Sardan

What's the difference? That you pay for a pre-purchase up front but pay for a pre-order when the goods are actually delivered?

That's my number one desire for enhanced AI, some aggro chaining: have some percent chance that a runner will dash off and if he finds another group, will aggro them. It'd add a little bit of extra tactical fun to the game without radically changing it.

I agree. This is TOTALLY not an attempt to arm-twist them into giving us more info. True fact: I have 100,000 close friends and we've decided that if they do a detailed GR reveal this week, we'll all buy it. BUT if they wait, the deal's off and we're all just going to play Maple Story.

Well, there are lots of dictatorships where the leaders have a poor grasp of basic economics. Look at Kim Jung Il. Or Robert Mugabe. Or Positron. *RIMSHOT*

I'm not normally one for doom posts, but I think that if a market merge doesn't happen this situation will get worse, not better. With GR, villains will switch sides so they can participate in the blueside market.

It doesn't have to be a mass exodus to have a noticeable impact. While it's true that only a small percentage of characters ever seriously get into the "purpling out" stage, I am betting that many of those players will look at prices and availability blueside and make the switch. As those same players are probably among the the more intensive TFers and farmers, they'd also be taking their disproportionate capacity for recipe and salvage production blueside too.

Hopefully I'm wrong, but due to this effect I expect the redside market situation to worsen when GR goes live.

I too can't provide a link to an authoritative red name post, but in one of the zillions of Herocon threads, I posted a comment about Posi saying we'd be able to act as gun runners, and someone who had been there replied saying that shortly after that (not on the video?) another dev qualified the statement with that "you won't have any reputation after you switch sides" line, which as much as says that inf won't transfer.

However, I've asserted in other threads that while infamy and influence are tightly coupled to factions, salvage/recipes/IOs aren't. Since we can expect to earn all those while doing side-switching arcs, it makes no sense to think that at some point we'd have to empty our inventory of those items. So if you want to take your riches with you when you switch sides, you can invest your billions in expensive goods like purples, then switch sides and sell. Let me emphasize this is all speculation on my part but it seems reasonable.

I'm not a hardware guru but I've been following this issue with some interest and here's my impression: for a given price point, you'll get better performance with ATI right now. The current scuttlebutt concerning the soon to be released next generation nVidia cards is that they won't change that situation.

I'm going to wait a month or two, since I understand that nVidia's new cards are going to be released soon and it's rumored that ATI may be doing a refresh on its product line. But ATI looks like the card to buy for CoH at the moment. Check out this summary from Tom's Hardware; it shows that at every price point, ATI is the card to get right now.

Right, makes sense. My guess is that they'll wait to put the prepurchase in the store until after the patch goes live to avoid a flood of "hey, I paid my money, where're my pistols?" support requests.

To play the straight man for a minute in case anyone reading this gets a bit worried: when the Magic booster came out and some folks accidentally racked up multiple orders (see Dumple's simple advice for how to avoid doing that, above), NCsoft reps worked with them to reverse the extra charges.

But I heard if you hit Buy twice you get Quad Pistols!

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Hey, is anyone else a Car Talk listener? In their January 16th episode they had a story about a pregnant Madagascar Hissing Cockroach that accidentally got loose in a car, then did what pregnant roaches do. Hilarity ensued.

I tell my kids all about the useful role spiders play, blah, blah, blah. But I also tell them that their habitat is not allowed to intersect my habitat, and I enforce that with extreme prejudice.

I don't do "slow, agonizing" though. More like a swift transition from the 3D world to the 2D world, followed by an exciting water ride.

I could see beginning farming with SOs, but honestly if this is something you're going to be doing for a while, you'll soon have enough inf to IO up. So I think that objection is a red herring because it's just about initial conditions.


I wouldn't call it "lol" but when the topic is farming, it's all about kill speed. A brute on a farm will for all practical purposes be maxed on Fury and will be doing far more damage than a tanker.

I don't think it's a big risk. How would a wannabe SG spammer get names of offline characters? It's easier to do what they do today, stand in Mercy/Atlas and spam invites to new lowbie characters.

In another thread this came up and I wrote:

This may or may not be accurate, but it's my best guess.

I remember that too, although someone on the forums said that it apparently was (partially?) retracted later when another dev said something like "what makes you think you'd take your notariety with you when you crossed over? You're starting anew."

I take that to mean that they're serious about keeping influence and infamy separate. So your inf will be reset to zero when you cross over.

On the other hand, recipes/salvage/enhancements aren't associated with a faction, and of course you'll earn those as drops while you're doing the crossing-over arcs. I don't see them being taken away. So my guess is that you won't lose any items, only inf. So it'll become standard procedure to invest in expensive goods when planning to cross over, then selling them after the process is done.

This is all speculation/supposition, of course.

I don't see what possible reason they'd have for excluding special salvage. If it can be traded or sold, it should be able to be an email attachment.

First, they didn't say an attachment could only have one item in it. So presumably you could send a bunch of items in a single email, eliminating the "one by one" part of your objection.

Second, this mechanism isn't just to send stuff to your own alts. You can send things to other accounts too, so it's more flexible than a vault could be.

I've gotten several invites to join BM farms lately. Out of curiosity I did join one and the guy was obviously an experienced farmer with a heavily purpled toon. For a while I was into farming so I have a pretty good understanding of the typical pace through that map, and this guy was just tearing it up. The only thing I can think of was that he was PLing an alt on a second account so he didn't care about drops and just wanted to max out kill speed. There were no doorsitters, everyone was helping.

From what je_saist posted, nVidia looks like it sort of blew it with Fermi. I'll wait till I see more reviews before I make the decision but right now I'm planning on going with ATI.

I agree. If I can't have a Martial Art/Shield Defense Lusca then the whole thing just sucks.

Can you make that your sig?