The one about the ingame economy

This one has kept me up, one too many times. I think a lot of people together with the same goal, can make a change. I've noticed the effects of this one, about a year ago. It affects all of the players, and it affects the server economy. Exactly one year ago, (January-ish 2008), the prices of items were the following: lv. 100 enchantment chip piece x1 [~70m vis], lv.96 enchantment chip piece x1 [~40m vis] and lv.92 enchantment chip piece x1 [30m]. At that time, you could still go to IOF, hunt a hour or two and still make a fortune. The people got greedy (I still remember @ that time i was selling 92chips, I needed the vis, so I decided to give them for a lower price, normal was about 25-30m, I was selling them for 19.999.999 vis, the next morning i woke up, checked the Market Manager, and saw that the price has fallen to 16m.... all of that just over the night!!!!) (And I'm sorry for that one, it could'ev been my fault he he)

so I developed a theory about that one. (I think my theory may be similair to a crowd or a chaos theory, but it still works in the same principal, that people are like sheep in large numbers, and players are no exception)

Now what you need:
A few players (5-10, the more the merrier^^)
lots and lots of megaphones

now lets take an item for example, that's currently very expensive, but in quite it's common. Let's say we take rhodolite. First prices for a piece were 50m, and now they're down to 10-12m.

We take this group of people, and start making "ghost" transactions (why ghost you say? well because, a) the buyer will be selling via /broad the Rhodolite for an extremely low price lets say 4m, and the minute hell get some pm's about someone buying it, he'll just say it's already been sold to this-and-this player.In fact you don't even need the "imaginary buyer", but it's a safety precaution if someone decides to check on it.)

now do this transactions, using different users, for some days, and sooner or later, the real rhodolite sellers will start selling them for these low prices. It works on the previously described principle that people are sheep, and don't want to deviate from the larger group of players, that has it own standards. If you do deviate and don't show conformistic behaviour, the group will think of you as an outsider, and will probably try to have as little contact with you as possible. (an example about this one is: "legit" players (as the larger group), and "un-legit" players, a.k.a. botters. (the smaller group). e.g.: everyone hates botters, because they used illegal paths to achieve power. (anyone who studied sociology will get what i mean.))


so anyway... the power of a smaller group, infiltrating a larger group, to change it's ways, can be used for both good and bad purposes (you can try and boost your prices if you want, or try and break down the ingame market and economy.)



as for me: I'm currently powerlvling my Angie, and Karja, since my cath needs some backup when she's plvling (I'm not thinking of getting Nar, until someone tries my method, or the prices drop because the lack of sales he he he), and I need a crafter to craft all of those AA's hearts and stuff.

Cyu around till next time;)

The one about botters

So with v3.0 every sGE player was blessed with another gift: being unable to report/being reported as a bot, resulting in mass botting by 72% of the servers population. Joining which ever map you chose, the best places were takenby botters, especially those with fast/semi-fast spawns.

Skull dungeon 1 was full till the last spot. Topolo was full, IOF's were full. (I remember this one guy that spend like 6 days in the Topolo spawn, next to the stairs of hell, using jack, musk and a fighter.)Seriously, spending all those Toolboxes has to hurt yet budget, no matter how many lvl you gain. I can't even imagin what it looked like in AT/FT territories. (no I mean seriously, I was out in the cold for like 5 hrs, and I'm a bit under the influence of certain liquid substances, which were the only thing keeping us warm).

Anyway... hope tomorrows maintenance will fix some things, especially those with bot report windows, and certain GP stuff. Which was another smooth move by IAH : release this and this many "extra" items and "free" characters, or "increase" drops in certain games, and then make then unable to be used lol. (If I'm speaking about my example, my purchase at offgamers.com was like... well... held back as I may call it, meaning: the day IAH said that every purchase of GP's will get you extra 14kGP's until the end of stock, I bought 2x 70k which should result in extra 28k GP...buutttt.. as every scientist knows, theory is different than practice, my order was held long enough, for them to "just run out of speciall offers", so I wasn't given a right to get my extra GP's lol :D)



among other things: Selva is just nearing her 90, can't wait to use all of those exp cards on her (got for about 28mil exp), to boost her lvls with only clicking :D.

The one about getting Selva

With 22nd of jan. sGE servers were blessed with v3.0, which brought us expert stances, 3 new rnpcs, and other sweet things:)


The char that i was looking forward the most, was ofc Selva.combined with Gavin& edward she's the tank of the team.

So, 1st thing you need when you recruit her, is to finish ALL the Pioneering quests, Bahama Quests, Katovic quests, need to have Gavin quests done, and you need to complete Tierra putrefacta quests. (It's alot of prequisits, but it's worth it.)

