1 Billion - Really Doesn't Mean Much Any More Does it?

I've never posted a screenie of any of my 11-12 billionaire toons mainly because I've never felt motivated and it seemed kind of odd to just do it for one of my alts and too much work for all of them. That said, since I'm planning to convert 30B of my infamy to prestige sometime in the next 3-4 mos I think I'll post a screenie of my main with my VG's prestige up before and after the arduous conversion process (lots of trips back to market to fetch 2B more).

I agree that 1 billion really isn't much anymore for spec'ing out a toon to the hilt and honestly thats what people collect the fortunes for so they can buy whatever they want. Of course redside you could have 100B and not be able to get alot of stuff quickly like Cloud Senses procs or Kin Combats at level 35 for example.

Redside market might be hopeless at this time because I dropped most of my brainstorm stash (30k or so) into the market and made a ton of infamy but only temporarily dented the prices. Perhaps I should have done more commons but I tried to do a mix that was closer to the real drop rates.

My WM/Shield surpassed 1B last night, and is worth more than that as he's also holding onto one each of Hecatomb, Soulbound Allegiance, Armageddon and Respec recipes.

No, it's not a lot compared to some out there and I'd still have a ton of work to do if I wanted to purple him out. But his build is nearly finished (last two Obliterations came in on inexpensive bids last night) but for pieces here and there (mainly LoTG, so I'll have to spend some of the inf). His inf will just make it that easier to outfit my Widow, then my Bane, then whoever's next.

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” - Groucho Marx

This thread is just another in a long line of "my e-peen is bigger than yours" threads that are pretty much standard for this section of the forum.

There's something to be said about discretion and a little humility. This is the wrong place to find that.

It's in with the subtle color schemes and quiet, understated costumes.

Seriously, you were looking to the "FOOLS! I'LL DESTROY YOU ALL!"/ "NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT! FACE MY FIST OF JUSTICE!" crowd for discretion?

We have THOUGHT BUBBLES over our heads with all our secrets in them.

Sadly people in Real Life spend a lot more time thinking about making and keeping their money. . . I've never had anyone go "Hey, nice outfit" and throw $100 at me.

Neither have any of my friends who can actually dress themselves.

Pay for badges (maybe not quite the amounts suggested) might have a nice deflationary effect.

That and lolz humility with fake money.

Would have to agree that 1 billion is not that much anymore. Once you get a decent farmer or learn to play the markets it does not take long to rake in the fake money. Hell 3-4 of the right purple drops and you have a billion right there.

I see I'll have to dumb things down for you a bit...

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Originally Posted by SoilentGreen Nice try. So clicking on a link to see its content is indiscrete? Your second point makes no sense.

Here goes. I said:

"By opening this thread, you failed at discretion."

discretion: noun, the power or right to decide or act according to one's own judgment

Discretion would've allowed you to notice that this thread isn't worth your perceived time. You wouldn't have bothered with it, and saved all of us a few precious minutes. You chose poorly, thus you failed at discretion.

"By posting in it, you failed at humility."

humility: noun, the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one's own importance

Here's your original post:

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This thread is just another in a long line of "my e-peen is bigger than yours" threads that are pretty much standard for this section of the forum. There's something to be said about discretion and a little humility. This is the wrong place to find that.

This is much like the guy, who overhearing his two friends talk about some TV show blurts out, "oh, I don't watch TV." It's unwelcome and sanctimonious; you're basically saying you're better than us, because you're not participating in something we currently are, which you deem unseemly. Which, you can certainly try to argue you are, but to claim humility w/that line of thought is very ironic. It's in fact the opposite of humble, thus failure.

If however you were including yourself in your last sentence, then at least you're internally consistent, that no one on this forum is particularly humble, yourself included. If that was your intent, I retract that portion of my criticism.

Was that simple enough for you?

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LOL. Yes, getting lots of fake money = high finance and wealth building.

That's not directed at my quote (was Nether), but your response is still silly, so I'll explain this too. Worth is relative, but digital money is just as real as dollar bills. Ask yourself, why is a diamond worth a lot? Because it's pretty? Because there is demand for it? Because people are willing to work overtime to afford a slightly bigger rock for their girlfriends/wives? If diamonds were only valued for their industrial value, they'd be worth about as much as cubic zirconium or the like. They have perceived value, thus demand, thus "real" value. It doesn't matter that they're no more worth to me personally than cheap quartz--diamonds still have intrinsic value assigned to them by the real world marketplace based ob mostly subjective demand.

Now digital money also have perceived value. People put in time and effort to get them, and thus have real value. They're even traded for "real" money, i.e. RMTs. Hell, go on ebay and see how much your account is worth (maybe not so much in CoX any more, but in other games...). Ethics aside, there are obviously ppl in the world that actually make "real" money getting lots of "fake" money, so how fake is that latter, anyway?

So yeah, the "fake" money argument is spurious too. And, no, you don't need an MBA to make a lot of "fake" money, but then no one ever claimed you did. Many, many claims to the contrary though. So again, nice try. By all means, keep playing though. Or, you know, you can exercise some discretion.