I just ruined the market for myself
By
Canine,
Posted on: 2010-11-28 10:03 in The Market and Inventions
This is a patently false post. Everyone knows that level 50s struggle to afford even basic Single Origin enhancements. 
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Too much inf?
A representative of the Crazy 88's would be happy to talk to you and offer
some unique investment opportunities...
Cheers,
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I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is definitely better.
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For every seller who leaves the market dirty stinkin' rich,
there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.
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Well, if you look closely at the composite screenshot, you will likely see telltale signs of Photoshop having been used...|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
This is a patently false post. Everyone knows that level 50s struggle to afford even basic Single Origin enhancements.
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Like the outer glows on the sub-screens indication Hero or Villain status of the toon in the screenshot.
And I've not struggled to afford SO's on any toon since my first one, initally due to inf from friends (repaid when they needed SO's) and later due to the faceless buyers on the market taking all the random crap off my hands and giving me lumps of inf in return.
But saying that sort of thing obviously makes me an individual of questionable sanity and honesty around here
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Originally Posted by FourSpeed
Too much inf?
A representative of the Crazy 88's would be happy to talk to you and offer some unique investment opportunities... |
You can talk all you want, but there's no easy way anything could be done about it... (EU player)
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As an inveterate build perfectionist, color me jealous. |
Originally Posted by Canine
Anyway, this has been a 'Look how Ebil I am!' gloat post combined with a bit of random waffle, and a side order of 'What now?'.
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Not of your riches (great job, by the way), but of your calm in the face of such fabulous wealth. Even given unlimited money, I'd be paralysed by all the options available.May I suggest coming to the dark side? Feel like picking a favorite character so we can all live through you for a bit tweaking it?
Oh, and I'm with you; it seems like now's the best time to sell purples. It could turn out that all the extra incentive to play 50s in I-19 will increase demand too, though.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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Nah you could do what I'm doing - take over the top sg rank, solo. I formed my own crazy 88s sg on guardian for the task. Currently ranked 27th / 100 with 55m prestige.
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Originally Posted by Canine
Well, if you look closely at the composite screenshot, you will likely see telltale signs of Photoshop having been used...
Like the outer glows on the sub-screens indication Hero or Villain status of the toon in the screenshot. And I've not struggled to afford SO's on any toon since my first one, initally due to inf from friends (repaid when they needed SO's) and later due to the faceless buyers on the market taking all the random crap off my hands and giving me lumps of inf in return. But saying that sort of thing obviously makes me an individual of questionable sanity and honesty around here :edit: <points to location over <- there> You can talk all you want, but there's no easy way anything could be done about it... (EU player) |
I am an ebil markeeter and will steal your moneiz ...correction stole your moneiz. I support keeping the poor down because it is impossible to make moneiz in this game.
Yeah, I know how it goes. I have a hoard of purples sitting in my bin because I'm waiting for just the right character to deserve them. Ironically, my financing this bin has led to me having other purples on characters who are just as 'deserving.'
Grats on obscene wealth and props for an Ultravox reference!
...in CoH racing to 50 is like trying to race to the end of your vacation. -Arcanaville
Debt barely slows down levelling these days. It's just a little bar that measures how much Awesome you've generated recently. (If you're not getting debt, you're just not trying to generate Awesome hard enough.) -Kelenar
Alternatively, if you don't want to make your OWN Crazy 88 SG, I could make up a representative for you in ours, and give you regular updates when you email inf for the burning.
Full service SG, that's us.
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So you think you're a hero, huh.
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I'm in the EU, last I knew, you couldn't gleemail inf from the EU->US, and vice versa.|
Originally Posted by Fulmens
Alternatively, if you don't want to make your OWN Crazy 88 SG, I could make up a representative for you in ours, and give you regular updates when you email inf for the burning.
Full service SG, that's us. |
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as a slight addendum, my Mace/WP brute got an Apocalypse Dam/End drop today, listed it, and it insta-sold for a flat 1 billion. Whuh? o_O
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Apocs are crazy atm. I just sold one saturday for 700mil. I listed it at 501mil. That's crazy high. lol.
