They say that good things come to those who wait...patience if a virtue...yada yada yada...
Today I picked up an IL resequencer for under 43m. For those keeping score, that's 7m less than I was willing to pay just a week or so ago.
So to the greedy TRIBBLE who saw my thread and ran up the price literally hours before I was originally planning to buy: You just cost yourself millions of EC and an easy sale.
BTW, on a related subject: What is it with people and the color purple? I mean, I post two statistically identical antiproton tac consoles to the exchange - one Mark 12 Blue and one Mark 11 purple - and while the blue one goes for 100-200K, the purple fetches nearly 3m.
Why? They're essentially IDENTICAL, people! There is NO material difference in how they function! They both boost AP damage by 28.1%! And yet the purple goes for 15x more?
Hey, I'm a capitalist. And like any good businessman, I appreciate a convenient sucker walking in at the right moment for that high-margin sale. But 15x more? Just because it's a different color?
They say that good things come to those who wait...patience if a virtue...yada yada yada...
Today I picked up an IL resequencer for under 43m. For those keeping score, that's 7m less than I was willing to pay just a week or so ago.
So to the greedy TRIBBLE who saw my thread and ran up the price literally hours before I was originally planning to buy: You just cost yourself millions of EC and an easy sale.
BTW, on a related subject: What is it with people and the color purple? I mean, I post two statistically identical antiproton tac consoles to the exchange - one Mark 12 Blue and one Mark 11 purple - and while the blue one goes for 100-200K, the purple fetches nearly 3m.
Why? They're essentially IDENTICAL, people! There is NO material difference in how they function! They both boost AP damage by 28.1%! And yet the purple goes for 15x more?
Hey, I'm a capitalist. And like any good businessman, I appreciate a convenient sucker walking in at the right moment for that high-margin sale. But 15x more? Just because it's a different color?
Just...plain...stupid.
RCK
I picked up mine for ca 11mil, I think, shortly after it came out.
Sometimes it pays to wait; sometimes waiting means you have to pay.
I got an inspirational leader pack when they first came out. I tested it out and the proc was a lot less than 10% chance of activating a boff ability. I forget but it was like 5 or 7%. It's a good trait but I don't think it's worth it. For Tactical captains with tactical initiative it might be better.
I got an inspirational leader pack when they first came out. I tested it out and the proc was a lot less than 10% chance of activating a boff ability. I forget but it was like 5 or 7%. It's a good trait but I don't think it's worth it. For Tactical captains with tactical initiative it might be better.
One thing I didn't expect when dropping Astrophysicist for IL was a loss of boost from the leech. My calculations show that I'm getting 1 point less into each subsystem (15 instead of 16), which doesn't sound like much until you consider I had my power levels configured to deliver *exactly* 75 points into Aux when Leech was active (thus adding a 4th proc to my AMP dmg boost).
Now, at those same configured levels, I get 74 points into Aux, which makes it miss the AMP threshold by one point. As a result, I've had to steal 5 points away from shields/engines in order to get Aux back up to AMP level when the leech is active.
Not catastrophic, but annoying - wasn't expecting that, though the potential loss of flow cap points from dropping Astrophysicist should have tipped me off. Regardless, I sure hope that IL proc does *something* worthwhile enough to justify re-allocating energy levels on what was otherwise a finely tuned build.
And, on a related note, why can't we adjust the power slider in increments of less than 5? Very annoying...
One thing I didn't expect when dropping Astrophysicist for IL was a loss of boost from the leech. My calculations show that I'm getting 1 point less into each subsystem (15 instead of 16), which doesn't sound like much until you consider I had my power levels configured to deliver *exactly* 75 points into Aux when Leech was active (thus adding a 4th proc to my AMP dmg boost).
Now, at those same configured levels, I get 74 points into Aux, which makes it miss the AMP threshold by one point. As a result, I've had to steal 5 points away from shields/engines in order to get Aux back up to AMP level when the leech is active.
Not catastrophic, but annoying - wasn't expecting that, though the potential loss of flow cap points from dropping Astrophysicist should have tipped me off. Regardless, I sure hope that IL proc does *something* worthwhile enough to justify re-allocating energy levels on what was otherwise a finely tuned build.
And, on a related note, why can't we adjust the power slider in increments of less than 5? Very annoying...
RCK
Astrophysicist just adds .1 drain to your flow caps console per proc drain, so you lost .8 overall drain with the change, hence what you see.
I bought it today for 86m on the exchange, it does absolutely nothing!!! It has not proc'd once in 3 hours of play.
I am so pissed right now.
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That's why, you would never catch me, paying those ridiculous prices!
7-10mill tops, is all I would ever pay for some trait, otherwise I will open my own boxes till I get one myself, this way I get loads of other stuffs for my moneys to boot.
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Today I picked up an IL resequencer for under 43m. For those keeping score, that's 7m less than I was willing to pay just a week or so ago.
So to the greedy TRIBBLE who saw my thread and ran up the price literally hours before I was originally planning to buy: You just cost yourself millions of EC and an easy sale.
BTW, on a related subject: What is it with people and the color purple? I mean, I post two statistically identical antiproton tac consoles to the exchange - one Mark 12 Blue and one Mark 11 purple - and while the blue one goes for 100-200K, the purple fetches nearly 3m.
Why? They're essentially IDENTICAL, people! There is NO material difference in how they function! They both boost AP damage by 28.1%! And yet the purple goes for 15x more?
Hey, I'm a capitalist. And like any good businessman, I appreciate a convenient sucker walking in at the right moment for that high-margin sale. But 15x more? Just because it's a different color?
Just...plain...stupid.
RCK
I picked up mine for ca 11mil, I think, shortly after it came out.
Sometimes it pays to wait; sometimes waiting means you have to pay.
One thing I didn't expect when dropping Astrophysicist for IL was a loss of boost from the leech. My calculations show that I'm getting 1 point less into each subsystem (15 instead of 16), which doesn't sound like much until you consider I had my power levels configured to deliver *exactly* 75 points into Aux when Leech was active (thus adding a 4th proc to my AMP dmg boost).
Now, at those same configured levels, I get 74 points into Aux, which makes it miss the AMP threshold by one point. As a result, I've had to steal 5 points away from shields/engines in order to get Aux back up to AMP level when the leech is active.
Not catastrophic, but annoying - wasn't expecting that, though the potential loss of flow cap points from dropping Astrophysicist should have tipped me off. Regardless, I sure hope that IL proc does *something* worthwhile enough to justify re-allocating energy levels on what was otherwise a finely tuned build.
And, on a related note, why can't we adjust the power slider in increments of less than 5? Very annoying...
RCK
Astrophysicist just adds .1 drain to your flow caps console per proc drain, so you lost .8 overall drain with the change, hence what you see.
I am so pissed right now.
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That's why, you would never catch me, paying those ridiculous prices!
7-10mill tops, is all I would ever pay for some trait, otherwise I will open my own boxes till I get one myself, this way I get loads of other stuffs for my moneys to boot.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
in my ship build i see its launch very often ... in my opinion a very useful trait
I've been debating whether of not to use them on build outside of A2B, where IMO it reaps the most benefit.
The lowest price on the Exchange today for IL was over 100 million EC, it might be time for me to dust them off and bank on them