Zero to Awesome Redeux! 31 Day Project

Two more things:



I certainly don't recommend using 3 converters to do an in-set conversion of an uncommon IO... but I had over 300 regular merits, and I had a 50% chance of another Steadfast res/def. And the KB IO isn't necessarily a bad alternative either.

So I have three of these to sell, it seems.



And the price of these has jumped noticeably in the last hour and a half. I'd consider this a "weekend bump", but anyway, I listed mine high.

Sold all three Steadfast Protections over the course of the evening, 50 million each.

But somewhere in between there, someone sold one for 500 million...

Joined a Hami raid earlier. By the time it was over I had 10 incarnate shards total. Picked up another later on and now I need 1 more to craft my T1.

The Hami raid did not go very well -- they had few yellow spikers, and I felt sort of guilty because that's what I normally do and they obviously needed help doing it. On the other hand, they also needed help getting the greens held, and I was the only Dom there, so it's not like I wasn't useful. I showed up too late to have any EoE's, but being a flying blaster I found I didn't need them so much, not compared to what a scrapper or brute yellow spiker needs.

Also joined a BAF which did not go especially well... killed Nightstar too soon, then killed Siege after Nightstar had respawned, so we had to kill both of them a third time. I never saw that happen before (not sure why people couldn't avoid killing Siege after Nightstar, people just don't pay attention) but the good news is I got 53% of my Judgment slot filled in from 1 run.

So it was probably a good thing that I was still a vigilante when the Hami raid rolled around. I also was certain to run my first villain tip of the day the moment I was able to, which was just after 1 PM. That means I can turn villain and run my patron arc tomorrow morning after 9 AM. And if I really feel like it, I could run a Rogue tip Monday morning at 5 AM before going to work, and run another Tuesday morning at 1 AM, and I could manage to become hero again by Wednesday instead of Thursday... if I really wanted to put in the effort.

Congratulations on 50! This thread has been informative and entertaining, just like your last project. But when do you sleep!?

A better question is what am I gonna read in a few days when this project is over?

I always feel just a little better when I read the thought processes that go behind the decisions to market this or that instead of something else. The only thing that boggles my mind is how when I suggest some of my less affluent friends do marketing of this type, they just dismiss it as part of the game they don't enjoy. But, to each their own.

Personally, I like the feeling of knowing I can plunk down 1.2 to 1.4 billion for some cytoskeletons if I need them. (since all hami seems to give me are centrioles) Too bad converters don't work on Hami-Os!

A nice thread. I think you probably put as much time posting the screenies as playing the toon. It looks like a lot of effort!

Day 29 -- July 29, 2012

Last night I joined a Penelope Yin TF being run by a friend. Someone else on the team recognized my character from this thread, heh. Anyway I needed 1 more shard to craft my T1 Alpha, and I got it. Yay!

After that they ran a Moonfire and I stayed for that as well. More merits, and 3 more shards.

This morning another friend was starting up a min-BAF. I joined -- it was less than 24 hours since the other BAF, so no Emp merit, but I wanted to unlock my Judgment slot. The BAF went very well, we earned two of the badges for no prisoners escaping and no tower guns taken down. Then we ran a speed Lambda, followed by a TPN in which we got all the badges (Oooh, Master of something!) and lastly a Keyes. Keyes is a trial that still confuses me, I know what all the goals are but I never know exactly when I should be where doing what. But it went well anyway.

In the end I had my Judgment and Interface slots unlocked and was able to craft T1's for each. I also had 6 Emp Merits and 27 Astrals, so I went to Ouro and bought my favoritest boots in the game, both versions, plus the Ascension belt.

In the meantime I had bought a purple Coercive Persuasion this morning, and after all the itrials I went back and crafted it and in two conversions got a Ragnarok damage. (no photos). This is not the best-selling Ragnarok, but I put it up for sale anyway. Don't want to waste converters trying to get that perfect IO to sell.

By this time it was also after 9 AM, so I headed villainside and did a quick tip mission and finished by 9:23, so that means I can run a rogue tip at 5:23 AM tomorrow if I like. Anyway, did the morality mission, Hometown Hero which is my favorite, blowing up Croatoa is fun! And then I was a villain and ready to aid my patron!

Patron arc took about an hour. When I was done I headed straight to Port Oakes and did the respec. I had three pieces of Thunderstrike on me, and four pieces of Call to Arms, and everything else needed for my build was already slotted somewhere. (I'd cleverly used extra slots to drop three of the Thunderstrike pieces in my other blast powers so I wouldn't have to carry them).