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Originally Posted by Canine
I'm in the EU, last I knew, you couldn't gleemail inf from the EU->US, and vice versa.
:edit: as a slight addendum, my Mace/WP brute got an Apocalypse Dam/End drop today, listed it, and it insta-sold for a flat 1 billion. Whuh? o_O |
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I found the Ultravox reference odd. Not really a great song, not really a great lyric. But then I'm a John Foxx guy, and not a Midge Ure guy. ;P
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Originally Posted by Mr_Enigma
props for an Ultravox reference!
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You can always sell superdyne to little children and make lots of money!
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Originally Posted by Canine
I'll explain.
I've sold the grand total of one purple recipe since they were introduced, and that was to fund a Numina +regen/+recovery for an alt. They are shiny things to be kept and stroked occasionally, just like temp powers. (OK, so I'm odd, bear with me) I finally got to the point where I was just carrying too many of the damn things on a couple of alts that I play a fair bit. Only having 7-10 free recipe slots on a toon with 34 of the damn things is a little tedious when you need to stop every 10 minutes to delete temp power and generic recipes. However, pretty much all of my 50's had one or two purples in their tray. So I decided to sell up. All of them. No 'Ah, but I might need that' get out clauses. All purples must die from all my toons. I was never going to use any of them anyway, since I'm not keen on their set bonuses, and there's a reasonable possibility of the prices dropping in the medium to long term due to more people playing 50's with the incarnate system imminent, so it's as good a time as any. This was Tuesday/Wednesday of last week. Before this happened, I had four and a half toons at the inf cap, courtesy of my Generic IO manufacturing and selling routine. Now that all bar about two of the purples have sold?  Oopsie. And there're a few more toons with liquid assets in the 250-700M inf range. Now that I can afford anything I might want, I find I don't actually want anything. (also known as a Vienna moment, as in Ultravox (about 1:20 in) - 'This means nothing to me, Ohhh Vienna....') I've almost totally stopped my Generic IO sales routine, because well, what's the point now? (OK, so this post is about 50% legitimate comment and 50% gloat, but hey, what other use do I have for the inf, other than gloating... I gave about 600M of it away because, well, Vienna.) I've got one alt with a half-baked IO setup, and even with that, she's hideously effective by my standards, (MA/Shield Scrapper, at the lower right of the composite screenshot, defences at 44%melee, 42%range, 34%aoe, enough recovery to fight more or less constantly.) the others are a mix of SO's, Generic IO's and occasional IO sets from when I could be bothered. I find the process of putting together an IO build to be a complete faff on, so I don't bother, because I don't need to. Anyway, this has been a 'Look how Ebil I am!' gloat post combined with a bit of random waffle, and a side order of 'What now?'. Later, folks |
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um plz don't advertise my niches on the forums kthx
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Originally Posted by Santorican
You can always sell superdyne to little children and make lots of money!
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Originally Posted by Canine
I'm in the EU, last I knew, you couldn't gleemail inf from the EU->US, and vice versa.
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However, aren't the markets merged across all servers/alignments including Praetoria and the EU? If so, you can use the market to transfer inf like we used to do in the 'old days' to move it between servers.
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Only 95% of level 50s struggle to afford basic SO enhancements. The remaining 5% manipulate the market to make sure no one can buy anything on the market while simultaneously being the only people using the market who successfully sell anything.|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
This is a patently false post. Everyone knows that level 50s struggle to afford even basic Single Origin enhancements.
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RagManX
"if the market were religion Fulmens would be Moses and you'd be L. Ron Hubbard. " --Nethergoat to eryq2
The economy is not broken. The players are
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Of course! How could I be so foolish!|
Originally Posted by RagManX
Only 95% of level 50s struggle to afford basic SO enhancements. The remaining 5% manipulate the market to make sure no one can buy anything on the market while simultaneously being the only people using the market who successfully sell anything.
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My making up Generic IO's from cheap and plentiful common salvage and selling the resulting product for less than it would cost someone buy a recipe from a crafting table and make it up themselves is the true path to EBILNESS!!!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go find a hair shirt and a scourge with which to purify my soul...
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Preach on, Comrade!
