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/e textfites Iggy and cyb0rs everyone else.

Most of the time your pets will still be with you if you crash now with tech that was introduced recently (zoning pets).

I'm hoping to get some testing time in this weekend on my Mac Pro/4870 (flashed).

Surprised the Carnies wouldn't call a meeting at the same time and place as the Vegans. It would cut down on the need for Carnies to bring any snacks...

Justice is full of cheaters and lowlifes.

Did you tell the Television that we want to bask in his warm glow by multiplying the number of screens to increase our exposure to him?

Are the devs looking for numbers (player wise) for doing a FOV update or is there another way to make this a priority for them?

I'd have to disagree with that statement. As much as you may dislike him, macskull is quite knowledgeable and helpful.

All he was doing was calling out Hyper on his method of kb mitigation in PvP, which is an area that I know is macskull's demesne.

If I knew about this earlier I wouldn't have given all my munniez away.

The lag is definitely server side. Nord's comments regarding power recharge lag are indicative of this, just like the old school Hami raid lag.

As far Pain's new setup goes, the 295's 2nd GPU doesn't have any effect whatsoever on increasing performance within CoX (and may not even be used properly once Ultra mode comes according to Posi). As far as CoX is concerned, the 295 is running just like at 275/285 single GPU.

Additionally, the PhysX portion of CoX is very outdated as well. It cannot take advantage of any GPU cards pressed into purpose as a PhysX processor. CoX currently can only use the original dedicated PhysX cards from BFG and Aegia, otherwise it's all software processed.

I've seen the word 'lie' used more than once in a couple of threads.

Just remember that saying something that is false is not always a lie. It will be untrue, but it can only be a lie when the teller knows it to be untrue. It is not lying if you believe what you are saying is true, even if the statement itself is false.

Sorry I don't mean to pick on you, but the inflation that is being complained about is the PvP IOs, and generally everything else is sort of 'acceptable' but mostly rising on desirable stuff.

The reason why everyone is focused on the PvP IOs is that #1 this is in the PvP thread, #2 more than one PvP IO has crossed the inf cap boundary, thus taking the sellers to find alternate ways than the market to sell their loot.

Whilst the desirability of PvP IOs are generally high, the effective market for them is exceedingly small. This is because very few people can afford them. If you want an analogy, PvP IOs are viewed like a (limited edition) Ferrari. There are many more buyers than there are cars, and not everyone can afford them, and the price seems to be bid up further each day (within limits).

The overall market has seen some inflation but the level at which certain PvP IOs has shot past the market/inf cap has taken the devs by surprise, and of course the people who thought they could afford PvP IOs before they shot up are finding that they are falling behind because an even smaller subset of the rich have found ways to make themselves richer yet.

In a sense, there are a bunch of millionaires who are pretty upset that they've reached their plateau and found a bunch of billionaires sitting at the table and bought up all the seats.

Hence this discussion isn't about overall inflation, or even all PvP IOs...just the super-desirable super-rare PvP IOs that everyone seems to want but only the ridiculously wealthy few can afford.

It's a con spiracy.

Seeing as a single PvP IO farm drop (worth 20M - 4B) can be had in 24 hours whilst AFK and a 3 hour 50 PL requires real playing, I could see the exchange rate being fair.

The interesting part about the markets, PvP IOs and 3 hour 50s is that most of the people engaged in powergaming are the ones optimizing all three. I'd imagine I earn around a billion inf a week on average without seriously doing alot of optimization, but I'd imagine someone who worked all three of segments (and purple farming) is probably earning an order of magnitude more than I am.

I'd guess the top tier of inf gamers is probably earning 10-40B a week. That is why there are no PvP IOs on the market, they trade well beyond the inf cap now, and there are enough people who can afford them as a significant but casual purchase.

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As far as increasing the drop rate, it ain't gonna happen without really screwing up the rest of the game, since PvP IOs are quite (too) powerful in the PvE game.

Increasing the drop rate will make everything else less desirable as everyone will expect PvP IOs on all their toons (power inflation). More people will be able to gain influence faster, leading to a vicious inflation spiral.

If the devs want to make the PvP IOs bind on pickup, just imagine the value of all the PvP IOs on the market before such code gets implemented.

I think the only thing the devs can do is try and plug the fastest inf gain holes and ride out the inf flood. About the only saving grace is that the inf is concentrated in so few hands that once those people are satiated perhaps the price of all that stuff will fall below the cap and show up on the market again.

PS. Raising the cap would be nice but I bet it is a huge effort tech wise.

If you are keen eyed enough you will see the difference on test server now that open beta has arrived. Changes due to exploits are never commented on in the patch notes so you have to go find the changes yourself. Until then, challenge away...

Putting a screenshot of me or someone admitting to using exploits in the forums would be even more foolish than writing about it.