SwellGuy

Funny, that's not how I read Bill's posts at all.

But I am intrigued by what you know as a fact. Can you cite your official source please?

As a player, I would want that.

I doubt the devs do though. They want us to have to play to get something so they priced them by merits and merits are rated by average time to complete a task. They also put guards on ticket generation and set ticket prices for those items.

So we can do one of the following:
1. play until what we want drops
2. play until we can afford to buy it on the market
3. play until tickets generate it
4. play until merits generate it

Since they set the price at 200 merits to buy any recipe (except costumes and purples) we can know how long they want us to play to pay to get a recipe. If you go the TF route you are at 20mrt/hr and story arcs are at 8mrt/hr.

So the minimum they want us to play to buy a recipe is 10 hours. So I have to think if the devs did establish a store we would be looking at 100 million per recipe from them since they tend to scale prices up for the stores as an offset to convienence.

I can compare my spines/fire on one account with my warshade on the other running the same arc in Ouroboros. I'll set them both to the horribly boring +0/1 hero setting. The only drawback is both are on East Coast servers (Pinnacle and Triumph) if that would have any impact on it.

Also before I16 I was on Tenacious and now I am on 3 heroes and same level and I am getting salvage just not recipes at the same old rate.

If things were going to pseudo teammates then salvage ought to go also not just recipes.

That's awesome!

So I guess there's really no excuse for people who won't research the game on the web.

Go go Amazonians!

Yep. I pulled down my 2 MA things that had custom critters. They just aren't worth it reduced that much no matter how much fun they were to me. It's not like they were very rewarding to begin with but now they were as painfully bad as the high level family mission. And they were as legitimate a custom groups as I could make (minions, lts and bosses with real powers chosen).

I even got comments that they were too hard from people who ran them.

I am a bit weary of this 90%/10% stat. I don't think it has been a stated as a fact for years yet it gets trotted out constantly as a means of attacking the forum so I present the following:

IF it is true that only 10% use the forums means that only 10% read the forums and only 10% know anything about the game, then people who post this factoid as a means of making a point make no point because they are arguing about people who have an opinion that is a complete unknown. Those 90% non-forum people may well agree with the poster or they may all disagree but since it is a complete unknown any premises based upon them is completely irrelevant.

Furthermore, in the current game and web environment, a person is being intentionally ignorant if they do not seek out information on a game on its official forums and should be given all the consideration that people living in the undeveloped Amazon jungle should have on how the next web search engine ought to work.

Yeah and I will never have the TF acquired costume pieces. I have to learn to deal and so do people who won't pay the market prices for the IOs that they want that haven't dropped.

As I posted elsewhere, I am going to spend 125M to buy the LotG I want at lunch. Because I can and I earned the influence playing the game and I can do what I want with it.

If it were cheaper and more available I would have finished my warshade weeks ago and then what would I do?

I wish I could see how much my warshade has made the past few months because I know I have spent billions.

I rather enjoyed just buying that LotG: +Recharge I wanted for 125 million just because I could. And I knew it would enrage the market haters.

I think I will buy another one at lunch so get your cups ready for the tears (not mine) lamenting the evil sellers who force me to pay such outrageous amounts.

I'll use "This"

Whichever issue introduced Ouroboros resulted in several posters objecting to being exemplared and losing their powers.

I think you've just been lucky in the past or 2 issues of MA may have reinforced it.

I think you forgot to mention you also get 5 free merits!

And very soon more recipe, salvage and an additional market slot.

How do you define "working the market"?

If playing the game and selling my drops is working the market then I am guilty.

If not, then my warshade has over half his purples (some by drops, some by buying) is sitting on over 1 billion influence and I have many bids out for sets I want.

Everytime I get to 1.1 billion I just buy the next one in line and then go back to running missions.

So am I working the market to afford the top end sets? If not, then your assertion is wrong. If so then your definition is one I can never agree with.

Someone anonymously repped me for this as rude and immature. Yet I posted it in public not some weasely anonymous negative rep.

It must be terrible to not get to name your characters Fyre Blastor for so many.

Probably because it never was. It's a Marvel character from 1985.

Careful. They probably won't drop just yet due to the apparent bug reducing recipe drops.

I mean, please go sell the ones I have lowball bids out for.

As long as this apparent recipe drop rate reduction persists this how it strikes me for what it's worth.

Pool A recipes will go up.
Common and Uncommon Salvage will go down (we're seeing this already) because even more of it will drop than is needed for crafting.

So what I will do is churn tickets and get recipes on most of my characters.

I follow the inf.

But you can ignore people who lie like you are.