So selva is one of those "free" rnpc's that are free to recruit, but need Gpoints to craft her glove to get her exclusive stances. (Smooth move IAH, smooth move ^^)

So the quests starts (after you completed all of her quests), in auch by Leonore. you need 2x Hero's seal. (so tough luck if you used all of them in hunter missions or you never went to PY)

-Go to Port of Coimbra and talk to Nunez.
-Go to Gehenna Bridge, the last level of Prision de Jaquin, and talk to the Gatekeeper to open the entrance to Corridor of Assize. You need a Key to Corridor of Assize to do so. The key is a rare item drop from bosses in all levels of Prision de Jaquin and from Bellem Boxes. (4hour respawn time on the raid boss there)
-Enter the Corridor of Assize, kill the Chrysalis, and the subsequent Dr. Fran. The Corridor of Assize is a non-instanced raid, and the Chrysalis can several hours to spawn depending on when the previous Chrysalis was killed.
-Return to Nunez.
-Go to Katovic Snowfield and talk to Ludeza. You will receive a Ghost Nucleus.
Go to Frozen Plain. Drag 1 Ghost Nucleus from inventory and drop it into Rynn's Heart. The purpose is to summon a lvl110 quest version of an Avalanche Apparation. It can take several attempts before the Apparation is successfully summoned, so keep inserting the Ghost Nuclei one by one until it appears. Should you run out of Ghost Nuclei, you can exchange for more from Ludeza at the cost of 20 Wolf Meat and 10 Elviot's Leather each. Wolf Meat is a common item drop from Artic Wolves in Katovic Snowfield. Elviot's Leather is a common item drop from Elviot in Frozen Plain. (the aparittion has a 2hr respawn time, so do check both channels, if you get a "too early to summon" error) for this part you probably need squad, unless you're imba, cuz the boss is rather annoying (7mil HP, 58 AR/DR)
-Kill the Avalanche Apparation.
-When the Avalanche Apparition is dead, Montoro will appear near the entrance of the cave of Rynn's Heart. Kill him as well.
-Return to Ludeza.
-Go to Frozen Plain and talk to Invierno to start an instanced mission involving combat. Within the mission, defeat Selva to proceed.
-Talk to Invierno again.
Go to the Laboratory in Dr. Torsche Mansion and talk to Dr. Torsche.
Click on the bookshelf along the southern wall of the Laboratory to start an instanced mission. Inside the mission, click on the statue to get the next quest. You can leave the area once you get the quest.
-Go to Frozen Plain and talk to Invierno.
-Collect 10 Philosopher's Stones and 1 Katovic Soup. Philosopher's Stone is a common item drop in the Katovic Region. Katovic Soup is a normal consumable item that can be obtained by using Invierno's cooking pot. To cook the soup, you need to complete the Katovic quest line to gain access to Invierno's cooking pot, as well as to collect another 20 Golden Apples (from Eltetah trees in Katovic Snowfield and Frozen Plain), 50 Wolf Meat (from Wolves in Katovic Snowfield), 50 Beet (from Gorillas in Frozen Plain), and 50 Cabbages (from Lazim Lams in Katovic Snowfield). (Katovic Soup is/was also available from Adelina's Booty Search in sGE.)
-Talk to Invierno again.
-Return to Dr. Torsche's Mansion and reenter the instanced mission with the statue. Click on the statue again to start an easy combat.
-Talk to Dr. Torsche to receive Selva Character Card, Cauchemar Stance Book, Rapida Espada Stance Book, and Recipe - Selva's Armshield.

if you enchant your armshield and fail, you can always buy more recipes for it, by talking to dr. Torsche.

after that, return to barracks, and create Selva [RNPC Initial level: 60] x1 ^^




now, when you vet Selva, you get to learn the both stances. one of them is for tanking, and the other one is for dealing large amounts of dmg, thanks to 30% crit bonus from her stance >.<
(getting hit by that will probably hurt you plenty)

when you Vet her, either give her STR bonus (for 20% attack increase, and all skill related attacks), or give her AGI, which will provide a 10% attack bonus, to all her skill related attacks, Attack speed, and Block chance. (i'm gonna go with STR/AGI one at vet lvl, one at exp level.)


PS: Kudos to bookofthewind, for providing the quest guide, you trully rock man ^^

The one about my absence

So yeah i guess I was away for a month or two, but I didn't expect those shocking changes. Nostalgia has fallen apart, people moved on, I'm still stuck in the stupid jail, because I can't read korean.

crap.

Anyway, Happy new year to everyone, sorry I wasn't online with you guys, I was stuck @ work for the evening. Which sounds worse that it was. ATM I'm studying my ass off, since my exam era just started, but I promised those NoS ppl I'll join them ASAP.

