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I see two ways to approach this. Wait for the player's higher bids to fill, swoop in with your lower bids and do what you do. Less volume, but more profit. But think about this: Whomever this is - and it's probably me - they must be making some kind of inf off it, or they wouldn't do it. Here's a breakdown of how they might be looking at it: This data is old, by the way. The math no longer checks out. The converters number in B3 assumes a cost of 65K. Converters are a bit cheaper now with patient bidding at 60K each. The salvage value assumes 500k for a rare, 2k for uncommon and 300 for the common (at 100 each) Generally speaking, bidding higher reduces profit by a noticeable amount. Like, if you get the recipe at 2M, you can add direct to the bottom line. If you are in this space, like this other player - what seems to be happening is (presumably) you bid your 2.3m price. The other player may have been there before you at 2.2M. You really don't know. They check to see what they have - and they have nothing because you (or someone else) outbid them. What would you expect them to do? Log off and give up? There's too much profit for one player to expect to keep it for themselves. So, they saw your bid for 2.3 and bid 2.32 or something like that. Maybe a third or 4th person bid 2.4. After all, why not? There's a fair amount of demand for these IOs. In essence, all the marketers drive the crafting cost up to where only folks with big stacks can afford to take the risks. This could be called a "squeeze" where they drive the bid up to the point where you've got to either use your brain storm ideas, or your reward merits to subtract from the costs. But even that is opportunity cost. You could have just sold the converters and rare salvage from the BS ideas (don't ya just love that abbreviation, lol) and saved yourself a lot of tedium. Might not make as much, but you'd make it faster - maybe. One thing is clear - if you don't want to pay more than 4-5M for a pvp recipe, that's not your pond anymore. You'll have to swim somewhere else. And one thing that is not clear - be careful! At any time, another player or 20 could just dump all their pvp IOs for 1 inf and be quite okay with all of Yomo's noob traps, making everyone's efforts fairly worthless...until their supply runs out. As efficient as I expect some of the better marketers to be, if they chose to do something like that, it could be many days. Man, I'm sharing too much. Maybe the servers are back up!

I am not sure how popular this would be, nor am I sure if it's possible. But, there's an add-on that make Croatoa appear much more clear and vibrant. Could we not configure the same type of add-on for Echo:Dark Astoria? I recognize it's kind of anti-lore for some folks, and it's supposed to be there...but it's quite annoying to me. (and I'm sure others)

As promised, reading through after I posted my initial thoughts. This is a fair question. I wouldn't get mad at you, I would get mad at me. That doesn't mean I wouldn't take it out on you. I would tell you to turn it off because it's unnecessary and cramping my style. And if you didn't, if it were a TF, I'd suffer through it and 2 star you with a note explaining why so I could see it later if I ran into you. I'm sure I'd be a little rude, but I wouldn't kick you unless you were a real jerk, like being afk in the previous mission for more than 5 minutes while we're trying to advance the TF. (with no prior acceptable explanation) Try to realize - as was mentioned previously by myself and others. You have no idea who's behind the keyboard. Some folks are just well, terribly sad. I mean, really! Like suicidal type of sad. Some folks have made miserable life choices and as a result are truly miserable, and only feel imaginary joy when they can make you miserable! Makes you want to solo now, doesn't it? Some folks are so cheery and nice, you kind of wonder what kind of barn they were raised in. The barn I was raised in smelled pretty ripe, I can tell you!

