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I dont get teams like that. My teaming is either "we do well" or "OH NOES WE'RE ALL DEAD!" Not a lot of middle ground. Lots of people who, after one misson, crank it up to +4 (they'd go to eleven if they could) because "we did one mission as a team, and we can handle +4s!" The steps after that are usually: receive sodomy, to to hospital, go back to mission, receive sodomy, leader "DCs", everyone else quits. |
Originally Posted by Fulmens
If I'm PO'd about something, and the rest of the team has also just gone to the hospital and I have about 60 seconds before they notice I'm late... yeah, I'll bid half a million for a large inspiration. I got to show back up with an unfair advantage NOW. Ya know?
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Originally Posted by MunkiLord
I often bid like that on common salvage and large inspirations because I despise having to waste time putting up bids and pulling them down and reposting just to save myself 100k influence. I rarely bid under 20k for any piece of salvage and just because my finger is already over the 2 key if I for a second don't think 20k will do it I'll just bid 200k instead.
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Originally Posted by heffroncm
I'm still teaching myself not to care about 100K here and there, because out of 250M it just doesn't matter.
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this is the lesson many, many players NEVER LEARN.
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I do this on lowbies sometimes, only I combine cheap insps to make giant defenses. It seems like there's *always* someone willing to overpay for king-sized purples.
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Originally Posted by maggotface
You'll get that a lot. Example: someone was buying large heal insps last night at 400,100. I bought some other larges for less than 1k, combined, and sold. Not a huge profit, but over 400k for a large heal insp? Really? *Really?*
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Originally Posted by Nethergoat
I do this on lowbies sometimes, only I combine cheap insps to make giant defenses. It seems like there's *always* someone willing to overpay for king-sized purples.
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I want it now.
I remember when I crafted a bunch of commons to make 100k here, 200k there. Now I don't feel like doing it if I will (only) make 1 million.
Silly Monopoly money. If it could buy food and pay for things in real life I might care.
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Originally Posted by heffroncm
I'm still teaching myself not to care about 100K here and there, because out of 250M it just doesn't matter.
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Seriously, Fury and Nethergoat, among others, have made the game much more enjoyable for me as well over the many months I have been a minor marketeer. 2 Fully purpled Archery blasters (5 purple sets each), as well as half a dozen other strongly IO'd characters, and 10 Level 25 Lotg special recipes waiting for slots to fill, and still around 4-5B among my other characters. And I'm a VERY casual player.
Thanks guys, you rock!
Arc #6015 - Coming Unglued
"A good n00b-sauce is based on a good n00b-roux." - The Masque
I'm up over 300M now. I'm starting to think I'll have to accept a cut in margin to be able to move a volume of investment that I'll be happy with. While I love turning 25M into 50M to 75M every day, my income has been stagnant the past couple days. I have more money to invest, so I should be able to make a larger return. The problem is finding the right Enhancements that will let me turn 300M into 450M+ every day.
I also think I'm having enough fun doing this and updating the thread that I should start a market journal Tips from a newby for newbies in the first post, listing all the little rules I'm making for myself along the way. Would this be a welcome contribution to the forum, or is it overdone?
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It would be completely welcome. I'm not arrogant enough to think I know or have stumbled upon every market trick that people use, so I look forward to learning as well.
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Originally Posted by heffroncm
I also think I'm having enough fun doing this and updating the thread that I should start a market journal
Tips from a newby for newbies in the first post, listing all the little rules I'm making for myself along the way. Would this be a welcome contribution to the forum, or is it overdone? |
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Originally Posted by heffroncm
I also think I'm having enough fun doing this and updating the thread that I should start a market journal
Tips from a newby for newbies in the first post, listing all the little rules I'm making for myself along the way. Would this be a welcome contribution to the forum, or is it overdone? |
That being said, you have to look at the market merge coming up fast. You could do your journal starting now, and document your trials during and post market merge. Or, you could wait until after everything settles, and do it then.
"The struggles of one man vs the market! Will he overcome the odds while the market is in an uproar during the merger? Will he lose all of his INF and be /em panhande-ing in AP with a tattered costume, praying he wins a contest, so he can give it just one more shot? Find out tomorrow. Same market time, same market channel!"
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Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
It would be completely welcome. I'm not arrogant enough to think I know or have stumbled upon every market trick that people use, so I look forward to learning as well.
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Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=233453
Blog created. No specific focus, just trying to make money every day and what I figure out along the way.
I just want to bump this because in the 10 weeks since reading Fury Flechette's 'One Week' journal/guide I have influence capped two different toons and am over halfway there on a third with very little effort really (10-15 min a day). I'm really enjoying the mini-game and what it has added to have funds available for the higher end builds.
I have been tring to get my circle of regulars to try it and a couple are dabbling now. It's very, very weird to be the 'wealthy friend' in our little gang, but I keep telling folks to just read up a little and take a risk. I have offered to seed them some inf to get started to take away the 'risk factor' for them. Again, "Big Kudos" to those encouraging types here who are regular sages for us newcomers.
Cheers
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Then, you'll have to destroy inf to get your fix. After that, well, Im not sure what happens after that, it hasnt progressed beyond that in the test subjects. I have a few theories though.
"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