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Well if my lovely last remaining PvP IO isn't sold when I get home, I am pulling it off the market and doubling its price then.

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And I forsee a quick, "Oh, didn't we tell you? Aw, sorry, our bad, have another round of Freespecs." as the solution.

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I actually gave a suggestion around Issue 13 to prevent this very thing. Too bad Ex Libris wasn't around to share it with the rest of the staff this time.

What I suggested in the aftermath was that they hold back the freespec granting till one week after an Issue release so that players get a chance to play with the changes before getting the respec.

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My minor gripe isn't about the Respecs (well actually, more on that later), it's about the downturn in the quality and quantity of communication. Yes, I realize that making Going Rogue is a big deal that monopolizes your time...also, we're still here playing the rest of the game. Please, don't forget about us.

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There are many things I could say to this, but it would be less than diplomatic towards the NCsoft/Paragon Studios teams.

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Your suggestion was an excellent one to prevent both kneejerk respecs and avoid a PR mess. Maybe they will consider your suggestion for the next time.

One is the mother of the other. I believe Miss is the mother and Statesman's daughter.

What level do you want?

They are in Kings Row, Skyway and Perez Park for certain. I think they may also roam around in Steel Canyon and the Hollows but I haven't paid much attention.

If it is for one of the defeat X Lost, you can also try a radio mission in Kings Row, Steel Canyon and Skyway.

[edited to add] I cannot believe I forgot about Faultline.

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I was searching the forums and haven't found anything about a market competition. Everyone who reads here is fairly competent in making cash in the market, but I am surprised there hasn't been a friendly competition to see who is the best. A competition like this would be completely based on the honor system as there would be no way to truly monitor if anyone was cheating. I was thinking something like this:

1. First one to 1 billion wins.
2. Must start with a toon with a certain amount of money to get started. I was thinking somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million or so.
3. Each competitor would post screen shots twice a week or so to show the progress being made.
4. Have fun and profit.

Obviously there would have to be more rules than this, I was just thinking of a rough outline to get things rolling.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? I think it would be a fun side game for all the market experts out there. It would also be a small study on how long it actually takes to be EBIL....

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If my memory serve me (which it does), there was one whom declared that he would take a toon on an unplayed server (for him) and both get that toon to 1 billion influence as well as to level 50.

He succeeded.

It was well documented, screen shots as well. (not to mention spread sheets)

I could not compete against this level of Ebil-ness

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KeepDistance did it. It was an amazing project to watch unfold.

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I would love to see a bunch of people hit the PvP zones in hopes to get some drops. It would bring some life into a dying PvP community

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I think the devs hoped so too.

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1) Use generic IO's, replacing SO's pretty much 1 for 1.

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I'll have to disagree with this. At level 50, if you use level 50 IOs 2 IOs will get you to just a few percentage points within 3 lvl 50 SOs (can't find the exact numbers at the moment). If I had to guestimate I would say 1 lvl 50 IO is roughly equal to about 1 & 1/3 lvl 50 SO at level 50.

For example, instead of triple slotting for damage and accuracy with SOs, you can double slot for damage, accuracy and endurance with a very small reduction in damage and accuracy but a very large endurance reduction. Or instead of triple slotting stamina, you can double slot with IOs and still have another slot for another power somewhere along the line without giving up much end recovery at all. Can make a big difference when you start trying to get some of the higher level recharge reduction set bonuses on other powers and such.

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An example using Pool A (Acc, Dam, etc) 3 SOs pre-ED are 99.9% becoming 94.93% (according to Mids) but 2 level 50 common accuracy IOs pre-ED are 84.8% becoming 83.32% so you are 10% less dropping.

However if you use a mix of 3 Acc/Dam IOs (one was from a set topping out at 40) I get 77.12 pre-ED becoming 76.41. If I add in a 4th (also max at 40) it is 101.25 pre-ED becoming 95.19 with 4 slots.

If you use triple aspect ones you can get even more mileage.

Mostly it is side switching as little as we currently know about it and involves a Praetorian zone or zones. People debate whether it is real side switching or not.

We're mostly in the dark but I am basing my hopes on it being real side switching. If not, I won't be buying it.

I am very curious what it will do to the markets whether they will remain 2 or become 1 or we will get a 3rd, 4th and possibly 5th.

I doubt we will get much more information until September though.

