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Now, Wiki isn't messed up. I believe Lohenien confused merit rolls for ticket rolls with his reply.

As for why 10-14, there's no good reason for rolling that range when it comes to merit rolls. AE ticket rolls on the other hand can yield the various drops that Lohenien listed earlier.

I'll bring a mariachi band. That bullhorn is just too tinny if you ask me...

Depends on how much time you spend being exemp'd down. Personally, unless I know a toon will be played much more at levels where level 50 set bonuses don't apply, I always slot for 50. Most people I play with tend to follow the same philosophy.







Oh, and I bid 10 million Inf with a three cookie bonus for timely delivery to my front door.

My apologies for butting in here, but if storage items default to SL rank when placed, then why when I place new bins do they start with both SL and the second tier rank marked and not just SL? Should that not be or so?

http://www.glasspaw.com/dropstats/

Um...where are you getting fear from? No one has ever been reluctant to ask their questions or ask for (and yes, even demand) changes. If you think the community is scared of the devs, then I think that you are sorely mistaken.

I hadn't thought of that, but now that you mention it that could very well explain it. But still, getting a temp power recipe and a regular recipe from the same mob defeat seems odd if the temps are part of one of the regular pools.

I'm going to go with the assumption that they are a separate drop pool from standard recipe drop pools. My reasoning for that is the fact that three times now I've gotten a regular recipe drop and a temp power recipe from the same mob. Unless something about the drop pools isn't WAI, that would lead me to believe that they are in a pool of their own.

I'll mention one thing against your post. I highly doubt that we would get, and probably would not want, an entire Issue devoted to nothing but base improvements. Sure we'd get some nifty stuff, but I'd much rather have new content, new powersets, etc. Not to mention, the die hard base building community isn't big enough to warrant an entire Issue. Yes, there are lots of bases. But by and large, most that I've seen are simply functional because most people would rather just have the bare necessities and play the game instead of spending hours upon hours designing their base.

And before you berate me for the above, yes I am an avid base designer, but I also understand that a base Issue would be unlikely and would probably generate a lot of flak from people who could care less about their bases, and they are the majority.

Now, I'm all for giving us new toys to play with in the base and I'd love to be able to have proper water and clear glass (among other things), not to mention something I could use to make a better looking stargate in my base, hehe. But not at the cost of alienating the rest of the player base that doesn't consider base editing to be a priority, which is what an entire Issue devoted to bases would cause. Instead, give us those new toys as part of future Issues.

*le gasp!*

Merits for purples? You can't buy purples with merits, nor get them from random merit rolls (the same also applies to tickets). The only way that you can get purples with merits is to buy recipes that someone wants with your merits, then trading those recipes for the purples the other person has. Not very conducive to making Inf if you ask me.

Isn't it more like 1500 kills? I can't recall where at the moment, but that's the number I've seen most regarding purple drop rates.

For some farmers at least. Your average farmer probably clears 1mil/hr and they would be the majority I'd think. On the other hand, there are the "hardcore" farmers that probably have little left to do in the game but get rich or die trying. Those farmers can clear significantly more than 1mil/hr, but that's pretty much all they do is farm.

I don't consider myself a farmer by an means, but I do usually run around the wall in Cim at least once per play session until my recipe and salvage sacks are full. If I'm bored or in need of extra Inf, I might do more than one run, but that might be once in two weeks that I'd do that. Either way, those runs have been known to clear me in excess of 500mil per run, each of which takes around 30 minutes. To be fair, that's not the norm, but I average probably 3-6 purples a week courtesy of those Romans.

So yeah, regular farming for drops can still make a heck of a lot more than merit farming and rolling for recipes/salvage. The difference is probably more one of luck than anything else though. Many players have never had a purple drop since they were brought into the game, while some others may have my luck of getting several per week.


I'd be of the opinion that it would come down to choosing between luck and the possibility of huge earnings, or going for the certified (but possibly significantly lower) income that merit rolls can bring you.



Oh, and Frost, enjoying the sunshine down there? Nice to see spring finally arrived on the South Coast, hehe.