UberGuy

This has probably been suggested before, but I couldn't find anything in the first few pages of a search in this sub-forum.

When Vigilantes and Rogues visit "opposite" aligned zones though zones like or Pocket D the RWZ, they get a prompt, asking if they really want to go face the "challenges" of the other side. These prompts no longer serve any good purpose.

Once upon a time, there were supposed to be some actual consequences of zoning to the other side. As far as I know, there are none now, and so there is no good reason for anything to prompt us whether we really want to zone. Not all cross-zone passages even present them. For example, the exit portals from First Ward and the new DA say nothing of the sort when you use them. Based on that, my suggestion is to just get rid of the prompts in zones that have them. However, in case someone out there likes them or feels they are useful, I'd be happy with an option to disable them, even if it was buried somewhere in Null The Gull's dialog tree.

At the very least, please get rid of the double prompt in Pocket D. We don't need to be prompted both at the elevator and at the actual zone doors.

I really do miss that old login screen music. I preferred it to what we've gotten lately.

I am kind of floored by the RP elements of the complaint. Really, you object to the devs giving NPCs their own story, as opposed to letting you create one for them?

I think it makes complete and total sense that your ability to define the world around your character starts and ends with that character and their actions. I get people who complain about the limits on our actions to actually define the world, though I also get why that's not easy for MMOs to deliver. But I don't get objecting to the devs providing lore for characters who aren't your own.

Like many others here, I completely do not agree with the "no longer feel heroic" bit. But you're not the only one with that objection, at least. I've never heard anyone complain about NPCs getting a story before.

That trying to skip the solo-only narrative missions can block other missions I agree is less than ideal.

I prefer more consistency, not less. I don't think mobs need to be vanilla, however. Tsoo, for example, can have a lot of variety in the effects they wield against you, even in their low-level versions. That tends to make each spawn a bit different from the previous. If your powers don't work uniformly against these various foes, this can introduce variability in difficulty that's specific to your character. I like that, to a point. Something like random EBs in spawns, not so much.

I wouldn't be super confident that will stay like that. That seems pretty obviously wrong given that Stamina and things like Quick Recovery are some of the only places to slot Performance Shifters that let it work correctly. Given that, the math equating how the store bought and in-game versions should work is pretty straightforward.

The in-game version is the equivalent of a 1.2 PPM rate. I do think there should be some added value in the store bought version, since you're paying proxy money for them, but that difference seems a bit much.

Edit: Scooped by a Red Name. (SBARN!)

If that blocking power is using in-game time, that's just flat out broken. That needs to be changed to real time, just like power recharge.

I'm not sure where "orders of magnitude" really came into the discussion. Back-of-the-napkin calculations based on the increases I mentioned above don't suggest to me that the per capita rate of money supply has gone up by orders of magnitude (barring some of the exploits now closed), so I wouldn't expect prices to have done so. However, I do think the per capita money supply rate for 50s has probably gone up by a factor of 2.5-3. And, for rare/very rare items that are (a) sufficiently hard to produce by alternate means than as drops and (b) we have some long-term sense of prices, a 2.5- to 3-fold price increase roughly fits the anecdotal pricing I recall.

Consider this: Some of these items that have had fairly stable pricing now have rather more accessible ways to produce them. When introduced, Reward Merits were a net decrease in the rate at which people could produce random recipes, and before Reward Merits, the market was the only way to get something non-randomly. Over time, though, not only have the ways to get Reward Merits increased, but we have new ways to buy the things Reward Merits can buy, some of which can be significantly faster to earn. Alignment Merits and Astral Merits can both buy LotGs, for example. So we can be fairly confident that the total availability of these things (not just market supply) has gone up. That should both increase market supply (people create them to sell for money) and decrease market demand (people create them to use and bypass the market). Yet the market prices have of LotGs been fairly stable for quite a long time. (They're more stable if you view them from the original hero market through the merged one rather than from the villain market through the merged one.)

Another consideration is total allocation of market money. We have places for people to spend money on the market that did not exist originally. Purples did not exist at first. And when purples did first exist, PvPOs did not. Even if we had rock-solid prices back through time on Pool A/B/C+D recipes, the addition of even the "lowest stable" prices we've seen purples and then PvPOs would represent a massive increase in money flowing through the market.

I'm a big believer in the applicability of the Quantity Theory of Money in CoH's market place, because I know it applies to me. I'm more willing to spend money when money is easy to replace. "Easy to replace" means the money has to come from somewhere. There are two places money can come from - I can "print" it myself via playing, and I can earn it on the market. Being able to earn 5M inf/hour just in combat on my 50s means I am much, much more willing to spend 5, 10, 30, even 100M than I once was. If enough other people are like me, then the bottom end of the price scale will tend to rise.