Although, thinking about the timing of that 60kg period for Light Sprites, I suppose it’s possible it was because of Brightshine? I wouldn’t want to bet on it, but I can’t rule it out.
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so assuming the person ahead of me takes the light sprite because they’d be an idiot not to, and assuming I’m not missing something more valuable in the prizes list, I’m going to be the proud(?) new owner of a set of sunchaser jewelry
which frankly I find fucking ugly but hey it’s 40k gems worth of ugly ;-)
idk if I should hang onto it until mid-june for a better price or whether the prices up there in the stratosphere even fluctuate the way normal under-a-million holiday skin prices do
As someone whose goals re: Kickstarter familiars require her to learn some proverbial ropes up here in the stratosphere (I’ve almost reached 90kg pure, and I’m currently trying to sell off several pieces of first-year apparel), first-year Festive Favors stuff hardly seems to fluctuate at all. Or rather, it’ll go up and down by relatively small (objectively rather large*) amounts according to how many people happen to be selling at the moment and how desperate they are, but I haven’t noticed any trends. When I bought my Light Sprite in…*checks* late May, it was for 40kg right before the price shot up to 60kg. When I looked at prices again a couple months later, it was back to 40 – 45kg. Around…maybe October, I don’t think I have a record for this and I’m bad at dating my memories…they were 30kg, and I bought a second one hoping to flip it. Shortly thereafter, they were back up to 40 – 45kg, and I spent the next few months** trying to sell it off, finally succeeding a few days ago.
Note that last sentence. It’s important to understand just how low the demand is for stratospherically-priced items. You’ve seen a lot of people say stuff like “Light Sprites are so expensive, I’ve given up on ever affording one”, right? Those people are never going to buy a 40kg item from you: you’re limited to selling to the fairly small number of people who both didn’t give up on one day having that much money and are currently being successful at actually having that much money. Buyers aren’t that easy to come by.
Relatedly, it’s pretty hard to sell items that expensive via the AH. Even people who have that much worth tend not to have it in liquid currency. Mixed payment is almost always the only practical way to sell something like Sunchaser. I spent several weeks with a Light Sprite on the AH to no avail, except for a few PMs from people offering mixed payment for it that didn’t pan out or whose value was way too low. When I made a forum thread offering it for sale? Got a decent offer within a few hours. I mean, I might have especially lucky with that thread, but still.
(Said decent offer was almost entirely that retired apparel I’m currently trying to sell off. I figured I’d have a better shot at liquidating several things worth a few thousand gems each that trying to find someone with 40kg in currency. Even with the smaller stuff, sometimes you still have to do mixed payment: that’s how I got rid of the Frigid Fugitive Shackles the Light Sprite buyer gave me. I may open another thread for whatever apparel remains in a couple weeks, but I am not touching the Items For Sale forum in these final days of trust-trading.)
tl;dr items that high in value fluctuate constantly by thousands of gems, but not with predictable direction or timing afaict (not even an overall upward trend over a one-year span); selling super-expensive stuff is hard because it’s hard to find a buyer who can afford it; be prepared for the process of turning a single 40kg item into usable funds to be long and multi-part.
*This is the primary reason why nearly all of my KS fund is in gems, and I’m working on getting even more of it into gems. You know where you stand with gems.
**Sort of: I took December and the first couple weeks of January off from FR, so they don’t really count.
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#part of the payment for that Light Sprite was a few Water and Nature Sprites #Water Sprites cost exactly the same as they did when I bought one for my collection like a year ago #do not trust inflation out here in the stratosphere #I hate dealing with fluctuating markets but I like the idea of owning KS familiars more #reply via reblog #Flight Rising
Okay, fodder finally sold (I had to drop most of them to 29k and wait an additional half-hour, but eventually they went), spent all my treasure on gene scrolls, time to go to bed.
I think tomorrow I might go through my alert history, auction listings, and hoard and count up how many genes I’ll have flipped by the time I’m done. I haven’t directly kept track of scroll-flipping profits because it’d slow me down too much, so number-of-scrolls is the best I can do.
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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #this concludes your dragon-capitalism liveblogging for tonight #oh look an original post
…and while I was writing that post, they started to sell.
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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #oh look an original post #\o/ #$$$
There’s roughly two pages of adults before mine. The treasure marketplace resets its stock in fifteen minutes, which means the gene pickings are slim for a while afterward. Usual computer-shutting-off time is only twenty minutes later.
