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And here we see one of the driving forces of high salvage prices. Why fuss over paying 20 or 30 or 40 thousand for the salvage when you are going to make 700 or 800 thousand when you sell the enhancement? You could pay 100,000 for the salvage and it would barely dent your profit, but it might dramatically speed up the rate at which you could make that profit.

It is true that low bids can take a long time to fill, sometimes very long. Try bidding 1 inf on Hamidon Goo and see how long that takes to fill. It's a tricky balance between how much you are willing to pay and how long you are willing to wait, and what makes it annoying is that you never know just what the equation is.

Practice helps.

How did you pick 23,456 inf? That seems like an unhelpful price to me. 25,001 is only a little higher, but I suspect your bids would fill much sooner.

Here's an easy tip: if you are planning to bid low and be patient and get a good price, buy more than you need. Sell the rest for a big markup, but still less than the highest prices you've seen. The biggest problem I have is running out of market slots.

Any time you see the mouse turn into a hand it's a sign that you are hovering over something clickable.

I suppose the way to test it would be to go onto a map alone, hit the reveal power, then invite 7 more people to your team. You should be able to tell whether the enemies are spawned for a team of 1 or 8.

Well, none of those enhancements existed for the first few years you played, so that will skew your drops/year calculation.

Ties are weird. I studied it once by having a bunch of friends put in identical bids and then I listed that item one at a time over and over to see the order in which their bids were filled. It was absolutely a function of the order in which the bids were placed, but it was not FIFO or FILO. It wasn't exactly random - it came out the same way every time - but it wasn't anything you'd have predicted either.

It was something like... the first bidder got the third item listed, and the second bidder got the second item listed, and the third bidder got the seventh item listed, and the fourth bidder got the first item listed, etc. Exactly the same, every time.

Like I said: weird.

Oh, and to the OP: it's all your fault the number of items for sale is 0!

But seriously, the reason we have so many items where there are 0 for sale is because, when people do list them, they list them for below the market price. You get a quick sale, but then we're back to having 0 on the market. For some reason, despite the many complaints about how the shelves are bare, we rarely see people complain that they're being undercharged, and yet it's that underpricing that causes the shortage. /shrug

I had to petition for 60 and 63. Hopefully it's sorted out now. That reminds me, I need to test out that fog of war power.

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Hey, I got my old avatar working again. I'm not planning to change it. Too much change already! I'm finding it harder to scroll quickly down a thread and pick out the interesting bits. The quote blocks are different, and people can more easily use more variety in fonts and colors. Also, graphic sigs are teh ebil.

And yeah, the lack of alpha channel edge shading whatever thingy Protea said about the smilies is ugly.

Overall I don't mind the new forums, though. I'll get used to all the little changes. It took me a while to find that control panel thingy, for example. If it makes the mods happy, then I'm all for it. Being a mod sucks.

Which reminds me, does anyone know that webcomic about how forum moderators shouldn't complain about their jobs because it's like a person who has a job swallowing bees complaining about getting stung by bees? I wanted to show that to someone but I couldn't find it.

To do:
1. Set up pumpkinhead avatar
2. See what smilies look like.
3. Get used to the many changes.