Nethergoat

Did EVERYONE end up on Freedom and Virtue the last time they did this?

no?

okay then.

yes.

yes.

I can't figure out a way to answer this without getting modsmacked.

I laugh at this theory every time I list something for tens of millions less than it sells for.

is that really the best defense of your position you can come up with?

huh.

things go faster and turn out better if you put the salt in with the garlic then mash 'em up.

I got a big granite mortar for xmas last and I don't know how I lived without it.

both have their uses, but unfortunately people tend to bust them out for EVERYTHING instead of what they're good at.

I have nice sharp knives and like chopping, so I save the press for when the texture doesn't matter, like in soup. I'm fortunate to have inherited all my grandmother's cast iron pans, which are like black glass after 70-odd years of regular use. I use them for just about everything.

I do this on lowbies sometimes, only I combine cheap insps to make giant defenses. It seems like there's *always* someone willing to overpay for king-sized purples.

Congratulations!

this is the lesson many, many players NEVER LEARN.
=P

basically everything I know about economies I learned by messing around with this market- before I got interested in the CoH economy I hadn't paid attention to or given any thought to how such things functioned on a macro scale.

It's surprising how universally applicable the understanding I've picked up here is. Aside from quirks like supply is generated by defeating enemies!, that is. =P

*sound of clapping hooves*

wish the forums had a 'subscribe to poster' option along with the 'subscribe to thread'.

My team went with a "kill most" approach.
We fought our way to objectives, but didn't go out of our way to clean out whole maps. We weren't maximizing exp or maximizing efficiency, we just sort of muddled our way through it.

this was one of the surprises of my long ago Ancient Bone thread.

before I started flipping supply was low (0-200 usually) and price fluctuated wildly. I started flipping and stabilized supply somewhat, so nobody was getting them for 1 inf any more, but neither were they having to pay a few hundred K during the (frequent) supply shortages.

What happened was my 'floor' price made the salvage worth selling to a lot of people. Supply increased dramatically, and only a little of it was me. Other people started flipping, which raised the floor price and lowered the profit margin. Before long supply and demand were high (2000 listings, 500 or so bidding) and flipping profit margins had basically disappeared. I walked away, and when I checked back a few weeks later things had returned to their 'natural' state- low listing, wildly fluctuating prices.

Which was not at all what I expected, but then that's why it's good to actually do the work instead of just relying on theory.

are they? i must have missed that meeting. =(

that would work too, but hopefully they leave it along long enough for me to get my ar/dev kitted out for the range softcap.

no.



this has been another edition of simple answers to silly questions. =P

I'll echo Talen here- just sit on your tickets until you get a little higher.
They don't expire, so there's no down side to building your pile while you level up to a better recipe range.

You're ignoring the folk who run it because it's fun or they like the story.
Non-reward driven players count too, you know.

Also there's no such thing as an "overpriced" recipe, stuff is worth what the playerbase as a whole decides its worth. Some folk don't want to pay what things are worth and prefer to grind and buy directly, but that doesn't make the item in question 'overpriced'.

and as I said before, such things are best supported by thorough and transparent documentation.

The documentation is what gives these types of demonstartions weight and makes them useful additions to the sphere of forum knowledge.

Documentation is especially helpful in the case of a poster like yourself who has an axe to grind.
The mere appearance of subterfuge in such a case will be taken as fact by many people familiar with your posting history.

ours were offered in the the genuine sprit of exploration.

this one is offered in the same spirit as the original thread which was disappeared.

feel free to pay attention if you like, but there isn't much point to this kind of thing unless it's documented in a meaningful manner. "Here are some numbers alongside an unrelated screenshot which shoes nothing useful" isn't meaningful documentation.

Any post on a forum carries with it the history of the poster.
Whether the weight of that history helps or hinders the author is decided by their past actions.

Uhg.

IMHO d20 killed interesting RPG design. I've always been a fan of mechanics giving flavor to the system (the greatest example of this being the original Deadlands).

Oh well, I guess I'll check out the latest iteration of Champs instead.