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Inf To Prestige: Beyond The Valley Of Death!

Amazing_Amazon

By Amazing_Amazon,
Posted on: 2011-09-09 06:03 in The Market and Inventions

 

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So I've got my idea for inf burning. Basically there's a "Valley of death" for new SGs between the basic stuff [around 400K prestige] and the first big upgrade [around 1M prestige]. 600K prestige = 300M inf, or a LOT of work.

There are presumably people who don't appreciate the market [1] who have new SG's and can't get beyond the valley of death.

My idea is to pick a server, go to that server's forum, and offer a disproportionate inf matching scheme. The SG has to be under 500K prestige, though. "If you have 50 million inf, we'll match the other 250" or something. [2] If the inf holds out, I'd like to do this for every server but the big 2.

If I put in 2 billion, and three other people put in 2 billion, we can help out 32 starting SGs.

So far it's Eric Nelson and I. Anyone of you other moneybags wanna help?


[1] Can't play it, or don't want to, or don't believe in it, or whatever. Doesn't matter WHY.

[2] I feel that the SG owner has to put in SOME inf or they won't value our contribution.

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[nitpick]Actually, it's you and Eric Nelson[/nitpick] :P

@Roderick

 

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Hmm, I have new SGs on about 10 servers from my CEBR work, and I think they're all under 500k Prestige. When do you plan on doing this?

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I was joking about applying for financial aid. Never mind.

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304

 

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What I like is someone to go around getting all the zone explore badges for my beacons because I'm lazy.

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I'll go a bilion. You helped me out when my bases needed it. The only catch is I just want to give you the money and have you deal with it. Don't even mention my global (which you will get when I send you monies).

 

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Since when is 300 million inf hard work?

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Originally Posted by DarkGob View Post
Since when is 300 million inf hard work?
Since not everyone understands or is willing to play the market, or run AE farms.

The forum population tends to be more knowledgable about how to acquire the resources they want in game. Lots of players who just play the game don't know or particularly care about flipping, marketing, ticket rolls, reward merits, hero merits, Emp/Astral merit conversion, optimal level bands and all the rest of that crap.

(I dabble on the market but don't AE farm, personally. 300M is still a hell of a lot of inf if your perceptions haven't been warped by having multiples of billions available to you, like mine have...)

Warning:

The above post may contain Cynicism, sarcasm and/or pessimism. If you object to the quantities contained, then tough.

 

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I found three characters last night with over half a billion each that I haven't touched in ages. I'll get on them and send munniez your way when I get a chance today after housework is done. Count me for at least 1B, and I'll see if I can squeeze another 1-2B out of my tightfisted marketeers. Sometimes, I just can't control my own heroes.

RagManX

"if the market were religion Fulmens would be Moses and you'd be L. Ron Hubbard. " --Nethergoat to eryq2

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This is Fulmens, logging in on his wife's account to say: I have not forgotten. I just have info I need in my PM's. And the login bug got me.

I suppose everyone could mail their inf to @Boltcutter and include their forum name, if different.

 

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Go to account management, and change your *game* password (to what it already is), and you should be able to log in again within 5-10 minutes.

 

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Originally Posted by seebs View Post
Go to account management, and change your *game* password (to what it already is), and you should be able to log in again within 5-10 minutes.
Yup, this worked for me, but realize that it DOES take at least that amount of time.

I'll gleemail the inf to you shortly, Fulmens.

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Originally Posted by seebs View Post
Go to account management, and change your *game* password (to what it already is), and you should be able to log in again within 5-10 minutes.
The only problem is that the new password must conform to the new password rules. My original password does not have numbers in it. I'll wait for them to fix it.

 

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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
OK, first quarter-billion delivered. To Exalted server. The problem here is that everyone on the global channels, or in the forums, is already pretty knowledgeable. Any ideas on how to reach the new kids?
Would it be against any rules to advertise in the help channel in-game? I mean, you're not RMTing, you're not selling... seems ok from that point of view.

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