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In almost every case, when I make a new character, my first interactiosn with the market are sales. Depending upon the individual character, that remains the exlcusive commitment until at least level 12, and the majority of their interactiosn until at least 22.

Almost every character I have has made more sales than purchases at the market. Usually by a wide margin. The exceptions being my field crafters who buy 2-3 salvage and then sell the single crafted common IO.

Sellers generally like the higher prices.

Happens a lot round here.

The Ebil geniuses social club can't stay ontopic for more than a dozen posts.

I'll happily call you illiterate.

Go ahead and speak your mind, you wouldn't be missed.

Each represent it exactly the same amount that you do...

Taken from: http://www.forbes.com/smallbusiness/.../1004/100.html

The last I heard the current game is over 2 million lines of code, but I dont have a cite for that. Not sure where I read it. Could have been here, could have been offsite.

Even if that code is 99.999% perfect that would still be 20 lines of code wrong. Finind that code line, and 'fixing it' can and often does create other lines of code that are now wrong. Squishing bugs is hard, in an environment this complex.

Then you have the compelx interactions. Like the famous 'undefined variable' that affected drop rates for over a year. It was defined most places, but in the one important subroutine it wasn't, ergo drop rates coulkd be and were affacted by odd things.

Then throw in hardware issues, I mean a cable is a cable is a cable right ? WRONG. Sometimes the flow of data between those 60 processor chips per sever (or more as they have since upgraded at least twice) get messed up not by progamming, but by a piece of other hardware, be it a cable, a connector or the fact that one of the server hamsters went where he/she shouldn't

Even with 11 (15 including Euro ones) supposedly identical server clusters runnign identical software , the actual running of each one is subject to minor differences in the hardware.

Pinnacle for years was slow to come round after maintenance, hence the 'drunk server' meme. Wasn't it the last but one double XP weekend that Virtue had terrible issues, which most of the other servers didn't. Again a hardware issue, not a bug, and realistically some of those hardware issues only show up under stress (like an event)

I knew it.

:P

Welcome to the OP, and yes the Vahz are rough for a scrapper at low levels.

Science is not the ideal first origin, but follow the advice in this thread and you will do just fine.

As long as its an option we can set to decline, I'd be for it. Heck I'd be for it for PVE. I know most the folks in STO I talk to have toggled auto team off normally, but it does make for a quick and easy PUG if you are in the mood.

and Freakshow...

Thanks for those prices, I haven't been able to get in game much this year, and most of the time I have been there, I really have not been paying much attention to pricing outside of my couple of niches.

I would HOPE that price is off by a factor of ten, or you have seriously been 'had'.

200 merits is easily worth 50 million or so inf.

Last time I sold a 'direct roll' it was a 250 (or maybe 275) merit one and I got 100 million inf, and that was a lowball for a friend.

I think that covers the origin. Generally used for subversive/insurgent/infiltrator elements of a combined offensive

This is exactly how I view my stalkers.