Yomo_Kimyata

I accidentally read the title as "Things Not to Say During Your CoX Intervention."

One thing I would add to Fulmen's four points is: sometimes you have to be willing to defend your market. Try to keep bids in on both the crafted and the recipe. Otherwise you lose all control. But you have to be careful so that you don't choke on "worthless" supply.

Here's an example I saw last night that I thought was a good example. It's not me, and it doesn't look like much of a profit maker, but I thought it was someone who was doing a good job of keeping reins on their niche. I apologize if I am outing anyone's area.

Last night, I decided to pick up a full set of lvl 50 Blood Mandate for my grav troller for the defense bonuses. Normally, since I am OCD about these things, I would buy the recipes and craft them myself, but I looked at the crafted IOs first. All were ranging from about 1mm to 4mm apiece in the last 5, and last 5 were all in the past day. Ok, I'm willing to shell out 10mm on a chump set, but then I saw that there were 10-25 bids on each of the crafted. I really didn't feel like bid creeping (for 1mm to 4mm?! Did I mention the OCD?) in the face of competition, so I went to look at the recipes.

All recipes of that set are uncommon, and have cheapo salvage, and there are no outstanding bids on any of the six. So I throw in 555 inf bids on each of them and get filled. Then I throw in 17 inf bids on the common salvage and 777 inf bids on the uncommon salvage. All insta-fill. So I craft them all and get the full set for about 3mm total (crafting cost on each was 490,400 I think, so total cost per piece was under 500,000).

Now I'm thinking to make an example, because surely the crafters of this niche are not defending it! So I throw in 50,000 bids on each of the crafted enhancements that I know cost 500,000 or so to make, smugly confident that I will pick up dozens of them at 1/10 the crafting cost.

Nothing. Ok, I'm a little surprised, but that is good. So today I decided to take it a step further. Crafted another one of each of the set, again for under 500,000 each, and posted them for 600,000 each, figuring smugly that I'm going to hit their bids then rinse and repeat until all the 20 or so outstanding bids are gone. Nothing. Now I still have no idea where the highest outstanding bid is, or the lowest outstanding offer is, which is vexing, but is good for whoever is running that niche.

Assuming that is one person running that set, I see this as a great example of protecting their market. Put in defensive bids that are low, but not too low, and that are high, but not too high. Color me impressed. No smugness allowed for me, which is sad. Good job!

Is this a real thread?

I am mostly convinced that this is some sort of Candid Camera stunt designed to draw people out and make fools of themselves.

I look at it from a value perspective. I figure a lvl 32 Panacea heal is worth a bit more than a lvl 32 Miracle Heal, based on potential set bonuses and the fact that it exemps down to any level. So I figure it is worth something in the 2-5mm range.

Keep in mind I don't PvP, so maybe this is much more valuable than I think. But rare does not necessarily equal valuable, at least in my eyes.

Matching them is so much more impressive. Just pull out enough to tie/win.

I think this is a perfect example of using this board to buy or sell items. It is a useful item, but no one is going to toss up serious bids on it on the market and sit back and wait to get filled.

Good luck OP. I'd have interest in it but we are probably off by a couple of orders of magnitude because I am a cheap SOB.

"You're Thor? I'm tho thore I can barely..."

Thanks for saving the planet, Wendy and Marvin!

Holy 2 1/2 month wipe, Batman!

So, Incarnates are the best of the best. We are talking iconic figures here, fantastically super powered folks like Statesman, Lord Recluse, etc. The best of the best. I have a bunch of noble and/or super-evil characters who are qualified to go that next step and become the best of the best.

But then again, I'm looking at my list and wondering if some of the following really deserve going to that next level.

Like: Emu Kid, a AR/fire blaster who is the teenage son of a mutant crime fighter who saddled him with stupid useless wings and who burns himself in order to feel alive. Or Noob Cow, a Mind/Kin troller who was a bovine with mad cow disease before scientists tried to cure her with Superadyne. As two examples.

Don't get me wrong, they are Incarnate now, but I wonder if when a meteor is about to hit the planet, are these the folks you want to be in control of saving us all?

That's how it starts, duping rares...

My teeth are gnashed and my garments rent (rended? rent?).

Gratz!

As you kill mobs more quickly, you would expect purples to drop more quickly (again, random is random) but you would also expect inf and other non-purple goods to increase more rapidly. The amount of purple supply should go up more quickly, but the amount of inf produced (aka money supply) will go up more quickly.

I think that this is a fantastic and overly good reward for those who like to really use the market, and useless to those who do not. The former are probably going to make a lot more inf, and the latter are going to be throwing up a lot more temporal analyzers mid-mission to glut the market.

I could see this as a base addition too.

Most of the vet rewards are meh, but c'mon, give the developers a break! How many new ideas can they come up with? I've found that over the years about once a year something comes up that is very useful (Sands of Mu, Nemesis Staff, etc.) and I'll never level a new character without spending my first few minutes selecting my vet reward attacks!