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To my way of thinking, the only way to "reasonably" cap prices on the AH (outside the data cap of 2 billion inf) woudl be an alternate, influence bades, way to acquire everything. It woudl require a series of vendors who act precisely like the current stores who sell the recipes, salvage and inspirations at a specific price. That would act as a maximum cap on what people woudl typically pay. For instance, if you could but a LOTG +recharge global on the market for 100 million inf OR go across the street and buy the same recipe at the level you wanted for 25 million, you'd typically cross the street, thus capping the standard bidding under 25 mil without there being an actual cap. There would be the occasional "overbid" that went past the vendor price (just as there is often salvage that sells under vendor buying prices now) but for the most part it would keep prices well below whatever arbitrary limits the devs set at the vendors.

However, this would require a serious revamp of the AH systems and bidding styles to make it work. The AH would have to work more like Ebay with completely open asking and bidding amounts and auctions that start and end at specific times plus "buy it now" settings.

Basically to "cap" the market, you'd have to destroy the current one and build it basically from scratch again.

This was actually a couple of months ago and they really did it up huge, shutting down entire highways for the kid's motorcade, police and fire escorts, sports teams involved as participants, hundreds (by some estimates THOUSANDS) of "civillians" getting into the act with signs and lining roadways, even some of the guys from "Deadlest Catch" got involved playing bad guys and a couple of radio and TV stations got into the act without being asked by Make-A-Wish and reran the "bad guy demands" tapes along with news stories and "blow-by-blow" footage and commentary of Electron Boy's exploits.

Even the kid who wished for it looks utterly flabbergasted in many of the photos that they pulled off something so big. An old college buddy who lives out there was on the opposing lane of the highway when the motorcade came through and people were actually puilling over and waving homemade signs as the Delorean passed by.

Make-A-Wish really outdid themselves with that one and the city got pretty much behind the fantasy wholeheartedly.

If they include Party and/or Origins packs, I might take advantage of the sale, otherwise, it's a no-go for me, I have the rest already.

Mender Ramiel is an interesting choice of name especially since it's often mixed up with Rameel (AKA Azazel), one of the most mysterious characters in Jewish mythology.

As always, check with your doctor to verify and refine all of this for your specific situation.

Without knowing your age (putting you in your late 20s to early 30s if you're older these numbers drop thanks to metabolic rates droppign with age) with a nearly entirely sedentary and assuming your weight estimates are correct (especially given your difficulty finding an appropriate scale to get an accurate one) and a goal of 200 lbs at a height of 6'5", you're looking at a maximum daily load of 2,500 to 2,750 cals. At that rate you should also vary the calorie load every few days, (say 2,500 for two or three days, then 3,000 for a day, then 2,500 for two or three more days, then 3,000 for a day); this keeps your metabolism from regulating to a starvation setting and retaining calories at the lower load.

Here's where you check with your doctor again, reduce your meat intake drastically and increase your vegetable intake, both cooked and raw (and check with your doctor to maintain safe levels of both or to suppliment your diet to maintain proper mineral intake). Veggies are much harder to adequately process, so they actually burn a larger percentage of their calorie value by being processed than meat does. Vegetarian diets (especially vegan diets and double that for "Raw Foodian - Vegan" diets) are good for weight reduction simply because it is extremely difficult to eat enough volume to get into a high calorie count, but they carry the risk of missing out on vital nutrients (plus there is some pain associated with changing to them, especially gastro-intestinal pain and gas), the same goes for a low-meat regiment and have regular dental checkups because grinding up a large volume of plant matter can cause much heavier tooth wear.

Split your meals into three, fairly evenly spaced, moderate meals (in this case about 550-600 calories each) and three smaller "large snacks" (about 150-200 calories each) throughout the day. That includes drinks, water is your good friend since it has no calories, unsweeted tea is also another good friend. Since you have an aversion to leftovers, do not have leftovers. Make meals small enough that eating all of it puts you at your calorie count for that meal.

While you're at it, reduce your soda intake to close to nil, that includes diet soda. A glass of soda is, on average 100 calories for 8 ounces (for reference, the average American drinks 4 to 8 glasses of soda per day, accounting for 20 to 40% of their recommended calorie intake for the day). Many people can reduce their weight by simply halving their soda intake or removing soda completely.

Increase your activity in any way possible; stationary bikes, swimming, elipticals, whatever you can do and minimize your back pain. If you choose to lift weights, you want low weight, high rep "toning exercises" to extend the time you're doing it to increase your metabolism. Do this regularly and often, a low impact daily regiment will do wonders for boosting the metabolism.

Be prepared to lose high amounts of weight when you start, followed by near stasis followed by low weight loss for the duration. Use the same scale every time to monitor your weight loss as scales can vary greatly expecially if you're pusing one towards 400 points (a .01 variance per pound will add or subtract 4 pounds at 400 and larger variances between scales are not uncommon).

Be ready to screw it up completely and then get right back on track, because you will. Everyone else does.

Have your calorie load recalculated regularly. As you lose weight, your weight loss will slow because you require fewer and fewer to maintain your lifestyle, meaning you've cut fewer and fewer from your needed load and have some "play" in cutting more.

Be ready for a long haul. "Safe" weight loss is considered to be .5 to 2 pounds per week. Given that, you won't be at 200lbs until sometime near the end of 2013 or the opening of 2014 on average.

To reduce your weight by 200 pounds, half your current body weight, you are going to have to accept a near total change in your lifestyle. You are going to have to do things you dislike (like cooking regularly), things that aren't fun (like a hard-and-fast workout schedule) and things you wouldn't currently do (like toss out leftovers). You have to lose all the excuses for not doing these things (saving energy by not reheating leftovers? That's a cop out) and simply force yourself to do them until you establish a pattern and do them naturally.

I wish you luck, you have a hard and long task ahead of you. Just remember that every pound you lose adds to your life, not just in years but in what you can go out and do that you couldn't before, and every pound shed is less stress on your bad back. I've had a number of friends with weights lower than yours who will not see their 40th birthday because their hearts gave out around 35.

Edit: I got off my duff and checked, you're 25. Lose the weight NOW, it only gets harder to do from here. In a few years your metabolism will begin to slow. In 10 years, it will have droped dramatically and weight loss of the magnitude you want becomes difficult in the extreme without serious assistance fron a planned and strict program, and a failure to alter your lifestyle to account for the lower metabolic rate will begin to pack on even more weight.

I am at 955 with all "old" Red and blue content completed except the Red Day Jobs and Day Job Accolades (10 badges total).

I am missing 5 Vet Rewards, the 1st Anniversary and the associated Gladiator, The two from the CoP, one avaliable Pretorian Defeat badge (Seers, unless Resistance is counting now, in which case it's 2 missing), and 5 alignment badges. That is, naturally, ignoring Bug Hunter and Passport.

So, from my numbers unless I missed a "missing badge" that's 980 possible badges plus 2 if you want to count Passport and Bughunter.