Yomo_Kimyata

Check out Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" essay from 1971.

Sorry, meaning that since I have an annoying tendency to go for months away, I 'm curious as to how many of my open orders got filled.

All of them? I can't possibly hope that I can craft them all and make inf. Can I ?

I somehow envision this as a mash up of the 1990 movie Robot Jox and the 1987 NES video game Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!

So, resistance is futile?

I think it is price imprinting. People have established a number in their heads of what the value is (based on history, mostly I would guess), and are willing to make that "fair" number their first bid. I don't think very many people bid creep anymore.

I've taken all three to 50 on either a scrapper or a brute. Most of the differences have already been covered above, but one thing to keep in mind with WM v axe is that if your mobs are below your level or knockback prone, axe scatters them with knockback, but WM tosses them in the air with knockup.

BS is extremely satisfying, both in orange numbers and sound effects.

I have a few bings and I can't see using them any time soon. Let me aggregate and I think I can match. It's not like I use it.

The only real way to win any epeen contest based on inf is through a inf-to-prestige burning competition!

It's pretty trivial to test -- I haven't tried it in a few months but I doubt the mechanics have changed. But I noticed it when I put some salvage for sale at 1 inf, and despite there being outstanding bids (by definition at one or higher) my offers joined the queue rather than sold instantly, which I had thought to be impossible! Later I was able to replicate it from the opposite side (One character locks the market at one. I log onto another character and offer at one. It does not sell to the bid, but joins the sell queue.) I'm pretty sure I bugged it when I first figured it out, but it seems to be a mostly harmless glitch, since it only seems to occur when a single character has both bids and offers at 1 inf. I used it when I was working on sales badges to guarantee that I would be first in queue to sell things at one.

Give it a shot and let me know if it has changed!

You are a monster!

Now, what's this about something you did in the marketplace?

To the OP's OP: I've got no problems with it whatsoever. To the OP's subsequent posts, I'm not sure what point you are making (or even if you are making one!). Rules change in this game all the time, I'm guessing because the makers of the game want to keep it balanced and entertaining for as many people as possible. ED was not popular back way back when, but in retrospect the rule change made the game much stronger and was in my opinion a primary reason the game has made it this far!

One thing I really don't understand is why you care at all about how much you spent on your build versus what someone else did, or about how squishy you are versus they are in PvE. We are all on the same side, and we're not keeping score again each other, right? Or am I missing something important?

I was in LA on business all weekend. I've come to the conclusion that the entertainment industry is like the sausage business -- I like the end product, but I'd rather not know how it is made.

Part of it is probably a price difference, but I would think mostly that it is a flaw in the barter system. You are looking for someone who has the five pieces you want and who wants the five pieces you have and who thinks the deal is a fair/good/great one. Out of 50 (or over 100now I think) views that isn't surprising that you have no takers yet. Also, I would think that someone who wants to purple an immob set but doesn't have a hold set to purple as well (or who has a spare set of hold purps) aren't very common.

Personally, I would just try to use the marketplace, but I can see how getting quick execution on selling one set and buying another might cost you more than 700mm extra, but I think if you did it smartly you could probably get it done as an even trade, but it might take longer than you would like. Good luck!

I will probably spring for the enhancement slots, simply because it will make respeccing easier. I still have health and stamina (and not the inherent kind) on most of my characters because I hate respeccing just that much.

1. The real game in the market is in figuring out how to sell things in relationship to your competitors. Buying is SO much easier than selling.
2. Yep, good observation.
3. Not enough data for me to judge. I'm sure you'll end up doing just fine!

I did something similar on a elec/ice dominator (I figured the elec would help with endurance issues and ice had the best AoE at low levels), but a brute is probably your best bet. My takeaway was that there are about 5 recipes that are worthwhile in the 10-15 range, but the turnover is kind of slow, so I ended up just making markets and crafting in those recipes. That was a while ago, so the profit may be better now!

Unpossible. No one can eat their own weight in hamburgers in 30 days. Wait, is this one of those situations where my internal dialogue overwrites what someone else is saying?