transferring inf across servers/sides

I'm running a multi-server contest (see sig) where I'm offering inf as a prize. I remember there was someone from the markets that would transfer inf across servers and sides for a fee. Are they still doing around and available? The contest is over on the 9th and I'll be figuring out the specifics shortly afterwards.

Server transfer fee is just the Wents 10%. You give it to me, I put something up for sale, I buy it on another character, I give you the remainder. No profit for me- I'm just doing this, because I've done it dozens of times and if you're doing it for the first time you might screw up and lose the money.

Side fee is 20% for most servers, 10% for my "home servers" (Infinity, Victory, Pinnacle). 10 gets you 8, or 10 gets you 9 depending. This should make a 10% profit for me (unless my money's gotten out of synch in which case I break even +/- 1% ) ; the extra 10% is because at some point I'm going to have to move the money to another server. There's a free server transfer with that- if you want to give me influence on Freedom and get infamy on Champion, it's the same "10 gets ya 8" deal.

@Boltcutter in game.

EDITED: I checked with Smurphy, who for a very long time was the go-to guy for this, and he's quitting for a while due to the TF changes. I don't know anyone else in the biz besides me.

Something tells me that GR will not bring him back unless it either brings back the TF/SF difficulty slider or somehow otherwise makes it possible to do crazy things in TF/SF content.

I had thought it was Smurphy. I sent a PM a while back asking, but never heard back.

Ditto. I miss that big bunny.

I helped a couple of people out with transfers like that, but I've spent some of my money and/or stopped working so hard to make money, and I don't think my pockets were ever as deep as Smurph or Fulmens anyway. ^_^

Just to recap for those of us who are somewhat oblivious, what was the change the upset him so?

The difficulty slider for TF's was temporarily disabled, because people were running TF's at -1/x0 . Some people like their TF's at +4 or something, and Smurphy was one of them.

Interesting. It sounds to me that while that could certainly be a game changing adjustment, it wouldn't be worth leaving forever just because it was that way for a while. Maybe he was getting a bit burned out and this was the final straw? Perhaps he'll be back after a vacation from the game. Either way, I wish him the best of luck.

Running +4 players debuffed mobs buffed was very fun, and trying to run them now feels... hollow.

(shrug) The Kora Fruit problem was the inspirations themselves. It's not a case of a a side-effect. The problem with the TF settings was doing Master runs set to -1. This is one very specific issue with a system that, overall, is highly popular.

How it was "sold to the community" doesn't really matter. The inspirations themselves were the problem, and not a side effect.

What we're discussing here is the gap between what the devs say and what they do. At the time, they made it seem like this wasn't a big deal, and some sort of workaround would be devised so that things could be put back. In that particular example, it not only never did, but probably never will.

With respect to Task Force difficulty, the devs have basically said they'll think about how to restore it. This threadjack started because this was translated as "they're going to put it back." But we have no idea when to expect it back, or even if we can expect it to ever change. Past similar statements were given as examples of that happening before.

It's also worth pointing out that T3 inspirations being a problem is wholly your interpretation of what happened with that example and why. The devs never came along and explained the decision to never revert Kora with that justification.

If you went on Freedom right now and asked 100 people about kora fruit missions, I'm guessing 75 would have no idea what you were talking about.

I'm also thinking 50 of them would have no idea if you asked them about TF's but I may be in a pessimistic mood...

What we're discussing here is the difference between what is planned and what can be accomplished with available resources. They don't always match. That's life.

With regard to TF difficulty, they did not say they'll "think about how to restore it." They said the current situation was a temporary fix. Obviously, this is not a guarantee. Nothing is. It's the current plan.

The interesting thing (to me at least) is that TF difficulty is apparently bugged anyway. In a brief moment of insanity last night I decided to run a Dr. Q TF and for some reason the entire thing spawned at -1. According to one of the people on the team a whole bunch of TFs are getting messed up spawns (they said they'd run an ITF which had spawned as if the team only contained 4 people for example).