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I got a deluxe sewing kit last night. When I try to put stuff in it, it's a pain in the *** to switch out of the new tradeskill UI and into the old Experiment UI. It is teh win!!1

That and enough crap No Drop food to feed an army. Well, if it wasn't No Drop. I only spent 1k total though.

Oh, I forgot. I got an Iksar illusion potion and a dark elf illusion potion. Let me tell you, to a bard with a DE illusion mask and an Iksar illusion mask, I was something less than in awe.. heh.

Sorry Vinh, but you just gave me the biggest laugh of the day.

Greets

Hmm..I spent around 60k and got the following:

Two Gold Tickets which got me links are below.

Glowing Black Drum (summons drogmor) which is about 15% faster than my Giant Black Drum.

The Rubicite Breastplate.

Don't know if this helps but put one token in each of the slots when you turn in tokens to the NPC. Thats how I was playing anyway.





Edited, Wed Feb 11 22:01:11 2004 by Traderblue

Casino got shut down again.

The value of my sewing kit just went through the roof!!

I need to get a Ranger wearable guise of the deciever. Without it, I am not truly "old school" despite having been there when the school was being built. Oh well.

man...yet AGAIN I missed out on it. some dude in my group was linking some stuff a ranger guy in his guild was winning. he was paying 5K bets and got 3 pretty awesome pieces of gear.

why don't they ever have that thing going when i have money? *shakes fist*

I bought 7 tokens.

ended up winning 30 tokens, some stat food, a firework and a gold ticket.

turned in ticket and got Tan Po's Stick of Understanding (?)...might not be exact name....but close..

Effect: One Hundred Blows
1: SpinStun
2: Decrease HP when cast by 120

Yeah, I bet monks will love this weapon. Nice for ping pong aggro.

I wonder how many hundreds of thousands pieces of platinum were taken out of the game this time.

I can hear the SoE devs laugh again. Loud.

Well, here's the story. You can win and win big. I played in the range of 10K and got my gold ticket. Not bad if I had stopped there, but I continued to play until I have spent a total of about 50K. I can well afford that, and much more, so it would be no loss if I had gotten nothing.

By the time I had gone through 50K I had accumulated many stacks of stat food (let's all get excited), many many quest gems, lots of other little goodies and two deluxe sewing kits.

Still not much you say? Nope, that's what I thought. Then I turned in the gold ticket and got a holgresh elder beads. Now to me that still looked like garbage, and I thought I'd have to sell it for a few thousand plat and eat the loss.

I play on Stromm server, and there have never been elder beads drop, I hear. Well, I was listening to the auction channel and someone said they wanted to buy holgresh elder beads. I simply asked for a price check on holgresh elder beads, including a link in my request.

Now the frenzy this started was literally amazing. I received five tells from people that were desperate to say the least. The first offered to give me 100K immediately for it. My jaw dropped! Obviously I had made a profit in the casino.

The next three offered 200K, 250k etc. and then the trade offers started coming in. They were willing to give me just about anything for those beads.

Two more dropped out at 250 and 300K, and I had two offering me more and more items, one with 170K plat and some very nice items. I went back and forth with both of them until I started feeling decidedly guilty for even considering taking one of their offers, and finally one dropped out.

I ended up getting a rubicite breastplate (also won with a gold ticket by that player), eight other items worth anywhere from 10K to 60K, and the 170K plat that was all the cash she had. On Stromm, the sale of those items should net me in the range of a half million plat.

So, now you know the answer. The casino is worth it in my opinion. But please, never play more than you can afford. As in real life, I do not plan to play any more than I can afford to lose and still walk away happy with the results. I still have all my armor, plenty of plat and whatever else a nice little druid needs to kill those darned griffons.

Stromm server? Those are some mighty bids for such a young economy. I wonder how much of that plat was created by exploit and then purchased on-line?

Thank you, Sunshine, for providing us with a perfect illustration of the problems this casino was designed to counteract.

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It's becoming Argentina on the EQ servers! People, if you want to beat this thing, just forget about the bazaar for a few weeks. Boycott. Dont worry so much about your precious gear and don't buy anything new. Just go play with what you have. Or play naked if that suits you, and set an example. (Calling all monks and casters...can I get an AMEN!?) Let the traders panic amongst themselves for a while.

Just a mention about the Deluxe Sewing Kits.

A large sewing kit used to have 10 slots. For some reason the powers that be decided to change it to 8 slots. Those of us who had the 10 slot sewing kits now had a "Deluxe Sewing Kit". They were never available for sale under that item name, but the existing ones are still in the game.

I never did figure out why they changed the number of slots. Some recipes require all 10 slots (Wu armor comes to mind.)

I've still got at least 4 Deluxe sewing kits in the bank.