Nethergoat

ditto.

I slotted a bunch on my last new alt just to see if I'd notice any difference....and I didn't.

I slot drops until I can slot generics at level 15.

But the way inf rains down now it's not a big deal- go for it if you want.

What's your logic in implementing a massive price hike for nearly every common in the game?
Not saying it's a good or bad idea, just curious about why you think it would be an improvement.

How would removing generics increase the drop rate of set IOs?
I'm no whiz at drop pools, but generics are common and sets are uncommon or rare, right? I don't think it follows that eliminating commons would mean more uncommon and rare drops.

In a one on one game with skill levels being roughly equal I'd take a short point guard over a huge center or forward any day of the week.

As Swell noted, price fixing requires controlling supply.


And good luck with that!

Hasten is nowhere near as ubiquitous as stamina.

for my part I have fitness on every one of my characters except my emp/elec defender (who I haven't respec'ed since ED). I've got Hasten on....five? Out of three full servers and a handful of random characters on others.

Stamina was seen as a requirement by pretty much everyone who plays the game.

Hasten, while highly desirable for many builds is far from a perceived necessity.
Especially in the IO era, where you can pack a lot of recharge into a given power without sacrificing in other areas.

AlSils have historically sold in the 50k range, there's nothing weird about it.

A complete waste of tickets.
For the 'price' of those rolls you could get 3 or so Bronze recipes rolls in the 35-39 range, with a potential worth in the tens of millions.

Three rolls by themselves are a bit of a crapshoot even with drop weighting, but common salvage would have to be selling for millions instead of thousands before it made any sense at all to waste tickets on.

Note I'm not saying it's wrong, it's just horribly, horribly inefficient, like using reward merits to buy large inspirations.

Messing with common salvage is a great way to learn about the market but it's about the last thing anyone with a brain would use for actually making inf.

My observation was based on looking at what they did from a player perspective and reaching a conclusion.

The "observation" I castigated pretended concrete knowledge of sales numbers and internal developer projections.


so I'm not pretending to have secret insider knowledge, whereas he did.
Again, not that confusing.

In any case, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I'm seeing plenty of players rocking the new emotes, which bodes well for its sales.
The next booster release will give us an indication of whether the devs really do love enraging players and not making any money because they try to sell garbage at Tiffany prices, or whether it was something they were trying out to gauge its feasibility.

Squez nails it.

also, where the heck have you been pardner?

It seems obvious to me and is based on the observable data available to us outsiders, not the pretense that I know what numbers are flowing through their database.

I'm not sure why that distinction would confuse anyone.

you're wrong.

Captain Super needs to make a pile of Widget X enhancements for the Widgeteer Badge. In pursuit of this goal he buys up nearly the entire stock of Statesman's Jockstrap salvage, leaving only a few wildly overpriced remnants on the shelf.

Kid Sidekick happens along, needing a Statesman's Jockstrap to craft the Hairy Eyeball recipe that dropped for him earlier. But horrors, there are hardly any left on the market and all of them are tremendously expensive! Kid Sidekick has to do without for now.

If only it wasn't for those dastardly badgers buying up and destroying all the cheap salvage!

Now, let us imagine that Captain Super is, rather than a destructive badger a productive flipper.

He buys up lots and lots of underpriced Statesman's Jockstrap salvage that would otherwise have been destroyed. He then re-lists it as a markup that lags behind what he knows the salvage is "worth".

So when Kid Sidekick rolls up with his shopping list he finds a plentiful supply of Statesman's Jockstraps available that are well within his budget.

That's how recirculating salvage at a small markup keeps prices down.

no it doesn't.

absent flippers prices fluctuate wildly depending on supply.
So, yeah, if you happen to be bidding when the tide is in you can get your widget for next to nothing. If on the other hand you're bidding when the tide is out you'll spend a ridiculous amount, if there's stock at all.


My original flipping experiment with ancient bones red side illuminated this very nicely. I watched for several days before dipping my hoof in. What happened was people were either paying nothing (which isn't really worth it to the seller, so supply was nearly always low) or they were paying 100k+ when there were just a handful left.

My impact on that scenario was to buy at a price point that encouraged people to list their junk (over the course of my experiment the # available went from a few hundred average to a few thousand average) and to sell at a price that ensured quick turnover.

Totally wrong, for the reasons noted above.

America weeps for the loss of knowledge.

Flippers don't want things "sitting there", they want them turning over.
Which they ensure by pricing behind the curve, not ahead of it.

I suggest you go out and flip something before lecturing actual flippers about how it "really works".

flippers need to undercut the 'going rate' if they want to move their junk, that's how.

Trying to push the price of high volume items higher is a fool's errand. Flippers rely on turnover to earn worthwhile amounts of inf, tying up slots with stuff that's overpriced renders the entire exercise futile.

Flippers raise the price floor and lower the price ceiling by assuring supply.
Players don't care if someone is getting a cut as long as they can buy whatever they want when they want it. Well, except for a few fringe cases.