Smurphy

Originally Posted by cp2_4eva

See, this is why people sometimes are reluctant to post, because you automatically say someone is whining. regardless if you wait the prices are still jacked up. I know what a consignment store is. My point is at this current moment in CoH time, prices are seriously high. When you have 600 available items and 500 people bidding on it and the last 5 buys for spell ink is 100,000 inf....something is wrong.

Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven

Ummm, they sat there for a year? Isn't that answer enough?

Originally Posted by Sardan

slotting your attacks with End reducers.

Originally Posted by Rodion

Something needs to be done to keep inflation in check. Right now the game is in hyperinflation mode. When this happens in real life (Germany during the 30s, Turkey and several other countries in the 90s) serious economic dislocations occur.

The cap is artificial and isn't a "solution" to hyperinflation. But raising it is the wrong answer -- inflation will continue to skyrocket unabated. If people have the time and inclination the price of purples will continue to rise to 5, 10 or 20 billion. The only thing that will stop it is the number of hours in the day that people have to farm influence. And if enough people are willing to buy influence from the spammers even that won't stop the inflation.

The devs are making changes in I16 to stop AE missions from giving exorbitant experience and infamy. In essence, they're forcing arc writers to structure the enemy groups in AE missions along the same lines as dev-created enemy groups: to get the same xp as dev mobs, you have to create mobs with the same rules that dev mobs are created.

Hyperinflation in the market is a bad thing. Like in real life, it can lead to a total economic collapse. For example, if the price of common salvage and uncommon recipes were to continue to soar into the tens of millions, and only dedicated farmers could afford to buy anything on the market, it could cause a major collapse of the subscriber base. If the majority of the player base believes they are completely locked out of the things they want, they'll leave the game. And that won't be good for farmers because a drastic collapse in subscriber numbers will mean no more improvements and new content, and the eventual death of the game.

Finally, increasing the cap would result in a lot of bugs. Remember how long it took to get numeric separators into all the places where influence/infamy was displayed? Using numbers greater than 2 billion may require using a special numeric type that's not directly supported in the programming language the game is written in. The bug would most likely manifest itself by some odd influence transaction that lopped off the top part of your influence. For example, if you had 23 billion influence and bought 10 billion from a spammer, a likely bug would result in you having only 1 billion after the transaction instead of 33 billion. Considering what you were doing, you'd be unlikely to report this bug and you'd just be out 32 billion.

Originally Posted by Blpup

hero side is moar popular and most ppl dont like to play on hard mode vills

Originally Posted by oriand

Smurphy--

I'm not making a semantic argument. If you'd read on through my admittedly really long post you'd see that I make a specific argument that Corruptors are ill-served by their Blasting Primary set.

Having a set be Primary means only two things: First, you can skip the first power if you want, and second, you can get the higher-tier powers faster.

Do you see the first doing Corruptors any good? Burst, Flares, and Dark Blast are some of the best powers in their respective sets, especially at low levels where they're the centerpiece of your single-target DPS. Some Blasters may skip them, but Blasters have a LOT more attacks available and power slots ot pick them in. Since Corruptors need their Support powers and tend (in my opinion) to get more value from pools like Fitness and Leadership, it takes them a long time to build an attack chain. I ALWAYS take the first blast for my Corruptors.

Now how about the second? Let's look at a couple of levels. At 14 a primary has 1-6, a secondary has 1-4. That means that having blasting as a primary is bringing Corruptors generally Aim, snipes, and single-target controls, occasionally a cone or a rain. But they don't have the damage numbers to make the best use of snipes or Aim. This is the same level range where Stalkers get Build Up/Placate, Masterminds get their second pet, and Defenders get powers like Speed Boost, Fortitude, and Dispersion Bubble. At level 32, Corruptors get a nuke, which is good, but not as good as a Blaster nuke. I also think it's not as good as a Mastermind's second upgrade, a Controller's Pet, or Defender powers like Fulcrum Shift or Heat Loss. Every AT that overlaps powersets with Corruptors gets something better at 32 than Corruptors do.

If you switched any of those other ATs primary and secondary, they'd be severely nerfed; Corruptors, on the other hand, would probably get stronger.

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TLDR: If Corruptors role is to shoot enemies, why are they worse at it (at low levels, in my experience) than every other villain AT?

Originally Posted by oriand

Summary of the argument: Corruptors don't work because they're the only Archetype in the game who depend on their SECONDARY powerset to perform their PRIMARY role. (Arguably Tankers do too, but I don't play them either)