tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post3168440241456709094..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: Filling up the Care CupKlepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-69272273367048346982010-08-23T18:49:22.878-05:002010-08-23T18:49:22.878-05:00@Okrane S: I do hope the care cup was half full fo...@Okrane S: I do hope the care cup was half full for this post.<br /><br />@Gevlon: "Some people are dumb" tends to cover anything and everything and isn't what I'd call a mistake. 2+2=4 is true, even if someone is too dumb to understand it.<br /><br />You're making a mistake if you think there's only one solution, especially to propose a solution that isn't likely to work. I'm being idealistic in hoping people will tab back in, while you're being idealistic in thinking that people will be able to all agree on what exactly constitutes unacceptable DPS.<br /><br />@Dacheng: I'd never encourage someone to do something which damages their overall fun; so someone who enjoys higher-fun, lower-gold activities can do just fine and may in fact be maximizing their overall fun. I'm suggesting that there are cases when a mix of fun and unfun will yield a higher total. These cases will tend to be very time-restricted and possibly high on spending, such as someone who does very cutting-edge raiding (and therefore spends much of his time in the raid incuring repair bills) or who really likes rare and expensive pets. Or possibly someone who just really doesn't enjoy farming.<br /><br />I'm not suggesting that your relative somehow isn't true or isn't representative of a large portion of the population, just that they aren't the total picture.Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-16948548745988263582010-08-23T12:22:00.944-05:002010-08-23T12:22:00.944-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dàchénghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994982502333811797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-48720293653161493342010-08-23T12:21:40.287-05:002010-08-23T12:21:40.287-05:00It is a common argument that if only people would ...It is a common argument that if only people would use the Auction House more carefully, they would not have to grind or farm as much, freeing more of their time for fun activities. I don't agree.<br /><br />I like playing the AH, and as a result, I am rich in gold. I have a relative who hates the AH, and so he has less gold than I have: in fact he has only a quarter as much gold as me. But he still has an absolute fortune! He vendors epics, he never farms anything (except when he was levelling his herbalism, and he wasn't farming in order to make gold, but only to increase his herbalism. He stopped when he hit 450). Yet he has more than enough gold to cover his costs. The simple fact is, nobody has to farm or grind for gold nowadays. We get enough for our needs as a side-effect of whatever other in-game activities attract our attention. If you enjoy playing the AH, as I do, so much the better. If you don't enjoy the AH game, why waste time playing it?<br /><br />The assumption has been that even people who don't enjoy the AH game can maximize their fun by playing it a little, because that will reduce the farming or grinding that they would otherwise have to do to make the level of gold needed to sustain their fun activities. My relative's experience is that this is just not true. He never farms. He does grind, but not for gold. He grinds for the real in-game currency, Emblems of Frost and Marks of Sanctification, which no amount of AH play can earn him (he has enough gold that he could offer to buy a Mark of Sanctification from anyone in his raid who is lucky to get it, but his experience of this is the same as mine. No matter how much gold I offer, they'd rather keep the mark)!<br /><br />While the best gear cannot be crafted, and mostly cannot be bought with gold, he quite sensibly restricts his grinding to those activities that directly provide him with the most important in-game currencies, and together with the activities that he enjoys doing, he earns as a side effect as much of the second-class currency as he needs.<br /><br />Me, I play the AH game anyway, because I enjoy it!Dàchénghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02994982502333811797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-34626544533695039292010-08-23T09:40:19.595-05:002010-08-23T09:40:19.595-05:00You make two mistakes here:
with the AH: time inve...You make two mistakes here:<br />with the AH: time investing. To understand the market you have to spend some hours NOW and it will increase your income by X% for the rest of the time as long as you do the necessary update. On the long run is obviously positive, as if we assume your 25% increase, one hour invested pays after 4 hours of farming. But the dumb guy want to minimize "no fun" NOW.<br /><br />With the Alt-Tab: external costs. If I half my DPS, the group DPS decreases by 1/6. So the run will be 1/6 longer for me only. The only solution here is agressive kicking: punishing people who don't perform, to force them to don't Alt-TabGevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-88536346680054586472010-08-23T09:38:48.114-05:002010-08-23T09:38:48.114-05:00c|_| : The Care Cup is Empty.
c|-| : The Care Cup...c|_| : The Care Cup is Empty.<br /><br />c|-| : The Care Cup is half full <br /><br />:D<br /><br />Love these 2 macroed as a generic response :pQuicksilverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02514588622395952812noreply@blogger.com