So, with 6 pages of posts in 10 hours - and I'm not reading any of it yet, because I don't wish to be swayed one way or the other with someone's clear, concise logic. First - I think if someone kicked you for that during a TF, they should stub more than their toe! It's a petty thing to do. This is a game. People have no idea who they're playing with, and they consistently (some folks, not all) act like their time is the only time that matters. These other players could be special needs, they could be a 10 year old, on a PUG, you have no idea who or what you're going to get. And like a box of chocolates, some people will melt when things get hot! So, I feel badly that this happened to you, and I'm pissed off for you. That said - while I know there is a null the gull who can turn that off (and I do turn this off as soon as I change alignment to get Invader) not everyone has that routine. And anyone can get distracted and forget to do this. Communication is important. What kind of run, speedy, steamroll, kill most, if the team lead doesn't mention anything, if they're sub 50, you can either assume it's a kill most, or ask. If they're 50, you can assume it's a speed-ish, or ask. If I don't ask, I'll suffer the whims of fate, only complaining on my side of the monitor. When your team lead asks you to turn it off, you should consider the request. A lot of melee folks cannot melee if they are in your orbit hovering around. And even if they're ranged - it's impossible to joust about when you're hovering. And your group fly is woefully slow compared to Super Speed or teleport in most cases. It might look cool to you - but you're not in a vacuum. You're one part of a whole. A team. It's a shame you thought your own enjoyment was more important than your team leaders. Of course, the team lead thought their enjoyment was more important than yours. He was team lead, so he has the ability to be a jerk and took it. But remember - they did ask first. Did they ask nicely? Or did they use CAPS and tell you to turn that crap off? Either way, while I think it was a jerk move to kick you, choosing to not progress the tf and visit Null to turn it off isn't likely to be on the forefront of their minds. (although they've probably done it now, so there's that) I think the proper thing to do when teamed is to not use it when they ask you not to. But that's just me. It's your time, do what you like.

And thus, you see what I'm aiming at.

So, I've learned to enjoy "Mark & Recall". But one thing I don't particularly enjoy is having 5 tip missions completed, and then for whatever reason, because that detail is tucked away and not always on display on my screen, I end up changing from rogue to vig or vice versa and poof, it goes away. So, I've been telling myself to go ahead and do 5 more and the morality to get paid the 40 merits, but --- my suggestion is to either drop the requirement to 20 tip missions, or raise it to 30. Stopping at 25 doesn't really make sense to me.

These are my favorite! I've done so many, there are seldom any spots they hide I don't know about. Although, there is one where an NPC is on the roof (Not Nightstar) and that one always takes me a bit longer. But most don't last any longer than any other mission - and if I'm in the mood to kill all...there's a LOT of them to kill.

My biggest was in the quantity ordered, as opposed to over-spending for the item. 10 Nucleolus instead of just 1. That was about 4 years ago, when it kind of hurt, despite having the inf available.

Heaven help me. So, if you've ever been privy to an Alcoholic, or any other addiction, they say that you must first understand that you have a problem. Admitting it is the first step. But, while expensive in terms of time and inf, I really don't see how continuing to make alts is a real problem. I guess it is if you think it is. But I don't think it is. I think it's just a different way to play. So, I think for me - my brain is recognizing that there's a lot of things that I like to do in game that aren't really suited well for a character that's leveling up. I like to tackle GMs when I see them. It can be problematic, though not impossible, to effectively lead a league for a GM kill when you're level 12 grabbing explorations in Perez Park. Much easier to do this as a 50. The "merit per minute" mark is also much higher as a 50. Everything is better as a 50, really. Even if I use Ouro to do the same stuff I'd do if I were leveling organically! A part of my post was looking for some kind of inspiration to tell me when "enough is enough" for a character that I enjoy playing. I've only earned like 117 hero merits with it so far, vet level 36. Most of my primary characters are at vet level 99 or so. A bunch of play 'em and forget 'em are vet level 15-24. I'm not real sure where I'm gonna stop with this character. I guess if/when I get bored with it. Bound to happen, and hope it happens soon, because I still haven't tried Marine Affinity. With the add-on from City Modder making demons sound like kittens, it might be time for a Demon/Marine MM.

