Did you know?
You could, skipping a day of play, buy such a slot for 100 mist and 50 CE.
I just sold one for 75 CE.
I have, yes, reported this as a very odd thing.
....We can sell Trinket and Weapon Upgrade slots. To each other.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 01:34
Leviathan
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Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:30
#2
Shani
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If you have an account that
If you have an account that you paid for CE on, doesn't the ME stay independent for each character on the account? Or am thinking of something else?
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:40
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dukelexon
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@Shani What does that have to
@Shani
Well, I don't think that's actually the case (my understanding is that both types of energy are shared across all characters on a single account, paid or unpaid), but what does that have to do with anything? Leviathan didn't even mention multiple characters on one account.....
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:33
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jooozek
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So you are trying to say that
So you are trying to say that its abusable and you want to make them non-tradeable? Next ridiculous step you might want to take is locking all crafts that used mist energy and all drops you got by using mist energy on elevators. Really now.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:41
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OnmyojiOmn
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"You could, skipping a day of
"You could, skipping a day of play, buy such a slot for 100 mist and 50 CE."
You could play that day and use the proceeds to buy the 100 mist. Have your heat and shenanigans and eat them too.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:48
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Leviathan
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I'm not sure if I want that
I'm not sure if I want it altered or don't. It's just.... Odd. I assumed that they *were* bound on purchase, but decided to muck about regardless, and ran into the fact that they aren't. And felt the need to tell OOO, because it seemed likely abusable, and certainly strange.
Shani;
Yes, that's true. Transfer from a non-paying account to a paying one is possible.
I've been thinking about this for only about an hour or so now, so I'm still bouncing around on it, going from "Oh! Hey, wow! New thing!" to "that's probably bad" to "that's not that different" to "I'm not at all sure", so bear with me.
So, having a non-paying alt pick one up for you is not by *necessity* more bizarre than having a non-paying alt account that does all your crafting, one item per day, giving you their mist that way.
And we knew that one was possible, or would have, had we stopped to consider it. Intended? Probably not. Bad? I don't know for sure, but it kind of looks like it to me.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:50
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SirNiko
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This sounds like it is
This sounds like it is working as intended. F2P players are granted additional accessibility to paid content, they simply must access it through a player who has paid (or has received CE that was generated by somebody who paid at some point).
The content requires somebody to donate in order to access it, and therefore every upgrade slot that is used (no matter who uses it) means that 3R got some cash along the way.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 02:54
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Leviathan
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"The content requires
"The content requires somebody to donate in order to access it, and therefore every upgrade slot that is used (no matter who uses it) means that 3R got some cash along the way."
....Huh. Good point. No matter how you slice it, it pulls some CE out of the game.
Money, meet bank.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 03:18
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Shani
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Lemmie clarify and explain
Lemmie clarify and explain the relevance of my comment-- IF ME is held distinct for each character on an account, then one could very easily use any open character slots they still have to stock up ME and then transfer CE over for a vastly discounted expansion slot [which can then be used or resold]. Since they're characters that aren't being played, nothing's really lost by not playing them for a day.
Aha, I WAS thinking of something else: "Mist energy is shared between account playing from the same ip or computer, unless one of the accounts has ever payed for any energy with cash."
So you'll need different accounts, at least one of which has bought CE to pull off what I was pointing at.
Sun, 04/24/2011 - 03:42
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OnmyojiOmn
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You could pay $1.50 to get
You could pay $1.50 to get three separate mist bars going, and use the unplayed accounts to cover the energy costs on 0-3* items.
Hm. That's actually kind of clever, but I'm not inclined to sacrifice a day's worth of free mist energy in order to net a profit of 15 crystal energy. I doubt most people would be, either. A whole day unplayed is technically 100 energy lost, depressing though it may be to think of it that way. :/