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Perhaps the devs determined their preferred drop rate weighted against the average team size not solo play.

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But that doesn't change the flawed incentive...it just makes the drop rate wrong. Assuming the devs determined their preferred rate of XP gain by a similar process, it's odd that they would get drop rates wrong.

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Only the devs can pop up the exact numbers but what percentage difference of drops/time do you think the difference makes?

How quickly will 8 equals clear a map of X enemies versus one person (not padded) of Y enemies? Then divide X and Y by their respective times.

I think a lot people make the mistake of thinking they get 1/8 the drops teamed that they would solo and while there is some technical truth to that it ignores how many more enemies the 8 people will face and how quickly they will clear them.

And given the volume of people complaining about MA killing regular teams people obviously aren't all that concerned about teaming or drops since they are teaming where they don't get drops (except MA tickets).

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The hilariousness of PvPXPDR would hurt my soul.

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DR = Diminishing returns? That would be funny.

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It is evident that for an individual person, running solo missions is better for drops than running group missions, unless the group's kill rate is greater than the team size times your solo kill rate. Padded missions just cloud the issue, since they are equivalent to running solo missions at an artificially inflated speed (which is fine as far as I'm concerned, but beside the point).

That's exactly the kind of anti-social incentive that is usually avoided in MMOs in the interest of promoting player interaction, hence the scaling XP multiplier on team size to counteract the similar effect on XP gain. Why there is no similar multiplier on drops is a mystery to me.

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Perhaps the devs determined their preferred drop rate weighted against the average team size not solo play.

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My $15/month (well actually only $10.24/month for this year and a bit I love the 12+2 billing offer) enttiles me to a sense of entitlement.

Someone else seems to be using mine though.


and my purple warshade*

*my warshade has zero purple IOs**

** well actually my highets warshade has zero set IOs***

*** welll zero IOs all told****

*** she IS only 12 though, and I am sure her buy orders have come through in the last 90 days or so she has been offline.

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You won't enjoy your teens as a shade unless you avoid CoT missions. Stupid ghosts resist our damage.

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So back before IO's - did you tell people they were only entitled to TO's?

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A telling statement.

The only thing players are entitled to is access to the game world. What they choose to accomplish there is entirely up to them.

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Madness!

My $15/month entitles me to login to a purple warshade!

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Yeah. Hey Babs, do you think maybe we could get a list of ALL of the emotes *in* game please? Like the one we already have, but all of them. There are so many I forget about it isnt funny, and I have always wondered why all the emotes wasnt in the list that you can bring up where you can just click on them instead of having to type them in.

Think maybe, please please, huh huh?

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I think I am going to do all of them (that I can) this weekend and finally setup my costume change binds on several of my characters.

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Just this morning I tried to start a sewer team and no one wants to do anything other then stupid AE farms!

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Isn't the goal one and the same?

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Yes, your right. I cant argue with that.

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No no, my sister, argue!

Here's the difference:

In the sewers you are going to find people all on the same page with starting powers, not a mix of people all trying to beat custom critters with extreme defenses or something. In addition, it requires a little bit of knowledge of the game beyond how to get to the AE building. We had to teleport up a 15th level blaster to our AE mission because he didn't know how to GET to the AE entrance. He had never had to. He'd been TPed up, then flew/fell down to level, and then TP'd back.

I love the AE, I do. I love having my arcs up there (try them they're fun), but I also know that there's a lot more to the game and I won't touch the AE with a toon until I've done my sewer run, then gone to KR and gotten my Raptor pack from a bank mission.

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Goal -&gt; Skip unliked lower levels

You stated differences in scenery not goal.

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You've bought all 36 slots open there? Because I know folks who've done that and had to resort to another account. Heck before they even GAVE us that many slots, I had to buy another account since 12 wasn't nearly enough on Protector for me.

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Yes I have bought all 36 slots for virtue, And I do think you for all your help. Though as for a new account, Man then Id have to start all over, I like all my neato lvl 42 month vet and all my booster packs.

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Imagine having to flip between 60, 33 and 21 months...

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Just this morning I tried to start a sewer team and no one wants to do anything other then stupid AE farms!

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Isn't the goal one and the same?

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Good reasons, but still an inconvenience when I'm storing inf. in the CH. I would very much like to see the cap increased. Yes, I know, selfish.

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I'll hold onto a billion or so for you.

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What interest rates do you offer?

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I am very interested. Oh wait you meant

You'll pay me when you can't store anymore in AH bid slots!

I have it down to under 150 hours solo, normal content, heroic from 600 hours a few years ago.

I'll have to run one through MA solo and see how fast it goes not having to travel and run Fed Ex missions.

Brickstown has the entrance by the hospital.

You have an open slot? You sir are no altoholic!

&lt;-- 3 accounts, 256 characters

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Good reasons, but still an inconvenience when I'm storing inf. in the CH. I would very much like to see the cap increased. Yes, I know, selfish.

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I'll hold onto a billion or so for you.

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FYI ... patch that went to test then to live today did NOT say anything about fixing this. I think it was to fix EU servers since they could not even connect to French and German servers.

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That's not how you do this game...

They didn't post they were merging markets and fixing the arena PvP exploits!!!

After. Still working on getting the proper shade of purple on it.

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If I recall, someone on these forums claimed to be a casual player who was having trouble purpling out their actual warshade. It didn't start with BaB...

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Don't look at me. I just jumped on the bandwagon after it got started.

If you don't see a reason to do it, you don't have to do it. I haven't done one in a long time.

But if you find you wish you had taken a different power or taken them in a different order or slotted them differently then you might want to do it.

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I have a character with Field Crafter just for the badges. I would say it's a cool deal, but it takes a long time to buy the resources and craft the things 10 at a time (to transfer) for alts. She herself doesn't need them, and even if my friends need IOs, it's usually easier to just give them money.

And with common salvage so high, I can't even craft them for profit.

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You can use tickets from Mission Architecht to get what you want, then sell the rest of the random salvage for profit.

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I did that and got Field Crafter and made 70 million infamy in the process.

I still remember when a Respec netted "big bucks" and I used every freespec to its fullest.

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Another added bonus:

More chances at Pool Cs.



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I didn't think of that. I am liking this change even more now.

Well I am inspired by this to login all 3 of my accounts in Freedom for 2xp weekend and park my characters in a base when I go out of town.

Would you pay 1000 merits?

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I should have too, but I like to see the train wrecks happen.

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While on one?

Drat! Defeated by Cat again!