How do you get an IO that not on the market ?
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crayhal,
Posted on: 2011-09-08 10:58 in The Market and Inventions
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Speedrun TFs that can be accomplished at the shortest amount of time, ie 1 merit per minute. Assuming 3 hrs (180 mins) of play time per day:|
Originally Posted by plainguy
How do you have thousands of merits. Is it just making sure you get a TF done, especially the weekly specials ? Or is there some other way I am not aware of.
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15-25 mins: ITF, 25 merits
45-50 mins: Silver Mantis SF, 42 merits
20-30 mins: Mort Kal, 22 merits
25-30 mins: LRSF, 25 merits
25-40 mins: LGTF, 37 merits
20-30 mins: Apex, 40 merits
20-30 mins: Tin Mage, 40 merits
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Total: 170-235 mins, 231 merits
231 merits x 7 days = 1617 merits / week
Note: the above can only be accomplished by team mates who know how to do speed runs. IE, if anyone stops to kill the 1st mob that is not associated with the mission objective, that player is not a speedster.
One of my regular speed mates hits the max of 9999 merits almost every week. He manages to spend about half of it with rolls.
Ouro also has some missions that have a good merit/min ratio and can be soloed.
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*millions*, sure. *tens of millions* would be hard. Millions, just buy level 45 and 50 common recipies and vendor them.
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Originally Posted by The_Laughing_Man
No one can walk up to the market cold (i.e. never seen it before) and make millions in minutes. You really need to spend time getting a "feel" for the prices and availability of stuff, and that only comes with time. Don't get too down about it.
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Originally Posted by TopDoc
I highly recommend a personal SG for storing stuff. Take a look at my CEBR thread over in the Brute forums. In about 6 hours you can have a level 50 Brute on any server with enough Prestige in a personal SG for Salvage and Enhancement storage bins. Then you don't need to worry about keeping track of all of your stuff on your alts. Just email it to yourself and toss it into your storage base. Plus you can be pro-active about long-term bidding on the Enhancements you're going to need later, and just store them there till you actually need them.
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I get that you can store a bunch of IOs in the base. Do you have to give each alt of your access to the bins (by inviting them to the SG) in order to withdraw IOs? Having to email 100s of IOs to 1 toon to put in the bins, and then to 1 toon to take out of the bins, seems like a PITA when you have to outfit a toon.
Discover how to make money. Suddenly all these problems go away.
Put aside an afternoon on a tuesday and wednesday. Check out EVERY level 50 recipe/enhancement. When you find one with a decent gap in the two prices...buy a couple recipes. Craft em. Sell em at the weekend.
You should make a profit.
Start doing this in bulk. Start doing this with multiple items.
You should make more profit.
Putting aside an afternoon to check out the pricing differentials in the market is the best way to make money in this game.
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Just started doing this as well. |
Originally Posted by Xanatos
Discover how to make money. Suddenly all these problems go away.
Put aside an afternoon on a tuesday and wednesday. Check out EVERY level 50 recipe/enhancement. When you find one with a decent gap in the two prices...buy a couple recipes. Craft em. Sell em at the weekend. You should make a profit. Start doing this in bulk. Start doing this with multiple items. You should make more profit. Putting aside an afternoon to check out the pricing differentials in the market is the best way to make money in this game. |
Oddly enough how it all works out. I just placed those bids on the IOs I needed and waited, eventually I picked them up. I ran AE missions for the salvage and placed it in my vault in the meantime. Within days of posting I pretty much picked up every positron IO needed.
I did learn one lesson and not posting things so fast at what the prices are at atm. I didn't know the going price for a crafted IO and I made and listed 10 for the listed price. Sadly within days I discovered that price I had seen was an inflated price. I left it on the market for about a week with nothing selling and the prices not rising even close to what I seen the day I posted them.
End result I took them down and posted them for around the price I've been seeing for the past week. Lesson learned know the real going rate before posting a bid.
Don't get me wrong still not making big money, but its slowly coming in, better then nothing I guess
1. Why Soft Cap is Important : http://dechskaison.blogspot.com/2011...important.html
2. Limits: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Limits
3. Attack Mechanics: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics
4. Rule of Five: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Rule_o...e_Law_of_Fives
Just picking up on a couple of points. Take what you will and move on:
- I don't waste storage bins on Salvage. I have one salvage bin with 10 parts each of the required salvage for the Recharge boost from the Empowerment Station. The rest are organised pretty much as SerialBeggar. A CEBR toon can rack up whatever salvage you need in a short space of time. Oh. And don't keep any rubbish in your enhancement bins. If it's worth less than 5 million on the market (crafted) it's not worth keeping.
- No one can walk up to the market cold (i.e. never seen it before) and make millions in minutes. You really need to spend time getting a "feel" for the prices and availability of stuff, and that only comes with time. Don't get too down about it.
- If you don't like spending time playing the market, make it work for you when you're asleep. This is where lowball bids work best - when they have time to fill. Going away for the weekend? On holiday? Stuff your slots with bids. Those "logon surprises" always make me smile.
- On my home server (Virtue) there are always people broadcasting for Tips teams. An hour spent smashing through some tips with a team is fun, has a chance for purples (if you roll at 50), and gets you half way to your next A-Merit.
- I'm always astounded by people's game perception of IO value. Take an attack that does 100 points of damage. One level 50 damage IO will raise this to 142. A level 30 would only raise it to 134. That's 8 points of damage difference. Look at a "triple". acc/dam/rech @50 enhances for 21% (that'd be 121 in an attack). At 30 it's 17.5% (that's 117). 4 points different... Now look at the price differences. (Perhaps 30 is a bad example because of Sirens call PvPers. Check 36/37/38). I could care less if my attack did 15 points less damage (200 instead of 215), or recharged half a second slower, or cost .01 end/sec less. Mids can be a real help working out how much you actually lose by having "less than max" enhancements. It is never that much. Certainly (IMO) not noticeable in game. Like it's been said though, "non max" enhancements aren't as easily obtainable, but leaving bids up at least overnight will make a big difference.
-H