Adeon Hawkwood

He means it would move to a black market (no caps) meaning trade between players outside of the normal WW/BM channels not The Black Market (with caps) the physical market in game for villians. If you have a price cap on the market then for any item where the natural sale price (i.e. the price it is now with no cap) is higher than the cap then the supply of them on the market will almost instantly drop. This is because there will be significantly more people willing to pay that price for them than there are items available. So for any player wanting to actually purchase one of these items they have the option of placing a capped bid on the market and waiting in line with large numbers of other users in the hope that someone will eventually list one or purchasing it off market (on the "black market" [no caps]). Purchasing on the black market will generally result in paying a higher price since it's harder to get competing bids.

You may wish to read the wikipedia article on Price Ceilings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_ceiling

I find that as long as you hold the forward key down and don't press the back key you can use the left and right keys to steer without losing momentum with SJ on. Although as you say it mostly comes down to experience and preference.

Well that's easily solved with a moral compass-ectomy

You don't really need to turn off Super Jump. Yes it can cause you to overshoot slightly but if you pay attention you'll be fine (just hit back to halt forward momentum at the right point). To me the extra speed and air control from SJ outweigh the slight risk of overshooting.

A lot of people only look at the buy it now price for salvage. The reasons for that vary from player to player. For me the savings by low bidding on common salvage are minimal compared to low bidding on recipes or a stack of rare salvage (and even rare salvage savings are minimal compared to recipes). If I'm going to be playing a character for a few hours I will often low-bid on a few stacks of common salvage at the start of my play session but if I'm just logging on to check and refresh my auctions then low bidding common salvage is a waste of my slots.

That's pretty much how I view EMP Arrow on my Trick Arrow Defender. I call it my coffee break button

A character of any level who relies purely on selling drops is going to be hard pressed to make large quantities of inf unless you farm a lot. On the other hand my latest alt hit level 17 last night and he's currently sitting on over 50mil inf (excluding the values of the enhancements he's currently listing to sell). I deliberately didn't give him any assistance from my other characters because I wanted to see how long it took for him to build a decent bankroll just through buying and selling on the market. Now I admit I haven't played him that much (I made him two weeks ago) so his level is rather low for the amount of marketeering that he's done but even with basic salvage flipping a low level toon can easily make enough to afford any 20K salvage he needs.

This is why I classed you as a non-user. I would like to state that there is nothing wrong with that and I apologize if I gave any impression otherwise. But the market prices are set by what the market users are willing to pay. When I'm trying to get the ingredients to craft an enhancement that will sell for 5+million profit paying 100K for a piece of common salvage is perfectly reasonable. Would I prefer not to? Sure, but time is money, market slots are limited and the opportunity cost of not listing the crafted enhancement overnight is greater than the amount saved by placing a lower bid on the salvage and waiting overnight. The reality is that under the current supply and demand conditions most common salvage is worth between 5K and 100K depending on the item and how long you want to wait.

When was the last time you used Wentworth's to buy an SO? The system that you are proposing is basically what we have for SOs at the moment except that you're proposing a slightly higher variation in vendor buy/sell prices. Now I don't know about you but I never bother buying SOs at Wentworths, it's easier and faster to just go to the relevant store and buy what I need there even if I end up paying more. I never bother to list them either, it's quicker to just sell them to the store even if I don't get as much and the profit margin is low enough to make it pointless anyway.

Now you are correct that a price cap combined with unlimited supply at that cap would work (as opposed to a price cap alone which won't). But once you have a store with an unlimited supply there is very little point in having the market at all unless the buy/sell price difference is massive. There will be a few people who use it either to try and make a profit or get a bargain but the vast majority of players will opt to use the store simply it's less hassle and the difference in price is negligible. I'm sure I get more than 4 bad drops for every good drop I get, if I could trade four bad recipes for 1 good one I doubt I'd really bother with the market since it wouldn't be worth the effort.

The current street price for a purple recipe from a damage based set is between 100mil and 300mil depending on the recipe and set. A vendor will pay 5K for the same recipe, a negligible sum. I'm curious, under your plan what buy and sell price would you set on purple recipes? Be careful, to low and getting purples becomes trivial, to high and you end up with the same problem that you see now.

You might be correct, but if so then it's at least slightly buggy since I occasionally get items not showing up unless I set display preference to all even though they have supply and/or demand.

That is technically correct, however you are missing two important points. First, for most items the buy it NAO price is significantly higher than the overnight price. If you leave a bid up overnight you can buy common salvage for significantly less than 100K and generally under 20K in some cases much lower (there are a couple of exceptions such as Nevermelting Ice where the overnight price is more like 30k-40K).

Secondly you assume that farming is the only way to make large amounts of inf when this is clearly not the case. Farming is the simplest way true but as Squez alludes to in her post marketeering is also a practical way to make large profits without the effort of farming. Personally I rarely farm since it bores me but I've never had problems making inf.

As for your statement that inf has devalued since I13, I think that to some extent that is true but on the other hand the prices on a lot of higher level stuff has dropped substantially. Yes the prices for common and uncommon salvage have risen but the prices of rares has basically stabilized at about 1million which is an increase for the less useful ones true but a decrease for the better ones. Similarly the prices for a lot of level 50 recipes has also dropped due to an increase in the supply of pool C/D recipes. Sure the price of Purples has risen dramatically but that owes more to a shift in player behavior causing a drastic decrease in supply than it does to a decrease in the value of inf.

This article lists the Blaze Mastery powers:
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?f...&game=3&bhcp=1

The thing is I'm not sure it does download that or if it does it doesn't necessarily use it. I've noticed that when I put an item up for bid then click the more info button it will frequently display 0 supply and demand while it queries the server. Similarly (but less frequently) when doing a search an item will sometimes appear greyed out (signifying no supply or demand) until I click on it and it queries the server for the numbers.

It sounds to me like you're basically a non-user. You say you occasionally sell recipes that you can't use or the odd piece of salvage on the market but you don't buy anything. Therefore while you aren't a non-user in the strictest sense you are a non-user in the sense that if the devs removed the Market tomorrow the impact on your chose style of play would be minimal at best.

I don't see why not. I went with integrals because I can do those from memory, logarithmic functions I have to look up.

In order to do this you need to make the decay a function of age, the problem is that this then requires you to solve an integral to find total experience.

Basically the XP a Vampire gains each year is 1-Decay (with decay being 0 for the freebie years). Assuming that Decay is a constant over a period of time this is a very simple integration which yields the equation that McNum provided.

If we assume an extremely simple equation that has Decay = Age/1000 for age > 100
This means that past the age of 100 decay will vary linearly from 10% at age 100 to 100% at age 1000.

The formula for XP at a particular age is therefore
100 + integral from 100 to Age of (1-x/1000)dx

This resolves to:
5 + Age - (Age^2 / 2000)
Obviously this is only valid to age 1000 and and you reach a point before then where it becomes minuscule anyway.

The problem is that unlike McNum's original formula this one is a lot more difficult to mess with since each time you basically have to go back and redo the integration. This particular integration is pretty simple but it's still a manual process. That being said there are pieces of software that you can use to estimate the integration for you.

You're correct, I just couldn't think of a good way to get three options into my post so I used it on the second

You are also correct (and I apologize for slightly derailing the thread).

It's common to the players? /e headscratch