So I'm really looking forward to seeing the v3.0 in the flash, I'm really looking forward to using Selva, since I almost broke my nerves doing the Gavin quest :D. Not to mention the all of the new places in GE. Aaaaaand I'm reaaallllyyy looking forward to spending Gpoints which I will buy as soon as i get paid for the month.

so this was just a small update, and to announce that I'm working on my second F.R.I.E.N.D.S. part duo project.

just a little insider: I't will contain: A hyperactive-never-fully-grown-up Artorian (Stock Fighter), anorexic self-destrictive CleoPetra (IBS), and a robot Eva (CTS) that wants to take over the world, by killing all humans (If you're lucky she'll keep you as a pet) :D.

The one about getting Gavin

Now a while ago i decided to complete the bahama quests. just like that. just for fun cuz i was bored. 1st i camped for FF, and finally got it.. next obstacle was getting the elite amber bee. did that in 30 mins, i think i was lucky.

next one was getting normal aidanium and normal quartz which noone seem to have. luckily my Faction leader had it. did that, completed the quest, ran from the house back to Base Camp a few times, and the quest chain was complete.

next on the menu was the Gavin quest.

Note, the only hard part for me here was killing Novia. using pioneering/E84 armours and E92 weapons with brunie and ele, was kinda pain.

Anyway, as soon as you enter the ice wizards tower, you get teleported to an instance. if you computer is relatively new, or you don't lag, you have a chance of exploiting a bug there. as soon as you are ported in the mission run just a meter or two, forward, just to get the Veteran bless buff. it gives Atk/aspd/HP and AR/DR bonuses.

wait a second or two and 5 raidbosses will spawn. Novia, the purple dude, and 3 overgrown yu-gi-oh characters. be careful, if you ran too much ahead, the bosses will kill you in a second, before the conversation even starts, thus ending the mission before it even begins.

if you don't run forward to get the buff. wait till the conversation between the NPC's is over, and try to run inside the circle. after some time, i did manage to get the Veteran Bless buff, so there are basically two ways of getting it.

and you definetly need a Lightning ele for Novia.

Basically what i needed was: 10.000 hp pots, 17k bullets, 20 invisible pots, and a lot of patience.

first thing that happes after conversation: the three bosses aggro you, and use skills at the same time. thats 3x9k dmg for me with my armours, wichc was too much. so: you run away from the mobs, get your team killed, except you scout, use invisible pot to loose aggro, the bosses will aggro Gavin and Selva, you get back to your two members with your scout, ress them, run as far away as possible, and rebuff. then: TAKE DOWN BOSSES ONE BY ONE, NOVIA THE LAST!!!!

it will ease the mission, and you can kill Novia in few minutes.

so after you have taken down the raidbosses, start preparing for novia. use lightning bracelets on your ele, to deal her the dmg. now what i did, was to scatter my team so her attacks wouldnt hit them all at once. then i just spammed Lightning spells on novia. Brunie, fully buffed, her Aspd 11 with outrage got 75% of her attacks blocked by novias buff, so she was quite useless. the scout died the first. brunie was a few minutes later, and then i just spammed potions and spells.

now novia does tend to "freeze" your chars so be careful. i always forgot to bring Antidotes for my scouts recovery skill, so i was more or less frozen.

but after 12 long hours of trying, countless HP pots, and 40m in vis (dun ask), i managed to drop Novias hp on 50%, at that point a Conversation starts and selva or gavin kills the Novia with one strike. (which is pretty much retarded because a) they were both dead at that time b)Why didnt he/she use the skill in the first place ffs -.-)

so after that part you only need to complete the Katovic soup quest in order to get Gavin.

so I did.

and I got him.

stats?
STR: 6
AGI:5
HP: 6
DEX:7

basically a fighter with slover atk spd, and a wee bit more criticals.

and afetr VET-ing him, you may choose to give the point in AGI (to get a stock fighter with a bonus DEX), or just give him the point in STR like 90% of the melee fighters.

but do remember that he also has Outrage and sightshot. meaning that giving in AGI/DEX would make him a weaker shooter. which i dont recommend. just use rapiers on him. and after Selva comes out, get him, and Edward, and Selva in the team to get the 3man team buff :)

The one about Epic Grade Glazium equpiment (Pioneering)

Now, today i finally got my Gpoints. It took them 14 days to send me the friggin' codes heh. the codes must really be a pain to type since it took them two weeks, to write 30 numbers.-.-

anyway.

First thing i did was by Vet scroll for Calyce, and gave her a E92 Crossbow. then i accidentally teleported meyself to the wrong side of the town, and i ended up near the Pioneering support soldier.

