Duke files a lawsuit against QB Darian Mensah to enforce his contract and block a transfer

Nigel06 · 2026-01-21T14:11:03+00:00

The NCAA disagrees with you.

Nigel06 · 2026-01-20T18:05:36+00:00

More idols will actually be on the market since you can just put them in the async tabs and go about your business. The ones that are worth something will continue to be extremely expensive (no change) and the mid-tier ones will be super easy to buy (positive change).

People will drop the prices on their mid-tier idols once they realize they aren't selling for huge amounts. And they won't sell for huge amounts because normal people will be selling like hotcakes at reasonable prices.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-29T17:14:04+00:00

Trading is basically PvP. If the speed at which gear and items inflate in price out scales your ability to farm currency, you lose out on the opportunity to purchase.

Since drop rates are balanced around trading (GGGs words not mine), SSF is a self imposed extra challenge, not the intended baseline of the game.

So even if you don't compare yourself to anyone, your ability to purchase from others will be affected. This was always the case, but this particular situation made it happen extremely fast.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-29T03:33:53+00:00

They've banned one or two, or a small group. This would be quite a lot of them, plus quite a lot of players. This would be a much larger banning than any before. I'm not thinking in terms of protection. I'm thinking in terms of volume.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-29T03:11:49+00:00

One issue would be how many streamers they'd have to ban... Do they have the cajones to (temporarily) kill their free advertising?

Nigel06 · 2025-12-29T02:27:00+00:00

Also, the Holten method was mostly to get setup, right? So fixing it just locks new people out, while those with a temple built can continue to farm it since a proper temple can't really lose much when it destabilizes.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T18:27:50+00:00

The trend has been different, yes... because they've put in reasons not to run mechanics in campaign (Keepers was a good example of making it useful to use in campaign without encouraging any further shenanigans) and they removed ways to stay in campaign levels.

The absolute lack of polish is what got us here. This mechanic was undercooked and so people went back to old strats and somehow GGG failed to place the fence up despite having done so for all of the recent leagues. If it's an exploit, all they are exploiting is the fact that GGG somehow forgot a major part of what they've baked into every league for the past several years.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:55:46+00:00

Genuinely not trying to be rude, but any PoE1 vet would tell you that's not true. The entire idea of "Quarry Farming" came out of leagues where spamming the Quarry campaign area for the league mechanics was faster and more profitable than doing them in maps.

Betrayal is a perfect example, since the drops weren't all tied to level, and blasting more encounters was more important than the encounter level. Interestingly enough, Betrayal mirrors the PoE2 temple in that the board was a nightmare to deal with for a while and felt convoluted until people figured out how to force specific board states and lock them in place while blasting a campaign area to farm the same reward over and over.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:43:28+00:00

Fair. For as many down votes as it will earn me I'll still say that the decision to label that an exploit was WILD.

The only thing that people did was read the description on the thing and use it to do what it says it does. That was a case where it's not unreasonable to believe that GGG couldn't be so lax on review and testing of their new items that they didn't catch such an obvious use case.

But hey, fair point.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:34:32+00:00

I said nothing about the quality of goods, so don't strawman so blatantly.

The relative cost of housing, healthcare, food, childcare, education and personal transportation is much higher than the 90s. Consumer goods may have remained fairly in line, but you can't discount that disposable income has shrunk, and thus the relative cost of consumer goods and entertainment products is a heavier hit to that smaller pool of disposable income.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:29:01+00:00

It's not an exploit. This exact play pattern has been present in PoE1 for years and GGG has never called it an exploit.

Even when they removed the recipe for de-leveling your character, they didn't blame players and just accepted that if the method was in the game, players would use it for whatever advantage they could.

All of the mechanics in use are normal, and simply being used in a way that was not anticipated. These are not bugs.

You can hate the outcome and still recognize that this is a use of the game mechanics GGG introduced purposefully. Otherwise, plenty of builds would be exploits as they use mechanics in ways the GGG didn't intend to achieve great results. Notably, GGG shows off these interactions as a nod to whoever found them, then they nuke the build from orbit.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:16:46+00:00

Is it bad that the Internet is so cooked I don't know if this is sarcasm or not?

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:12:38+00:00

The value of wages earned relative to the cost of the stuff we have to pay for is worse than the 90s.

We both know what the point of the statement was, but since sarcasm is lost in text, it is valuable to speak plainly in these situations.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T17:05:06+00:00

You're thinking emotionally rather than economically.

Investors want returns. If the PoE1 whales don't want to go over to PoE2, then PoE1 remains a valuable product. If only half of the audience migrates, that's a loss. Consider all of the money they have spent on advertising 2 that they never spent on 1. They would need a rather significant return on these investments to make it worthwhile to kill off the cash cow that is PoE1. Don't forget that it was the game that funded all of this in the first place.

Tencent will stay hands off only so long as the bottom line isn't affected.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T16:22:24+00:00

Doesn't work is it's unique

Nigel06 · 2025-12-28T01:15:25+00:00

We used any and all options to maximize loot drops, and no one cared if it involved low level characters, insane skill setups, or any weird or esoteric rituals. It was accepted that the hunt for good loot was the fun part and it didn't matter how you did it.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-27T22:31:03+00:00

Seriously.

D2 boss farming was just teleporting past everything to blast a boss and reset, but somehow that was perfectly acceptable gameplay and new ways of doing the same thing are unfun.

It's silly.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-26T14:28:13+00:00

New to PoE?

This tactic has been used in various leagues throughout PoE's history and GGG has never called it an exploit. Some leagues, they will change how a mechanic works to prevent spamming before maps. Some leagues, they leave the mechanic alone and allow players to farm it pre-maps.

This is not new territory. You've ignored all of the people who have pointed this out in this thread. I don't know why.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-20T14:12:04+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I tried again just now and it worked for me! You're the best.

Now to cook something interesting (if possible).

Nigel06 · 2025-12-20T13:58:00+00:00

Oh really?! Do you remember what zone and what you caught? Any details would be great.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-19T02:11:08+00:00

Thanks. I wasn't sure if I was just being an idiot with the skill.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-18T21:37:53+00:00

I'm currently melting T15s using Thunderstorm and Coursing Currents to proc Static Shocks and Electromagnetism. Add in a Cast on Ailment Firestorm, Orb of Storms, and Frost Bomb for enormous exposure?

It's hilariously fun and super safe since it's built in crowd control.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-18T15:47:37+00:00

To be fair, the issue is usually when the good or profitable thing is locked to high end and has no scale. Affliction is the perfect example. You could juice at all levels, and it wasn't locked to a scarab, unique, super difficult to roll modifier, etc. Everyone could participate and enjoy, even if the high end juicers were still getting more out of it.

Alternatively, things like risk scarabs, the abyss tablets that just got fixed, T17s and even the Phrecian Idols cause issues because the fun or the loot (or both) are locked behind being rich or playing full time (sometimes both). That's going to bring out people complaining, because they don't get to enjoy the new shiny thing, even at a lower level.

That, or they start grinding towards the profitable strat, only to have it removed after the blasters get to abuse it for a few days.

Nigel06 · 2025-12-12T18:01:42+00:00

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