SwellGuy

Originally Posted by PsiLance

I'm in Sharkhead Isle right now standing next to an NPC named Submariner Janus, who is standing on a dock next to a submarine. Who is he? When select him, he says, "Sorry buddy. You and I shouldn't really seen be talkin'. Come back when you've decided to make some 'life choices'. I'd be curious to know how that works out for you."

Originally Posted by BurningChick

You know what's funny?

Waaaaay back in I9's closed beta, I remember thinking, "Wow, the market's interface is about 75 quadrillion times better than the Arena's."

When I first looked at the new interface in OB, I thought, "Sooooo busy."

My second thought was, "Sooooo busy, but ... ummm ... damn ... I really do miss having one bar at the bottom where I can: see what I have for sale; what I've sold; what I'm storing; visual reference for how many open slots I have; drag items from my inventory onto that bar; grab all my inf; make sure if I'm dumping big piles of salvage that I'm consistently pricing everything. All in one freakin' place."

I can see tabs being useful for organizing, say, hundreds of badges.

But not for dealing with 20 on-going transactions.

Originally Posted by Aura_Familia

Personally if we're talking about advantages I'd argue that Crotoa ain't all that. The only impressive things in there to me are the GMs and a FEW of the mob types.

Originally Posted by Smurphy

Reward / Time is standardized on both sides. I say it not because I am silly, but because I am capable of performing division.

Originally Posted by thehallows

I guess we have very different perceptions of why there are more people blueside. I kind of assumed it was to do with the fact that there is far more content and zones blueside, loads of neat goodies with special mission mechanics, and especially some really awesome content like Croatoa. Damn, I almost want to go Vigilante just for Croatoa.Are you serious? I don't go much on the forums, but are there actually people who say there aren't inflated rewards blueside? With everyone I've played with in-game, it's been taken for granted as a completely uncontroversial fact that blueside rewards are inflated. Are we all just imagining that, for instance, there are a lot more merit rewards to be had on a TF than a SF, because we're all so silly? I'm a little thrown out of whack by that claim, like someone just told me Earth rotates around Mars and it's silly to say otherwise or something.

Originally Posted by thehallows

Sorry SwellGuy, but I don't quite get it. You seem to start out by saying that it wouldn't work as a fix, but then everything you say afterwards seems to support the idea that it would work. Wouldn't this work out then? If there is something equivalent to a Luck of the Gambler or Numina proc that you can only get redside, then you would have people going redside to get them, or buying from those who went redside to get them. In your terms, you will have buyers/sellers/drop producers moving to redside. You will also have buyers who will be forced to buy specifically from villains if they want a certain item. What am I missing here?

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

What Agge said--I17, with all its wonderfulness, wasn't even 3GB.

Originally Posted by Westley

I still don't see you putting up.

Originally Posted by rsclark

It's almost like i said that already.

Oh wait, there it is -"Now, I don't know whether to blame any changes on lower population or simply on the effect IO sets and the new difficulty settings have had on the ability to solo content".

Most of the people in this thread are stuck in some defensive mindset, where every criticism of the current state game is taken as a pronouncement of doom and reacted to with canned responses that don't actually correspond to the complaints made.

It might help if people would not quote walls of text and actually read what's on the screen before responding.

Originally Posted by thehallows

Yeah, well, I can complain back about the disadvantages that villains have. But excepting a few griefers, wouldn't that solution work to balance out a merged market?

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

That is true.

But if Vigilance or Zukunft was their first choice it would lead to quite a few "WTF?!" moments fornew players.

Originally Posted by Westley

I agree with merging the server list. I don't agree with merging the servers themselves.

Originally Posted by Westley

Or maybe everyone has him on their ignore lists...

Originally Posted by Emberly

Sip some tea and laugh at the antics of the colonies!*

The EU/NA divide makes me sad; I would totally roll on some EU servers if I could. Are the EU servers fairly well populated? I hear that one of the English-language servers has a lot more players than the other?

*edit: Assuming tea is your thing.

Originally Posted by thehallows

Wouldn't it work to somehow give villains a little bit better access to rare stuff? A small increased rare drop rate, or a redside SF that only villains can do with really good rare stuff opportunities? Then go ahead and merge the markets and if the devs get the numbers right, it should balance out. Of course I'm no economist, so correct me if I'm horribly wrong. Heroes would have to be real bastards to complain about a measure like this one considering how many advantages they already have.

Originally Posted by Beber

I'm an EU player and I'm still looking for this so called "Freedom" server on my list. Wat do?

Originally Posted by Diggis

Fixed for you..

I'd like to see the War Walls torn down and the city returned to normal.

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

London? The most unfriendly city in Europe? Eew.*



(It's true. London is weird. No-one talks to each other, sorta like WoW but with slightly fewer people wanting to duel you)

Originally Posted by dave_p

A few people have already touched on this point, but I thought I'd echo it. I was frankenslotting some of my toons last night when the thought popped up momentarily that the market interface was a PitA to the point where it's almost not worth the effort. Think about that for a second.

It's always an effort to IO up your toon vs. just buying SOs or whatever, and I've always thought this was the biggest barrier to entry player base that simply ignores IOs in general (and let's face it, there are a LOT of 50s out there that don't have a single IO bonus in their power window). Those of us that know & care about the wonders of IOs (whether to frankenslot or go for bonuses) know full well it's worth the effort to craft recipes, buy & sell, earn through drops, etc and get our toons powered well beyond mere SO level.

Now, if crafting veterans look at the new interface as being (almost) not worth the effort, how the hell are new players going to approach it? Again, I do not think the current interface problems are lrn2play (lrn2use) in nature, but more of ergonomics and poor design. What about those "casual" players that barely used the old market? Are they going to want to learn a whole new system or are they going to just chuck it all?

As for marketeering, I'm just glad I'm well & retired w/my fat nest egg full of Fulms. There's no way I'd try to make money off of this system now. I realize this is a point of celebration to many who hate ebil. Your day may have finally arrived, but at what cost?

Originally Posted by Diggis

Oh no, they do. And they all have stripped tops and blue jeans. Plus the statue of Atlas has been replaced with the Eiffel tower.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

Its got nothing to do with laziness as I said, its just a big headache. Some players wont play on a team unless it has this AT, some players wont join unless your doing AE missions, some players wont join unless your doing Radios, some players wont join unless your doing TF/SF, some players wont join unless you only do their missions. Not to mention all the people who want a tell sent first even though they are already actively looking for a group. Again I dont have time for all that *** kissing just so you can join a team that you are already looking for. For the record I dont just blindly invite people unless you are looking for a group and dont have please send tell in your search comment, those folks automatically get skipped over.

Originally Posted by Beber

Every EU server has a tag next to it in the server list, indicating its location. No need for a "Le Vigilance", it's already "Vigilance (FR)"

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Doh! Color me stupid for forgetting that.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Ok I'm confused. Do you need the 15k to buy a power/control source? Because a drop in prestige shouldn't cause a TP to stop working unless the base shuts down from not paying rent and your in the negative.