WW Website, BM telephone number


Grouchybeast

 

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We have Accolades for portable work benches and portable MA interfaces, why not ones for Wentworths and the Black Market? Seems like this would be pretty easy to implement since we already have Market badges - just combine a bunch of them into a new accolade.

Heroside the Accolade would cause a laptop to appear in front of you allowing you access to a website that would basically be the WW interface. Villainside, you'd be granted a special phone number to call to place an order or offer up an item to sell through your black market contacts.


A couple of issues this could ease/solve:

- Crowd-related lag at the "brick and mortar" WW/BM locations.
- The ability to throw some items into open market slots in the middle of a mission to avoid trying to guess what salvage/recipe/enhancement to delete because you forgot to stop at the consignment shop on your way to the mission.
- The ability to buy some more inspirations in the middle of a particularly hairy TF/SF.
- If you have the portable workbench, the ability to purchase and craft IOs on the fly for yourself or a teammate.
- The time sink involved with running back and forth between even the closest consignment shops and fabrication facilities if you don't yet have the portable work bench.


I would imagine this has been suggested before, and since we don't yet have such a feature, there may be some drawbacks to the idea, but offhand I can't think of any.


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ww/bm teleporter.

and how exactly do you get an item from a screen or phone again?

now for you other points:

go to a different ww/bm. use the teleporter if need be.

delete the common io's or the junk set stuff.

any one of your nearest contacts or your base.

again, how do you recieve things from a computer screen or phone?

because the 5 seconds it takes to go from the ww to university in steel or the bm to university in cap or bm to abandoned lab in st. martial is just to much.


 

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How exactly do you conjure a workbench out of thin air? How exactly does my tights-wearing superhero/villain lug around 153 lbs of silver, gold, iron, steel, platinum, etc. when s/he doesn't have any pockets?

I know there is a day power job for teleporting to WW or the BM, unfortunately if you're in one of the many zones that don't have one, there is no way to TP back to where you were.

Assuming it does only take five seconds to run from the BM/WW to one of the crafting stations in the three zones you mentioned (which I would probably at least double or triple), those five seconds add up when

A) You make the round trip multiple times because you didn't realize that those three Human Blood Samples in your non-existant pocket are used in five of the recipies you wanted to craft.

B) You need another lvl 30 Heal recipe, but you can't remember what they were selling for in WW, or if there were even any for sale.

And if you're not in one of those zones to begin with, then you have to travel to one of those zones.

Not to mention if you're in St. Martial at the magic store and you want to check on what a piece of salvage is selling for at the BM before you sell it at the store for 250/1000/5000 inf.


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We don't need this, look at the thread that has NPC's in SG bases, that's what we need.


 

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there are more then enough ways to get around. your whining about taking a few mins out of your day to craft something is just that, a whine.

it is no ones fault for not checking your inventory but your's.

there is a natural store right near the market in st. martial that will buy that salvage for the same price as the magic store.

travel in this game is pretty easy. i do not see a need for this, nor does it make sense.


 

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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint View Post
and how exactly do you get an item from a screen or phone again?
They can use the same magical system which allows characters to deliver a prisoner or hand over an item by phone to a contact.

Plus, if WW and the BM can somehow manage to move items and inf across parallel realities which are absolutely impossible for any character to travel between, I think they can telephone me a Luck Charm.


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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint View Post
there are more then enough ways to get around. your whining about taking a few mins out of your day to craft something is just that, a whine.
Thanks, that was insulting.



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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint View Post
travel in this game is pretty easy. i do not see a need for this, nor does it make sense.
It makes no less sense to me than the Field Fabricator badge/accolade, but the Devs saw fit to incorporate that.


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Originally Posted by Slope View Post
We don't need this, look at the thread that has NPC's in SG bases, that's what we need.
Well that would certainly work if you had a SG base, but if you didn't...

Not to mention, if the objection to this by some people is the amount of programming time it would take to implement it, I would think the SG base NPCs would require even more resources to implement.


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alright, lets throw this at you. how do you obtain the accolade? how long is the recharge on the accolade? and how long will this screen stay up? and keep in mind, it must stay in line with the rest of the accolades.


 

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Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint View Post
alright, lets throw this at you..
how do you obtain the accolade?

Earn the Broker, Inspiring, Scrounger, Enhancer, Vendor, Salesperson, Tradesperson, Merchant, Peddler, and Retailer badges (or their Redside equivalents).


how long is the recharge on the accolade?

30 minutes.


and how long will this screen stay up?

Two minutes unless you close it sooner. And it is only usable by you, not by teammates or other nearby players.


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Originally Posted by mousedroid View Post
We have Accolades for portable work benches and portable MA interfaces, why not ones for Wentworths and the Black Market? Seems like this would be pretty easy to implement since we already have Market badges - just combine a bunch of them into a new accolade.
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About the only thing that may cause an issue - and it'd be a minor one - would be the "Buy inspirations during a TF." Of course, there are so many sources for them *now* even that would be questionable.

I'd personally be more for a WW/BM interface in the bases first, but I don't see an issue with this, honestly.