SpittingTrashcan

Thanks. Could someone check and see if this fixes the input lag in the Ice Mistral SF crystal room as well?

Not really. There's lots of mischief you can perform on a character without outright deleting them.

But it's a moot point anyway, if fast switching is coming regardless.

Pick mission from paper.
Abandon mission.
Reopen paper, new set of missions.

The workflow could be slightly optimized, but it's no longer necessary to zone twice.

When you get back from your game, you may wish to consider the different kind of money-management skills required from those whose job it is to turn a large pool of money into a larger pool of money, and those who are trying to make the most of a small pool of money. You said it yourself: because you are working with such large quantities, you can afford to overspend on some purchases by a considerable percentage margin because the absolute value of that margin is small compared to your overall volume of business. It may be the case that autofill is an optimization for the way you go about your business, but this comes at the expense of many users for whom that same loss margin represents an unacceptably high percentage of their wealth.

Of course, this leaves you free to brush off such concerns as the consequence of failing to properly utilize the market or the rest of the game to maximize wealth generation. Very well: but historically, when elite users of a feature consider it fine, and average users do not, the developers tend to listen to the concerns associated with the larger pool of actual revenue. And that can very easily lead to changes that are detrimental to everyone. Personally, I'm happy to see so many of the people who are heavy users of the market asking for changes that benefit all market users, when it would be just as easy to recommend optimizations for unusual use cases or traps for the uninformed.

Edit: Full disclosure. I am a moderate market user. I don't have anything approaching the level of resources you're demonstrating. I'm aware of some steps I could take to obtain that level of wealth, and I know who to ask and what I'd want to read if I wanted to learn more, but it's more effort than I'm interested in putting into the game, and more importantly it's effort expended in pursuits I don't consider entertaining. I can get what I want in a timeframe that I consider acceptable, but I do have to be careful with my resources. The changes to the market interface have made my interactions with it more time-consuming, more risky, and therefore less pleasant.

Multiple megabyte application that costs the developers no server resources, which not only itself serves as an advertisement for one of the game's major differentiating features but serves to generate hundreds or thousands of images which also serve to advertise that feature, versus multi-gigabyte download that costs server resources and functions for a limited time? I dunno, I think there's room for both. The best kind of advertising is the kind that people actively seek out.

So, basically, you're making me choose between high-fidelity boobs and crotch lasers.

I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.

Unless they had to.

I'd just like to note as an aside that it runs quite counter to stereotype for us to be accusing the developers of a video game of not paying enough attention to breasts.

Now I have two things to look forward to tomorrow. The rest of that video, and the rest of this post. I will spend the rest of my day in pleasant anticipation.

Whenever I run the Frostfire mission I spend at least as much time on the halfpipe as I do on the rest of the mission. I also love the ski slopes. If the devs created a skate park in one of the zones, I might never leave.

TL;DR: No, the point was to encourage people to run whatever TF they want to and get fair rewards.

Longer: The issue that Merits were intended to address is that because all TFs awarded a single random roll, and some of them could take vastly longer than others to complete and/or were significantly more challenging, many TFs were considered difficult to justify running. When the perception is that some content is effectively not worth playing, that means that the effort that went into creating that content is not paying off in terms of continued player interest. The idea behind merits was to make sure that all TFs gave a reward proportional to the time and effort invested, with the goal being that all TFs were considered equally valid uses of player time. Deciding the ratio between time and effort put out and reward received was a separate design issue.

I could argue that the decision to make any TF reward less than one random roll's worth of merits ran counter to the design goal of making sure that all TFs are considered worth running, especially since merits are earned on a per-character basis. For dedicated TF runners, merit rewards more or less normalized reward over time, but for a casual player who runs TFs only occasionally and on many different alts, the time between tangible rewards (that is, stuff they can actually use or sell as opposed to tokens) was greatly increased if they chose to run TFs that offered less than one roll's worth of merits per run. Anecdotal evidence suggests, and I think datamining will prove, that the popularity of sub-20-merit TFs is in steady decline and the popularity of 20-merit-plus TFs is high and increasing.

I am not advocating a flat across-the-board increase of all end-of-TF merit rewards to 20+, mind. I have no problem with speed running per se, but some level of proportionality is important for speedrunners in the same way that it is for everyone else - to encourage them to play whichever TF they most enjoy rather than get bored running the same one over and over. As stated upthread, I'd rather see the developers take a longer and more thorough look at what they consider to be "worth merits", and then add well-defined (that is, encompassing all the tasks that the developers actually wish to be accomplished in order to earn a reward) optional objectives to existing TFs that can boost the reward to at least 20 merits for a thorough team.

That would be a question for Marketing actually. Clearly losing the T rating would be a marketing failure, but anything that doesn't go over that line... well, Aion is getting press both for its graphics and its graphics if you get my drift.

And really, it'd be hard to claim that this would be uncharacteristically prurient in a game that has already released a paid content pack containing one tux, one wedding dress, and four types of lingerie.

But anyway. What were we talking about? Mother Mayhem, right. I'm sure she's a nice lady. For two reasons.

Is it... a slap in the face?