Curse

Phineas · Jul 03, 2008, 12:51 AM // 00:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kyomi Tachibana

I think that the favor wasn't actually removed, but looped back to 0 after it got too high, and now it's.... unlooping. Yeah.

It never hit zero.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jiggles

so basicly, were gonna have a whole year of free UW enrty?

jesus anet, well RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOing done

Also untrue. Favor drops by about 500-600 minutes a day at the minute.

Kusandaa · Jul 03, 2008, 01:00 AM // 01:00

LMFAO.

I was ABOUT to sell my UW scrolls when I decided to hop on another game instead. I come back and this.

'Scuse me while I roll on the floor. x]

ALF71BE · Jul 03, 2008, 01:03 AM // 01:03

I was liek I want to be the first in the alliance to notice there's no favor anymore.

lulwut?

Now I'm liek, ROFL.

Lalamika · Jul 03, 2008, 01:10 AM // 01:10

Ah, so it isn't a glitch, yipee...free favor for the next 4-5 months.

Gun Pierson · Jul 03, 2008, 01:27 AM // 01:27

Remarkable. I've been watching the trader's sell price of UW scrolls last hour (request button). It changes between 1k and 1.1k all the time. Though the price stands at 1.1k most of the time. This means (unless I'm missing something) people are selling UW scrolls to the scroll trader (for 700-750g btw) while others patiently lure to buy scrolls for 1k, as the price reaches 1.1k fast again. It seems there's partly a change of ownership of UW scrolls going on.

Seef II · Jul 03, 2008, 01:47 AM // 01:47

This probably means we won't have another ss/lb weekend for a while, boo.

Martin Alvito · Jul 03, 2008, 01:55 AM // 01:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gun Pierson

Remarkable. I've been watching the trader's sell price of UW scrolls last hour (request button). It changes between 1k and 1.1k all the time. Though the price stands at 1.1k most of the time. This means (unless I'm missing something) people are selling UW scrolls to the scroll trader (for 700-750g btw) while others patiently lure to buy scrolls for 1k, as the price reaches 1.1k fast again. It seems there's partly a change of ownership of UW scrolls going on.

Consider:

UW scrolls do not reorder your party. Paying to enter does.

Therefore, when the price is the same, a group will prefer to use a scroll. So there's a natural demand for scrolls.

There's also a natural sell pressure, from players that regularly play with groups. (8 successful players get 8 scrolls, but only need one for the next run).

So you're going to see oscillations in price, as the former group only wants to buy at 1k and the latter group will start selling more heavily the second the buy price exceeds 1k.

Gun Pierson · Jul 03, 2008, 02:00 AM // 02:00

Yes Martin that's true, tx. Man I would like to see statistics of all that stuff

EDIT:
Two major events happened today: we have 30k favor and Shadow Form got nerfed? They are linked, together with ecto price and scroll price.

The new permasin is alrdy active. Anything can happen now. Will Anet change Shadow Form again coming hours or not? etc.

It's too risky to try and predict the outcome at this time.

fenix · Jul 03, 2008, 02:35 AM // 02:35

lol, I KNEW this would happen. So dumb.

ChoKILLate[FDG] · Jul 03, 2008, 02:47 AM // 02:47

Why even have a timer if they never let it run out?! They have added time several times before...Why have scrolls? Come on it was going down naturally, they could have let it stay at 0 for a bit. It's not like we would not be able get in and this would have helped bring the price of ectos back up naturally.

Why touch what ISN'T broken Anet?

fenix · Jul 03, 2008, 02:50 AM // 02:50

The timer last event was 30k minutes more than it showed. Which meant that when it went to 0, those 30k minutes re-applied themselves.

Steps_Descending · Jul 03, 2008, 03:24 AM // 03:24

seech... now even I feel like ANEt is managed by idiots.
I was slow to get it, I know I know.

Back to waiting before it goes to 0. Seriously can't wait.

HawkofStorms · Jul 03, 2008, 03:27 AM // 03:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stuart444

I now have to laugh at the people who bought lots of scrolls expecting to sell them this week/next week for PROFIT >_>

Actually... if you were smart like me... you already sold them earlier this week when they broke 1.7k and already turned a profit. If you were greedy and held on to them for longer... your loss.
The scrolls prices have droped 1.3k in 20 hours.

Shayne Hawke · Jul 03, 2008, 03:36 AM // 03:36

Nerf UW sins, grant lots of favor. I'm missing the connection.

If this actually is about the ~43k minutes or however much we lost during that one weekend, I'm surprised we got a refund.

MirkoTeran · Jul 03, 2008, 05:54 AM // 05:54

Wow, what a bunch of bull.

Ate of DK · Jul 03, 2008, 07:28 AM // 07:28

Anet, never give us double SS/LB reputation weekends again please.
Unlimited favor is really something stupid. Thank you.

Riceboi · Jul 03, 2008, 07:53 AM // 07:53

Wow it's easy to tell who the ecto hoarders are in this thread. LOL

DarkNecrid · Jul 03, 2008, 07:56 AM // 07:56

Regina said on her talk page that they indeed did return the favor we lost.

upier · Jul 03, 2008, 08:10 AM // 08:10

Thanks guys.
(No, REALLY!)

Turbobusa · Jul 03, 2008, 08:18 AM // 08:18

Give the kids 4 months of favor so they'll come less on the boards.
It used to be fun to log on and see if you could farm 2-3 ectos.
You can now log on and be sure to drop 5.
Please the kids