Well, no, it's not too late. But, it's a slippery slope, right? Does it really make sense that Hamidon somehow just empties it's pockets and suddenly you have an ability to augment your own power? I try to look at it like Iron Man defeating Dr. Doom, and finding a way to utilize some gizmo from Doom's armor and using it in his own. But it's a tough sell. Mainly because most of my characters don't have armored suits, at least, not like theirs. I mean, how would Sue Storm use one of those gadgets? All the science and ingenuity Reed Richards came up with, I don't think I ever saw him use a ray gun. (he could have, I didn't get to read every issue) I think for best results, use your own imagination, come up with your own story for it - and make something in the AE.

What's your global?

Figured I'd share this document. I just duo'd this; one water/atomic blaster and one fire/atomic blaster. For my money, I'll take fire over water every day. Water is good - but with my playstyle, I just like fire better. It took most of this morning because of the numerous distractions, including a 90 minute row on the C2 erg. I had forgotten how much Rularuu will sleep/mez a blaster! The Sheer Will accolade came in handy! I mainly brought the water/Atomic blaster because that character has the tp pool, self, target and fold space. Certainly a team will fare much better than I did dual-boxing. And candidly, I should have triple boxed it, as it wouldn't have been against the rules, but I thought - what if there are some easy merits? I can grab them with the third account! So, I took numerous breaks for adamastor and some other GMs. Still - If I didn't think this set of notes wouldn't save me some time for when it's the weekly, I would never have done it. There are much faster ways to get 122 merits! DRQTFnotes.docx

I don't feel the least bit cheap or dirty for admitting it - but I've also used this trick on those ouro challenge badge missions - where you get no travel powers, and let the league alt tp my character to the doors.

I gotta tell you, this is something I sometimes forget to do with our Cosmic Council crawl teams. If it weren't for discord and folks making it known, there's no telling how long I'd be at the mission door by myself. I think the reason I forget is there's usually someone making a joke, and I tend to forget we're not just goofing off over discord. Outside of SG stuff, I don't think I've ever forgotten to set the mission. So, I blame the "Discord Distraction".

The older I get, the less patience I have. I'm running out of time, so it makes sense.

Thanks. I've done that before.

In a few weeks, Dr. Q is slated to be the weekly. And then the other 3 shard tfs will follow, one each week. The last time I did these I was hanging out with some Task Force Junkies on Excelsior. Most of those guys aren't playing anymore, or they're playing after I've logged out. In any event, I figured I'd ask if anyone has the /loc coordinates for these missions written down somewhere and if they could share them. (not the defeats at various "Point X-ray" or the various monuments - we can all see where they are with an open map.) As you all know - a lot of the time in the shard tfs is just spent going from pt A to pt B. I was thinking it would be great to have the /loc of the next mission to send someone with an ATT to while we complete the current mission. Instead of 60-75 minutes, we might make it closer to 50 or 55. I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen any of this info shared so far, but maybe it's just bad searching on my part.

I personally think Snarky could start a YT channel (as opposed to Twitch.TV - that platform pays next to nothing) and he could just stream his play time, and talk about his teammates while he plays. I think people would watch and listen. Not a lot of people. Probably 20 or so. But, in time, he could probably get 1K subs. I don't know all the ways to monetize YT, but I know it has something to do with the like, comment, subscribe and people watching the whole video. If he could just learn to tell a joke that was funny (He would tell you I lack that same skill) I think he'd be on to something. Not enough to pay rent, but probably enough to buy a burger every so often.

Not in Trials or TFs. In any event, we got Snarky's Trial/TFs knocked out pretty quickly.

Snarky, I'm sorry I didn't see this message. I have it unlocked on a number of different characters. As you know, if you have stealth & TT, the first part is super simple - although, sometimes you have to position yourself behind the obelisk so the npcs can't see you. The boss fight at the end - I use a summons and some inspirations, it's fairly trivial even if solo.

