A Market Journal: From 0 to Millions
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AgentMountaineer,
Posted on: 2010-06-19 17:30 in Player Guides
756 million. Hopefully it's not taken yet..I lost track haha.
Awesome thread and great job! Very detailed updates, thanks.
-MT
Global: @Master Templar on Freedom.
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779 million...if taken, tick it up a million...
woot!
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no worries. Thanks for even doing this at all. It is a fun activity for everyone and has a nice reward. I'm sure everyone would've been just as happy if you had not offered to give away the money. |
Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
*sigh* it's been a long day.
 To all - forgive me for mispellings or if I have inadverdently missed your guess. I will ensure that you all get a fair chance and will go over this thread a few times and finalize the list before I announce the winner. |
Happy ebiling
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basically, if you see a miki on Triumph, it's probably cute and it's probably me.
Huge thanks to cuppamanga and all the folks in the mac help forum for prolonging my borrowed time on this game.
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I know lots of people make influence this way. But who's buying these crafted IOs and why?
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Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
I've generated quite a bit by bidding on recipes and then crafting them for resale. That doesn't take a whole lot of in-game time.
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That would be farmers. Because farmers are rich and lazy.
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Originally Posted by Rodion
I know lots of people make influence this way. But who's buying these crafted IOs and why?
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people who value their game time over their play money.
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Originally Posted by Rodion
I know lots of people make influence this way. But who's buying these crafted IOs and why?
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*raises his hand* Very true! I can confirm this as I am the Archetype of the lazy farmer, having paided 10x the going rate at times just to BUYITNAOW without dealing with the crafting....though I do have a habit of at least checking if the recipe for some of the more big ticket items (lotg, num, etc) is going for a meaningful amount less...could mean the difference between 5 minutes of crafting and 50 minutes of farming to get the lost inf to buy more sets at the going rate.
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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
That would be farmers. Because farmers are rich and lazy.
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D: Toss me a hai @DarkNat My Fify glory: Renzer Dark/Dark Corr., Renzro Dark/Dark Def., Amartasu Dark/Dark Scrap.Less important ones: Fire/Fire Blaster,Ice/Ice Blaster,Ele/Ele Brute, Mind/Storm Troll,Fire/Kin Corr.,Bots/FF MM., DB/Regen Scrap.
The suspense is killing me. I hope you made more than a billion. I don't even care if I won or not. No matter how it turns out thank you.
777M. C'mooooooon Jackpot!
851,013,013
aww, what the heck... one final bid for me on day 7: 1,078,000,000 (1.078 B)
It's been an entertaining thread Fury, thanks for putting it up!
834m
A game is not supposed to be some kind of... place where people enjoy themselves!
997 million
great thread
Going for 956 million...
Final Guess: 793,000,000.
Great thread, and also thanks to whoever posted the info about configuring the combat attributes window.
EDIT: Changed guess, as number was used by someone on page 13.
Global: @Darkojin
Day 7 - Starting inf: 700,874,176, Ending Inf: 1,030,858,048
Screenshot of everything that didn't sell:
To be honest, the results even surprised me. It was a monster Friday day in terms of sales. My biggest worry was running out of stock, which happened twice during the day. Fortunately, with a flurry of MA ticket generation in the afternoon and with some back stock, I was able to keep the slots mostly full. Still, there were many instances where slots were left empty and I couldn't get in game. Even though, I made around 330M, it actually could've been much better.
I just logged on and sold everything I could. Listed any IOs for 10 inf and sold off some things that were going for 10M just hours before for fire sale prices. I sold off any valuable salvage and the result is 1,030,858,048. I think that's a great total for 7 days of limited play, limited farming and a good deal of marketeering.
To be honest, there was some luck that played into it. While I had two days of really bad ticket rolls, today I got some great recipes which you'll see on the sales screens below. The prize of the day: a Rectified Recticle ToHit/Recharge which sold for a cool 45M.
Knowing that it was Friday and the sales volume was quick, I priced my stock a little differently. I marked up everything higher aiming for the maximum as opposed to moderate profits. The shift in strategy definitely paid off, and I got max prices on a lot of the more desirable pieces. That's a pricing strategy I wouldn't do on any other day except Friday and some Saturdays.
Sales screens:
I haven't verified this yet, but it looks like GhoulSlayer with a guess of 1.034B back on page 2 got the closest. The next closest was SpittingTrashcan with a guess of 1.021B.
EDIT: Yep, verified. Congratulations, GhoulSlayer! Please send me your global so I can email you the influence.
Congrats on the Win GhoulSlayer!
That was a pretty cool experiment Fury Flechette.
Congo Rats Ghoulslayer, good thing those rules didn't change to price is right style 
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Yes, very cool experiment!
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Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Congrats on the Win GhoulSlayer!
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Very nice! Congratulations to GhoulSlayer! Fun thread, thanks for putting all of this together, Fury.
"And I swear to effing god, that community is .01% nethergoat-level smart and 99.99% completely fascinating varieties of turd-licking idiots" -Talen Lee
From zero to a billion in a week! Very impressive.
Thanks for the interesting experiment Fury.
50s: Inv/SS PB Emp/Dark Grav/FF DM/Regen TA/A Sonic/Elec MA/Regen Fire/Kin Sonic/Rad Ice/Kin Crab Fire/Cold NW Merc/Dark Emp/Sonic Rad/Psy Emp/Ice WP/DB FA/SM
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I didn't expect to win. I'm just glad you made it. Congratulations on a great week. My global is in my signature but I'll send it to you anyway.
Well done Fury, and congrats to Ghoulslayer!
Awesome thread!! Thanks for the inspiration to start marketing again. Gratz to @Ghoul Slayer on the win!! Now I have some "proof" for the lowbies that beg for influence that it is THAT easy to make their own.
Lieber eine Freundschaft riskieren, als einen guten Spruch auslassen.