SwellGuy

I liked it.

As for what the movie should do I would recommend they simply jump to a story and if they want to show his origin do it in the credits or in a quick narration.

I really liked the novel "Last Son of Krypton" from 1985 not the animated film from 1996. It would take some work to make it a good movie but it has the elements to make for an interesting movie.

I do not mean to offend but I find it difficult to believe your research was unbiased towards a finding plus there is no way without developer access to information you can know what is actually going on in a blind market.

The anti-flippers group sound like a witch hunt to me. Anything you guys don't like going on in the market is blamed on the flippers' black magiks.

How do you know there were ever fewer flippers/crafters? Lower population does not mean that subpopulation had to change at all.

Also WHICH market do you refer to with those 18 months? We used to have 2 now we have 1. I would also point out the current environment is heavily tilted towards 1-20 with Praetoria in high demand and at other times people were in MA getting PLed madly to the top.

I seem to recall common arcane salvage prices were much higher then. Luck Charms seem to be much lower now than they were in the blue market for years.

Do you see that people claim flippers at work only in the areas they are looking at? Is it even believable that it is all flippers versus supply and demand with the flippers swimming where the fish are?

They're (we're) even lazier than you are.

I have billions of inf that only is useful to amuse me in the game. What do I care if I could save a million or 10 million inf?

Now when you're talking about purples I am not that rich yet but someday I will be in the same mindset on those. Currently anything under 10 million is close enough to 0 for me.

Definitely my kids. The wife? I suppose but she'll be out with her friends so I would never have to choose.

The only reason I don't pay more for those things in real life is that is real money. In game money is play money.

Well then those bidders were bidding too low, weren't they?

Since I tend to sell it now and buy it now, flippers are my buyers and my sellers.

How can anyone be mad at those cute dolphins? Or are they porpoises?

How can anyone buy out the entire inventory plus all incoming commons?

No one can control supply. New stuff will keep coming in. You guys keep making the same mistake of acting like there are a finite number of things for sale all the time. There is quite the opposite. Always an increasing amount of items generated by drops coming into the market.

This isn't real life where the manufacturers can lock down incoming supply. It is an MMO where killing a critter creates drops out of thin air.

My favorite comment of his was his complaint about being insulted. I guess he didn't consider tossing out that we were BSing him as an insult that he fired first at seebs and then at me.

I'm not but since you are impervious to logic there is no point in dialoging with you or reading any more of your drivel.

The first time he would have gone from presumably Rogue to Hero and got nothing. The second time he would have gone from hero to hero and gotten the first reward of 50 reward merits.

Hero -> Vigilante no reward
Vigilante -> Villain no reward
Villain -> Rogue no reward
Rogue -> Hero no reward

Hero -> Hero 50 reward merits -> Hero 1 hero merit (repeats)
Vigilante -> Vigilante 30 reward merits -> Vigilante 60 reward merits (repeats)
Villain -> Villain 50 reward merits -> Villain 1 villain merit (repeats)
Rogue -> Rogue 30 reward merits -> Rogue 60 reward merits (repeats)

Then answer my question. Who paid 50k for my Alchemical Silvers when I listed them for 11? Not 11k. 11.

Reason for high prices? Demand. If it were just flippers anything and everything would be pushed up not just the most relatively valuable items.

The drop rate for Alchemical Silver is identical to any of the other 5 arcane commons why is it the highest? It is used in the more useful recipes. This increases its demand. That increases its price.

Your fictional scenario is not what a flipper does. Like all conspiracy theories it works in the theorist's mind only. If the flippers are listing them at 60k who are they selling to when mine sell immediately for 50k?

Perhaps if you gave an example of what you think a flipper does we could point out why you are arriving at the incorrect conclusion?

All I can tell you is in order for a flipper to profit he has to sell it for more than it will cost him including fees plus it has to be worth it in either time to flip or profit per market slot.

Using your example of Alchemical Silver:
Last night I placed my 2 AlSil drops on the market and they instantly sold (as I desired by where I put my list price) for 50k each.

Now do you believe the flippers are buying it at 50k and relisting it at 50k or even 60k and waiting for a sale? Or is it more likely someone who is not a flipper put out their max price willing to pay of 50k and were waiting for someone like me to list it lower than that so they could buy it?

Now if you really believe it went to a flipper at 50k that flipper is either a flipping idiot or just likes to get rid of his inf. A smart flipper would likely have bids out in the 1-19k range and relist at 41-45k range (for example he might list it at 45,003 to not get plucked by a 45k bid and count on someone not bid creeping and just bidding 50k).

Very vocal fringe cases...

But that is exactly why I am going to have many characters sit on the new alignment merits so when one of my characters wants X if it isn't for sale I can go get one. Now!

If it was kept in chronological bid order there would be those who would complain that evil marketeer types would scoop up the stuff first by getting their bids in first.

There is an argument to be made that the random method is also fair because it does not favor any bidder over another.

QFTruth

It would pass just like /em howl and /em drum

Sure some of us still do it but not "everyone" any more.