Snarky

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman’s ghost haunts the crypt i use as a gaming alcove.

I am only bitching about this because I been putting off crafting for a few months. Now i am in the process of crafting/convert/sell a few hundred enhancers. Pain in the butarsky

I am learning patience. That is as close as I creep to kind. Oh sure once in a while I will kick down 20 mil to someone who is posting In General questions on how to afford basic stuff. Or give a couple Winter sets to an SG member I just met. But to me that is just random. Maybe kind, maybe cheating them out if the fun of learning, hard to say. But being patient. When the team lead has over cranked the settings on a treespec. When everyone piles up the elevator without touching the first floor on a kill all. When I have to go pull Nightstar with my Blaster on a BAF. (These are a few things from this week…). Being understanding that everyone is just gaming at their own pace. They might be new. They might be kids. They might be drunk. God I hope they are drunk. I have a constantly drunk SG friend that smashes *4/x8 everything. We trio’d a LGTF with him and another drunk SG mate on 4/8. I really did not think we could, but we sure did. Hero 1 took a long time, only hiccup. F-er has dome dull pain type power. Anyways, patience. That is the true kindness. To me anyways. It is giving of my time, yet also getting something in return. A buttload of questions like “are you high?” “What the hell, really?” “Have you never played redside before? Never go that wayyyyyyy….” Learning patience. Or what passes for it from this Snarky old vampire

Wait....we went from discussing being kind to voting for most toxic behaviors? What is wrong with you maggots? Do you hate Christmas? DO YOU? I want to see some freaking happiness, cheerfulness and a buttload of kindness. Now get out there and trim that tree before I find something else to do with it!

Snarky is indeed my global. I play on Excelsior. Randomly trying new things. As I no doubt always will until the grave pulls me back for a few centuries nap time. My “main” is a Brute and I have a Blaster i like.

*peers into room. They must be planning something. *eases back into shadows.

This little group is what I refer to the last active appendage of Cosmic Council on Excelsior. Damn, they ran content nearly every night for years. poof. gone. But a small cadre of us (sort of the outsiders with a couple leader types) meet once a week and do something still. The crawl team group I guess we are. We were always doing this, run by Ukase, and still at it. I probably need to find another active Excelsior SG. But who really wants a grumpy old vampire? No, really/ Who wants me? You? Anybody.

Thank you Yomo. (*points at Yomo. "pssst. a whale") Your analysis is comforting. Your insight is welcome. It still does not explain the odd bid history I am seeing vs the way I am moving stuff on the market. But that bid history screen is a pos anyway. not talking about point of sale either. Anyways. Happy Holidays!

1st paragraph synopsis: You know nothing 2nd paragraph synopsis: You know nothing 3rd paragraph synopsis: You would love to know something, but it would take too much work 4th paragraph synopsis: you are okay with that. and youre not farming thank you for the insight. have a great holiday

wow, take it from me. this is necro

Sorry your travel plans got screwed up. Stay safe. glad you have CoH (thanks Devs and CoH support staff. we love you. stop by my place for a bite sometime!) Thanks for the pic. priceless.

i am not a "whale" we both know whales. they have hundreds of billions. i think the exact measurement for a whale is if you have stupid billion inf. i have "virtually" unlimited CoH cash. As i play i replenish what i spend on alts nearly organically. except it is a pain to do these ocd driven craft convert sell. and some dipsticks are pretty obviously hacking the market. i know business. i know math. i know when i am getting screwed just by looking at it. been around the graveyard a while.

I do love the thought of another zone redside. MarineX, WampusRat and others have noted that a co op zone would make more sense. I think a co op zone with missions/content focused in the 20-40 range and maybe an incarnate something sprinkled on top to conclude the story? I love the ideas for grottos and sea caves and subterranean satellite dishes. Maybe take those coralax and undead pirates and croatoa lore and weave a story that will send shivers down a strong mans spine. Having this be co op would be the kindest to redsiders. (speaking as a redsider) If it was purely Redside everyone would play it for two months. Then a dedicated Redsider is trying to team there on a Dom in the 3rd month. crickets. You can build a nasty villain and at 35 start chilling in the RWZ and get some stuff, not a lot but some. and ITF. if the teams will have a lowbie. Putting in more stuff that allows 20+ reds to team with the rest of the population would be a true boon.

i get it Jasper. in my Snarky way i am trying to say no one, or 10 of us doing (or not doing) normal activity will affect the market. Starting about 6 months? ago I noticed a crazy trend in the uncommon salvage. now i am seeing stuff that makes no sense in the i/o market

You used to sell everything in the base. Trying to figure this out. you had 1200 enhancers nut you went through them all. That is....nothing. Market moving wise. You sell. Yes! Yes! I sell. We are like brothers. You should come over. Grab a bite. You used to sell for nothing and try to buy for less. Interesting strategy. Now you buy low and sell high. *pats your head. And they said he would never learn. Can we get a round of applause over here?

The thing is I am NOT flipping. And I will post items for a week. The bid histories and my experiences selling an item have NO correlation.

Behind every extensive explanation is a person with their hand in your wallet…. Your advice boils down to suck it ip and put more stuff on the AH. So, you backdealing bitcoin money to gamble or you just a true believer in it?

There is the rub. I only farm to PL myself. Which generates recipes. OCD kicks in. Craft, convert, look at market, double take wtf….

Weird glitch, but now tempted to keep posting Pika…

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I heartily disagree with about half this and I have spent years on SS Everyone runs and builds different. Find your best version

i do not actually have a ton of inf in CoH. do not need it. liquid a couple billion and a base chock full of i/o i make a decent amount on crafting converting. there has been a significant change in AH in last 6 months. it started with uncommon salvage. like someone weirdly cornered the market. now i see it in the few regular money making i/o it consists of this phenomenon try to buy one of these "pretty good" I/Os at 3 million. No luck. Try to sell one at 4 million. no luck. Bids show they are selling for 2 million. but you can never buy one at that price. There is still a little profit in the same old I/os but the profit is lower. and the games are written all over the bid history. Someone (and I suspect a SG or Cartel...has discovered how to mass farm the market and they are putting the F to U (and me) I may just quit the AH/Inf system and self support through merits. I have no time in my life to be screwed by people who WANT to be used car salesmen so desperately they train in old CoH To be clear I think the AH system has been brute force hacked somehow, with some leverage placed on it or a kink in the code someone has discovered in timing of bids, etc

tank is good, but benefits less from recent tanker changes in that SS was the one least improved for tanks. footstomp was judged too good already. SS you are going to be using footstomp and knockout blow at high level, a lot brute will do more damage

energy is meh. if you want to excel (and the crash does not irritate) go SS. if you want to teleport AoE electric energy is not horrid, since changes recently. just not....wow