My build is complete!

Woo hoo! And what does all of this get me?



The important parts are 46.44% smashing/lethal defense and 44.99% energy defense when I have hover on, and 103.75% global recharge before hasten kicks in. And I'm doing pretty well in the endurance and damage departments too, trust me!

And I no longer have to look like a popsicle to do it! Plus, I now have a second pet -- the Tarantula -- who just adds to the chaos. Drop my two pets, toss out seeds of chaos, toss out carrion creepers, and then start blasting. Hold anyone that actually attacks you. It's a lot of fun!

I ran through the ghoul zone event in Praetoria solo and picked the tantrum emote instead of the badge. Quite easy on a kitted out level 50 dom, heh. I need to go back for the badge at some point though.

Nothing's sold, so no more marketing news to report.

I followed your last thread just as im following this one. It took you 115 hours to complete your last project. How much time involved in this one?

Every once in awhile i will start a level 1 character and kill 1 bad guy and see how long it takes me to hit the influence cap. It is not too hard considering i have tons of market slots to start off with. However, I would never have the patience to document my journey as you do though lol.

I also dabble in Steadfast Res/Def, im sad that 500 mill sale didnt go to me lol

Great stuff Organica- you are infinitely more diligent with the screenshots than I am.


I'm going to miss this thread......

*sniff*

Sold some stuff today.

I'm at a disadvantage at the moment since I can't pull anything out of my base to list for sale. So instead I put some bids in for stuff. But I was sad to notice that Cytoskeletons had dipped all the way down to 201 million today. Sad, because I'd had some bids in for 221 million but had pulled them down this morning. That stuff will be selling for 300-400 million again by midweek, I have no doubts.

Then again, I'm not too sad because I probably bought some of those with my other toons today... placing lowball bids on Cytos is one of those things I do when I have too much money. Also, the reason I pulled it down was so I could buy the purple recipe that became that Ragnarok damage that I sold... and I needed the slot to list it to sell too.

Anyway, ran my 4 rogue tips tonight, and I also joined a Barracuda SF, which I don't think I'd ever done before. So now I'm up to 602 badges on Dilithium Flower.

I had been planning to have my solo base fully up and running by mid August... then I realized I had enough money to actually do that by the end of the month. Then again, I realized today that this won't happen until I'm a hero again... heh. So August it is! I'll probably pay for another month of goofing around on this account.

And as a side note, I don't think I'm planning another project like this (or need to), but I do have another GR box that I haven't applied to any account yet, not sure what I'm gonna do with it exactly, though I have a couple of other free accounts I could use it on.

Oh yes... on the Cuda I was teamed with this guy:



I'm not posting the full bio because it's very nearly a direct rant against Fox News and right-wing policies... and that's just asking for a nasty argument on the boards, heh. But I have to admit, I loved the idea of a suit-and-top-hat-wearing villainous master mind named Job Creator. And his Villain Group was the one percent, I think. Lol.

Anyway the first short paragraph of the bio gets the entire message across.

Let me add my kudos to you, Organica. I really enjoyed this thread. And the Job Creator! That was hilarious!

Thanks Organica.

Though I grumble a lot about the market, it's just so easy to make money off it, it's almost criminal. Best part? Found money...after logging in a disused Stalker, saw she had sold 8 items for 240,000,000. Almost too easy.

Day 30 -- July 30, 2012

Tonight I did a Manti on one of my other toons -- my mace/shield scrapper, One Divine Hammer. It was fun playing a scrapper again, and fun being on an account that had all the bells and whistles of course too. I got 64 merits and 2 levels out of it, which got me to 35 and Shield Charge. And I spent some time after that filling in a few holes in One Divine Hammer's current build.

I didn't do anything on Dilithium Flower, although I plan to run four more rogue tips later tonight. I probably should do at least a BAF or Lam, but I may not. Ah well.

But I did get up at 5:30 AM this morning and run the one rogue tip. I got a tip right away and it was one that could be stealthed quite quickly, so that I was done by 5:43. That means at 1:43 in the morning I can run another, and by late evening I can run five tips in a row again. I think I'm going to try and do that, just have to wake myself up in the middle of the night for 15 minutes.





It's always nice when you get an instant return on your investment. The first picture shows what I'd managed to purchase by 5:43 AM. The second picture shows what I'd sold by 4:30 PM. That's what I call nearly instant profit!

The Cytoskeleton I didn't list for sale right away... listed it this evening for a very healthy markup. I'm prepared to wait for that one to sell, but sell it will. There's only 9 of them for sale total at the moment.



