Canine

I'm not sure if I got lucky, or not.

I ran out of alts to store inf on a while back, since I don't really spend it and keep generating it more out of habit than anything else.

So I placed what I considered lowball bids on various things as a storage mechanism. Nothing new there, lots of people do it.

Then Super Packs hit and this happened. <shrug> No big deal.

Then a couple of weeks ago (I kept forgetting to post this here), I logged in the alt I had a load of PVP Unique inf storage bids on to play a bit and found this:



So, I'm 1Bn liquid inf lighter, but I'm one shiny thing better off, at a pretty massive discount from the previous sales (and I don't think any more have shifted since that bid filled). Hence my ambivalence.

Grud alone knows what chaos is going to happen on Tuesday/Wednesday of this week. Good hunting for those of you who will be seeking to benefit from the chaos. Myself, I'm staying out of it, I've got MORE than enough inf for my needs and I'm too idle to put any real effort into getting more of something I don't need

(on a side note, what the drokk has happened to high level Rare salvage prices recently? last time I saw prices up in the 3-4M mark, Monkeygeddon was alive in the AE....)

Just a warning, if they're the instructions I got sent way back from OminousVoice, then unless you're on XP, don't expect them to work. At least I was utterly unable to get my Win7(64bit) box to work with them

Just an update, I was slightly mistaken, you need to be Incandescence'd out of both of the 500 point Public Opinion sections to avoid the crash, we ran a TPN tonight that way and didn't crash.

Hopefully this is of some use for people before any fixes go live for the issue.

Well, I know for this one at least, there are two VERY odd URL's for the two images at the bottom of the newsletter, the Inspirations and Paragon Points ones.

For example...

This is NOT my workaround, but try this.

You need someone with Incandescence.

Yes, there is actually a use for it.

When you're on the last 500 points of Public Opinion section, you need someone outside with Incandescence. The far NW corner of the map was used the other night. As soon as you get to 500 PO, then the person with Incandescence fires it and teleports the entire league to that NW corner.

The league I was on on Tuesday night did this and we made it to the end.

As far as details to the strategy go, you're on your own, sorry. I didn't come up with it, but it did seem to work, YMMV, as always.

Good luck if you decide to try it.

:edit: Oh, and as a side note, when you are actually able to log that character back in after a Mapservered TPN? Make sure you go to the LFG and leave the event you're in. That little status flag was playing havoc with trials forming for days afterwards, as the characters that'd crashed were still flagged as on a trial, causing fresh trials to fail to queue...

And I'm not talking about the ATIOs.

I found this today, apparently I'm now the owner of 30 level 50 LoTG +7.5% recipes, instead of having 1.6BN stored as bids... Oh well



Prices down to 50M a pop on what has otherwise held steady at 97M-120M?

I'm assuming people have been burning the reward merits from Super Packs into LoTG's for inf conversion?

If not that, then does anyone else have any cunning theories? Oh and level 30 Numina Regen/Recovery recipes were down to about 65M apiece before I yanked my bids off.

And this is likely only the beginning of the markets going screwy in old, established and otherwise 'traditional' niches. Grud alone knows what'll happen when Converters hit.

Now I need to roll some new alts to store inf on. Hohum.

I don't necessarily write much in my bios, I mean my oldest and original toon (Katana/Regen) still has, after 7 years the bio of 'Where *does* that Katana come from?' as a one man, completely unnoticed protest at the lack of a saya costume piece...

However, on a side note, I have a terrible habit, I read other people's bios and if I see a spelling mistake (and I will see it if there's one there, sadly I can spot one at 40 yards) in a bio that otherwise uses the english language and not gibberish, I'll send them a tell about it. Just gently pointing it out along the lines of 'There may be a typo in your bio, the <word with typo> in <general location in bio> should probably be spelled <corrected spelling>'

Am I alone in this minor pedantry?

I don't think I've had an annoyed or angry response yet to that sort of thing, I think most people are mildly pleased that someone's paid enough attention to the bio to spot a potential error.

Anyway, we now return you to your regularly scheduled argument.

And on a side note, related to the current disagreement, my opinion is that in this game, regardless of whether you're teamed or not, the world you see is the world as defined by your character. So we've got thousands of coexisting, parallel world histories running at once. Who *CARES* if one of your teammates has a bio that says they're the son of the big bang, come to save the world using only their left eyebrow? All that matters to me is the path through the game that my character takes, and how they interact with all the weird and wonderful creations that other people come up with. All other players are are bit parts in my characters story. All I am to other characters is a bit part. That's how I rationalise it to myself, anyway.