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Originally Posted by RagManX
Only 95% of level 50s struggle to afford basic SO enhancements. The remaining 5% manipulate the market to make sure no one can buy anything on the market while simultaneously being the only people using the market who successfully sell anything.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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(Canine: In case you're not in on the joke, someone has actually SAID these things we're repeating. Really.)
As far as gleemailing- I've made that mistake before. If you want to do a sell-items-back-and-forth deal, I'm pretty sure I still have some level 30-40 DO's I used to use for that. I'll even refund your market fees!
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So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
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((I know. I tend to lurk on a board for a long time before I post anything |
Originally Posted by Fulmens
(Canine: In case you're not in on the joke, someone has actually SAID these things we're repeating. Really.)
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Originally Posted by Fulmens
As far as gleemailing- I've made that mistake before. If you want to do a sell-items-back-and-forth deal, I'm pretty sure I still have some level 30-40 DO's I used to use for that. I'll even refund your market fees!
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Although that may just be another example of self-moved goalposts.
1)"I wonder if i can make a profit off generic IO's?"
2)"I wonder if I can make 100million off generic IO's?"
3)"Hmm, wonder if I can get to 500M?"
4)"Well, 500M's nearly 1B..."
5)"I'm halfway there, why the hell not try for the cap?"
etc. etc.
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Where were you while I casually purpled my warshade?!!! 
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Depends when you did it, but I was probably sat right where I am now |
Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Where were you while I casually purpled my warshade?!!!
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And I thought Warshades came with purple as standard, since you can't customise their power colours. It doesn't get much more casual than that :P
(Yes, yes, I know about the whole 'casual purpling' thing, just blame it all on the flippers, those damn dolphins seem to be to blame for everything else on the markets...)
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Because of those damn flippers, cornering the market on SOs.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
This is a patently false post. Everyone knows that level 50s struggle to afford even basic Single Origin enhancements.
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I'll explain.
I've sold the grand total of one purple recipe since they were introduced, and that was to fund a Numina +regen/+recovery for an alt. They are shiny things to be kept and stroked occasionally, just like temp powers. (OK, so I'm odd, bear with me)
I finally got to the point where I was just carrying too many of the damn things on a couple of alts that I play a fair bit. Only having 7-10 free recipe slots on a toon with 34 of the damn things is a little tedious when you need to stop every 10 minutes to delete temp power and generic recipes. However, pretty much all of my 50's had one or two purples in their tray.
So I decided to sell up.
All of them.
No 'Ah, but I might need that' get out clauses. All purples must die from all my toons. I was never going to use any of them anyway, since I'm not keen on their set bonuses, and there's a reasonable possibility of the prices dropping in the medium to long term due to more people playing 50's with the incarnate system imminent, so it's as good a time as any.
This was Tuesday/Wednesday of last week.
Before this happened, I had four and a half toons at the inf cap, courtesy of my Generic IO manufacturing and selling routine.
Now that all bar about two of the purples have sold?
Oopsie. And there're a few more toons with liquid assets in the 250-700M inf range.
Now that I can afford anything I might want, I find I don't actually want anything. (also known as a Vienna moment, as in Ultravox (about 1:20 in) - 'This means nothing to me, Ohhh Vienna....')
I've almost totally stopped my Generic IO sales routine, because well, what's the point now?
(OK, so this post is about 50% legitimate comment and 50% gloat, but hey, what other use do I have for the inf, other than gloating... I gave about 600M of it away because, well, Vienna.)
I've got one alt with a half-baked IO setup, and even with that, she's hideously effective by my standards, (MA/Shield Scrapper, at the lower right of the composite screenshot, defences at 44%melee, 42%range, 34%aoe, enough recovery to fight more or less constantly.) the others are a mix of SO's, Generic IO's and occasional IO sets from when I could be bothered. I find the process of putting together an IO build to be a complete faff on, so I don't bother, because I don't need to.
Anyway, this has been a 'Look how Ebil I am!' gloat post combined with a bit of random waffle, and a side order of 'What now?'.
Later, folks
Warning:
The above post may contain Cynicism, sarcasm and/or pessimism. If you object to the quantities contained, then tough.