Yomo_Kimyata

Would you say that you have an "open" relationship? Because I could get in on that.

Actually, I would guess that without a price cap and with some (admittedly) limited transparency in the marketplace, they would quickly settle out somewhere between 2-3bn. I figure that's around the price point that acquisition through A-merits meets the market.

Sometimes you people just make me fruvous!

This might make sense if you always knew who your counterparty was. But you don't, so anyone else who pays less is making you look bad. And I don't see a way you can make people pay a little extra, you know, for the effort.

On an aside, when you tip someone, do you make a really big deal about it? To make sure they know they are being tipped by you? I won't judge, but if I were a betting man ...



I would take the Steelers and the under.

My world is made up of silver and copper.

To OP: I don't think the marketplace is unbalanced. It's just a simple set of rules that changes from time to time. There are a lot of people who play this game and not all of them can be "The BEST" with builds or IOs or whatever. We don't all need purpled warshades -- the world needs ditchdiggers too. This game is easy enough with SOs.

But my bona fide suggestion to the developers would be to make the "bad" IO sets better. Put in resistance bonuses that are stackable to decent levels. Increase mags of mez, rather than duration of mez. Get rid of debt protection bonuses. Get rid of snipe sets, or at least give them good bonuses. Give the low level sets really good bonuses so that people have to really ask themselves if they want to upgrade from that level 25 capped set that gives 7.5% recharge and 5% smashing resist to a level 50 set that gives you something less but with better accuracy/damage/recharge/etc.

Lawrence Bourne III: You said opium was money.
Chung Mee: Money is Money.
Lawrence Bourne III: Well then, what is time again?

Generally, inflation is considered to be "too much money chasing too little stuff" (to paraphrase).

If the rate of inf generation is higher than the rate of stuff generation, then prices should rise, and vice versa. I think that inflation is really only going to apply to the really high end stuff from here on out, but that opinion and $2 gets you a cup of coffee at your favorite local chain.

You don't understand how the bid/offer system works. Not asking, just observing.

Nope, but the old grandmother did...

I will kiss the girl from Venus. For Science!

I was not really worrying about cheating. After all, everyone has already won the game (what? you haven't gotten a 50 yet? or 2bn in inf? get to work!). But I am really curious if there were a way to follow a project that would measure the rate of gain of wealth rather than accumulated wealth without any incentive to cheat. I don't doubt that there is a few trillion of cash inf put away. But I'm much more impressed by someone who can generate a trillion rather than burn a trillion they already have.

I, for one, welcome our trillion-burning overlords, but I'd be more impressed by tens-of-billions-burning overlords who come to the challenge! *Note: I am neither of the above. I'm a chump in the inf generation game. I don't even have a billion left on ANY of my characters.*

Well, last 5 trades for every recipe at level 30 shows all 5 trades in the last week, so I don't see how there are not any for sale.

It depends on what you are trading and how quickly you turn over inventory and what your style is. If you are making one sale a month, then probably not. If you are making 100 trades a day, I am very impressed!

In general, I have a few spots like that, so I think you are doing just fine.

Pfft, as far as I know you could have changed the message of the day on an old existing supergroup on Freedom. I will hold off on gnashing and rending until you do this on Virtue from scratch! With screenshots! And progress reports!

And then, there will be gnashing and rending galore!

Sure it is, that's why I only sell crafted! Well, that and because i find it a lot easier to store items in enhancement form.

You can get things cheap, or you can get things fast but it's awfully hard to get things fast and cheap. It looks like the mark up for crafted on TOD at that level isn't more than a few mm a piece, so I'd put your bids on the enhancements as well.

Also, it never hurts to throw in some low ball bids on the crafted enhancements. What a lot of people seem to do is see that the recipe is worth a fair amount, then craft it and post it at SELL IT NAO prices on the assumption that someone MUST be bidding a higher amount. I get a lot of enhancements for ridiculously low prices that way.

Awesome! Good for you, I'll give you a golf clap when you get #1 on Freedom. I'll even throw in a bn or two.

Now if you ever choose to respond to any of the many challenges offered to you (I personally find it hard to believe you passed up the 'double-dog dare' challenge I offered you.) in this thread and take the #1 spot on Virtue, well then, I'll gnash my teeth like they have never been gnashed before!