Nethergoat

No matter how many long-standing items the devs check off the playerbase wish list, it will never be enough for some folk.

We have a lot of baby birds on this forum, sitting in the nest with their mouths open shouting MORE, MORE, MORE regardless of how much is getting stuffed down their gullets by mom & dad.

"Oh but they're giving me steak, and I wanted FLIET MINGON!" I can hear them squeak.....

As noted above, anyone who wants to take a chunk of inf with them will turn it into valuable recipes and/or enhancements, hop the fence and then re-sell in their new home.

It isn't a real limitation, more of an annoyance.

A while back in some thread I've forgotten the name of I was going to post the earnings of my ar/dev, who was retired for a LONG time and who I decided to drag to 50 to satisfy my curiosity on a couple of points:

one, how much inf would a theoretical 'casual gamer' pile up playing the "right" way to 50- running story arcs, selling drops, no marketeering, no farming.

two, would the performance boosts available from set IOs make my ar/dev fun to play again.

The jury's still out on #2, but I remembered to check his bank balance last night and he ended up with 312,000,000 inf and a build packed with a bunch of "good" sets (Gaussians, Positrons, etc.)

I played him mostly solo and more or less 'straight up'- he ran contact missions and story arcs. He started out more or less dead broke in the mid-30's kitted out with a mix of SOs and DOs, so I would expect his final total to be slightly higher if I'd started him from level 1 (I'm still running a similar experiment with a stalker red side- he's at level 30 now and has almost 40 million in the bank). I did run a few Dev's Choice missions in AE, figuring a 'new' player would want to check out the FOTM content, and he also hooked up with a ToT team for a while because I wanted the badges (and again, a 'casual' player could be expected to be caught up in the seasonal frenzy).

This reinforced my longstanding opinion that nearly all the rewards of the IO system are readily available to our friend the 'casual gamer'. Right now he's 'finished' from a casual perspective- he's hit the level cap, he is entirely outfitted with "good" sets and he has a comparatively giant bankroll.

The next tier of performance above where he's at would be vastly more expensive, yes, but the way inf piles up at 50 it would be entirely achievable were I to keep playing him in the 'casual' style for a while longer, certainly less time than it took him to reach 50.

And if I'd played him differently, his final earnings would have been vastly higher- if I'd farmed or enegaged in some marketeering while on the road to 50, he'd certainly have between 1 and 2 billion in the bank right now.

So, here's a data point for what its worth. Nearly everyone in the game can afford nearly any build they want without recourse to farming or marketeering.

GRATZ and welcome!

Bout time.

I've always liked the idea of PvP the way it was on the WoW server I ended up playing on- off by default, but flaggable by various actions (or you could just set the flag yourself).

eliminated the annoyances of global PvP, but it was there if you wanted it. I liked the system and wouldn't mind seeing it here.

Although I realize that it would make the heads of a sizable vocal minority explode even though they would never, ever have to PvP unless they wanted to.

GRATZ!

nice quality on the screenie, too!

GRATZ!


Enjoy blowing it all in one place. =D

At times I've had a good niche seemingly collapse, but it ended up being a temporary supply spike (someone cleaning out base storage, or whatever). This is where protective bids come in handy- if you're selling something for, say, 7 million you don't want a lowball bid to sneak through and put ideas in your customers heads ("hey, someone got this for 500k! I ain't paying 7 mil!"). When I was crafting to sell I'd throw up a handful of protective bids at some fraction of my listing price- in this case, say, 1.5 million. I'd hit some winners too, then re-list them at my price point and usually sell them.

The main thing to consider here is turnover.
Selling a couple of IOs a day is a lot different than selling one a week- let the strength of demand dictate whether you try and wait it out or move on to greener pastures.

If the IO you're selling is perceived as "good" by the community and people are consistently paying your price, waiting out the spike is feasible. If the IO has less wide appeal, even a slight increase in supply could kill it.

GRATZ on making someone's day!

I overpay like that on purpose sometimes, just for the fun of it.

=)

GRATZ!


I really need to get around to posting the Goat's MONEYSHOT.

=P