Roderick

Fixed. That limitation already exists for trial accounts, and the fix for the problem you're worried about is already in place.

Not quite. He's to the left of the AE hospital. (To the right as you're leaving it)

Um.... David is working on converting as many NPC parts to usable PC parts as he can. It's an ongoing project that he's said could take a while to accomplish (most NPCs are one solid piece from top to bottom. Converting them to PC parts requires seperating the pieces and re-assembling them for the models we use), but it is in the works.

Signature costume parts are the only thing "off the table". This includes anything unique to signature NPCs, and apparently a few things unique to certain groups - Carnie and Skull masks have been specifically mentioned.

Because the Inf would be cheaper. I got an email from a RMTer a week or two ago (they still do that?), and it said I could get 1,000,000,000 for $8. That's enough for 6 or 7 LotG on the market. The same $8 would buy ONE, with change left over under UP's suggestion. To make the two comprable, you'd have to buy the IO from the store for $1.25 or less, or the RMT would have the better price. I can't see the people who use RMT switching to Paragon Points if they cost 5-10x what the raw Inf does.

As to the OP: I'd never use the option. Inf is too easy to make. Merits are hard to AVIOD earning (they come with story arcs, vet rewards, and even BADGES now). A-Merits are pretty quick too, and more efficient purchasing power than R-Merits. I have more trouble choosing a character that's worth kitting out, than actually slotting them once I've decided.

I doubt that we'll get recipes in the store though. If we did, it would make the menu far too cumbersome. Easier by far to let you buy Merits, then send you to the vendor to redeem them.

This. I'm far from what you'd call rich, and when this goes live, I plan to let my account lapse for a few months to help loosen up the budget. I'd love to be able to buy the ability to access the forums during that period.

I'd also like the ability to unlock full access to the market and Invention systems. As a bit of a powergamer, I'd like to keep full access to both, even when I switch to Premium.

But we have no idea yet what will be in the store. Maybe we're all covered already.

OK. But you never answered the question. Which two characters WOULD you pick? Even if all your copies of GG are identically built, slotted and Incarnated, they're still different characters, and I'm pretty sure I've heard you say that you're on all servers.

Even if we're counting all the extra slots you can get, your Forum registration date plus the 2 slots for the original giveaway and the 2 for GR still only gives 11 - and I doubt that you ever bought any extra slots - and there's 15 servers now..

So which 2 (or 11) would you keep?

After July 1st, you'll get the points at the beginning of your billing cycle each month, until the Freedom/Issue 21 goes live, whether you have to pay or not. If you pay for multiple months during that period, I'm not sure if they get divvied up on a monthly basis, or applied all at once. After Freedom goes live, if you pay multiple months at a time, you get all the points for time paid in one lump sum up front.

Either way, you'll get the same number of points everyone else does: 400/month, no matter how you pay.

Follow isn't the reason they're running off, Defensive is.

"Defensive" doesn't mean "defend yourself". It means "Don't attack anything unless it attacks you, then go kill it." Your pets are chasing after everything because YOU told them to. You want them to stop chasing things, put them on passive.

It would be nice if we could get commands that forced the pets into Ranged only, Melee only or use Both, but that's a matter for the Suggestions forum, and may not be possible anyways.

I have a character level locked at 10 for farming Neo's map. The 10 insp slots is fine. And I've been lucky: Each time I've made a new character since I made this guy, one run has been enough to get a level 10 Steadfast Unique, Regenerative Tissue Unique and -KB IO (if needed, I sell any extras I get). I've had a hell of a time getting Kismet Uniques to drop though. :P

There most definitely is consistency to the pricing. It's based on a number of factors, most notably how easy it is to get the item in question, how many people want it, and what its historical price has been.

Ease of obtaining: Bananas require a warm, humid environment to grow and spoil quickly. There are few places north of Mexico that they can be grown. If you live in Alaska, the price of bananas is going to be significantly higher, just because its harder to get them to you before they spoil.
In game items don't have to worry about transportation or spoilage, but WHERE things can be produced is relevant. All uncommons can be generated en masse by punching enemies or rolling Bronze tickets. Rare recipes vary though: Some come from enemies, others from mission completion, and others only from Merit or Gold rolls (or Boss kills, with a fairly low drop rate). The game is all about punching enemies and completing missions, so the first two categories drop regularly, without even trying. The third category requires you to choose to make the appropriate rolls or turn on Bosses in your difficulty settings, or join a team. In general, it requires some degree of effort to earn these, or a considerable time expenditure, or both.

Desirability: Anyone can go outside and pick up a rock. most of those rocks are going to be regular rocks, but a very small number will have metals or gemstones in them. The rocks with gold or diamonds in them are worth more than those with iron or agates, and those will be worth more than sandstone or granite.
Likewise, if I had three rare recipes, the Luck of the Gambler +recharge would be worth more than the Mako's Bite: Acc/Dam/End/Rech, and that would be worth more than the Trap of the Hunter proc, even though all three were generated by the same 20 Merit roll. Why? Because more people want the LotG, less want the Mako, and very few want the Trap. Why people want one more than others doesn't really matter, just that people DO want it more.

Historical price: Looking out my window right now, I can see that the gas station across the road is charging $1.27/liter. If the gas companies suddenly found a way to produce gas for 1/10th the current production price, using a device installed in the tanks, so that there's no transportation cost, would the cost of gas suddenly drop to $0.10/liter or less? No. Why? Because people expect gas to cost around the price it does, so they are willing to pay that much, even if they don't want to. Therefore, the people who set the prices may reduce the price to reflect their lowered costs, but not by the same amount their cost reduced.
When Merits were introduced, it became far easier to mass produce valuable recipes. Alignment Merits made it even easier. Originally, to get a Luck of the Gambler +recharge (ignoring the market for the moment), you had to run numerous Task Forces and hope to get one as a drop. Now, anyone who wants one can run 22 missions over 4 days and be guaranteed one. Or they can run a pre-determined number of story arcs or task forces and be guaranteed one. Neither of these changes instantly dropped the value of this IO - instead, it slowly trickled down, and now, years later, is about half its previous value. Why? Because people "know" it's an expensive item, so the sellers can set a high price, and people will pay it because that's what they expect to pay for it.

There is NO high-priced item on the market that doesn't have a reason for being that high. The reasons are complex, and based on a number of factors, and sometimes not obvious, but they are always there. Yes, manipulation of the market CAN be the source of high prices, but it rarely is, and even more rarely is sustained for more than a few days. More often, it's a combination of the factors of a Supply and Demand system.

Unfortunately, even if I've convinced you, or anyone else, dozens still will refuse to believe, often stating that real-world economics don't apply to a game, or that all high prices are the work of manipulators, and someone will be having this discussion again nxet week.

I'd say he answered everything you asked.

You won't get the bonus for being subbed on the 1st. You'll get the bonus at the beginning of each billing cycle that starts after the 1st. So if your account renews on the 3rd, you get nothing on the 1st and bank 400 points on the 3rd. If you instead let your account lapse, and reactivated on the 5th, you'd get the bonus on the 5th instead.

I find that unlikely, OB. It's a Defender Primary, Controller/Corruptor/Mastermind Secondary, which means it's a buff/debuff set. I suspect that it will mostly focus on speed affecting effects. Slows, recharge buffs, maybe a hold.

I seriously doubt that.

We can't have two hyphens in a single name.

Go get Titan Sentinel, and it will take your in-game build and let you import it into Mids' as if it were a forum post. Then you can post it here.