TLDR: I taught a newbie about the market and made inf at the same time while recruiting for my rebuilding VG. Efficiency FTW.
Yesterday I decided to take my mid-level claws/WP brute out for a [SPIN]. I'm slowly putting together a team on my new namesake. I have a few global friends already on the team, and decide to pick the guy up that's been in cap. I send him a tell inviting him to the team. About 2 missions later I get a tell back. Guess he was AFK. He joins.
So, for the next hour or so, we're carving our way through missions from various players on the team and having a great time. Our young player poses the question: Does anyone know an active SG. So, we snag him up in the rebuilding Silk Panties of DOOM. Our capstone for the night was a bank mission with a full team and get surprised when an AV shows up with 2 minutes left on the clock. I blame the leader*** We finish the mayhem with 20 seconds to spare. Yup, having a blast!
So, when all the fun is done and the team decides to disband to head to bed, I decide I want to show off one of my IO'd brutes to my new recruit. I run an AE built specifically for survivable AoE-centric brutes. He's duly impressed.
So, the inevitable "What are IO's?" comes up.
I'm a little taken aback. I answer Invention Origin. A quick info check shows his power picks to be in order. Odd that he'd be asking that question. I spend the next hour talking about various aspects to the game and strongly recommending him roll several alts on both CoH/V.
So, I introduce him to the invention system by taking him to the black market and showing him how to frankenslot an attack to get more out of it without spending too much. I make him buy the recipes and help him identify ways to buy cheap ones (filter for uncommons and such).
So, I'm feeling pretty good about helping a returning player and showing him that those overwhelming prices don't have to be so overwhelming when starting out and I get another tell from someone at the market.
Do you have X* salvage? Apparently this player needed something that didn't have many for sale. I checked, and no I did not have it. It didn't take much to figure out that this salvage was probably being flipped, so I looked it up and yes, this one had a BUY IT NAO! of 1 mil or so.
So, what followed was a lengthy demonstration of how to compete with a flipper and not pay the BUY IT NAO price. In the course of the explanation, 5 of that salvage were sold to the flipper****.
So instead, I tell him about ticket rolls and rolling certain levels. I go and roll about 30 rolls of salvage and get 6 of those particular item. I give the player one and then I began talking about listing the item on the market.
I demonstrated bid creeping and identifying where the ebil flipper was and yes, I admit I listed those 5 commons under the flipper's price gouging. The end result was a player that was not only shocked on how easy one could acquire salvage without spending a lot of money, but how many players didn't mind spending that level of inf.
Now, I don't flip salvage anymore. It just isn't worth it to me. But I do have to admit, my demonstration has probably taken over someone's niche right now. I apologize to that marketeer**.
Anyway, what's your story? Have you run across any newbies recently that you were able to convert to the ebil side?
*Salvage name withheld to protect the innocent.
**not really. I made a cheap 4 mil with 0 effort last night.
***That would be me.
****I should have moved in quicker.
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in a story a little shorter than yours, yes. ive done it a few times when people see my toon in action.
Storytime.
TLDR: I taught a newbie about the market and made inf at the same time while recruiting for my rebuilding VG. Efficiency FTW.
Yesterday I decided to take my mid-level claws/WP brute out for a [SPIN]. I'm slowly putting together a team on my new namesake. I have a few global friends already on the team, and decide to pick the guy up that's been in cap. I send him a tell inviting him to the team. About 2 missions later I get a tell back. Guess he was AFK. He joins.
So, for the next hour or so, we're carving our way through missions from various players on the team and having a great time. Our young player poses the question: Does anyone know an active SG. So, we snag him up in the rebuilding Silk Panties of DOOM. Our capstone for the night was a bank mission with a full team and get surprised when an AV shows up with 2 minutes left on the clock. I blame the leader*** We finish the mayhem with 20 seconds to spare. Yup, having a blast!
So, when all the fun is done and the team decides to disband to head to bed, I decide I want to show off one of my IO'd brutes to my new recruit. I run an AE built specifically for survivable AoE-centric brutes. He's duly impressed.
So, the inevitable "What are IO's?" comes up.
I'm a little taken aback. I answer Invention Origin. A quick info check shows his power picks to be in order. Odd that he'd be asking that question. I spend the next hour talking about various aspects to the game and strongly recommending him roll several alts on both CoH/V.
So, I introduce him to the invention system by taking him to the black market and showing him how to frankenslot an attack to get more out of it without spending too much. I make him buy the recipes and help him identify ways to buy cheap ones (filter for uncommons and such).
So, I'm feeling pretty good about helping a returning player and showing him that those overwhelming prices don't have to be so overwhelming when starting out and I get another tell from someone at the market.
Do you have X* salvage? Apparently this player needed something that didn't have many for sale. I checked, and no I did not have it. It didn't take much to figure out that this salvage was probably being flipped, so I looked it up and yes, this one had a BUY IT NAO! of 1 mil or so.
So, what followed was a lengthy demonstration of how to compete with a flipper and not pay the BUY IT NAO price. In the course of the explanation, 5 of that salvage were sold to the flipper****.
So instead, I tell him about ticket rolls and rolling certain levels. I go and roll about 30 rolls of salvage and get 6 of those particular item. I give the player one and then I began talking about listing the item on the market.
I demonstrated bid creeping and identifying where the ebil flipper was and yes, I admit I listed those 5 commons under the flipper's price gouging. The end result was a player that was not only shocked on how easy one could acquire salvage without spending a lot of money, but how many players didn't mind spending that level of inf.
Now, I don't flip salvage anymore. It just isn't worth it to me. But I do have to admit, my demonstration has probably taken over someone's niche right now. I apologize to that marketeer**.
Anyway, what's your story? Have you run across any newbies recently that you were able to convert to the ebil side?
*Salvage name withheld to protect the innocent.
**not really. I made a cheap 4 mil with 0 effort last night.
***That would be me.
****I should have moved in quicker.