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Teknogeek writes "Player2Player has just posted an interesting article concerning the massive amounts of platinum being sold on sites like PlayerAuctions, and how it might have been obtained. Quite an interesting read, to be sure!" This is in Everquest, BTW.
Cherish my balls as though they were lost children.
Speaking of which, does anyone have any mod points for sale? :)
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Bet you $100, that getting platinum jewelery will not help /.ers get laid. Its a lost cause in most cases, as for myself :( *sniff*
NO! NO! Please don't mod me, I'm too young to die a troll. *click* Oh the pain, the pain...
Round and round my Mozilla tab goes..
Loading? No one really knows..
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Which is scarier:
- The submitter didn't even realize that there are people in the world who don't play EQ who might not have understood the reference
=or=
- That the editor had to clue us in, as if we wouldn't have figured out that the submitter is a loser.
I don't know what is worse, to be materialistic in the meat world or to spend your meat money to be materialisitc in the the game world.
I wish the Everquest world had a white collar prison.
Actually, no. I don't even care that much.
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
That stuff is selling at USD578/oz. You'd think with that kind of money that they'd be able to afford a fatter bandwidth pipe for their server.
"This is going to screw the economy up! ROYALLY! That's all there is to it. One person is going to introduce enough PP into the economy to create ripples, but 100 people a server can seriously do A LOT of damage in a short time"
So Everquest ripped this model from the U.S. Government! Are they paying royalties?
I am sure that boning's are the same way, with a higher degree of profit. One PC without a macro program did all this in about 7 minutes and 30 seconds. I am sure you could stream line the process down to 6 minutes, and if you had a macro program, well, 1 minute. 1 minute, 2 pp. I am adding a few gold in there because his faction with the merchants of shadow haven was apprehensive, even though his charisma was 137.
I'm sorry, but this is the dorkiest thing I've ever read, including the old startrek.tech newsgroup on USENET.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
For about 3 or 4 months around when Velious came out, I had a group of five friends who I would go to the fungi camp in lower guk (at 4am, it was almost always uncamped) once or twice a week. We stayed 'til we all had a fungi tunic (they are lore) or school started. So we each made ~60k-90k plat a week, from 3-4 hours of playing, which is alot easier than this 60,000pp in a week with constant playing.
Could somebody please translate the text above into some commonly spoken language. I have tried babelfish but it did not work. The 'Fungi Tunic' part is especially confusing - and frankly the explanation that they are 'lore' did not help me much.
Tor
I smell scandle.
Does it smell anything like scandal? 'Cause we all know what scandal smells like, you know.
I write in my journal
The economics are alot like real life, except in Everquest, one day you wake up realizing your virtual assets are worthless and you've just wasted years of your life.
And _nobody_ has ever woken up in real life and realized their assets were worthless and they'd wasted years of their life.
If scandal was short for shit-candle, then the smell of scandal would unpleasant indeed...
I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
Yeah right... next you will be telling me the plural of sheep is "sheep". ;)
I refuse to have a sig... dammit!
Hi, My name is Harib Zabar Mitchell III sr. and I am a board member of the Erudin Senate for Platinum Pieces moderation committee. We need your help getting 4.5 Million PP (yes that is 4,500,000 PP!) out of royal tax holding accounts. We are exclusively asking for your help because we need an outside investor to pay the levys and taxes involved with releasing our 4.5M PP. We will refund your money plus a 100% interest. Now note that there may be mulitple normal taxes and leveys that may arise during the course of this transaction...
:)(smile)
There were two platinums in your sentence, BTW.
"So what we did is simplify the process by just rounding off all those fractions of a platinum piece... into an account that we opened."
"So.. you're making alot of platinum?"
"Yes.."
"And it's not yours?"
"Well.. it becomes ours."
"Tell me again how that's not stealing?"
"I don't think I'm explaining this very well."
"You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help" -- Calvin
Hello!
My name is Kaz-ryn, I'm really nice, and I'm asking for your help!
You see, I have this huge platinum debt and I need 20,000 pp to pay it off!
So if you have an extra "fugi tunic", please send it my way!
All I need is 1 pp from 20,000 people, or
2 pp from 10,000 people, or
5 pp from 4,000 people...
-You get the picture!
Together, we can banish EverQuest debt from my life!
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
The economics are alot like real life, except in Everquest, one day you wake up realizing your virtual assets are worthless and you've just wasted years of your life.
Man, am I glad I quit playing EQ and got two jobs so I could buy up all that Nortel stock. Now I... aww dammit.
Am I the only one who heard Roxette to sing "I'm gonna get blitzed for some sex"?