they are.
the ticket drops are in proportion to the prices of things on the markets.
people use their tickets to get the salvage they need for their own rolls and only that.
no more "excess goes on the market for cheap" because there is no excess anymore... just scarcity.
strange, because so many patches were in place to increase and balance the rewards... this patch is like 180 from that.
simple math- less tickets = market prices increase.
scarcity breeds criminal behavior in society.
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they are.
the ticket drops are in proportion to the prices of things on the markets.
people use their tickets to get the salvage they need for their own rolls and only that.
no more "excess goes on the market for cheap" because there is no excess anymore... just scarcity.
strange, because so many patches were in place to increase and balance the rewards... this patch is like 180 from that.
simple math- less tickets = market prices increase.
scarcity breeds criminal behavior in society.
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Yup, it's pretty horrible.
*farms regular missions for vastly superior profits thanks to everyone jumping to AE*
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I need to finish IO'ing fast! Before another simple set of 3 IOs costs me 25mill 
Blessing of Zyphers: KB protection = NOT FUN! put a giant hole in my wallet...
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I need to finish IO'ing fast! Before another simple set of 3 IOs costs me 25mill Blessing of Zyphers: KB protection = NOT FUN! put a giant hole in my wallet...
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Bruise in your butt from KB or hole in your wallet. Decisions, decisions.....
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they are.
the ticket drops are in proportion to the prices of things on the markets.
people use their tickets to get the salvage they need for their own rolls and only that.
no more "excess goes on the market for cheap" because there is no excess anymore... just scarcity.
strange, because so many patches were in place to increase and balance the rewards... this patch is like 180 from that.
simple math- less tickets = market prices increase.
scarcity breeds criminal behavior in society.
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Yup, it's pretty horrible.
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this is what i have been doing... its amazing how much extra profit just running regular missions can make now
It's re-learning what to get excited about that hurts.
To the OP remember: Every thing you see that is "expensive" is yet another thing that would be nice to sell to someone.
Nowadays, though, if you get sick of waiting to buy patiently and sell impatiently (or do missions/sweep hazard zones to get one), you can just walk over to your local hologram and extract some tickets.
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It's because the farmers that were once getting xp and drops are now farming in the m.A. and going for the xp and tickets.
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Bruise in your butt from KB or hole in your wallet. Decisions, decisions.....
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rofl
it was for the set bonuses, and for PvE and PvP reasons
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You missed it. Blessing: KB prot were down to around ~3M at one point, and I got a small pile of them blue and redside for about that. I saw them going for ~555k here and there, but those were more anomalies I think. The market is all about timing.
Ticket nerf = rise in rare salvage, but by the same virtue, commons and uncommons are coming back down. At the least, people will stop complaining about paying 100k for a Ruby, now that they're back up to paying 1M for a Chronal Skip.
This makes me a bit sad because I truly didn't hoard enough rare salvage at the time... but I'm a bit past the point where any rare salvage (even 4M Pangean Soils) put a dent in my wallet. It's the market. No matter what stuff costs, you can always make more.
Just keep in mind that rising prices = larger price variability = greater profits for flipping goods.
This is all well and good for you guys who have been playing for awhile, but for the new guy (or returning guy) AE was great because it broke the market and the strangle hold the REAL farmers had on it. Now that its not so easy for me to get tickets I have to resort to the market but I never had a bank roll to begin with. Needless to say my toons are not tricked out with IO sets and probably never will.
Dump on the casual player more please? Let the asian (poor asians get a bad rap) continue farming your game and making cold hard cash. Good choice.
Farming wasn't affected by the AE nerf, everyone knows this right?
Please read some guides and posts in this forum. The market is seriously the friendliest thing to the casual player the game has ever seen.
And if you're actually out beating stuff up, higher prices mean you sell things for more.
The market is not a store. It works fantastically if you don't try to use it like one.