For me, while I knew the status protection for shield could be used reactively, I kept it on auto fire. I recognize why some folks prefer that to be a click, but man, it is super annoying to have to click it. The whole point of having status protection is so you don't have to worry about it. For me, it is the single biggest reason to not play a shield armor character, unless I can find a way to get my build going without hasten, so I can leave it on auto-fire. On auto-fire, I can still get it to stack, although it's hardly ever necessary, except maybe in an MSR or a UGT. (but with a 30 mag stun, even that doesn't really cover it) If I had my way - every toggle we have would be an auto power. I detest toggling on after getting defeated, or worse, when some gimmick in the game decides to put me in a disguise, and when I come out, I'm de-toggled completely. Like that completely unnecessary detective that gives the needless mission to get you to Heather Townsend. So grateful I can go directly to her for the story arc and skip that nonsense completely. I do see a potential for headaches - like when going for those Ouro challenge badges. It would be a nightmare for a dark armor character to do anything with the no enhancements challenge. This is the only reason why I'm willing to accept it would never happen. But, I can dream!

I do not wish to debate your philosophy - you're entitled to play however you wish! But, I was wondering if you were aware that when you sell for 1 inf - and on those occasions someone has anticipated such an offer and you complete the sale - you are charged 5 inf, so you really lose 4 inf on that. Now, we're all smart enough to know we're not going to lose sleep over 4 inf. Well, most won't. I was just wondering if you were aware the AH takes a minimum of 5 inf, even if you list at 1 inf.

You don't mention the contact, but there are a few mission which I have never been able to auto-complete, despite having not auto-completed any in the character's life, let alone in the past 3 days. One example is Tina MacIntyre's first mission where you have to tackle the psychic clockwork king. It may very well be that nobody can complete the last mission of any story arc - I've never tried to, so I don't know. Which contact? There are only 2 that come to mind as being very unpopular, and that would be Skipper Legrange's "Stop the Ritual" (don't let 30 fir bolg escape) and Buck Salinger's "Stop takeover of Salamanca" where you prevent the red caps from destroying the henges in the cemetery. The thing is - as I understand it - folks are able to auto-complete those two, because they have said so in these forums. So, I'm super unclear why you can't auto-complete it. Who's the contact and story arc? Maybe I can do the arc myself and see if I can auto-complete it and get this issue to repeat itself.

I'm sorry, I know this was well-intentioned. But the builds I see on the forums are more often than not are just not worth looking at. Travel powers are often over-looked until level 49, if chosen at all. I load these up in mids, and see they use 2x as much endurance as they generate, some of them. Not all builds are created equal, that's for sure. There are a handful of names I would trust with a solid build, like Nemu. I very often make my own builds. They're never perfect. And I'm not saying any of us need the perfect build, but many of the builds I see just lack end recovery and suggest things like the recovery serum until you get to 50 for Cardiac and Ageless incarnate powers. To me - that is the talk of madness without method. Granted - that's just my opinion, worthless as it is. By all means LOOK at any build with powersets and AT that have your interest. Sometimes, they're fantastic! They're not always hot garbage. Every so often, someone has made music with their build. And often times (for me, at least), a build might look great from the numbers but be kind of clumsy to play. Thankfully, we have 1000 slots.

This is a plan I've made and have yet to create it. I make no claims that this is as good as it can get, but it looks okay. I'm a bit concerned about the lack of defenses in certain types of damage, but I'm almost always having purple inspirations on my characters. I don't seem to ever run out. I don't know that I'd take it to any kind of tough content for badges, like a Master of, but for gobbling up reward merits and such, it may work out. Because Drain Psyche being what it is, I did attempt to grab the max HP for a blaster - which as you folks are likely aware means you can't pursue other things, like positional defenses. At least, not with most sets. The recharge is kind of low, which is why I've got hasten. I almost went the other way - and chased recharge, regardless of Drain Psyche. And that probably is the smarter approach if teamed more often than not. But that's generally not the case for me. UkaseisMental- Blaster (Fire Blast).mbd