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General Discussion / Re: Why do we even need upkeep anymore?

« on: August 25, 2012, 03:42:33 pm »

So I'm Gen 1 and I've only been playing cRPG for about... oh say a month now.  (Sounds about right)

Yeah that's right, I don't play enough to get out of Gen 1 in a MONTH. 

Part of that is that I suck.    (I'm honest)
I just hit 28 and with my German Poleaxe I'm finally feeling like I'm DOING something.  (YAY!)  That said at this point I'm lucky to keep 5k gold  (I'm currently at like 3K) in the bank thanks to upkeep.  I have two items that just waste my gold when upkeep hits them, and that's my Druz Lamellar armor and my German Poleaxe.  I understand you want to control the high end stuff but when I have to go over 10 ticks (at a X1 multiplier I'm normally stuck at) or 3+ rounds of defend the Virgin just to break EVEN on ONE of my two items that's just wrong. 

I'm just now viable dang it!  I don't have a mountain of gold or any loom points.  If I get in a bad streak (like last night. Ugh) I can easily lose 5K gold in a few rounds.  That's my NET loss BTW.  I can sort of get away with using lesser armor (I've got my Stepp Armor to fall back on) but without my weapon what am I even doing here?  I can swap down to my Scythe or maybe my pike or bamboo pole but then I'm just not effective.  Do you want me to just scavenge off the battlefield (Which I do for shields all the time)?  Be stuck as an ineffective plebe in leather? 

Sure, when things are going well (I've had my X5 streaks and woo!  Fun. ) the upkeep is totally okay, but speaking as a gen 1 player who does NOT get a lot of play time in (I work rotating shifts and I have a family thank you. :p )  if you get into anything BUT the good streak it's a struggle and just doesn't make the game fun to play.

Honestly I can load up my Napoleon Wars and not put up with being punished even more than losing.  I KNOW I suck but at least outside of cRPG I'm not PUNISHED for sucking. 

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Suggested Heirloom Order

« on: August 25, 2012, 04:42:02 am »

After you retire you will get 1 point. Then you just go to Offers, Add Trade like normal. Then find where it says Points and put "1" and request some gold. You will get much more in terms of value for some gold than to make a new +1 item, unless you want to have something very rare and intend to loom it all the way to +3.

You can see what heirloom points are trading for in the trades area. Use the dropdown box and select Point Only and order by price. Think its around 520k or so atm, but the price is probably coming down still as people try to compete with each other (loads of loompoints on market). People put up some offers you could take if you don't want to wait, but you might only get like 450k for it

Another thing you can do is save your money first gen, retire for 1 point and keep it. You should be able to make like 500k in either your first gen or second. So keep for your first point, buy another (prices are pretty low atm), then you will see people trading their masterworks for just 2 loompoints, and there tend to be some decent deals like that. People can buy points for like 450kx2, then get a masterwork for like 900k

Thanks! 

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Faction Halls / Re: Astralis [NA]

« on: August 25, 2012, 01:22:21 am »

I just wanted to thank Astralis for being a stand-up group of guys.  Every time I've fought with/against them they've been good guys and I look forward to running with you all again. 

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Faction Halls / Re: |KUTT| Knights' Union of the Tundra Territories -- Recruiting NA [Adults Only]

« on: August 25, 2012, 01:15:20 am »

I'd just like to say it's good fighting with and against every member of KUTT I have ever run into.  I'm not a regular enough player to want to join up (I work a rotating shift) but it's nice to be able to share the field of battle with folks like you.  *Salute*

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Faction Halls / Re: Hoplites [NA]

« on: August 25, 2012, 12:54:43 am »

Hey good running into you guys now and then here and there.

What do you guys go buy in Napoleon?  I enjoy that DLC a lot and would love to hang out with a good group of riflemen/muskets now and then.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Suggested Heirloom Order

« on: August 24, 2012, 11:58:03 pm »

1. Gloves
2. Gloves
3. Gloves
...etc

Why? People will pay you a gold premium to trade you almost any item for +3 gloves. For example, you can get nearly any +3 weapon and 100k+ gold for +3 gloves. If you just loom the weapon yourself, you have the same end result, but you are 100k+ poorer. I always loom gloves, then trade them for whatever weapon/shield/armor I want+a bunch of gold.

Scale, Wisby, Plate Mittens, and Heavy Gauntlets seem to be the most valuable gloves in the marketplace, but it varies according to supply/demand.

If you are really patient, the smartest thing to do is horde loom points. Whenever new armors are released, the value of loom points soars. For instance, the new crusader armors are due to be implemented very soon. Everyone will be scrambling to trade their boring old kuyaks/etc for loom points to spend on crusader armors, so when this happens you will probably be able to get a +3 armor for 2 loom points.

Okay why did I have to dig a few pages to find this?   I am coming up on my first Loom and I totally would have put it into my weapon which I wouldn't even be able to use until I got like 16 STR! 

Glove it is!

Though your mentioning of selling the loom point intrigues me, how would I do this and should I?  I mean it's only 1 point after all for your first retirement right?