More impressions from a no-so-noob
By
Kitteh,
Posted on: 2009-06-15 13:46 in The Market and Inventions
My (currently stalled awaiting new video card) experimental stalker racked up 30 million by level 30 selling drops and crafting generic IOs using recipe & salvage drops. He got a -KB drop pre-MA that he sold for 10 million, that was the only "good" one. Zero marketeering, zero MA'ing other than running the tutorial and one mission (since I'm trying to play him as close to the 'casual gamer' ideal as I can).
Anybody who cries poor is either super lazy or just wants 'teh shiny' without paying market value.
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1 - AE farm to L23. Yes it's lame, but I wanted to get playing and I have guys I'm playing for real on another server.
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Nothing wrong with that at all IMHO...
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Anybody who cries poor is either super lazy or just wants 'teh shiny' without paying market value.
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Or spends too much time at the tailors 
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I have also been playing for a few months, and reading these forums. I have used what people have said in here and done almost exactly as you described above (aside from the recipes from AE I'll try that!)
I just hit 153M!
I have several full sets that will all last me until 50. Then it happened.
I have learned a lot on these boards. Do your research, place appropriate bids, sell your goods for a 'reasonable' price. And most importantly .. be patient. Then it happened.
I SWEAR was 20M lower than the last time I had checked. I only check every so often mind you ... but still! I didnt do my homework .. I didnt place a 'reasonable bid' .. I didn't wait. I bought 2! 
I just spent a GOOD chunk, and Im gonna to slot what I have purchased. Uniques are great! I'm basically going to have to start my stockpile over ... ah well. Making 1B will be a long way away ... those purples cost a fortune :P
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1 - AE farm to L23. Yes it's lame, but I wanted to get playing and I have guys I'm playing for real on another server.
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Nothing wrong with that at all IMHO...
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lol definitely nothing wrong with that.
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Well I've been playing for over two months now, and actively marketeering for a few weeks. I recently started a bunch of blue-side alts on Freedom to play with a friend and decided to see how tough it would be to make some real money on a new guy from scratch. Here's what happened:
Thanks, ebil marketeers, for the advice and the patience to help me out while I was figuring stuff out. I'm not officially eBil yet, but I have no doubt I'll be there shortly and the journey just doesn't seem too meaningful at this point, being so easy.
1 - AE farm to L23. Yes it's lame, but I wanted to get playing and I have guys I'm playing for real on another server.
2 - Roll 10 Bronze rolls. Scored a few nice recipes and one jackpot (Performance Shift +endurance proc)
3 - Craft jackpot
4 - Sell recipes to be able to POST jackpot at going rate of 20m
5 - Wait 24h.
6 - Profit.
7 - Frankenslot to dramatically increase performance and still have 16m left in cash.
Okay, so I'm not going to score jackpots every 10 rolls. But really, it didn't cost much to frankenslot my guy in the low 20's. I don't NEED 20m inf to do it. I short-sold some recipes that were worth a few hundred thousand uncrafted, meaning I could have made a few mil crafting and selling them.
The moral of the story is that it's ridiculously easy to make money on this game. I haven't been playing my "main" much lately since I've been exploring all these alts on Freedom...he has a bunch of long-term orders up. Every day I check em, craft and post any good recipes that came in, grab cash from and IO's that sold and log out. He is almost up to 200m in cash with at LEAST 200m in buy orders up on the market. I don't need to craft tons of commons or flip tons of salvage. I'll hit 1b in a month or two by logging him on for like 15m per day.
People who complain about the market or about prices...well some people will complain about anything. Take me for example, I complain about people who complain about the market.