Part_Troll

Too effin 'right

Exactly the same here (Canberra, Australia, through ISP Netspace).

Freedom/infinity etc were a sea of red spikes, unplayable.
Virtue/Justice was 'cut grass'.

After Friday's maintenance, Freedom/Infinity went back to being cut-grass, so something changed at NCSOFT's end.

No chances to my setup, my ISP. During the bad lag I tried resetting my ADSL modem to no avail, was getting many hundreds of 'lost in' packets, and the red was 25%+ of the netgraph.

There was -something- badly wrong.

Been fixed for a few days now tho. Funny people started a thread about it.

Hope that helps.

Ex

That is absolutely false.

Bidding is always HIGHEST bid above the asking price, gets the prize. That has always been the case with the market,

if you put up something for sale for 1 inf, someone has a bid of 100,000, someone else has 99,999,999, and someone else has bid 200,000,001, the 200,000,001 will win the bid process, and the 1inf 'thing' will get his 200M.

This is why I sell all my 'common' salvage for 333inf, even when they are 'worth' 100,000 or more at 'market prices', if someone is bidding high, I'll get their money even though I only put the item up for 333. This saves load of mental anguish. And contrary to some people's beliefs, selling common salvage at 333 -always- works. Someone will buy it even if it's common as dirt. If there is a run on stuff (like Alchemical Silver, which has been 60,000+ for over a year) I'll get my 60,000 for my alchemical silver, but I only bothered to put it up for 333.

For RARE RECIPES, I don't take such cavalier risks, because someone might very well get creative with their bidding, 10 @ 5, 10 @ 6, 10 @ 7 , etc. People see the number of bidders as 'people bidding near-or-at-current-market-rates, and it's not always true.

How else do you think recipes worth $,$$$,$$$ go for 111 at the market sometimes? It costs next to nothing to put up huge numbers of small bids. With 15 transaction slots, I can put up 15 * 10 lots of bids for, say, 20, and have 150 bidders on an item. The real bidders might still be out there, but if all the real bidders are gone, and all that is left are you 150 lowball bids, and someone puts up a 50M item for 1, you've just got yourself a bargain for just a few tens of inf, and one very surprised marketteer going Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

So if you have 85 bidding, you wouldn't expect a 45,000,000 item to only have a highest bid of 7,500, that's ridiculous.

I have noticed that the market number are very fluid. One second there were 75 bidding, the next there was one. I've crafted stuff for sale for 10M or so, only to have the previously 'bouyant' market of 0 for sale, 5 bids, to be -actually-, 0 for sale 0 bids.

That annoys me.

So does Tuesday, "surprise" Wednesday and "super surprise" Thursday maintenance IN ADDITION to Monday and Friday regular maintenance ... Grrrr.

Ex

Today I did Lady Grey TF with Demented Toxophilite, my Archery/Energy blaster on Virtue. It was a fun team, and the first mission scored me this:

And much to my surprise, when I checked the market, they were going for between 200M and 220M, so I put mine up for 200,010,111.

Woohoo.

None of my characters have ever been over 200M before (I have 96+ characters, and rarely play L50's once they get there), so having two characters with over 250M each is a unique experience for me.

My L50 Fire/Kin controller "tiny tuff controller" rolled 80 reward merits last week, and in those four rolls, acquired a Luck of the Gambler 7.5% and the Numina +Regen/+Recov recipes, which both sold for a pretty penny.

Last night my L50 Fire/Fire Blaster, Archvillain Q rolled 40 merits, and got a Luck of the Gambler 7.5% recharge.

Which all adds up to lots of money for my characters on Freedom, Justice and Virtue.

Yay me.

Ex