So just for joke i tried a Lvl 100 poineering dagger for my Vet lisa. since shes already using pioneering Leather Armour, i expected to get a 26AR weapon that would match the DR of a Pioneering lvl 100 armour. what i got was a surprise. The dagger came with a 29AR!!!! so i quickly +5ed it, and got myself a 30AR dagger for 4X epic glaziums and 5Mp heh. you cant get cheaper than this. and kicking in a lvl 100 chip i almost got it with godly stats.

Now for people who don't know whats the bonus of chipping Pioneering equips let me tell you this.
Chipping armour will ALWAYS get : -DEF UP
-EVA UP
-M.SPD UP
-HP UP
-Mental res up.
and you always get ALL of those bonuses. not just one or two, but ALL!!!

Similair with the pioneering 100 weapons:
-ATK UP
-A.SPD UP
-CRITICAL UP
-MENTAL dmg
(and for ranged gear you get accuracy bonus)

now imagine spending 5mp for a 30 AR weapon, chipping it once, and not being afraid that chippin will only throw a chip away. (it usually takes me 2 chips to get atleast 36% atk up, and around 25-28% aspd up.)

those are the good sides.
Bad sides:

You can get Glazium only via ingame shop (and some quests), and Epic grade glazium only from quests. the costs are comulative. first weapon 4 pieces, next weapon of the same txpe, +4 pieces, next weapon of the same type +8 pieces... ect. so for 3 swords you'd need 4+8+12 pieces of Epic glazium. (and ofcourse 15Mp)


My Advice: if your E84 weapons dont dmg mobs the way they used to, get Pioneering lvl 100.

The one about Calyce Bernelli

So on saturday, i sold enuff of my items to buy me 50mp and get a Calyce RNC card. shes like a younger sister of Grace, the only difference is, she's not a "investigator" or a "policeman" as her bigger sis, but shes an assassin. She has both dagger stances (Escrima and Corte Duplicado), and along with those she has Arbalester and Saggita Crossbow stances.

crossbows are supposed to have same strength as rifles, but as far as i can tell, their strength is between Shotgun and a Rifle.

Her stats is actually pretty good

STR:5

HP:5

DEX:7

AGI:7

which is a wee bit faster than a normal musk, and a wee bit weaker than one. but vet-ing her would increase her DEX to 8 thus making a fast musk. Altough im still thinking of giving her vet point in AGI, which would make her attacks with a Bow insanely fast, and i could stil gain a lot if i choose to use her with daggers.

The quest:

1. Talk to Calyce. She is in Pegadilla, Port of Coimbra.

2. Talk to the Mercenary Soldier beside Calyce to start an instanced mission involving combat. The level of mob is dependent on your level. (You can stay out of combat and let the NPCs do the fighting.)

3.Talk to the Mercenary Soldier again and give him 50 Mystery Powders.

4.Talk to Princess Gabriel. She is in the Reception Hall, Cite de Reboldoeux.

5.Return to Calyce to receive Calyce Character Card. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lv 60 crossbow

1.With Calyce as leader, talk to the Gurtrude Peterson (Jean-Pierre Gascon). He is located at F9, City of Auch.

2.Talk to Gurtrude again and choose the option to eavesdrop.

3.Talk to Gurtrude again after the cutscene.

4.Talk to Gerald. He is in Pegadilla, Port of Coimbra.

5.Talk to Calyce to receive a lvl60 Crossbow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sagitta Stance Book

1.With Calyce as leader, talk to Gerard.

2.Talk to the Mercenary Soldier nearby.

3.Move to the indicated location at F2, Porto Bello, Deserted Quay. The trigger spot in somewhere between the six pillars.

4.Talk to Mamon to start an instanced mission involving combat with Mamon. (He takes a while to appear.)

5.Go inside the Sea Elephant Cafe of Port of Coimbra and talk to Gurtrude and Gerard. (They are a little bit hard to click on. Rotating the camera helps somewhat.)

6.Remove Calyce from active team, go to City of Auch, and talk to Auch's Gurtrude using any other character.

7.Put Calyce back in team, head back to Deserted Quay, and talk to Mamon to start another instanced mission.

8.Let Calyce's HP fall under 50% (or just let her die) in the mission and Fritz will appear. Talk to Fritz to receive the Sagitta Stance Book.

now the first thing that is wrong here is that it lacks certain info.

YOU NEED TO BE IN BARON MODE, FOR CALYCE TO TALK WITH MAMON.

I really almost lost my nerves with this part, because someone wrote the guide, forgot this part of the info, and now everybody is copy+pasteing it, not knowing that it's wrong.

Is she worth those 50Mp and a freestancebook with a quest (or 60.000pesos), depends on your laziness lvl.?

it think so. I'm making a Brunie/Ele/Calyce team anyway, so nothing will survive long enuff to hit meh :D