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Quote:*pictures that for a moment*Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO
Sounds like I'm banging a trash can inside a giant whale.
How is that bad again? Also, with that in mind, could I trouble the Dev Team for a Harpoon? I'd pay good money to RP as some kind of Ahab clone on virtue. Standing under Atlas going on long winded diatribes about how kids these days do not appreciate backstory/period research and whale biology.
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Quote:But then, we would have all lost SAN. I like the little SAN I have left.Originally Posted by Daemodand
Compared to the Cthulhuesque horror we could have gotten
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Quote:Big Dark Goldfish? I'll take ten!Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
I have to agree with the OP... of all the possible things they could have made... a wolf is the least pleasing to me (well, unless it had been really ridiculous like a big goldfish).
I would even have been happier with just Dark-flavored Imps. -
That is pretty great. Thanks for sharing!
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Quote:*looks at yellow text in your sig*Originally Posted by Test_Rat
Ice armor for brutes just isn't a thematic fit.
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In other news, I support ice for brutes. I had a good time with it back in the beta, and I hold out hope that it'll make it live somday. -
Quote:Not weird. I think everyone has their own "quirks" about marketing. Remember the rise in popularity of "signature numbers on the market" a while back? How a person deals with the market is just like how they make their costume: it varies from person to person. (or i am crazy, and everyone is a generic market cookie cutter zombie. either or.)Originally Posted by Neuronia
I must be the weirdest marketeer out there, don`t think I`ve ever flipped a single item. Everything has come from Merit rolls (locked at 33), regular play crafting and sales and speed-running STF and the occasional PvP IO drop in Arena.
Lazy and aware I guess is my category...I`m almost to my goal of escaping "High-end poverty" in being able to buy 4 of any item in the game at a whim...(including off-market items).
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Quote:Not a fan of Deagle Brand Deagles? +rep!Originally Posted by MondoCool
Dual Now only if we had some pistols that weren't giant deagles!
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Quote:Isnt someone else (maybe more than just one other someone) matching as well? If you could get all the matchers together, you could make a lot of prest. with a moderate investment.Originally Posted by Fulmens
(it's actually 100 mil for 200K. And right now, I'll match that 100 mil so you actually get 400K. )
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Quote:Nice work! Before too long, being poor will be a distant memory. And you'll be too busy oppressing the casual meek downtrodden of this game to think about that memory.Originally Posted by heffroncm
*ahem*
That is all.
Well, not really, but it was funnier that way. In my mind anyway :-P
So, I think this might set a new market benchmark. From ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to my first billion in exactly 2 weeks. That is, no starting influence, no characters on the account, no badges, no accolades, no veteran awards that effect the market, nothing at all that gives me any advantage over someone that bought the game on the same day I restarted my account. I didn't even start trying to make money in earnest for a day or two, I was too busy trolling forums to catch up on the game and I had no market slots to speak of.
So, that's my two-week story. Bit of a self-congratulatory post here, but it's been a great day and I feel pretty good about what I've accomplished with the market. I'll post a proper update with everything I sold in the past 24 later this evening, and this thread is far from over.
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Quote:Ive had several tip missions that lasted under 5 minutes. Hell, one mission was "arrive, crush 3 mobs, leave". It took longer for me to zone then it did to complete the mission.Originally Posted by Fulmens
like I probably can't do 10 minute tip missions
That is balanced by the 35 minute "plunder the ether plane" mission. Dam you Bocor! -
Quote:Maybe. I just wanted to be sure if it was a new person, that they didnt think everyone who plays the market is a "bad, greedy person who only lives to keep people down", as some posters here like to make us out to be.Originally Posted by Ignatz
My gut feeling is that if anyone here claims it, they'll most likely say something like "Bah, keep it." For my part, I would say the same simply because of your avatar.
It *is* a great avatar, isnt it? Im glad I found it.
And thats what matters. You cant (shouldnt, anyway) get all riled up about mistakes. You just have to learn from them and move on. Glad to see you took a mistake in stride.Quote:Originally Posted by Venomancer
I had a good laugh
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Quote:Originally Posted by heffroncm
Thanks for being cool maggotface :-D
Eh. I might have felt bad had I not at least offered. Most of the time I hit "get all inf", but not this time. No idea why, but I saw the obvious mistake, and made a post here. Not sure if it'll get claimed or not. -
Someone out there made a mistake bidding on some improvised cybernetics. If you can tell me how much of a mistake, I'll give you the money back.
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Time to dust off that Ice/Ice dom. Ice cubed, here I come!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
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Quote:Oh no, not weird. They've obviously been conditioned by "bad, greedy people" into always paying that price.Originally Posted by Talen Lee
So I wasn't throwing them into the teeth of low-roll bids. But for some reason, people were willing to pay tens of times what I asked them to pay for them. Isn't that weird?
