Buying common salvage with tickets

You might as well forget objections to the ways you can store your drops since the new email system will give you your own private account wide storage space. I imagine it'll be limited but if you know what you need you won't have to fill it with bloat.

20 pieces E-mailed to yourself is limited but certainly not insignificant.

It kind of boggles my mind that some people are so opposed to the market that they won't even place an overnight bid on some common salvage. At the end of the day, though, I highly doubt that allowing the purchase of common salvage with AE tickets is going to cause the playerbase-at-large to suddenly start behaving rationally and obtaining salvage at the lowest possible cost.

A couple of hypothetical reasons for the devs' decision not to allow specific purchases of commons:

1. Like PvP, the market isn't compulsory - but I bet the devs would like you to use it, just as they'd like you to PvP.

2. The ability for lowbies to make a good bit of inf out of a lucky salvage drop is a bonus for casual players and people who don't have access to outside inf reserves.

3. 20 AE tickets is such a trivial amount that it paints common salvage as being essentially worthless. If you can obtain exactly what you need in about 2 minutes of game time, then is there really any point in requiring it in the first place?

I don't believe somebody needs to be anti-market, or anti-marketeering, to be behind the OP's idea.

This is about reducing hassle costs associated with IOing out characters. Redoubtable's concerns about making it "too easy" reflect a concern about pricing. Pricing issues are fixable, and not a reason to jettison the idea of allowing players to pick a specific common salvage item, when buying them with AE tickets.

I wouldn't care if the price of common salvage ended up being relatively high when you got to pick what you were purchasing, as long as it wasn't astronomical. And, I know I'd IO up earlier in my characters' careers if it was less of a pain in the a## to do it.

Speaking of hassle costs, I have no desire to use the email system as a kind of storage system. I'm guessing a lot of players would feel the same way. Why would somebody voluntarily choose such a tedious and annoyingly complex way of organizing their gear, if there was a less tedious and complex choice available?

What it boils down to, for me, is that I'd rather have the option to play longer to earn tickets to purchase specific common salvage items than get a cheaper price on random rolls for common salvage, and then carry excess salvage to the market and/or use the email system to store items. Playing is fun. Setting up and running a kind of warehouse, or Fed Exing items between locations and dropping items into the market screen is boring.

Worrying about an item being trivial doesn't necessitate a market concern. There come a point where something is so easy to obtain it serves no purpose and should probably be removed to reduce bloat. There may be a market concern with this request but it's not part of every point of disinterest.

I don't like this idea for one reason:

1. It gives players an even greater incentive to use AE.

I'm one of those players that feel AE should be secondary to the regular PvE game, and giving players the ability to obtain the exact salvage they require from AE would be a step against this design.

and it is pretty easy to distinguish which type of salvage you need to roll.

Hi:

I like the idea of being able to get recipes through merits, which allows me to avoid the hideous over-pricing of some recipes; of course as some would say, as long as someone will pay that much for them, they will be priced as such..way to go Ebay and ******!

Just as recipes are being hideously priced and manipulated, salvage is no different and subject to price gauging, of course as long as folks are willing to pay such amounts for them, the practice will continue.

I had always hoped for a game alternate to control or limit how bad the gauging can get to be, for us players who play casually, have not so good luck, or do not buy influence from busineses such as ******* or Ebay. I feel the merit award system does limit som eof this, after all just do a few TFs and you can have any recipe you want wit the exception of purples; would be nice if you could buy purples as well.

With regards to random rolls at AE for recipes, its a waste for me, I always get some lame status effect recipe, and of course of a level I do not want. I would really like to see AE have tickets exchanged for specific recipes and salvage, any type common, rare or what not. Obviously the amount of tickets one could store would have to be more 9999, so reasonable exchange rates could be set.

But anyway, I am for allowing commons to be acquired through AE tickets.

Hugs

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