Nethergoat

NOW we're cookin' with gas!

just do what I do and bid a flat rate whatever they're selling at.

At 5555 for common 9999 for uncommons I hardly ever have to re-bid.
When I *do*, I overpay wildly to make sure I don't have to make a third bid. =P

a BADGE for buying and deleting purples!

=P


in general, I think badges, vanity pets and costume bits are great venues for inf sinkage.

me three.

One of the reasons I so diligently fill my massive underground tanks with liquid inf is so I don't have to care what anything costs. If you've got enough inf on hand you *can* use the market like a store, provided there's at least a bit of supply. Or send your buddy a billion inf to help out on a SG project he's working on. =P

If I'm crafting for sale I'm a bit more cautious, but still bid aggressively enough to get my junk overnight.

The vault is useless to me because when I'm staring at a recipe I've just bought in the market interface I have no way to telling what's in storage. I used to use it back when I was crafting generic end mods because supply of Demonic Blood Samples was unreliable, so I'd stuff as many as I could in the vault for a rainy day. Other than that, basically my bases have vaults because they look cool.

If the market interface 'knew' what you had in your vault when you were examining recipes or whatever, *that* would make them really handy.

revolutions generally are wanton destruction, regardless of the intent.

Reclaiming the weekend from trolls and idiots is worth the minor expense.

I'm sure Emperor Steele can explain it to you.


=D

well thank goodness you didn't do something genuinely bad like FLIP them!

=P

yes.
I'll be happy when all vestiges of the bad old days when the operative theory was to slow down leveling by irritating the players with pointless obstructions have been swept away.

they're tremendously useful things and people want them.
That there are *only* 170 bids can be attributed to the recent freespec handout.


Why do you insist on ignoring common sense explanations for market events in favor of weird conspiracy theories?

Raising the price floor benefits sellers and encourages supply.
Lowering the price ceiling benefits BUY NAO players.
Patient players can still get the salvage at a discount by exercising patience.

On the whole flipping is a benefit to the market ecosystem.

no, see, it takes correctly interpreting your observations.

someone used to paying 100 inf for their Circuit Boards would probably have a similar reaction to your plan to charge them 10k.

also, there's nothing 'insane' about a few thousand inf for a high demand item.
what's really crazy is sweating over piddly, meaningless little amounts when you've hit the inf cap.

=P

I've been doing a *lot* of crafting lately and I can count the number of times I've paid more than 5555 k*for a common that isn't Alchemical Silver on one hand, and probably 90% of my 5555 k bids insta-fill, or fill while I'm checking on the rest of my shopping list.

The vast majority of commons are junk drops. I don't think it serves our friend the Casual Gamer very well to charge them 10k for junk, even if they occasionally have to pay the outrageous fee of 50k(!) for a higher demand item.


*my default bid for commons is 5555 and 9999 for uncommons- I hate re-typing bids for meaningless amounts