Also by evening I'd bought these three ATOs, which I immediately listed for sale. So even though I'm stuck redside and don't have access to my base, I have stuff for sale for the moment.



This finally sold tonight too. I'm not really hurting for money right now. ^_^

You know, I only just noticed that my Knight Errant badge title has been transformed into "Black Knight". I kind of like that. ^_^

Good grief. I was only gone for an hour to exercise.

Too easy!

Too easy indeed!



Sometimes the world just wants to hand you a sack of money. Well, in-game at least. I only wish the world would take that attitude with me more in real life....

Anyway I got this on the first of my rogue tips for the evening. Immediately after finishing the mission I crafted it and listed it for sale for a good chunk of change.

Also of note, while running about Sharkhead looking for tips I saw a large number of running miners. Well, I know what that means! I helped a couple of other people take down the ghost, so there's two more merits in my pocket!

(And... another minor strike started up within fifteen minutes. That ghost never gives up!)

Day 31 -- July 31, 2012

I've actually been taking it pretty easy the last couple of days since I mostly managed to reach my goals by Sunday. But I do have a few things left that I wanted to do:

1. Set up a fully functioning base. I originally thought this would take me well into August, but actually I could do it right now, except I'm not a hero again just yet.

2. Give a kind of wrap-up of what I managed in a month. I crafted a lot of random drops and bought some stuff that is still in base storage so I wanted to list some of that too, which I won't be able to do until tomorrow night.

3. I want to confirm hero status and run my SSA1 on Friday. I just think this is kind of a neat trick: I ran an SSA1 last Friday, and you can only repeat it for the hero merit reward once a week, and I've gone villain and back in between but I will be able to run it again on Friday and gain a hero merit. This, even though it takes 10 days to make a full trip from hero to villain and back and then reconfirm your hero status. How did I manage that? Pretty simple -- I did my ten vigilante tips last Wednesday and Thursday, but held on on doing the morality until after I'd run my SSA1 (and spent the hero merit of course!). Then immediately after turning vigilante I ran my first five villain tips. Following this pattern you can turn villain on Saturday, only a day after running the SSA1, then rogue by Monday and hero again by Wednesday. By Friday you can confirm your hero status and you're ready to run your SSA1 again right after.

Of course, I got a little messed up by forgetting one of my tip missions on Friday... but last night I woke up at 1:40 as I'd planned and ran my last rogue mission. That meant I was able to turn rogue as soon as I got home from work today, then run four hero tips, with the fifth one available to run right at 10 PM (which is just 5 minutes away). So I'm back on schedule for becoming a hero again by tomorrow.

One other thing I managed to do tonight was join a Mothership Raid. The Rikti War Zone was the only zone that I hadn't gotten the explore badge accolade and 5 merits and Supergroup Beacon yet. You need the Unabashed badge, which you can only get when the mothership shields are down. So I joined a very good ship raid, got my badge, earned over 800 Vanguard merits (which are actually useful on my new account), and then I grabbed the rest of the explore badges in the zone, and...

Nothing. No accolade, no SG beacon.

The beacon might be because I'm currently a villain... except I earned beacons for my SG for all of the villain zones, even if we can never use them. RWZ is a cooperative zone so that probably isn't the reason.

However, the Vanguard Operative badge that you get in the base itself, I had earned as a hero. Going back to where it was accomplished nothing since I already had it, but I had the other 13 badges too and didn't have the accolade. What's more, I didn't even show any progress towards the accolade. My guess is since I started it as a hero, I'm locked out from completing it as a villain... which seems like a major bug to me, what if I wanted to remain a villain? Anyway, I bugged it. It remains to be seen what happens when I turn hero tomorrow night.





My purple drop sold, and I managed to buy one new corruptor ATO.



...which sold a short while later, along with two brute ATOs that I've had lsited for weeks now.

I'm at nearly 1.5 billion influence at the moment, more than enough to buy a fully functioning base. ^_^

Once again, thanks for the enjoyable read, Organica! I hope you at least make this an annual thing (if not monthly like we REALLY want!).

Wow, I could have sworn there was one.

So all I really did is get all the personal explore badges while not in SG mode. That sucks.

Your first thread started me marketeering

This thread has given me tips that have at least doubled my income, so for that im thankful

Also, hey BL

Well, this is the first time Ive tried purple flipping... Wish me luck. Ive always been too afraid to take t hese kind of risks with my hard earned money.