*fidgets*
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#Flight Rising #oh look an update #I may end up staying up a little late wrapping everything up #oh look an original post #(I’m *pretty* sure it’s in fifteen minutes?) #(I have trouble keeping straight whether ‘odd-numbered hours’ is FR time or mine) #(pretty sure it’s mine)
Okay, here goes. 66 adult fodder, 29,995 treasure each. (There are so few dragons between 29,500 and 30,000 that selling them for a non-round number looks like it’ll actually be practical.) Pre-named, for your convenience!
For combo bonus points, I intend to immediately re-invest all the money into gene scrolls while Lightning still has dominance.
(I don’t especially enjoy participating in heated dom battles, but standing aside and selling popcorn while other people duke it out is great.)
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#Flight Rising #I made a spreadsheet #(because of course I did) #to calculate the profits of various types of gene scroll #there’s columns for both absolute profit and profit as a percentage of the cost of the scroll #I’ve been working with absolute profit throughout the week because I had enough seed money to afford to do that #but now I’m putting all my treasure into stockpiling the higher-percentage scrolls #oh look an original post
so buying thread payouts are 27,500t for a lvl 6 in light vs plague currently
if you had any dragons you want to clear out and get like three times exalt payout for them (and you don’t mind them being exalted) today would be the day :D
this has been a pixel dragon PSA
Let’s see…100 lair spaces – 21 empty spaces – 13 permanents = 66 adult fodder. (Most bought for 10k, managed to snag a few more the following day for 15k. Dragons growing up on Saturday got rapidly hard to come by on Thursday as people started to prepare in earnest: I’m glad I timed most of my first batch of flipped fodder to grow up on Wednesday.)
I’ll probably wait a few more hours to see if the prices get even more ridiculous than the 24.5k of ridiculous they already are.
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#Flight Rising #reply via reblog #having a zillion empty lair spaces is super useful
Dude, Light vs Plague is just crazy. It’s only Tuesday and the cheapest adult dragons on the AH are at 18,000 treasure (for comparison, a normal week they’re more like 8,000.) And the buy thread payouts are keeping up with that – last I checked they were at 21k treasure for a level 6 (which would normally bring 10k treasure from exalting).
*goes back to leveling dragons*
*looks at ~80 hatchlings in lair, mostly 5-day-olds bought for 10k, some 4-day-olds bought for 8k*
*licks lips*
(There’s no way I’m going to be able to train 80 dragons in a reasonable timeframe, so I’ll probably just sell them as level 1s. Might keep the ones with exalt bonuses to train myself, haven’t decided yet.)
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#tomorrow after I sell the now-rollovers I’ll see if I can scrounge up a few dozen 3-day-olds for Saturday #plus Lightning’s got dominance which means gene flipping galore #it’s a very exciting week profit-wise #Flight Rising #reply via reblog
*squee* My custom accent for Canyon is ordered and paid for! I DID PEOPLE INTERACTION THINGS. :D
I think my next “big” FR project is gonna be saving up all the treasure for my remaining expansions to Ancient Lair by Thundercrack. (The first-place dom discount isn’t huge, it’s only 5%, but that’s still gonna save me 143,750 treasure overall. ^_^ ‘Sides, I like the idea of celebrating Thundercrack by moving to the Tempest Spire.) Little under 2.75 million – I can farm that in a week or ten days if I push, I’m tired of pushing, so I’m gonna take it slow. Hardest part’ll be not spending it all on dragon hats. XD
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
Well, there’s Swagbucks. Nowhere near enough to live off of, and you have to take their “Special Offers” section with tons of salt (last I checked they don’t vet their third-party offer suppliers nearly well enough and pretty much all of the non-survey non-video ones look an awful lot like virusbait), but a reasonably diligent Canadian can get USD$25 a month in Paypal, which is $25 they wouldn’t have had otherwise. I hear it’s more if you’re American (they get earning options that other countries don’t), and much more if you either have more data in your Internet plan than you normally use or spend a lot of time in places with free Wi-Fi (so you can run their ad videos without spending more in overage fees than you get in payment). (My family routinely maxes out our Internet plan as it is, and I only spend maybe 10 – 30 minutes a week in public hotspots, so I’ve never been able to do those properly.)
(I used to be a reasonably diligent Canadian, but I haven’t really been on since November, after I paid for nearly half of this laptop ($130) using the Paypal balance I got from them. Maybe I should go back.)
(If you do give it a shot (and seriously, despite the Special Offers the rest of the place is really not very shady), let me know *before* you sign up and I’ll give you a referral link. It’s not under this name.)
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