Does Going Rogue hold any temptation for you?

True. Though I tend to think that is what people who look at the last 5 and blame ebil marketeers are doing...

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Just remimber if they Cap prices like a white salvage at 250, I will Vender it over losing the 10% in WW fees. People will stop posting items and making side markets a place to make X times more money as ppl look for a way toget it.

as soon as you pay the buy it noa price, your setting that up for someone else.

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If they cap prices real black markets will spring up not using the consignment house/black market.

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This. Please, devs - give us market caps.

I want to be richer.

RagManX

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Yes. Just look at BMT whenever I happen to log on.

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Plus, I don't know how many of you lock up or even disconnect when you interact with the market interface but moving off it would help there too.

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Edit to add: I think I'm actually using "flipping" in the wrong context here. I buy recipes, craft them and sell them. Whatever the word for that is, that's why I do.

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We totally need a word for this...half crafting, half flipping....flifting? crapping? "I crapped a Postiron's Blast proc for 6m profit this morning!"

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I just call it crafting. In EQ people would buy supplies off the lowbies, craft them, then sell the finished products and this is no different other than the end buyer could have done it themselves because we have no chance to fail at crafting.

Yep. And I like your idea of an elevator in the base to get to it.

I am pretty sure they have some kind of time stamp on when you set it up. I've been on at lunch and logged out one character and went to login another and been denied.

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I don't know Bender's catchphrase, but a third/half billion is NOT chump change, regardless of how rich anyone is.

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???!!!!

Bender usually tells someone to "Bite my shiny metal [term I believe is censored on the forums but it a 3 letter word for what we sit on or another name for donkey]."

300-400 million is a favor?

I'm not sure even having 2 billion on a character would incline me to hand someone that much.

* does some quick math *

My richest character (yeah I am not a marketeer, I am however a marketphile) has 200 million. So if he had 2 billion 300-400 million would be like 30-40 million from my richest.

Um, no. I'd have to give him Bender's catchphrase on that.

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If you could break the game by sheer awesomeness it'd have been broken the first time a fire/rad ST was created.

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It has been a long time since I didn't know what an abbreviation/acronym means. What is ST in your sentence?

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I don't know if it's perception catching up, or if there's really more inf out there, or what. The "wouldn't bend over to pick it up on the street" level is now about 100K, for a lot of people- I list generics under 200K and they go for 300K VERY frequently.

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The following is just my theory:

It's MA.

They get to high levels then pop out to get their enhancements and they have plenty of influence and use the tickets to get something, possibly rare salvage, which they quick sell for 500k-700k each then buy it now on the common IOs they want and just don't care to take the time to wait and price.

That's my theory and I am sticking to it. (Unless a more believeable one is posted or facts showing I am wrong. I am NOT impervious to logic.)

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Anything less than full and equal access to the same market for both factions is a pointless half-measure that won't get my support.

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Nethergoat and EvilRyu... in agreement... about something market-related.

I want to print this out, frame it, and hang it on the wall.

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I was going to but I hadn't moved the printer to my bomb shelter.

If you haven't unlocked the Science store contact in Brickstown, his mission gives you Ritki.

If you haven't done the Midnighter introduction from Montague in Steel Canyon his missions have lots of Rikti.

No. You cannot change your primary or secondary sets just the powers in them and the pool powers.

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Trying to memeber if there is an unofficial Australasia server...

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Justice I believe.

You should have seen them during the height of the "meow" phase. Common IOs were selling at 10x (is that 1000%?).

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I was doing some IO'ing out of my fire/fire blaster and trying to buy some Posi's Blast pieces for my AoE attacks. I thought to myself, I don't really want to waste the extra time buying salvage, buying recipes and crafting so I'll just buy the enhancement at a moderately higher cost than the parts it takes to make it.

Imagine my surprise when I saw a Posi Blast Acc/Dmg enhancement (forgot the level, somewhere between 30-41) was selling for 10 million influence. 10 MILLION! I priced all the parts to make it, + crafting costs and it only costs in the neighborhood of 4 million to make myself.

My question is this: Are people that lazy or uninformed to actually pay that price? JEEZ...

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Or rich. Don't underestimate having so much it isn't worth their time to do it themselves.

DC Universe Online I think.

It used to be against the rules to mention other games but I believe that has been changed to comparing and contrasting our game with them only.