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New Level Pact Squad to face the Toughest in CoH

10100101

By 10100101,
Posted on: 2009-05-22 19:36 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Go into atlas now and look how many 20s 30s 40s and 50s you will find looking for team.

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I have. It's way, way down from where it was.


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I don't 'do' Another Fan any more, but can't help chiming in to note that the proof of Uber's statements is in the pudding.

Market prices on recipes that were 'crashed' by runaway farming have bounced back.

Anyone can see this, it doesn't rely on anecdotal MA head counts- stuff that was selling for 10k is back up to 6 million.

Cratered supply = way less farming, period.

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Lol thank you for making my point.

I have to wonder though how I manage to be on both your ignore list and your obsess over list.

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Well, considering that he seems to have an obsession with talking about his ignore list, it might be impossible to not be on both.

I was going to say though, if there is anything that might give you some pause to rethink your argument, it would be who you suddenly find yourself allied with.



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LOL if it was politics, ethics, morals, or even simple etiquette I would seek professional help imediately*. But give the man his due he knows market pricing.

The only time I have seen him really wrong was on the random roll. That was just a case of someone talking up their book and trying to look out for personal self interest. After all if people aren't getting things they don't want and don't know the value of, its kind of hard to take them off them cheap then flip them.

* I am kind of alarmed his position aligns with mine in the farming thread

 

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Actually, yeah, low level is where ticket farming pays off the most.

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Should have warned you agreeing with me is verbotten on this board.

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I Agree! O wait ....

 

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Played with Smurphy this afternoon. It was a blast. A fire blast, that is - followed by a footstomp, and fire cages, and some rains of fire.

I died a lot, but my god did those bosses melt.

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

 

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Played with Smurphy this afternoon. It was a blast. A fire blast, that is - followed by a footstomp, and fire cages, and some rains of fire.

I died a lot, but my god did those bosses melt.

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Thanks for coming along

I don't want to get into details and the times quite yet, but what do you think I could charge for running people 1 to 35 on Freedom/Villainside no level pact? I'm thinking of packing the people in when I feel free and want some cash and busting out Father Ignatious and Trafficker and seeing how it goes. Think I could charge 50m? 75m? 100m?

You think there would be more interest in less money for level 22ish?

 

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when I feel free and want some cash

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Isn't that always?

 

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Think I could charge 50m? 75m? 100m?

You think there would be more interest in less money for level 22ish?

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Good question. I think people paid 1-3M per farm run on pre-MA farms, so maybe you could use that for a benchmark. I think it would probably take 10-15 farms to hit level 35 in that scenario if you had a good bridge, longer otherwise. Those are totally off the cuff numbers though.

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

 

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People paid me 15-20M per run on Liberate. Each run took under 25 minutes. 8-man with that same duo

 

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So when can we talk about the results?

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

 

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another 10 hrs

 

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I want to give plenty of time to allow the character to be noticed, an "investigation" to take place, and any possible actions to be taken.

 

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Well, let me know.

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

 

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I want to give plenty of time to allow the character to be noticed, an "investigation" to take place, and any possible actions to be taken.

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I don't think anyone is looking now. They did their big sweep, now it's back to business as normal.

 

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50 in under 6 hours

I'm not sure on the exact time. Probably about 5 and 1/2 hours of real time that includes Freedom crashing once.

The method I used involved fighting on a Mission Architect map spawned entirely with Fire damage bosses. The story behind the map involves my JoJo the Bunny arc. JoJo is trying to take over the world, has cloned himself and has sent shipments of "JoJos" against Paragon City. You are to eliminate one shipment: a shipment of fire damage bosses at the Paragon City Carnival grounds. If you'd like to try a similar map out yourself make a custom enemy boss with Fire Assault primary from Corruptors and Fire Assault Secondary from Dominators. These bosses do an outrageous amount of damage. The map is extremely difficult. Please give it a try, make the boss, invite some friends, crank the difficulty and give it a try. I died several times on my SS/Fire Brute.

