They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning
By
Cardiff_Giant,
Posted on: 2009-09-28 19:39 in The Market and Inventions
This post is kinda awesome.
D: Toss me a hai @DarkNat My Fify glory: Renzer Dark/Dark Corr., Renzro Dark/Dark Def., Amartasu Dark/Dark Scrap.Less important ones: Fire/Fire Blaster,Ice/Ice Blaster,Ele/Ele Brute, Mind/Storm Troll,Fire/Kin Corr.,Bots/FF MM., DB/Regen Scrap.
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Wait, didn't Ice-T (as "J-Bone") say his name was "Jones"?? |
Originally Posted by Hart
Dear Military Cybernetics flipper,
A-hahahahah hahahahah. Mwahahah hah, mwahah hah, mwa hah hah hah hah. Yours truly, ~Hart P.S. - Heheheh. |
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.
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Heh, made 200m in 3 days grinding these things out in the AE and selling em for a mill instantly.
They always sold for slightly over a million, and I figured the guy who's flipping em would run out of seed money eventually. I was trying to knock the price back down by flushing the market with supply. I failed, but got wealthy enough doing it that I no longer care how much they cost.
I'm still stumped as to why someone would be willing to pay 2M for something it'd take all of 5 minutes to go get with tix.
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I'm sorry, I don't speak riffraff. Didn't you see the monocle?
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Originally Posted by Cardiff_Giant
Wait, didn't Ice-T (as "J-Bone") say his name was "Jones"??
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Call me slow, but .... What?
Edit: Of course an explanation comes while I'm being slow!
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You're slow.|
Originally Posted by Machine_Man_X
Call me slow, but .... What?
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One minute slow.
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2 million hasn't been a meaningful sum for me since a few weeks after I9 went live.|
Originally Posted by Hart
I'm still stumped as to why someone would be willing to pay 2M for something it'd take all of 5 minutes to go get with tix.
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my play time > my play money
The Nethergoat Archive: all my memories, all my characters, all my thoughts on CoH...eventually.
My City Was Gone
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Agreed, but 2m is still enough to notice, especially when you need the item in bulk. It's pocket change, but 1000x pocket change is 2b. |
Originally Posted by Nethergoat
2 million hasn't been a meaningful sum for me since a few weeks after I9 went live.
my play time > my play money |
What I'm confused by is the fact that some rares are still going for double the 1m 'normal' rate. They're all worth the same number of tickets, so I'd think more ticket farmers would be grabbing the ones that're high and undercutting the flippers.
Certainly seems to beat rolling on recs since the market crashed. Even 10-14 bronze only has half a dozen results that are worth the slot. 5400 tickets is 90 10-14 bronze rolls, or on average, 30m. That's good, but takes maybe 3-4 slots to sell the worthwhile stuff and a good amount of time. The same 5400 tickets worth of rare salvage can be 10-20m and only takes a single slot - or in this case, no slots at all.
tickets are convenient for people who spend lots of time in MA.
inf is much more convenient for everyone else, so that's what they use.
The number of players like Evil Ryu, who rejoiced in Oroborous because it let him farm his own Luck Charms instead of buying them for 60k, is tiny.
I can be sitting at the market in Sharkhead, one superjump away from the MA building, and I'll *still* "overpay" for that rare salvage if I want it NAO because it's more convenient than jumping over to the MA building and cashing in some tickets.
And keep in mind the top prices are driven by the WANT IT NAO crowd.
Everybody else is putting in bids and waiting and many of them are getting a sizeable discount off the 'going rate'.
And strictly from a ticket perspective, who wants to waste a sizable pile on relatively price-capped salvage when you can roll random recipes with a potential worth in the tens of millions?
I've blown my share of tickets on random common rolls and the occasional Uncommon, but I've never bought rare salvage with it.
The Nethergoat Archive: all my memories, all my characters, all my thoughts on CoH...eventually.
My City Was Gone
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Well, Military Cybernetics, + "Flipper" from the TV show + the theme song of said show - referenced in the post name...|
Originally Posted by Hart
Heh, made 200m in 3 days grinding these things out in the AE and selling em for a mill instantly.
They always sold for slightly over a million, and I figured the guy who's flipping em would run out of seed money eventually. I was trying to knock the price back down by flushing the market with supply. I failed, but got wealthy enough doing it that I no longer care how much they cost. I'm still stumped as to why someone would be willing to pay 2M for something it'd take all of 5 minutes to go get with tix. I'm sorry, I don't speak riffraff. Didn't you see the monocle? |
First thing I thought of was the Dolphin that had (Military Cybernetic implants courtesy of the Navy - he was a "retired sailor") from the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" - named Jones... it struck me as funny.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
City of Heroes didn't fail, City of Heroes was killed. If a 747 dropped on your house, you'd say you were killed, not you failed to find a safer dwelling.
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This logic works in reverse, too. 5 minutes for a piece of rare salvage isn't much, but 1000x 5 minutes is a month's playtime gone. If you can make 200m in 3 days, which is the better deal? |
Originally Posted by Hart
Agreed, but 2m is still enough to notice, especially when you need the item in bulk. It's pocket change, but 1000x pocket change is 2b.
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Dude, you're giving me way too much credit for your frame of reference :P Good flick, though.|
Originally Posted by Cardiff_Giant
Well, Military Cybernetics, + "Flipper" from the TV show + the theme song of said show - referenced in the post name...
First thing I thought of was the Dolphin that had (Military Cybernetic implants courtesy of the Navy - he was a "retired sailor") from the movie "Johnny Mnemonic" - named Jones... it struck me as funny. |
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Originally Posted by Laevateinn
This logic works in reverse, too. 5 minutes for a piece of rare salvage isn't much, but 1000x 5 minutes is a month's playtime gone. If you can make 200m in 3 days, which is the better deal?
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Dear Military Cybernetics flipper,
A-hahahahah hahahahah. Mwahahah hah, mwahah hah, mwa hah hah hah hah.
Yours truly,
~Hart
P.S. - Heheheh.