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"grumpy old person declaration"
 
   To paraphrase something a friend once said about zombies,

"Lock boxes. Fuck off."

--G.
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  Subject     Author     Message Date     ID  
  RE: grumpy old person declaration laudre Apr-07-14 1
     RE: grumpy old person declaration Gryphonadmin Apr-07-14 2
         RE: grumpy old person declaration BobSchroeck Apr-07-14 3
             RE: grumpy old person declaration Matrix Dragon Apr-07-14 4
     RE: grumpy old person declaration Senji Apr-07-14 5
         RE: grumpy old person declaration Verbena Apr-07-14 6
             RE: grumpy old person declaration laudre Apr-08-14 8
  RE: grumpy old person declaration BeardedFerret Apr-07-14 7
     RE: grumpy old person declaration Malkarris Apr-08-14 9

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laudre
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428 posts		 Apr-07-14, 04:38 PM (EDT)
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1. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
In response to message #0
 
   They end up piling up in my bank (on various alts, usually) until I either unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange or obtain some keys and pop them open. (Buying them with EC, or converting dilithium to Zen, is the usual way.)

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding


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Gryphonadmin
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2. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
In response to message #1
 
   >unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange

This is what is commonly known as "money for old rope".

--G.
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BobSchroeck
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3. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   >>unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange
>This is what is commonly known as "money for old rope".

I should do this instead of discarding them as annoying...

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.


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Matrix Dragon
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4. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   >>>unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange
>>This is what is commonly known as "money for old rope".
>
>I should do this instead of discarding them as annoying...

But then where would I keep all my Tribbles? There isn't always a Klingon ship around to beam them to.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter


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Senji
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5. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   >They end up piling up in my bank (on various alts, usually) until I
>either unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange

I was going to do that but when I got to the Exchange Hirogen Lockboxes were at 4 (count them, 4) ECs each...


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6. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   I know I've said this before, though not sure I said it here on this forum. The lockboxes aren't even worth 4 EC. They're worth -nothing-. They're a sucker trap, designed to make you think you're already carrying this awesome loot and you just need a key to get it. That's BS. The mechanics would be exactly the same if you found keys and had to buy the boxes. The keys are the only half worth -anything-. And then, of course, they don't publish the actual percentages for lockbox rewards.

Yeah, I've bought some keys. And they were a waste, every one. So easy to fritter away so much cash...

>>They end up piling up in my bank (on various alts, usually) until I
>>either unload them at fire-sale prices on the Exchange
>
>I was going to do that but when I got to the Exchange Hirogen
>Lockboxes were at 4 (count them, 4) ECs each...

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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

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laudre
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8. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   >Yeah, I've bought some keys. And they were a waste, every one. So easy
>to fritter away so much cash...

Lobi.

Also, while I'm still at a net loss overall, I did once turn a profit on a specific transaction by buying a master key off the Exchange, using it to open a Voth lock box, and selling the Voth antiproton beam array I got out of it for over twice what I'd paid for the key.

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding


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BeardedFerret
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7. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
In response to message #0
 
   Never open lockboxes.

Buy stuff out of lockboxes on the Exchange. :)


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Malkarris
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117 posts		 Apr-08-14, 09:28 PM (EDT)
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9. "RE: grumpy old person declaration"
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   Agree.

1. Grind dilithium.
2. Convert to Zen.
3. Buy keys with converted Zen.
4. Sell keys on exchange, the price is getting insane (they used to go for about 1 million EC, now up to 2.5 mil).
5. ???
6. Profit

I won't fight you Atton.
I don't care, I just want you to die.
(Disciple and Atton KOTOR2)


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