The boat the JoJos were sent on was captained by Requiem. The JoJos are holding him hostage. I also had to release the hostage Requiem. The map's level range was 48-52 (maybe 54?). At the highest difficulty setting with a 50 starting the map the JoJos spawned as level 52 and my lowbie was automatically set to 46. My lowbie stood at the door. I dual boxed my Super Strength Fire Brute and my Fire/Kinetics Corruptor. Frequently friends on various archetypes also helped in the fighting,.

Should any component of my method be deemed "an exploit" I will simply cease that specific behavior. If the entirety of my method is simply deemed "not allowed" with no explanation then I will simply repeat my method again while not using one single component. I will repeat the experiment as needed, monitoring and recording the results, until it is narrowed down which specific behaviors are deemed as "an exploit".

Now that I have properly informed my potential customers about exactly what they may be buying I would like to offer some level pacts for sale. I cannot promise a time frame for completion because I do not know when I would have a significant amount of free time. However, I expect it to be "not very long".

I'm not going to go through a bidding process at the moment. I'm going to start my pricing "high". Currently, I'm only looking for 3 buyers. So I'm going to ask for 350M in either Infamy or Influence on any server. Some people did bid more than that on Virtue. I value both relatively the same at this point in time. If I get 3 buyers then I will collect the money, create the level pacts and crank out some 50s. If not then I will lower my price and try again. Since the characters would be level pacted and there would be 3 lowbies on the map it will take me roughly 10-14 hours of effort. I am an insomniac and I do get bored at random times of the night, Crushing things at outrageous speed is a good way to pass the time.

 

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That's funny ... I'm pretty sure under 6 hours would have been hit by the ban hammer. That's just a guess though.

 

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Good luck. I think you're going to find that the "one thing" that you'll have to change is going to be either the time taken to get to 50 or whether it's done in the MA or not.

Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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I thought I should make this more obvious and less buried...

I'm simply asking for 350M Infamy or Influence on any server at the moment. I value Influence and Infamy relatively equally. You level pact to one of my guys. I use the methods outlined previously to get my guy and thus your guy to 50. I cannot promise a time frame. I expect it to be fast... obviously. I'll be selling three. If I can get 3 payers at 350M I will start when I can. I'm starting my asking price high though I believe I had more than 3 people willing to pay on Virtue/Villainside a while ago.

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Also I may be offering non-level pact adventures to level 22 or 35. I will not be doing these on any schedule or with any regularity. Simply type /chanjoin "TheMarket" and I may, without any warning and without any regularity offer to take players on F/V through many levels. I will simply state the number of slots and take the highest bidders. Then I will take those characters to 22 or 35. You will simply need to keep vigilant and pray that I offer when you are available. I'm a spontaneous insomniac. It could be anytime.

 

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<3 u bunny

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There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.

 

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There are no words for what this community, and the friends I have made here mean to me. Please know that I care for all of you, yes, even you. If you Twitter, I'm MrThan. If you're Unleashed, I'm dumps. I'll try and get registered on the Titan Forums as well. Peace, and thanks for the best nine years anyone could ever ask for.

 

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6 hours? For a pacted toon with the other offline?

Ummmm, wow.

 

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That was 6 hours non-pacted, so a pacted toon is presumably 2x that. Still, a 50 in 12 hours is very fast indeed.

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines

 

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So I'm going to ask for 350M in either Infamy or Influence on any server. Some people did bid more than that on Virtue. I value both relatively the same at this point in time. If I get 3 buyers then I will collect the money, create the level pacts and crank out some 50s. If not then I will lower my price and try again. Since the characters would be level pacted and there would be 3 lowbies on the map it will take me roughly 10-14 hours of effort. I am an insomniac and I do get bored at random times of the night, Crushing things at outrageous speed is a good way to pass the time.

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Just to be clear - you're offering the service on Freedom, yes? Or do you have similar characters set up on other servers?

And for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines