Swiftwind's Blog

I've got 4 sets of the junk dealers kits brewing (on top of the first set.)   I used to just storing the parts, but that eats up lots of slots, but then it occurred to me that I could get the equivalent of more then 180 slots for the cost of 20 by picking up the kits, dropping them in a room, adding the new parts as I find, and selling off the surplus. It works out great!

Since weapons stats count again I though it was time to do a little shopping.  Maybe it because I haven't been paying much attention, given that weapons stats haven't matter since the NGE, but I've just noticed that the Damage Per Second (DPS) listing was showing up again.  I'm not really a stats player and SOE does a really poor job of explaining things... it was 8 months before I stumbled on a random forum post explaining how to program a droid... so I'm a bit confused as to whether I should be looking for weapons just with a high DPS, or weapons with a good DPS and a high damage range... Well, until I figure that mystery out, I went out and picked up some high DPS weapons, in the 950-1000+ DPS range, for when I hit the high CL 80-90 level.  I also upgraded some of the weapons for my current CL... Found a really nice rocket launcher! Nice being able to blast the hell out of things again!!!!  In the process of all this,  I cleared out a large portion of my weapons stash... I had such a hard time parting with them... I'm sure that one day 75 meter weapons will be back and I've have sold off all the good ones!! 

I must have a hundred schematics squirreled away, and then today I finally got the last pulverizer I needed for my full set of recyclers! I got to spend some time working my crafter alt up so that I can make start making a few of them, and then start farming out the ones I can't make. I've got so may dupes, that beyond the decorating my houses, I keep thinking once they're made, they'd make great in game Birthday/Christmas/Thank You gifts.

I've started saving armor... I really should nip this addiction in bud and just focus on one or two sets that I like, not the six or seven variations that I've got pieces of now.

The single class of  "not really sure why I'm keeping them" items in my compound are creature resources... hide, bones, meat, eggs and milk... before publish 29, I did a lot of fast leveling and build up some nice piles of creature drops... 6k-18K per! So I must have 80+ stacks saved up for the (imaginary) day my crafter might need then, or for when I finally get sick of looking at them and setting up a vendor to attempt selling the stuff off. I've been half debating whether to just dump as much as I can into my creature recycler (when it's built) and making 100K piles of generic stuff... which might be fine for the furniture crafting (which is about all he's doing) but some have some really high “quality” stats and I'd hate to blend them down to generic oatmeal.

Well, in the end I did get rid of a lot of old junk, and finally got my self to part with a butt load of “glowing” items i picked at a 1 credit sale... really cheap, but equally pointless as I don't have the faintest idea how that cube thingy works... thou when I figure it out, I'm probably going to kick myself... but hey, 50 slots is 50 slots! The downside is I added another at least another 10 spare recyclers parts to the pile... they must of goosed up the drop rate on them, that or I got really lucky today.

I also learned that I can't drop rings on the floor of a large generic house... I dropped 2 (they were old “no trade” items) and and they vanished into the floor never to be seen again! Forget the “find item” option, it just moves them up under the floor by the admin terminal. Finally had to call in a CSR to retrieve them, thank God he could do it... the rings were not as important as the 2 slots they took up! I have to remember to “bag” them when I want to store them... Everyone probably knows this trick, but in case you don't, if you want to store “No Trade” objects in a container in your structure, rather then all over the floor, put on a spare backpack, put the “no trade” items into the backpack, and then drop the back pack (which you can then “hang” on a wall)