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Rhix's Bargains: Sergeant Knox
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So the Sergeant Knox companion is going to be a limited-edition auction. Five units up for grabs.
An interesting approach to sinking AD. I predict it will sink fewer Astral Diamonds than the mysterious chicken eggs.
An interesting approach to sinking AD. I predict it will sink fewer Astral Diamonds than the mysterious chicken eggs.
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You are right they have not caught these players in fact I think I saw one of them in PE yesterday.
I think the economy is what it is. Its broken beyond repair underneath but AD sinks like these will still help the appearance of stability...at least temporarily in the ZAX
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Of course it is going to <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> off an awful lot of legitimate players that such an auction is almost certain to be won by those 'lucky' enough to have insane amounts of AD, but such events do provide a massive AD sink which is a good thing. If this drains a lot of AD from the economy perhaps Cryptic could consider having them regularly.
The only thing I would like to add is that I hope the Companion is in a Bound to Account box and the actual companion inside Bound on Pickup, so that whoever wins it can't just trade it later on to make even more AD.
As an aide the ZAX has been going down slowly over the last few days - it is a million or so off its peak on the 15th, so a slow fall of perhaps a couple of hundred thousand ZEN a day. At this rate in a month and a half we might have the backlog entirely disappear....
Is this BoE or BoA on collection?
Otherwise by far the most likely outcome is for it to be won by exploiters or goldsellers so that they can just flip it later to make even more AD. I doubt very much that either of these scenarios would sit well with normal players....
It might be wise to have a buyout value at the AH cap to prevent either of these.
As stated in the contract, Sgt. Knox has agreed to aid the individual, not be bought and passed around like a rented mule.
If someone wants to bid for Sgt. Knox, then they should be doing it for their own account, and not to profit off of.
No way casual player have even the slightest chance to have Knox accompanying you.. There you go people.. you with all your novelty <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>! GRRRrrRRrRrR hate you guys xD
Kinda wished i had seen Rhix everyday for reporting my dailies now instead of the L button... probably can snuggle me one that way :x
Didnt know that knox's actually a half-orc.. SHOCKING!!
How many legit players have more than 100 mil ad?
Horrible idea. They should've just redone the cockatrice event, at least a lot of players will benefit
1) Only available to the very richest players when there has just been a massive AD exploit.
2) Sold on the AH to highest bid where it is incredibly hard for ordinary players to win as they always seem to be mysteriously outbid by 'others' who can somehow do all the actions needed to win in a fraction of a second.
3) Bind-on-Equip so that the 'lucky' buyer can resell it to get even richer...
Making the Knox companion BoA wouldn't solve 1 and 2, but at least it would mitigate 3).....
1) It was NOT recent. It was recently REVEALED.
2) Agreed, it will only lead to frustration to a lot of players and reward to less than five
3) And what type of player do you think will benefit from it? Are we calling them "lucky" again?
Absolutely right. Won't be an 'auction' at all.
It just goes to show you how ignorant/out-of-touch some of the devs are with the current game world and playerbase.
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Removing 500 million AD is basically removing the equivalent pressure of (at least) 1 million ZEN if you think about it.
Why? Because unlike the chicken eggs mentioned by OP, this is a genuine sink (Chicken Eggs only transferred AD from one player to another player minus AH fees). In this case the items are not sold by any players, but by the game Studio itself - which mean the winning bids will send all that AD into a black hole.
Everyone is complaining about the inflation of AD that there's too much AD in game and demanding Cryptic do something about it. Well, they are; they're doing THIS. There will be only five of these so you chances of winning one are a thousand times worse than a snowball's chance in hell.
Sure, they might be bought and resold in the AH, but the fact is the initial sink of AD could be massive and that AD is completely removed from the game. If resold it will be purchase with AD still existing in game (or recently farmed).
So, yeah... who cares who wins? We already know we won't So may as well hope for them selling at astronomical prices.
Also, it is going to be a very hard item to make a profit from if you resell it.
First, it's going to go for some ridiculous price. If someone really wants it, they're going to pay top dollar for it during this auction. However, if post auction they want to resell it:
a) It's going to be extremely hard to find another buyer and
b) With the 10% AH cut, it's going to be hard to find that buyer AND make a profit.
The chances of you finding someone to buy Sgt. Knox who 1) wants it 2) has enough AD and 3) missed the opportunity to bid during the event is going to be infinitesimally small.
In other words, winning Sgt. Knox in order to profit is an extremely risking and likely money-losing proposition.
Wasn't the chicken eggs from wondrous bazar? If yes, then you write nonsense.
Given that the maximum AD you can have on a single character is 100 million then I would be surprised if even in this hyper-inflationary economy that someone was able to buy the companion for 500 million.
Also the real worry is that if it is BoE, 'lucky' people or gold-sellers will buy them and then trade / sell for real money it for far more in terms of other items or real cash.
So AD will be removed form the system which is really nice. However the people who are the most likely to benefit most are the lucky players or gold-sellers.
And if our complaining help lead to this. I see our complaining as beneficial.
edit: ooo AD limit oooo doh
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Yes they were. But my nonsense is in reply to the OP nonsense so it would make sense to the nonsense OP.
Make sense?
Unless you are one of the players who has billions of duplicated AD
Disagree a LITTLE bit. Your points are valid but remember, the max AD per character is 100mil.
Some of these shady players who are still unbanned have BILLIONS of diamonds. Not exaggerating. I guess the potential of cleaning up the economy 100mil at a time is good?
Plus, what happens if you put in a 100M bid? If ADs are not a problem and we now for some it's not due to exploits, I'd just bid the max and grab my Knox.
I guess Knox is the Black American Express Card of Neverwinter. Or the Learjet, etc.
They don't need to re-sell. It'll just be that extra 'bling' that says "I've got one, and you don't".
Don't get upset. It happens. It's actually very *real world*. Show of hands, who has a gold plated iphone or HTC One? They exist, in case you're wondering.
The rest of us will have to live with our laughing skulls, war dogs, etc.