PumBumbler

Must be a clone. Evidently not the shy one either.

*runs up a wall and away*

There's no way it would have said 168M. Only items that can be vendored are given a price during a respec. You slot everything you had before and 10 enhancements can get kept. The rest get vendored; anything that is not normally salable gets sold for 0 inf.

This includes any crafted enhancements (even PvP IOs and Purples) and hami-Os. There is no false total, you must have misread the number.

Here's an example with HamiOs.

+1. The yellow dots do not indicate population counts although people have been using it as a rough guide.

Virtue has been taking the highest load spot at times, although Freedom usually has the highest load. It's just been happening more frequently recently.

Note that if Paragon Studios elect to throw more hardware at Virtue or Freedom, their respective loads may go down, and the yellow dots may go green even though the population remains the same (or increases). This would affect the ranking on the server list.

The only way a player can check the population counts is by logging into each server and then doing a blank search for players. It will show the number of unhidden players at the bottom, and this needs to be done for both factions to get a realistic idea of population versus the server dots.

Trade by puppeting at a merit vendor.

I see now. Someone referred to them as options, when what you are proposing are steps.

You're proposal is to round the least significant integer and then use that for the X0 Billion digit.

Definitely a hack and probably not worth the effort to change since it only buys one order of magnitude's worth of influence, which is likely not enough head room anyhow.

Your option #2 is a textbook case of currency devaluation.

I never knew they weren't working anymore.

Guess they should all look like the busted up ones in King's Row.

We were doing a small bit of damage with the shivans and vengeance and the three nukes but we never saw visible progression of his health bar when the buffs/debuffs wore off.

As an aside, how does the stats above compare to hamidon? Could reichsman solo the encounter entirely?

Isn't that exactly the point? The speed runners have defined a reward level for KHTF and Eden where it is no longer desirable for the speed runners, and it is cold comfort for the the non-speed runner to scrape through Eden in 90-180 minutes only to find that their merit reward won't even sustain a random roll.

The devs can't significantly bump up the the low rewards (although over time, the TFs may increase in average time if no speed runners work those TFs) or the rewards will be out of line for the task. They need to rework the TF a bit to narrow the gap and/or bump up rewards for non-speed runners in a way that doesn't reward them for purposely going slow.

That's what she said.

I've pointed out that the ITF is probably a well balanced TF/SF, since there aren't many points that are skippable, yet the the variation in times is still quite significant. As ITF is probably the most popular TF/SF, I would guess that the N types figure more heavily than S type players by sheer numbers.

However, not every TF is as popular, and the S type players get represented more thoroughly through those TFs. RSF, KHTF and Eden are extreme examples of this.

Note that even figuring the difficulty level of the RSF, it is only awarding 25 merits to STF's 37ish merits. Eden's skimpy reward also shows that the S type players are dominating the times to disproportionately represent themselves in the overall population. The takeaway is not just that the S players are doing it faster, they are getting "counted" more than once because they're finished sooner and then they pile another TF on top of that.

That multiple participation effect by faster players means that the slower players and casual players are underrepresented in the sample, which means their efforts are counted less in calculating the TF average/median time. It suggests they are getting a double penalization of running fewer TFs (deliberately, by inexperience or by lifestyle) and then getting fewer rewards when they do finish the TF. I've suggested a (slight) bonus in a previous post to work around this issue.

I used Player N and Player S to illustrate the extremes. There are many players who fall between both groups. I don't think that it matters which server the populations reside on, from the developer's point of view.

The abilities of the population are likely to be distributed on a standard curve, but the data set gets skewed because the faster folks get to be counted more than once. Just remember that what the devs have chosen to measure isn't like the height of a person, which gets counted once. They are measuring time to completion, and then the participant can choose to run it again, and get counted again.

I think that this is as close as it gets for now.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Random_R...ipe_Drop_Rates

Random rolling on a 50 can't get you a level 10 BotZ -kb or level 30 Numina unique, etc., which can be more valuable than their level 50 counterparts.