I should have bought a lottery ticket
By
Aura_Familia,
Posted on: 2009-11-14 22:02 in The Market and Inventions
There are things you can buy that the sale price of an LotG won't even cover. Primarily these are: Purples, PvPIOs (a couple of sets and a few uniques of which are very nice even in PvE), lower-level LotGs, some lower-level sets (Basilisk's Gaze, for example)...
There are several dozen things I can think of you could spend ~100M on pretty easily. Sometimes it would get you a whole set, sometimes one enhancement, sometimes not even that.
The way you phrased your post, it sounded to me like you considered 100M a lot of money, and then felt there was nothing to spend that money on. What I'm saying is that there are actually probably several dozen things to spend it on. Whether you want to spend it on them is a separate question, of course, but that's not what it sounded like.
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The game was always cash rich in the sense that a lot of cash existed in the system. I've no doubt that cash has increased with time as people have determined better ways to generate lots of new inf and more people have started playing at level 50. Primarily, I think that having a market has just made readily apparent how cash rich it really was/is, and allowed more of the cash that existed to get around to more people.
| Just seems the game's a little cash-rich since the Market system was implemented IMO. |
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
You make good points. I guess what I was trying to say was that I would like more variety of things to spend Inf on. Purples don't really appeal to me, I slowly grab one or two as I go, rather than making a concerted effort to get them which would require a large Inf balance. The other things I either have, or am satisfied with on this toon. I'm still grasping for an idea of what those new things to spend Inf on could be, perhaps purchases of temp emote powers (the hire-a-limo emote that also doubles as a zone transport method), or an amusement park (good both to spend Inf on rides for your toon and for saving people from the roller-coaster), maybe charitable causes (fixed in-game charities). As you can see, I'm struggling.
Considering how many different ways there are in the real world for a fool and his money to be parted, having less than a dozen in-game strikes me as odd.
There ya go, that's my 2 Inf. 
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Looks like you're going to have to figure out your own ways to spend the money instead of on dev created things.|
Originally Posted by The_Killbot_5000
You make good points. I guess what I was trying to say was that I would like more variety of things to spend Inf on. Purples don't really appeal to me, I slowly grab one or two as I go, rather than making a concerted effort to get them which would require a large Inf balance. The other things I either have, or am satisfied with on this toon. I'm still grasping for an idea of what those new things to spend Inf on could be, perhaps purchases of temp emote powers (the hire-a-limo emote that also doubles as a zone transport method), or an amusement park (good both to spend Inf on rides for your toon and for saving people from the roller-coaster), maybe charitable causes (fixed in-game charities). As you can see, I'm struggling.
Considering how many different ways there are in the real world for a fool and his money to be parted, having less than a dozen in-game strikes me as odd. There ya go, that's my 2 Inf. |
I'm kind of in a similar boat.
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Oh, I have so far to go to be in the same boat as you it's incredible, but I do share the same thoughts I guess. I have earned all this loot, now what am I gonna do with it. Looking for non-dev created things is the way to go for the moment I think.
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Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Looks like you're going to have to figure out your own ways to spend the money instead of on dev created things.
I'm kind of in a similar boat. |
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Out of curiosity, do you mean spending the inf on prestige? If so, why do that? It's vastly more efficient to run around in SG mode.
That's why I was thinking of using it on my base, despite the ludicrous exchange rate, because I can't think of anything else. I've stood around handing out millions to new players sometimes. Just seems the game's a little cash-rich since the Market system was implemented IMO.
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