I agree... Collecting is a hard hobby to get into because when you go to some of the bigger collector's museum's and see their collection. It sometimes get depressing to see such a large collection and you barely have anything. That's what i sometimes feel when i go to Olchers, Promathias, Manticore's and many many others. I've learned.... If you get into collecting just to say "I'M richer than you." or.... "My collection is bigger than yours"... that's the wrong reason to get into collecting.. I LOVE collecting.. the only good reason to get into it, is because you love it... you love spending millions... maybe billions on items you cherish. My dad.. many may know him... but he doesn't understand WHY i spend money on event items, yet he never figured out that... maybe.. just maybe... I love it.Collectors always come and go, it can be a very time consuming hobby. New collectors always rise out of the ashes.
Please reference this post for clarification: http://stratics.com/community/threads/few-hard-to-come-by-rares.279442/well since everyones moving on selling their collections.. id say the next fest will have what... a dozen people attending?
games done.. throw your stuff on the ground to decay
Yea right... I'll be off to college, you can't do it alone, and Queen probably doesn't have the energy to do another after all the complaints about the last one he held.Well we can have ANOTHER one on Atlantic!!!!! lol that was a good laugh, it was obviously a joke to all you Atlantic haters... lol
I would like to see that proposal of Baja, They have been derailed twice i think, maybe more.
Yea right... I'll be off to college, you can't do it alone, and Queen probably doesn't have the energy to do another after all the complaints about the last one he held.
If the EMs and Mesanna helped us out as much as they did the other shards, a nice fest could be held on Atlantic but it won't be Toad Town
hosting it if so. If anyone from Atlantic would like to throw out a proposal, please do so! (Promathia and [MM] perhaps...)
lol....Lol id love to host one, but it would have to be in fel
Lol id love to host one, but it would have to be in fel
Assia that was so funny-I laughed all afternoon-Actually still laughing- I think it some food for thought for an EM eventThat would actually be a fun event for us to put on for the community. We have a bunch of people in the rares community with their backpacks full of donated rares, etc and their contest is to see who can stock the most items on their vendor before they are murdered or have them all stolen. There could be a prize for the one who stocks the most. The one who lasted the longest, etc. The reward for the thieves, pks, etc would be the loot and getting to screenshot the death of some of the most well known collectors.
I think that it would be a blast and would be hilarious on both sides. Would be a good way to reach out to the fel residents and I bet if advertised enough in advance that you would get hardcore fel'rs to transfer over.
Baja's out.so no shards actually pushing for the next festival??? what happened to baja's bid??
Manticore.Thank you for your nomination.Thanks Arya, glad to hear you are having fun.
If the Baja people don't step up, I would vote for Blend and Shu Shu to run an event again. Asian EMs have been very active during this past year and their items are highly coveted by their players which is why we don't see them often. This is a healthy sign for rare collectors as a profession in general. Just as we are having hard time to see their goods they are probably thinking of the same thing with our goods. Having people to run a festival that can speak the languages will bring both hemispheres together once more. All I can say is if Blend and Shushu and Linemen will run it again i would expect no less than 30+ billion in rares exchanging hands.
Do you read? They want THEIRS in 2013, but Lineman already offered to host one for November if no one else steps up.whooooo spring 2013...wow are these yearly now?? is th egame in such poor shape..worse than i thought i guess
*Pokes Head in*I will wait to Sept 1st to see if Baja or anyone else steps up, if not I will make it official for a early November Pac fest.
Ill send ya shout this weekend, (hopes your interested in heading up the entertainment end of things and leave me with vendors and silent auction) =).*Pokes Head in*
Lineman.....Q me
*Attempts to pull a Rabbit out of his Mage hat*Ill send ya shout this weekend, (hopes your interested in heading up the entertainment end of things and leave me with vendors and silent auction) =).
Sounds like a really neat next event item*Attempts to pull a Rabbit out of his Mage hat*
After some thought about this I have decided not to host event this fall. My reason is that I am 100% convinced that there is a gold dupe out there right now. The rares economy has skyrocketed within the last year. Items that used to sell for 50-100m are now fetching 300m plus. it is because there is so much gold out there. Transfer tokens have just about tripled as well. I am sure I will get allot of naysayers with the old argument that a few large collections have sold within the last cpl years but I believe it goes well beyond that. And I myself have not helped by bidding up on a few items well beyond there worth, but the reality is if it is a nice item you can expect to do that if you want a chance at it.
So with that being said I really don't feel like putting weeks of work into something so some dupers can come and buy all the high end items. Untill Mesanna and crew start some mass bannings I am done with hosting or running auctions.
Promathia, in the past i agreed with you 100%. But here i have to dis-agree. I'm not gonna mention any names, but one of my friends recently got banned for gold duping. We had NO IDEA he was doing this until the truth came out, Mesanna was in on the investigation until the very end. There is currently a gold dupe out there, and all i have to say is... If anyone here is using it... I am very disappointed in your character as a whole, it's a shame no one can play this game anymore without cheating.Im pretty sure there isnt a gold dupe. From what I gather, since gold prices are so low, gold sellers are buying rares instead and then selling THEM for cash.
I'll take that as both literally and figuratively (thanks)Your writing is very bright Manti
Mant I disagree, why would any collector who gets there gold legally want to attend a event like this any more when they know full well that they will not have a chance at anything decent. Hell I had to spend the brunt of my gold from two collections to buy a cpl items. It has gotten way out of control. The only thing for us now is Holliday items or items that have been duped in the hundreds unless you get lucky. Let the dupers host the next fest because there the only ones who are gonna benefit from the hard work. I used to enjoy being part of them because everyone had a fair shake at items but that has changed. The fact of the matter is something has to-finally be done about this for allot of us, and if we keep looking the other way and not demanding action we are killing this community.