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Does anyone else wish for a more forgiving Enh purchase process? Even with
considerable experience, I occasionally misread the teeny-tiny icons and
teeny-tiny text and buy the wrong enhancement - Dragon Defense for Dragon
Scales being the most recent goof. (You can hardly tell one from the other
by the icon - light purple vs light-medium purple!) Since I can't use the
former and can do nothing but sell them back, the mistake costs me 25k per
instance. In the heat of rushing off to sell-buy during a team, I made this
mistake to the tune of 50k.

Would it be unreasonable to have an immediate return policy, resell for 90-
100% of purchase, as long as you don't leave the store or the contact
session? Or to add a "shopping cart" interface so you can review what
you've chosen before committing?

Or am I just dim of sight, slow of mind and whining?

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-= Shenanigunner: Level 29 Natural Tanker, Fire/SS, M =-
-= Sgt Glory B: Level 16 Tech Blaster, Electric/Energy, F =-
-= Duke Miasma: Level 8 Science Controller, Grav/Force, H =-
-= the Nonpareil: Level 7 Magic Defender, Emp/Rad, F =-
-= Mean Mr Mustard: Level 7 Natural Tanker, Inv/Stone, H =-

 

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Shenanigunner <nsp@nitrosyncretic.kom> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Does anyone else wish for a more forgiving Enh purchase process? Even with
>considerable experience, I occasionally misread the teeny-tiny icons and
>teeny-tiny text and buy the wrong enhancement - Dragon Defense for Dragon
>Scales being the most recent goof. (You can hardly tell one from the other
>by the icon - light purple vs light-medium purple!) Since I can't use the
>former and can do nothing but sell them back, the mistake costs me 25k per
>instance. In the heat of rushing off to sell-buy during a team, I made this
>mistake to the tune of 50k.

Simple solution - do what I do - right click and select info before
buying.
The only things I _don't_ info first are accuracy/damage/end reducers.

Xocyll
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I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

 

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Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote:
> Simple solution - do what I do - right click and select info before
> buying. The only things I _don't_ info first are accuracy/damage/end
> reducers.

Maybe it's just the natural set, but I find it very difficult to
distinguish several combinations of Enhs. I do use the Info thing
sometimes, but I guess I need to use it every time...

--
-= Victory Server =-
-= Shenanigunner: Level 29 Natural Tanker, Fire/SS, M =-
-= Sgt Glory B: Level 16 Tech Blaster, Electric/Energy, F =-
-= Duke Miasma: Level 8 Science Controller, Grav/Force, H =-
-= the Nonpareil: Level 7 Magic Defender, Emp/Rad, F =-
-= Mean Mr Mustard: Level 7 Natural Tanker, Inv/Stone, H =-

 

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Thus spake Shenanigunner <nsp@nitrosyncretic.kom>, Sat, 08 Jan 2005 17:03:23
-0000, Anno Domini:

>Does anyone else wish for a more forgiving Enh purchase process? Even with
>considerable experience, I occasionally misread the teeny-tiny icons and
>teeny-tiny text and buy the wrong enhancement - Dragon Defense for Dragon
>Scales being the most recent goof. (You can hardly tell one from the other
>by the icon - light purple vs light-medium purple!) Since I can't use the
>former and can do nothing but sell them back, the mistake costs me 25k per
>instance. In the heat of rushing off to sell-buy during a team, I made this
>mistake to the tune of 50k.
>
>Would it be unreasonable to have an immediate return policy, resell for 90-
>100% of purchase, as long as you don't leave the store or the contact
>session? Or to add a "shopping cart" interface so you can review what
>you've chosen before committing?
>
>Or am I just dim of sight, slow of mind and whining?

I'm with you on this one Shenanigunner ;-)

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Shenanigunner <nsp@nitrosyncretic.kom> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote:
>> Simple solution - do what I do - right click and select info before
>> buying. The only things I _don't_ info first are accuracy/damage/end
>> reducers.
>
>Maybe it's just the natural set, but I find it very difficult to
>distinguish several combinations of Enhs. I do use the Info thing
>sometimes, but I guess I need to use it every time...


All the sets have some that can be a bit confusing (though mutation
names are pretty clear for the most part.)

Still slightly confusing since my last several characters were magic
origined so i'm used to those enhancements.

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

 

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In article <Xns95D85BCA92300nitropressatnitrosyn@216.168.3.44>,
Shenanigunner wrote:
> Does anyone else wish for a more forgiving Enh purchase
> process? Even with considerable experience, I occasionally
> misread the teeny-tiny icons and teeny-tiny text and buy the
> wrong enhancement - Dragon Defense for Dragon Scales being the
> most recent goof. (You can hardly tell one from the other by
> the icon - light purple vs light-medium purple!) Since I can't
> use the former and can do nothing but sell them back, the
> mistake costs me 25k per instance. In the heat of rushing off
> to sell-buy during a team, I made this mistake to the tune of
> 50k.
>
> Would it be unreasonable to have an immediate return policy,
> resell for 90- 100% of purchase, as long as you don't leave the
> store or the contact session? Or to add a "shopping cart"
> interface so you can review what you've chosen before
> committing?
>
> Or am I just dim of sight, slow of mind and whining?

It's an honest mistake. You really have to read the Info text
carefully before a purchase.

It's not as bad as it used to be, for example, back when the
+Defense and +Resistance DO's had the same descriptive text.

--
Neil Cerutti

 

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:56:43 -0500, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net> wrote:

> All the sets have some that can be a bit confusing (though mutation
> names are pretty clear for the most part.)

Mutation is very clear; Natural and Magic are clear for the most part,
though with a few confusing ones. Tech is fairly easy to work out
what does what from the names, too.

The one that really ticks me off is Science. I mean, that's totally
whacked. Who the hell went through the periodic table and decided
what particular elements relate to particular powers? How are we
supposed to make sense of it?

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 04:10:27 GMT, Robotech_Master <robotech@eyrie.org>
wrote:

>The one that really ticks me off is Science. I mean, that's totally
>whacked. Who the hell went through the periodic table and decided
>what particular elements relate to particular powers? How are we
>supposed to make sense of it?

Prima Guide, or a photocopy of the pertinent enhancement lists at
least?

js

 

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Robotech_Master <robotech@eyrie.org> wrote in
news:slrncu6kdj.ut1.robotech@terrania.homelinux.org:

> How are we
> supposed to make sense of it?

Or just right click and read the description???

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Marcel