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This is all well and good for you guys who have been playing for awhile, but for the new guy (or returning guy) AE was great because it broke the market and the strangle hold the REAL farmers had on it. Now that its not so easy for me to get tickets I have to resort to the market but I never had a bank roll to begin with. Needless to say my toons are not tricked out with IO sets and probably never will.
Dump on the casual player more please? Let the asian (poor asians get a bad rap) continue farming your game and making cold hard cash. Good choice.
Farming wasn't affected by the AE nerf, everyone knows this right?
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lol
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This is all well and good for you guys who have been playing for awhile, but for the new guy (or returning guy) AE was great because it broke the market and the strangle hold the REAL farmers had on it. Now that its not so easy for me to get tickets I have to resort to the market but I never had a bank roll to begin with. Needless to say my toons are not tricked out with IO sets and probably never will.
Dump on the casual player more please? Let the asian (poor asians get a bad rap) continue farming your game and making cold hard cash. Good choice.
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Farmers get blamed for everything 
Seriously though...this latest market bounce (which is still in progress) was easy to foresee, because not only did the Devs move to (drastically and indirectly) choke supply, but there were a wholllllllle bunch of new 40-50 toons out there demanding recipes. As I and others stated...it was like a very long 2XP weekend.
If you are new or returning then don't get caught up the Vets' profits.
Just be concerned with your own profit margins.
There are still good spreads out there on both sides.
Blue side, I saw 3 very good opportunities in two very popular sets before I left for work this morning.
I left them alone because I went after something else...so have at it lol
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my level 30 stalker is sitting at 30 million with zero market games, did nothing but sell drops and craft some of the recipe drops he got.
there's a LOT you can do with 30 million...
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If ONLY I would have had the money to IO out my scrapper. I IO'd out my brute for CHEEAAAP. I'm talking under 500 mill for everything non purple 'sides 2 LOTG's I still need.
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If ONLY I would have had the money to IO out my scrapper. I IO'd out my brute for CHEEAAAP. I'm talking under 500 mill for everything non purple 'sides 2 LOTG's I still need.
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That sounds like a buy it NAO price. I bet you could have done it for 300m with patience.
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Please read some guides and posts in this forum. The market is seriously the friendliest thing to the casual player the game has ever seen.
And if you're actually out beating stuff up, higher prices mean you sell things for more.
The market is not a store. It works fantastically if you don't try to use it like one.
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I'm a casual billionaire from my 5 mins a session on the market when i'm logging routine.
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Please read some guides and posts in this forum. The market is seriously the friendliest thing to the casual player the game has ever seen.
And if you're actually out beating stuff up, higher prices mean you sell things for more.
The market is not a store. It works fantastically if you don't try to use it like one.
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QFT
I'm a casual billionaire from my 5 mins a session on the market when i'm logging routine.
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Every time I do that I Mapserver.
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Farmers get blamed for everything
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Lies!
Say, did you know that farmers caused global warming, and the current worldwide economic recession?
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I thought it was all the farming, pvping, badging, marketeering, casual players with purpled out Warshades that were responsible for all the nerfs?
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I hoarded. I bought yur bargain salvage. Now I has my vingince!!!!
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If ONLY I would have had the money to IO out my scrapper. I IO'd out my brute for CHEEAAAP. I'm talking under 500 mill for everything non purple 'sides 2 LOTG's I still need.
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As a waaaay-to-the-side project, I've been slotting out my Widonata since late February.
Trying to do it for 750M including purples with no deadline.
I'm only up to 216M spent (minus crafting fees) and I have 14 purples, 2 LotG Defense and 1 Miracle(u) to go 
Repeat Offenders
After obtaining enough money to IO out my toon, I went through and bought most of my IOs I needed, however, I left out a few IO sets, simply because I'm lazy like that.
Having to buy all of my salvage, I've noticed that Chronal Skip has sky-rocketed from around 500k to 1mill... it's doubled within the past few DAYS (maybe a week)
Please don't tell me that the days of Hamidon Goo Costing around 6mill are coming back again