What *is* an ebil marketeer?

you think I didn't steal it first?

1 Billion or 2 Billion? Once you get the first one, the second one is easy.

I think the "Club" entrance req of 1 Billion is good - if you can get there,
you've gained the skills to get to 2, or 5, or 20 given sufficient time and
effort.

After all, the typical #6 posts we usually see are complaining about the
prices of 100K salvage more often than not... I've not seen (m)any
complaining "I have 1.1B, but I can't buy a 1.4B Panacea recipe - you ebil
marketeer flippers are ruining my game"

Also, for the record, I lol'd at heff's hatemail, regardless of who sent it.

Pure Funny


Cheers,
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I have 1.8 billion, but I can't afford Gladiator's Armor +3... Can I blame evil marketeers for that?

Stop slacking, PVP farmers!

Here we go, finally . . .



Any idea why the market and my stats would disagree on precisely how much I have?

I think I qualify as an ebil pimp, I made my last 500 Mil flipping HOs.

Grats!

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Originally Posted by Rast_of_Guardian I think I qualify as an ebil pimp, I made my last 500 Mil flipping HOs.

I actually snorted when I read that. And I don't snort. I will endeavor to find you the perfect pimp outfit now!

Muwahahahaha!

I became an ebil marketeer because the devs designed the game that way. Without marketeering, I get to level 2, and I can't afford to fully enhance with level 5 enhancements! doh! I get to level 7 and I can't afford level 10 enh. Doh! I get to level 12 and I can't afford DO's. doh! I get to level 22 and I can't afford SO's! Doh!

So it's a matter of necessity to have to marketeer, or you'l be level 23 with 3 SO's and a bunch of DO's and be very unstellar. This has always been the case, even before WW. I can't understand the logic of the devs wanting heroes to be so poor.

So now I have several toons with over a billion each, and speculate on purples and pvp's and such, to get enough to outfit my higher level toons with nice sets.

That being said, I try to be as compassionate to noobs and responsible in my trading to nurture the game. Yes, I mix marketeering with responsibility and compassion. I stay away from speculating white salvage, since I theorize that over 10k for a salvage to craft a level 10 or 15 IO is out of the reach of a noob, which will frustrate him, causing him to leave the game for greener pastures, which, in the long run, is destructive to the player base (and my pocket).

But I suppose I could be totally wrong, since the devs don't care about the crazy high prices of low level white salvage, which could be easily solved by selling them at stores. That would have the same effect that it has on the prices of common IO recipes, which can be bought.

So let's all be compassionate, responsible marketeers out there, for the good of the game.

Ahhh. So they wanted us to barter, but failed to make an efficient barter system. lol I remember back then, wondering how in the world I was supposed to meet the right guy just at the right time with the right enhancement, since there was nowhere to post it.

I just bought the game a month or two ago, so I too know all too well how the game is designed. With no sugar daddy, the game is truly brutal to anyone playing "as intended". My first SO set was like 900,000 inf. Let's just say that a first time character doesn't have that kind of cash around level 22...

I was about to make an acidic post on this matter, when I realised that you could buy enhancements for AE tickets - and then I sort of figured "bah screw it." I was a bit upset though, that I'd be "forced" to ae-grind in order to play the game outside of ae...

I was about to make an acidic post about that too, when I suddenly realised I could buy rare salvage for tickets too, toss it on the market and earn 20+ million from the tickets I get from levelling 1-20 in ae. Still annoying, but well, at least it means less time in ae right...?

Of course, as soon as I started placing goods on the market, it was just a matter of time before I figured it would be much easier to just buy the goods on the market instead of bothering to grind ae. Perhaps it resulted in a cut in my daily profits, but it's a steady income, and I can play the game as much as I want - and I don't need ae at all.

As much as I'd like an ebil marketeer badge, I don't see one any time soon in my future. While I'm probably up to around 100 million in total earnings, I sort of spent a lot of it, pimping my level 30-40 chars. Every mediocre witch needs IO sets, right? Yesss..!

One day though. One day. I'm sure I'll get there. I'm mostly dealing in small time goods, for small time profit, but once I find some lucrative niches I'm sure the money will roll in. There's more way to earn money than flipping rocket boot recepies with a 1000% markup.

Mac

My theory is that they were trying to please 2 different crowds, and they made the wrong decision on both. They probably wanted to please the geek d&d board gamers and also the casual gamer.

To this end, they dummified the game for the casual gamer and made us poor for the board gamers, when they should have given all the numbers for the game boarders and made quality of living heroic for the casual gamer. So now they have it half right, since we now have numbers (but they still need to get rid of ED). Maybe in another 5 years, they'll get the other half right.