OR
Someone is MAKING THEM pay that price. Like, actual physical forcing them to pay. Im in the rotation next week to fly around the world and twist arms to make them pay. AND PAY THEY WILL!! MWAH HA HA HA!! -
Quote:I, for one, never tire of reading a good success story. Especially if it's a rags to riches story. Throw in a scrappy underdog who has to overcome the odds, learning solid lessons along the way, screenshots, and youve got a story everyone can enjoy.Originally Posted by heffroncm
I also think I'm having enough fun doing this and updating the thread that I should start a market journal Tips from a newby for newbies in the first post, listing all the little rules I'm making for myself along the way. Would this be a welcome contribution to the forum, or is it overdone?
That being said, you have to look at the market merge coming up fast. You could do your journal starting now, and document your trials during and post market merge. Or, you could wait until after everything settles, and do it then.
"The struggles of one man vs the market! Will he overcome the odds while the market is in an uproar during the merger? Will he lose all of his INF and be /em panhande-ing in AP with a tattered costume, praying he wins a contest, so he can give it just one more shot? Find out tomorrow. Same market time, same market channel!" -
Quote:I like it too. As soon as I found it, I knew I had to make it my avatar here. Looney Toons is indeed greatness, and very deserving of <3. So many great moments.Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Your avatar mesmerizes me. I <3 Looney Toons.
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Quote:Billions upon Billions?Originally Posted by SwellGuy
He has probably destroyed billyuns of inf.
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Quote:I dont get teams like that. My teaming is either "we do well" or "OH NOES WE'RE ALL DEAD!" Not a lot of middle ground. Lots of people who, after one misson, crank it up to +4 (they'd go to eleven if they could) because "we did one mission as a team, and we can handle +4s!" The steps after that are usually: receive sodomy, to to hospital, go back to mission, receive sodomy, leader "DCs", everyone else quits.Originally Posted by Fulmens
If I'm PO'd about something, and the rest of the team has also just gone to the hospital and I have about 60 seconds before they notice I'm late... yeah, I'll bid half a million for a large inspiration. I got to show back up with an unfair advantage NOW. Ya know?
I throw money at salvage if Im feeling "want it right now". I dont really buy large insps very often.Quote:Originally Posted by MunkiLord
I often bid like that on common salvage and large inspirations because I despise having to waste time putting up bids and pulling them down and reposting just to save myself 100k influence. I rarely bid under 20k for any piece of salvage and just because my finger is already over the 2 key if I for a second don't think 20k will do it I'll just bid 200k instead. -
Quote:Soon, you'll be teaching yourself to not care about a million here and there.Originally Posted by heffroncm
The "small game" is over so FAST though. I'm still teaching myself not to care about 100K here and there, because out of 250M it just doesn't matter. I need to find more expensive game, too. I keep going with the same things, but I'm only able to invest a fraction of my capital at this point. There is a good feeling about "landing a big one" when youre working on bigger "market fish". The market is like drugs. Small time market plans are "gateway drugs", which lead you to "harder drugs". It's all down hill from there, but in a good way.
Then, you'll have to destroy inf to get your fix. After that, well, Im not sure what happens after that, it hasnt progressed beyond that in the test subjects. I have a few theories though.
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Quote:So Fulmens is a KING of science, and eryq2 beats up hookers?Originally Posted by Nethergoat
okay how about if the market were a black hole, Fulmens would be Stephen Hawking and you'd be ShamWow Guy.
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Quote:I did read the whole post. Then I picked part of the post I had a question about. You didnt answer my question. This is my surprise face.Originally Posted by eryq2
Read the WHOLE post before replying. The answer is in it. Don't just pick out something to try to be funny about.
Also, FF, gave a generic number. There's no way for that person to predict the future.
Youre saying that you cannot predict the time it will take to get to the cap, if you know how much inf you get in one hour from "farming alone", and what the cap is? That's not "predicting the future", that's basic math.
I see what you tried to do there, but you failed. Better luck next time.Quote:Originally Posted by eryq2
Or did you mean something else?
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Quote:You'll get that a lot. Example: someone was buying large heal insps last night at 400,100. I bought some other larges for less than 1k, combined, and sold. Not a huge profit, but over 400k for a large heal insp? Really? *Really?*Originally Posted by heffroncm
It doesn't make sense!
Not to mention the level 25 generic IO def buff going for 500k at one point in recent memory.
Not big profits, but passable for a short time. Nice way to start a nest egg on a character, too. I enjoy the little things. It cant be all "flippin every respec recipe on the BM like smurphy", the little guys are important too.
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Quote:So...youre not going to sell anything? Didnt someone (F_F, I think) already math it out for you in the thread that got deleted?Originally Posted by eryq2
hit the cap by farming alone.
Another thing, if youre going to do it by "farming alone", that means you cant sell your drops on the market, because that isnt farming.
Or do you mean something else?