Pyber

Not that I'm aware of. This just started for you today?

I noticed the same thing (or at least something similar) a while back after i17 went live. In my case it seemed to be related to the multi-monitor memory usage problem because after going back to a single display I never noticed it again. So I guess the question would be, do you have an ATI card and are using multiple monitors?

Aside from that, I have absolutely no clue what could cause it.

Another little update. Was finally able to log into Guardian. Every server on my list was online except for Freedom.

Oh, can get past the login screen now, but I'm in the same boat as some others among you in that all the servers are showing as being down.

Might as well add myself to the list as well. Gone the whole nine yards in an effort to get myself to log on, but to no avail.

I've actually got a Mind/Fire Dom that I started not too long ago, though its secondary isn't exactly on your list, hehe (she's supposed to be the twin sister of my Fire/Psi Dom). She should still be useful though and I have no objection to using one of her builds exclusively as a Phalanx domination build. If you see I'm on when you go to run one of your farms BB and want to help get her leveled, feel free to holler.

Its not worth that much, not in terms of how useful it is, nor how hard it is to get (aside from the fact that you basically have to do the WoW thing and queue to kill Estamel). He spawns in the same area on a relatively set schedule and has for years. Its only worth that because the couple of groups that basically own the market on Estamel mods get to set whatever price they want. To put it in perspective, the largest and arguably most powerful vessels in the game are Titans. These ships are capable of defeating most anything in the game with a single attack (hooray for doomsday, hehe) and take large fleets to defeat for the most part (unless of course you bring a Titan or two of your own). A fully equipped Titan won't even cost as much as that Estamel mod, with the ship itself topping out at around 5-7.5 billion. But the Titan market isn't held by a select few of the hundreds of thousands of registered accounts like Estamel mods are.

I guess I should have been a little more specific in how I laid it out in my previous post. Eve has an entirely player-driven economy. Nothing (with the current exception of the new Planetary Interaction CC's until the seeded ones have been sold) in the game comes from the devs, including ships, fittings, ammo and station parts. It all comes from loot drops (such as the Estamel mods I've been talking about) and from the manufacturing portion of the playerbase. Now, I'm not saying that such a player-driven economy is bad. The game is one big sandbox after all, and as such, the market should be as well. But with the dominance of certain veteran players in the areas of space where you can find Estamel and other elite NPC commanders to kill gives them the ability to demand whatever price for the loot from those elite commanders. Those same mods, before those veteran players had effectively cornered the market on them, used to be a billion tops. What kind of inflation in price is that?

As a side note, the reason that they don't sell much on the open market is because most people tend to keep them for bragging rights, no more. They're hardly more effective than other officer mods that can be had for a a couple hundred million. I could understand them demanding such a high price if they actually were exponentially better than those far cheaper ones, but the differences between Estamel's and other officer fittings are so tiny that there's absolutely no point in having them.


Either way, this isn't the Eve board, so I'll just shut up before my post turns into the Great Wall of Pyber. Just be glad that no set of anything in this game costs as much as a set of Estamel mods, heh.

I'll admit right off the bat that I've only skimmed this thread, so my apologies if this has been mentioned before:

Be glad that stuff in this game doesn't hit the same stupidly high prices as certain items in Eve (Estamel's Modified Invulnerability Field for 20 billion anyone?). That's a game with outrageous prices and shows the folly of having no transaction cap at all and allow the playerbase to dictate every aspect of market pricing and availability. I love the game, but paying 20 billion or more for something is just silly.

Welcome to our own private asylum Silas! We're a BYOB (Bring Your Own Bacon) server, so I hope you've brought yourself a healthy supply. And keep your cookies under wraps unless you're willing to share with Ulli. Like BB, I tend to keep to redside most of the time, so if you're ever in need of some villainous support, feel free to give me a shout. Seeing as my sig is currently undergoing an overhaul, I'll mention that my Global is @pyber

Ah, kk. I didn't want to seem presumptuous by including items, heh. I only had personal knowledge of the Inf returns since I heard all about it on vent XD