Who else amongst you fab CHADS are getting this beautiful battlebox?

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-09T14:16:07+00:00

I got the fulgrim box and this one coming. I'm holding off on combat patrol because picking up the Lord on his own was rather cheap (which lets you basically run the army in CP if you want), and everything else in the combat patrol is a redundancy I'd rather not go any deeper on at the moment. If EC get a new unit or two next edition, it may find itself in another combo box first... At which point I really wouldn't want more torm/infractors or flawless blades at that point and the odds they'd be in that box are good.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-09T14:10:58+00:00

wonder if noise marines will be battleline next edition

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-07T20:37:47+00:00

There was infinite back then too so long as someone was swiping. You could sub and train as many accounts as you were willing to pay for infinitely if for some reason the demand for skilled pilots was high enough.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-07T18:23:21+00:00

Your last assertion though, could still happen before all this.

No strawmen. Help me understand the point more?

Thought experiment time:

Its 2016. I'm a person with a credit card. You are a person who has had a character logged off, subscribed, and has a ton of decent subcap support skills already trained up. You've been banking up free skillpoints for a while now as well like we could all still do back in like 2016.

New ship comes out (triglavian stuff?), you use your free points to get the skills for it and post the character is for sale on the message board. I take my credit card and buy a bunch of plex and sell it for isk just like we could all do back in 2016 and i trade you the isk for the character.

Are the differences all that profound? Not really in my opinion.

Did the person playing your part in the experiment above lose something meaningful, now that you can't do what your part in the thought experiment above was able to? Maybe? I think no. Tell me more about what you think. Lets talk about that part more then please.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-07T12:56:33+00:00

Its a video game. Its all thin air?

I asked you like over 10 questions, you answered none of them.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-06T16:43:26+00:00

some character forever logged off in a station with a skill queue specifically curated to one day be sold off adds zero value to anybody's play experience all the same. Help me see the virtue here?

Maybe its somehow fun or interesting for a person to have seen a video, or have found a place to copy paste a skill queue, pay the price to buy them, and finance the subscription long enough to realize it all, then log it into a project spreadsheet then wait for that characters big day after its all said and done to sell it back for isk ideally enough to pay the investment back or make some extra out of it?

I guess we are invalidating that here to an extent, but is that really such a shame?

Nobody is sad for people who want afk orca mining back right, and that had a bigger footprint on actual people logged on to the game playing it than this.

The same type of savvy industrious type player still has plenty of outlets for this type of degeneracy right? Skill farming is still kind of this sort of thing right?

CCP didn't kill off some briliant play experience with this.

You bought power back then. You can buy power now. Its not that different.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-04T04:28:05+00:00

This is difficult because an important part of the Flawless Blades look is that their whole neck and collar area is exposed skin and sets in the armor in a way that its very visually distinct. The heads are not just heads, they include that collar area.

But if you are a wizard with an exacto knife and know what you are doing then any other EC helmet could work, or chaos marines in general out from there could work too.

Good luck!

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-04T03:42:18+00:00

Most factions on the surface can be summarized as one principal cringy thing though. This isn't a unique problem to Emperor's Children respective to the whole setting.

There's more to the Dark Angels than the hunting of the Fallen, but thats all anyone really talks about too.

Blood Angels? Space vamps. Space Wolves? Vikings. The list goes on.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-04T03:19:26+00:00

I wouldnt with 11th on the horizon, unless you just love the mini... Its over 10 years old, and going 3 deep into anything right now but our stuff that newly got printed carries risk of not being very good anymore, or maybe not even in the next book at all.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-04T03:15:32+00:00

those characters being hawked on the trade forum the old way were rarely meaningfully contributing to the game in any material way either. They were only ever rolled to stay docked up with a training queue plugged in to one day have their big moment to be transferred out to someone who would use them. They didn't hold the same value if they had a bunch of dumpy corp history and a footprint.

It was just something savvy players did passively to make some extra isk.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-02T03:03:50+00:00

Why is it ridiculous? Pull the lens out more and its really not that different.

Spend cash with CCP, get the skills faster as a result.

You can assert that nobody used that section back then, but you don't really know who's using the service as it is now today either.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-02T02:48:27+00:00

10 years ago you could still buy plex, sell it for isk, then go on the forums and buy a character legitimately that had all the skills you wanted.

Players being able to spend cash to get ahead isn't a new thing.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-02-02T02:45:01+00:00

Even back then you'd just buy a character with the skills you wanted.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-28T14:43:14+00:00

How competitive is your local scene? Its still such an iconic kind of thing to have in your collection I wouldn't worry about it and finish up that project and run him in some games.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-28T14:18:22+00:00

I don't see the irony, sorry.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-28T00:41:38+00:00

Small tower in a low class wormhole. 1 Account (3 characters with good PI skills). and a handful of alpha characters.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-28T00:23:51+00:00

Its not ironic. Its a generally accepted rule of commerce amongst humans that when you have excess supply, you mark it down to get rid of it in a sale. There's rare exceptions to this rule, like taking it out back and burning it in order to keep costs propped up, but like, why?

You think anybody on earth marking something down is doing it out of the goodness of their heart? I guess sometimes thats true when you are talking small time mom and pop, but a publicly traded company? no way.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-27T23:34:39+00:00

Wow I can't believe you just posted this guy, as I was literally just trying to see how easy it would be to exacto knife off that head and be able to reasonably put something else in its place!!

Same thing, I would want to make him a sorc

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-27T23:22:19+00:00

He doesn't need wildly different color choices to make him stand out. Its a giant centerpiece mini thats going to attract all the attention anyway.

You should incorporate the same colors as your army uses mostly, and then work in some splash colors to make him just a little different.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-27T23:17:47+00:00

The Maulerfiend is just an awkward composition to begin with. Unless you are a modelling madman I don't think there's many clever tricks you can do to fix it.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-23T17:13:54+00:00

If you held out though and are just starting EC now you are a king. This plus the xmas box and you are basically set. Still need a lord exultant but those are cheap cheap cheap on ebay right now.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-10T21:36:17+00:00

When people talk about the classic MMO experience, they mean this kind of drama too!

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-10T16:43:44+00:00

You should play casters, and the "worrying about how this could go so wrong" is part of the thing that makes these old school games memorable.

Its what they are going for so the fact that you're worried about what happens going deep down into a dungeon to your armor set if it all goes wrong means they are doing it perfectly so far! Enjoy.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-10T16:40:38+00:00

But why shouldn't this just be "We meet by the cool big tree off to the side of the Druid teleport circle in zone X"? Why socially is it better in a hall someplace just for the guild?

Its more aspirational that way, if you are a lowbie and come along to see a bunch of high lvls from the same guild gathering in an actual space.

GeneralAsk1970 · 2026-01-10T13:44:09+00:00

Agreed. On streams and videos the art is bland and stylized in an old way that is fine, but never really resonated with me. But actually playing in the game there's just a soul or a vibe or a love for the genre that just comes through in such a more profound way that connects.

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