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okay, fess up...who's went medieval on AlSil

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-10-23 14:26 in The Market and Inventions

 

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looking for one last night, there were 34 listed and an abnormally high 15k bids, last 5 was 500k or so.

AlSil generally has 1k or so listed and 1.5-2k bids at any given time.

Did somebody do a Luck Charmers number to see what would happen if they bought them all up or something?

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Someone also went postal on Stabilized mutant genomes as well. Went to craft some stuff and ZERO were for sale.

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That was a pretty clever short term play, assuming people would be too busy ToTing to gather or sell salvage.

But it wasn't me. Remember, I said it was pretty clever. It should sort itself out as people get all their Halloween badges.

Until then: Profit!

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There are about a dozen or more common salvage items that have been in extremely short supply for more than a week - Spirit Thorns for example keep hitting 20 or less for sale. Items that typically have 500+ for sale have bottomed out and just don't seem to recover.

*shrug*

The funniest thing is, even when there's only 15 left for sale, you can still get them for under 5k in generally less than 10 minutes.

 

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
Did somebody do a Luck Charmers number to see what would happen if they bought them all up or something?
My wife did that with Ensorcelled Weapons last year. She noticed there were something like 50 with no bids, and she bought them all for, like, 10 inf each. People started to seed them (ruining her 10 inf/ea fun) and she kept buying them immediately (maxing at about 100k). It took her about an hour total (including running into my base to store). She listed a pile on her alts, and turned her 2 million inf investment into about 200 mil in under an hour.

Then it bottomed out, and as a result, I still have about 30 of the damn things in my base.



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Originally Posted by Misaligned View Post
There are about a dozen or more common salvage items that have been in extremely short supply for more than a week - Spirit Thorns for example keep hitting 20 or less for sale.
Of note: ToT mobs appear to drop zero invention salvage. If a lot of people are standing around at doors badging and PL-ing, or even chasing GMs around for merits, they are producing zero salvage.

I'm usually a significant market producer of salvage, as I play regular mishes on high team size settings and normally sell all my drops. Since the Halloween event started, I've provided jack squat in terms of salvage.

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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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Originally Posted by UberGuy View Post
Of note: ToT mobs appear to drop zero invention salvage.
all is explained!

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If ToT mobs don't drop invention salvage, why is Hami goo down to 6K? Or has it been that way for a while, and I just hadn't noticed.

Ahh - duh. It's a drop from the Halloween tip mission. Of course.

 

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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
... 6... thousand?
I suspect he meant 600K

 

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Nope.

I meant 6,000.

There were about 2,800 for sale, but only about 30 bids outstanding.

Now, it is about 2,100 for sale and 330 bids.

 

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Originally Posted by Jetpack View Post
Nope.

I meant 6,000.

There were about 2,800 for sale, but only about 30 bids outstanding.

Now, it is about 2,100 for sale and 330 bids.
Ah, you meant Hamidon Halloween Costume, not Hamidon Goo.

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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata View Post
Ah, you meant Hamidon Halloween Costume, not Hamidon Goo.
No, the supply/demand numbers he's quoting do match Hamidon Goo. Presumably the supply spiked for a short period but prices are back int he 1mil-2mil range now by the look of it.

 

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Originally Posted by nethergoat View Post
looking for one last night, there were 34 listed and an abnormally high 15k bids, last 5 was 500k or so.

Alsil generally has 1k or so listed and 1.5-2k bids at any given time.

Did somebody do a luck charmers number to see what would happen if they bought them all up or something?
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
No, the supply/demand numbers he's quoting do match Hamidon Goo. Presumably the supply spiked for a short period but prices are back int he 1mil-2mil range now by the look of it.
I'll be honest I don't look at the last 5 buying salvage.
2m an orange 111k for the rest. if it doesn't buy now then I look.

 

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Two of the choices in the Halloween tip give a random piece of rare Arcane salvage.



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Yeah, and every badger and their brother are running those mishes over and over on different characters.

Still, I'm surprised that much of it would go straight to market, if that's what happened. It seems the most likely explanation. Either that or someone had a couple of SG bases stocked with nothing but Hami Goo and unleashed it on the market.

I blame Emperor Cole.

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American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA

 

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I know I crashed Deific Weapons over the weekend.

I logged onto a rather old unplayed alt to get some badges and found I had bought 10 stacks of ten for less than a million per unit and they were trading at 1.2 to 1.5M.....

On a whim I dumped em all on the market for 12 inf each. Watched as the last two stacks sold for 1200 inf. Really, you were wasting a slot for 1200 inf bids on Deific Weapons? Then promptly put in buy bids for 27K each for another 5 stacks (only 3 filled). Before I finished my 5 tip missions the market had stabilizied and I sold off the 3 stacks at a sizable profit.

All told from the 8 stacks I lost about 12 million real inf....I dont know how much in potential inf....but gained the heartfelt thanks of casual players and flippers alike as they can now casually purple their warshades.

 

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
I picked up a stack of Goo tonight for 700k- w00t!
How do you stack goo ?

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