30s to slot up my characters that I started having problems even finding recipes on the market. I wanted to slot four Obliterations into my Shield/Elec Scrapper, and the uncommons in the set were hard to find on the market and the rares simply weren't there at all--even when I placed fairly high bids over several days, I only got 2 or 3 out of the total of 8 I needed. I finally had to resort to merit purchases.
I still have some bids out for Kinetic Combat pieces.
For the record, sometimes level 30 and level 33 recipes are also overpriced. People who do not slot at 50 tend to focus on those levels for various reasons. So for our Positron's Blast triple, the level 50 sells for 8 to 10 million based on the current last five. But check level 48, 47, 46, you'll see a lot of purchases for around 3 million. Now check the level 30 IOs -- we see in the last five bids from 30 million to 47 million, so yeah that's pretty unreasonable and silly. Levels 29, 31, 32 are still in the 5 to 12 million range at best, so this is certainly one case where you don't save money by buying the lower level recipe.
The Oblit proc is similar... about 30 million for level 50, and at least that much for a level 30. But less money for a level 31 or 32.
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Quote:Maybe I should qualify:Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
In my experience, 50s are not going to be the most expensive, because more people will be building with lower-level IOs that still provide respectable values while making their set bonuses available across a wide range of exemplaring. I'm building my characters on L30 IO sets, for instance, and have found them to be rather more costly and hard to find than the L50 versions.
Apart from hero and reward merits, you can also buy recipes at the Ouroboros Astral Merit vendor. If you've been doing a lot of Incarnate Trialing to fill your slots, you might have a bunch of those left over. And needless to say, thanks to the email system, you don't have to use the recipe on the same character you buy it on.
When a recipe is hard to come by, generally the top level sells for a lot more than other levels.
When a recipe is easy to come by, there are always a lot of the top level ones for sale for cheap. But lower levels are probably still more scarce, and may cost more.
If we're talking the Positron's Blast triple, I'm pretty sure the level 50 sells for a lot more than a level 30, but I can't check that from work. ^_^
How do you get thousands of merits: You run an ITF, and then a Lady Gray, and then maybe a Synapse or a Citadel or whatever. And you do something similar the next night. And so on for over a year. You'll have merits coming out of your ears, trust me.
I generally run at least one TF an evening, sometimes more. Lately I've been running a lot of iTrials but I still probably average 1 TF/old Trial/Hami raid/whatever a day.
Though I convert a lot of my merits to a-merits, so my only toons with lots of merits are vigilantes. I have over a thousand on Tiffany and about 750 on Mouse Police.
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Personally, I'd place bids for the IOs at a level below level 50, since level 50 is always going to be the most expensive. When an IO is scarce, the ones listed for sale generally sell instantly to the highest current bidder. But you may be waiting for a week or so for the bid to fill.
What kind of rolls would turn these up... I get confused on that too. Maybe TopDoc's thread would help?
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Teaming makes levels go faster. I can gain a level in about an hour of good teaming or during a single ITF, for example.