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In article <d6de4750.0412010803.1a159f17@posting.google.com>,
Scratchy <scratchatitch@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Ok, finally, after playing for several months and
>amassing a somewhat valuable set of items for trade
>I'm wondering what you "gurus" think about :
Well, I'm not a guru, but I can try to give my opinion to your
questions/remarks below.
>1) Is trading items going for "the best item possible"?
Well, I try to get better items through trading away the items I don't
need. But it's not the best item per-se.
Also, a lot of the items I trade away I do for pgems or runes. The lower
items (which is about 95% of the items you can find) is not worth much
more than a few pgems at most. It's only a select few items which are
worth more (i.e. runes).
For me, the main currency in the game is runes, but only those above about
Lem, maybe a tad lower. Pgems are used for smaller trades, but can also be
used to trade for 'bigger' things. There are some basic exchange rates for
pgems vs runes, which differ slightly per realm. I can only vouch for the
Europe SoftCore Ladder realm, where:
Pul rune ~= 20 Pgems
Um rune ~= 40 PGems
Mal rune ~= 80 pgems
and here it gets a bit diffuse: if you offer 60 to 75 pgems, people will
trade you a Mal too, if they need the pgems. The higher runes give more
options for shaving off a few pgems.
At around Ist you can get a Stone of Jordan (unique ring).
But there are items which are sold for tens of the high runes (being about
Jah Ber Cham and up)
>2) Is trading going for "the best deal possible"?
Well, that's part of it, but if you just need or want a certain item, I'd
say, go for it.
A trade is fair when both parties have a good feeling about it, and that's
the bottom line.
>3) Is trading just for what you want or need
> regardless of the potential "value" of an item?
If you need something, and chances of find it are low, feel free to trade
for it. (If you have something of equal value to trade for it of
course...)
And if you can get a nice deal on an item you don't really need, but which
is very popular (Harlequin's Crest, Tal Rasha's Amulet, Herald of Zakarum,
etc, etc), why not?
>4) Isn't "value" just player specific?
Well, partly, but that's ignoring the market forces which are in play. I
mean, just like in the real world, it's the market that more or less
dictates what something cost. You might feel a Roll Royce car is not worth
500.000 EUROs (or dollars), but that doesn't mean you can buy one for your
perceived value (which might be just a few EUROs/dollars).
>If I don't play Zons, then what is really the
>value of a Windforce to me? If I don't play
>necros, what's really the value of a PnB GC?
I'm not really sure what the current value (in runes) is of a Windforce; I
hear some wildly different stories about it's value, ranging from about
Pul to maybe something like Ist.
On SC EUR Ladder, a plain P&B GC is worth a Mal.
And a Mal can be traded for some quite nice, other items, but I can't give
any examples since you don't say which character types you DO play...
>Thanks!
>
>Scratchy
I'm not really sure what you wanted to know/ask, but I hope the aboves
helps you...
Regards,
Patrick.
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