The No Numbers Guide to I9 for the Casual Player
By
beowulfe,
Posted on: 2007-05-10 09:10 in Player Guides
I dont aggree with that... but ok.
Psychic Healer: The market is not a twitch game. Warren Buffet said "The market is a mechanism for reallocating wealth from the active to the patient." But what does he know, he's only worth a bazillion real dollars?
Some people on Monday were paying 350,000 inf for Regenerating Flesh because there were three for sale and they wanted it NOW.
Tuesday Morning, I had ten of them and I paid somewhere around a thousand each for them.
That's an extreme example, because double XP ran the market ALL THE WAY OUT ...
but you can't beat a 350-to-1 ratio no matter how much you play.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
Another great IO guide, well done!
I thought I would mention in this thread that I have completed a new guide. It is all about the market, not IO's. It leans towards Wentworth's rather than the Black Market, just because that's where I spend more time and have more information, but I hope it will be helpful to anyone who wants to know more about the economy. Here is the table of contents:
Wentworth's 101: Introduction to the Markets
Wentworth's 102: Selling
Wentworth's 103: Buying
Wentworth's 104: Frequently Asked Questions
Wentworth's 105: General Tips and Tricks
Wentworth's 106: Bringing Home the Bacon
Wentworth's 107: Feeling Rich
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It's certainly true that the hardcore players will have more money. There's no getting around that. As far as getting more stuff faster, they are going to win, hands down. What I think is cool is that the market helps us to catch up. That makes the market the opposite of virtually everything else in the game. Task forces are easier for hard core players than casual players. Powerleveling, farm maps, PvP, etc, all give hardcore players an even bigger advantage than they already had. The market doesn't. The drop system itself is reasonably neutral, except for the task forces. The more you play the more you get. Hard core players get more, but they get it in proportion to the amount they play more. That's not the case with some other stuff, like task forces.
The market is different. The market is more useful and more beneficial for casual players than it is for hardcore players. By itself, it doesn't even the playing field, but it is just about the only thing in the game which weighs in on the side of the casual player.
Incidentally, I am working on a new version of the guide, focusing just on the market, not IO's. Anything in particular folks would like to see?
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