New efforts!

[Von Krieger]

Well, I was one of those Ebil Marketeers. Here, let me give you my card...

*black object with "In the name of the damned, my infernal service is at hand" written in flames on it*

*cackles sinisterly and disappears in puff of sulfur scented smoke*

[Everfreefire]

Surprised you didn't charge for your card.    :P

[Cailyn Alaynn]

He would have if we could trade Inf atm.

[Zombie Hustler]

Random reply; I am trying to work out what my main hero is gonna be. She used to be ice/ice defender,...

Was her name Ice Ice Baby?  ;D

[Ohioknight]

Wait, they ran out of strange new worlds and new civilizations?  They've boldly gone everywhere there is to go? :o

Please. The Star trek universe is roughly the size of Rhode Island.  You can't swing a dead cat in there without hitting 6 Klingons, 2 Ferengi, and at least one Cosmic pure energy being.  You might travel to a random location on the far side of the galaxy, but you'll STILL run into people you know!  Going where no one has gone before?  Give me a break -- there's NO WHERE in that universe that thousands or millions haven't gone before -- there are parts of the American west less densely populated than open space in the Star Trek universe.

[ukaserex]

I never really understood why the marketeers were dubbed "ebil" or "evil". If there were a set amount of inf in the game, then I could see it - but inf was so easy to earn - either through play or marketing.

I do get that some folks just didn't have the time or the patience for playing the game - but Wentworth's? That was a great little game within a game! (Yeah, I'm pretty sure the actual truth for most folks is the opposite.)

[adarict]

... argue math with Arcanaville...

I never got tired of that.  When the Devs don't even argue with her, it always amazed me when other players did.

[ike]

It may be slow news, but hanging out here feels eerily similar to the old CoH forums that it's worth doing for that alone.

All we need is someone to burst in claim the Marketeers are the Devil's tools, complain about jerk-hacking Americans, argue math with Arcanaville, Dev bash and post brony pics and the feel of the place would be complete!


DO NOT TAKE THIS AS A REQUEST FOR ANY OF THOSE TO HAPPEN.

bronies were a thing in city of heroes too? i never noticed.

[Cailyn Alaynn]

bronies were a thing in city of heroes too? i never noticed.

...At least half the posts I remember seeing in the past few days on the official forums were related to My Little Pony. It was.... A PONYSTORM.

I've got nothing against bronies, but the amount was a little* excessive.




*= Really freaking

[Felderburg]

yep, now the motto is "boldly going to blast alien ships into dust." :D

To be fair, that's been the motto since the beginning of STO.

They didn't run out of strange new worlds, they just stopped wanting people to run the exact same "randomly' generated things over and over again. And the nature of those was complained about - you would get the Borg inserted randomly as some sort of empire searching for their ancient artifacts, or something.

The issue is that they left the Foundry links to those areas, which makes it seem (well, not seem, that's what it is) like they're just using players to write the content for exploration.




http://www.unamee.com/index.php/themed-tee-detail/?tee=30314

[The Fifth Horseman]

After this many pages I can't remember if anyone ever brought this up, but, what about efforts to clean up the game engine should the buyers succeed? I do remember talks with the old devs about the clunky nature of the engine and Posi even making mention properly fixing inherent glitches in it would have required really taking it apart and rebuilding it so instead they would just slap more code on top of it to counteract the glitches but it would bloat the size of the engine. Or something along those lines.

I distinctively recall mentions of the original codebase not having been esigned with extensibility in mind, and it having... mutated... into something distinctively toxic to sanity.

[Cailyn Alaynn]

I distinctively recall mentions of the original codebase not having been esigned with extensibility in mind, and it having... mutated... into something distinctively toxic to sanity.

I distinctly recall on more than one occasion, more than one dev commenting on how ungodly awful the codebase was. How much work it was to do even the smallest of things.


Also, we need like...an IRC or something.

[Thirty-Seven]

People still use IRC?

[Burnt Toast]

I was an evil marketeer... not really evil lol.


I was always amazed at how much people were willing to pay for a pre-crafted IO compared to "just" the recipe. I could easily buy a recipe for 100k..the salvage for 20k... and sell the enhancement for 20 million. I only spent on average 60 to 90 mins a day at WentWorths and easily made anywhere from 500 to 700 million a day. That doesn't include anything I made off pvp ios :)


I actually wasn't evil... I had a few close friends in the game and would give them a billion or so without even thinking about it...and the 2 +def pvp ios as well (At one time I had 3 enhancement bins in my base with just those).


I did the marketing because I wanted to be able to outfit my toons with anything I wanted...and I wanted my friends to do the same. My one close friend always repaid me with some farming help and build advice (he was my counsel on maximizing my toons).


I was also known in some circles to hold billion inf costume contests in AP every few weeks. I ran my cc differently though... in a secret santa kind of way. I actually stood with everyone while 2 of my friends would act like they were judging. They would tell me a costume they liked and I would chat with the person a lil to get to know them. I would ask them what they would do with the inf etc.... all while they thought I was just another contestant. Often my choices were based on costume and my feeling toward the player.


I didn't have a lot of friends in CoH but I tried to help a lot of people :) Actually the entire month of July 2012 I would spend about 20 mins in AP every day and give random people 99,999,999 ... not a lot to some people but to others it was a gold mine. I remember at the end of that month I figured I had given away a little over 20 billion inf. I always chose someone under level 10...with not  a lot of vet badges...with a cool name or story or combination thereof. I never chose The Hu1k or Spidee Man or anything generic like that lol.


So while marketeers existed... you will find most of us truly were not evil and gave back to the community in our own way :)

[Cailyn Alaynn]

People still use IRC?

-shrugs- I know of a bunch of people that do.

[FloatingFatMan]

People still use IRC?

Millions upon millions still do, yes.

It's still the best way for large groups of people to get together and chat.

[Burnt Toast]

I ran an IRC channel from 1997 to 2001. We used to have meet and greets all over... Dallas, San Francisco, Oklahoma City, Chicago, NYC, etc..

I recently went back to the servers that the channel was on and they were all but vacant or filled with bots. It was kind of sad actually. I met a lot of people from IRC and a couple I am still friends with and in regular contact.

[silvers1]

I was always amazed at how much people were willing to pay for a pre-crafted IO compared to "just" the recipe. I could easily buy a recipe for 100k..the salvage for 20k... and sell the enhancement for 20 million.

Hmmm, always heard about people doing that, but I searched quite a few times for recipes that had a huge gap between the recipe and crafted - never could find one.

[Lava-Lad]

It may be slow news, but hanging out here feels eerily similar to the old CoH forums that it's worth doing for that alone.[/b]

K

:'( agreed :'(

[Waffles]

I was an evil marketeer... not really evil lol.

I made all of my marketing friends mad, heh.

I'd basically just blow through paper and alignment missions on my Ioed characters until a purple dropped (Got at least three a day.) and would craft and sell them for a few hundred million inf.  Good times.