holding more than the limit
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2009-10-03 06:35 in The Market and Inventions
You can bid up to 2 billion on any item, even ones that dont exist. You can only have 2 billion on your character at any time and any extra will simply cease to exist, so just make sure to have 1 free market slot to deposit your run over before taking a full 2 billion.
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Good to know. So are there any recipes/enhancements I shouldn't use for this?
PvP enhancements, mostly. I suggest lvl 50+ training enhancements.
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I'm pretty sure there are still people who have 50+ training enhancements stored away in bins, somewhere. I wouldn't use anything that's EVER existed in the game as a place to "store" excess inf in bid-form, on the off chance that someone might still have one.|
Originally Posted by Black Orchid II
PvP enhancements, mostly. I suggest lvl 50+ training enhancements.
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I tend to recommend level 52-53 recipes. Those have never existed, and if something happened that caused them to suddenly start existing, we'd find out about it on the test server before it went live.
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Excellent, thank you.
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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm
I'm pretty sure there are still people who have 50+ training enhancements stored away in bins, somewhere. I wouldn't use anything that's EVER existed in the game as a place to "store" excess inf in bid-form, on the off chance that someone might still have one.
I tend to recommend level 52-53 recipes. Those have never existed, and if something happened that caused them to suddenly start existing, we'd find out about it on the test server before it went live. |
I, too, use the 51+ set recipes.
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Specifically, I use level 53 Luck of the Gambler recipes. (No particular reason I use LotG) I put up 2 bids of 1 billion each bid. Just remember not to put a third bid on the same recipe or you will lose everything over the 2 billion when you want to use the cash and cancel the bid.
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Could you explain a bit more? I don't understand.
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Originally Posted by Machine_Man_X
Just remember not to put a third bid on the same recipe or you will lose everything over the 2 billion when you want to use the cash and cancel the bid.
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When you cancel a bid you have to cancel all bids in the same slot at once so if the bids in the slot total up to more than 2 billion you would lose the excess.
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Originally Posted by Kahlan_
Could you explain a bit more? I don't understand.
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Ah, thanks.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
When you cancel a bid you have to cancel all bids in the same slot at once so if the bids in the slot total up to more than 2 billion you would lose the excess.
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Wouldn't it be safer then to put up 10 bids of 200m each instead? In this way you could also sock away 200m at a time until the stack fills up at 2b.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
When you cancel a bid you have to cancel all bids in the same slot at once so if the bids in the slot total up to more than 2 billion you would lose the excess.
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It hasn't come up that often in my life (alas) but when I do things like this I'm ridiculously paranoid. I have like a 500M bid on an Aegis level 51 and another 500 M bid on a Detonation level 53 and so forth.
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why not just bid 200M x10 on a pvp 3% defense?|
Originally Posted by Fulmens
It hasn't come up that often in my life (alas) but when I do things like this I'm ridiculously paranoid. I have like a 500M bid on an Aegis level 51 and another 500 M bid on a Detonation level 53 and so forth.
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Seems foolproof.
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I actually like that idea, and certainly would not cry if some of the bids filled |
Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
why not just bid 200M x10 on a pvp 3% defense?
Seems foolproof. |
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That actually does sound like a great idea. Until and unless the drop rate becomes insane on them, and the value goes to 100M... (like THAT is going to happen).
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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
why not just bid 200M x10 on a pvp 3% defense?
Seems foolproof. |
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Yes it would. But then you're taking up 10 of your precious market slots. All the time. Just to horde inf.|
Originally Posted by perwira
Wouldn't it be safer then to put up 10 bids of 200m each instead? In this way you could also sock away 200m at a time until the stack fills up at 2b.
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As with everything in life, there are tradeoffs.
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When I am on a hero, I put my excess influence into bids on the Black Market Teleportation inspiration. That has never existed in the game and is unlikely to ever exist. I suppose the devs might decide to eliminate it from the listing some day, just to "tidy things up", but they might do the same with level 51+ set recipes.
Villainside, I put the bids on the Wentworth teleport inspiration.
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Bids on multiples of the same recipe use the same slot if done right. You can have up to 10 bids on an individual recipe in the same slot. I assume that is what they are talking about. That way you only use one char slot and if it should ever happen to sell, you aren't losing 2 billion, but rather 200m. Still a loss, but not nearly as major a loss.| But then you're taking up 10 of your precious market slots. |
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Rushes to put down 200,000,222 bid on pvp 3% def recipe
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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
why not just bid 200M x10 on a pvp 3% defense?
Seems foolproof. |
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Actually, it's the same thing - just one market slot with a stack of 10 x 200m rather than a stack of 2 x 1b. The extra 8 recipe bids within a single stack & slot doesn't take up additional market slots.|
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Yes it would. But then you're taking up 10 of your precious market slots. All the time. Just to horde inf.
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But I agree it's not worth using up even a single market slot for holding inf if you're actively working all of the slots. I only have one toon with a net worth of (slightly) more than 2b, and the excess is stored as cheaply bought high-end, high-demand IO's (e.g., LotG +recharges, amongst others, some of which I'll use in a second build respec) in the base.
I hate having a bunch of slots blocked off with stored inf., but not as much as I hate the thought that I'm going to accidentally cancel a bid and lose a bunch of inf. Wish I could think of a better and easier solution.
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Spend some of that extra inf to bribe the dev team into increasing the cap!
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I hate having a bunch of slots blocked off with stored inf., but not as much as I hate the thought that I'm going to accidentally cancel a bid and lose a bunch of inf. Wish I could think of a better and easier solution.
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Or adding a Guild Wars style account-wide storage system!
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Originally Posted by peterpeter
Spend some of that extra inf to bribe the dev team into increasing the cap!
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God, yes. I have wanted account-wide storage for so long.
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Originally Posted by Demobot
Or adding a Guild Wars style account-wide storage system!
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I have some questions about holding more than 2 billion on one character:
1. How does it work? My guess is you bid say 1 billion on some level 53 recipe/enhancement that doesn't exist.
2. Are there any risks involved?
3. Which recipes work for this? If I recall there are some HOs or something that do exist at level 53, so I wouldn't want to choose those right?