Auction House Question

[Jacke]

13 hours ago, Ukase said:

Look here:

 

How quaint.  😺

 

Pre-Shutdown, the Auction House without the current QoL changes was a way way WAY differently priced place.

 

Supplies of stuff was lower.  With Invention and SOs being awkward to use and Level-limited, everyone wanted IOs as they Levelled and thus Accuracy IOs.  Apparently not enough were playing arcs that had Luck Charms dropped as loot.  Because that one piece of Common Salvage was usually priced from a few to Tens of Millions of Inf.  Rare Salvage was always in the Tens of Millions and the price went up and down a lot.  PvP Recipes were much rarer and sold off-AH for prices in the Billions of Inf.

 

Seriously, that HO rarity has a know solution: Allow HOs to be Converted.  However, I've heard for some internal reasons, there are drawbacks to doing that.  Sigh.

 

 

[GM Crumpet]

The prices are generally pretty stable. apart from things that are hard to get anyway like D-Synchs. We seed salvage when needed, at high but not stupid prices. So there is a ceiling on salvage prices. If it became super inflationary I have no doubt cipher would seed whatever it was that was going berserk to cool it down and bring it under control. In all the time HC has been going there has never been a need, but we do have the tools available if it became necessary. 

[tidge]

4 hours ago, Jacke said:

Seriously, that HO rarity has a know solution: Allow HOs to be Converted.  However, I've heard for some internal reasons, there are drawbacks to doing that.  Sigh.

 

I can understand what might be getting in the way of HO/DS/Titans from being converted.... but that shouldn't prevent them from being crafted.

 

I'd prefer the conversion of course, since that smooths out the economy, and makes some of the stinko drops (whup whup  Damage/Recharge) more useful.

[UltraAlt]

On 11/24/2025 at 1:57 AM, JCServant said:

I was having a conversation with a friend, who expressed concern about others who might corner the market...basically buying all of something up and reselling it at a significantly higher rate.  Out of curiosity, is this something against the rules and are there repercussions for doing so?

 

No. It is not against the rules.

But, as others have stated, the person doing so won't often get the profit margin they may be expecting and even might go into a loss.

 

17 hours ago, The Trouble said:

Wait... this is flipping?  I've been misusing the term in CoH context, then.  Now I understand the skepticism when I claimed this was a profitable enterprise.

 

Well, "flipping" isn't necessarily "buying up all of something up". It is buying something at one price and selling it for a higher price regardless of the quantity.

 

19 hours ago, knightowl - Pinnacle serve said:

Do 'ebil marketeers' self-declare, or are they 'outed' by someone behind the scenes after filtering and sifting thousands of transactions?

 

 

 

20 hours ago, Arbegla said:

Isn't this because most* threat affecting powers are autohit? 

 

No threat powers are autohit in PvP. Not that all that much PvP goes on.

 

 

21 hours ago, Arbegla said:

Due to converters dropping like regular drops, its possible to convert anything you get into what you need, and impossible to corner anything for very long.

 

That and being able to buy such a wide variety of things with merits.

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by UltraAlt

[tidge]

38 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:

No threat powers are autohit in PvP. Not that all that much PvP goes on.

 

Also to expand:

 

The threat powers from the Presence pool are not autohit (and at least one of those two must be taken to unlock the 4th/5th powers)

Some (most?) aura toggles with a Threat component accept accuracy (and threat) slotting.

There are a handful of powers in other sets that include pets/pseudopets that provide Threat, and pets/pseudopets typically also require Accuracy

 

There are possibly more powers that accept both Threat and Accuracy than there are that accept both Defense and Resistance, or EndMod and Healing, or Defense and Healing. I mention this only because those combinations (of attribute enhancing) are occasionally mention as candidates for "HO/DS" treatment

 

IMO the Provocations (Threat/Acc/Recharge) are in the same category as Cytoskeletons (End/+Def/+ToHit)... there are a LOT of powers that benefit from only two attributes, but relatively few that benefit from all three... but for those that benefit from all three, there aren't any pieces with those combinations, let alone pieces that exist at 50 that could be boosted. These pieces have something else in common: The powers that benefit from them typically don't need many slots to achieve maximum effectiveness, so missing out on set bonuses (when only 1 or 2 pieces will do) is an easy trade off for better enhancement values.

[Mopery]

I swear it's just a Merger, it's not a Monopoly! 😏

[The Trouble]

3 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

 

Well, "flipping" isn't necessarily "buying up all of something up". It is buying something at one price and selling it for a higher price regardless of the quantity.

I got that part, but I do appreciate you wanting to clarify the point.  Especially after my years-long misuse of the term 🤦‍♂️

 

What I thought "flipping" was: Buying unpopular crafted enhancements for below the crafting cost, then converting them to more sought-after enhancements.

 

I thought of it like house flipping.  Buy a cheap house, do some quick renovations, then sell.