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09-21-2019, 06:36 PM | #41 |
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I take from this thread that everything I do in OOTP is wrong, has always been wrong, and will always be wrong...
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Nah, we're here to have fun....some people find fun in different ways. F'ing around in the auction house sounds like a bad use of my limited time.
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09-21-2019, 11:43 PM | #43 |
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My goodness that is quite a god squad for a F2P team. If I had flipping skill like that I'd probably take my talents to Wall Street.
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09-22-2019, 01:24 AM | #44 |
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I have the Gold Saucer music playing in my head thanks to this thread. Man, that game was a classic.
I got a chance to participate in some Auction House madness for the 1st time this Collection Monday. I definitely believe there's some serious PP to be made if you're flipping mission pieces. Good on you for assembling an elite team by doing so. If you're the guy that continuously lists Diamond A-Rod and Cordero for ~40k PP though, I take back my kind words! |
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If you liked FF7, you might like my fictional league. I'll post the team names, divisions, and such in here a bit later.
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Some random things about me: I was a theoretical math undergrad. I went to law school and worked as a lawyer for four years. I went back to school and got a Master of Environmental Management degree, and now I'm a PhD student in environmental studies studying environmental ethics and policy, particularly related to geoengineering.
Here are the divisions from my Final Fantasy + World of Warcraft fictional league: One subleague for FF teams, with divisions for 7, 10, 12, and 13. One subleague for WoW teams, based more on geography and expansions. Each team has five minor league teams related in theme to their big league team. First round draft picks for each team are renamed after major characters from that game and/or place. The customizability of OOTP is what drew me in in the first place.
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09-22-2019, 10:23 AM | #48 |
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Save your nasty words for the rubes who buy the cards at the inflated prices and wreck the averages...
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09-22-2019, 10:25 AM | #49 |
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I got my Cordero for 25k which I'm glad for after reading this thread. Definitely learned to quickly buy any reasonably priced mission pieces before the snipers get them!
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09-22-2019, 10:34 AM | #50 | |
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Congrats to you! I certainly don't catch everything. But I definitely think it's wise to snatch a collection piece up quickly if it's at a price you're willing to pay.
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09-22-2019, 10:56 AM | #51 | |
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I could not have done what you did. First of all, I sleep more than 4-5 hours per night. I spend time doing other things, like mowing my yard and watching sports, and I don't have the game in front of me while I do them. I can't execute 50 activities at one time, which you obviously can. I don't have the patience to bid 5pp on literally every iron card listed all day long and then sell them for 15pp until I accumulate enough to start buying bronze. You had more transactions in March and April than I have total today. I wouldn't have believed that, THIS WEEK, you could buy a 2014 HH Kluber card for 18K and sell it 4 hours later for 31K. I did not believe that the market was that wild, but now I do. Missions certainly helped you because you likely had all of the cards to complete the White Sox missions several times. Selling the extras brought in enough points to move you into speculating on historical diamonds and perfects. It was still amazing to see you buying dozens of expensive cards within minutes and selling dozens at the same time. There must have been profit there, but frankly even tracking it was beyond my patience level. I tip my hat to you and agree that your skills are unique. I couldn't do it, and - please don't take this the wrong way - I wouldn't want to do it. To the people that say he should take his skills to the stock market, he isn't playing against machines here. The stock market is not filled with fools. Computers control trading there. Yes, he could make money as a day trader, but he could just as easily hold three online jobs at the same time and make more. Hell, he could probably do the day trading too. Last edited by Orcin; 09-22-2019 at 11:00 AM. |
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09-22-2019, 12:23 PM | #52 |
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the stock market is completely different. Its not like you can find shares of home depot for 50% off just by looking at the right time lol.
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That doesn't mean the dedication here isn't impressive or skillful. It's just a "if you put in the time, it's there for you" kind of world, rather than "if you put in the time AND have a dozen other advantages, you could make 1% in a week" world.
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I also don't blame anyone else for not wanting to do this sort of thing. Academic reading and writing has me in front of the computer a lot, and my brain is weird, so it works out. I have no idea what it's actually called, but I call it "floorscraping" when I bid on things like irons at the minimum. I liked the idea of it because it's zero risk and I could use small amounts of residual PP to do it. It turned out not to be particularly lucrative, but it added a ton of entries to the transaction history, so it's a little deceptive in the video. Historical silvers carried the day early on. In addition to my searches, early on I definitely did a few sweeps each day of the sum total of historical silvers looking for good deals. The market is way wilder than most people understand. I went back and found my favorite set of transactions of all time, because it made me legit laugh out loud when it happened. This is gold Faber: I needed Faber at that point, and he more than paid for himself in literally one minute. That first day of collections is some of craziest stuff I've ever seen in online markets. It was super fun. When the White Sox missions launched, I think I was like two short on basically all the missions. I got Walsh done that first night, and I flipped enough pieces to complete those missions several times over. Being a White Sox fan in real life helped, because I had better coverage for them than I had for most teams. Everyone's right about how the real stock market is different. That's never held any interest for me. Part of why I've chosen to talk about this is to show that there really are a lot of market opportunities out there if you're interested. But no one should feel like they're missing out if doing this sort of thing isn't fun for them.
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Haha, 4 and 6 are great games, but I'm really partial to the worlds and geography of some of the later games. 12 gets some serious, justifiable criticism, but I adore the locations, names, and landscapes. I should put some time into thinking about what the teams in an FF4 division and FF6 division would look like. The Baron Red Wings would definitely be in there
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What you call floorscraping has often crossed my mind as a viable means to build up points with minimal risk over time. This is how my primary collection team has amassed a surprising amount of its live cards even...
However, the biggest reason I never went for this strategy (aside from time) is that my computer would melt from the continual restarts this game and its memory leaks would force upon me. The market itself isn't an issue, but the interactive roster page... Well, let's just say it doesn't stay interactive for as long as I'd like
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If this game had TradeSkillMaster, you'd all be doomed, just saying What I did in WoW was arguably more absurd than what I've done here. I basically took over and monopolized the jewelcrafting industry on my server (as Alliance on a Horde-dominated PvP server), and I farmed all my materials and recipes as well. I played the margins a lot more there. My chief market rival had a meltdown where he told me he was an army vet who was going to find out where I lived and beat me. That's when I really knew I had won
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Ok so one of the basic strategies here is... "buy low/sell hi"... simple enough right
So here are my 2 questions... 1- With... 600+?? live cards (and 2k plus cards total?) how in the world are you able to identify a "good deal" that quickly? Do you have all the ... current... prices memorized? 2- How many cards do you have any any given time? I often find myself selling off 40's and 50's as they tend to clog things up. This is obviously the wrong way to do things (by me)
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