Phase 3: Profit !

Note: This is a glyph selling goblin post, if you are not interested in this profession, you may skip the rest (Thanks for coming though)

As I said before, I had been using KevMar’s Addon Beta, I changed some config to suit my own need.

I’ll share that with you guys here.

From the code and KevMar mentioned, there would be a threshold function, skipping the glyphs which are too cheap to produce. (Better to buy them from the Auction as he suggested, not working on my beta version yet…)

There is also a skip single option which skips all the one glyph only entry.

It is nice, but I would like a more extensive one.

My setup:

I am listing 4 glyphs at a time (by QA2), and I would maintain a stock of 8 glyphs. I post the glyph twice a day, so this effectively a 2 rotation of glyph listing. I am crafting every two day, with KTQ, that save my time a lot.

My hack to the Mod:

Instead of filling up the stack, I get to work like this.

I wouldn’t craft a glyph, unless it’s lesser than 4 in my stock. (The 1-2 crafting entry will increase the queue a lot)

For the glyph I had to craft, I make some more. I’ll craft [Amount Need to Craft] * 150% instead of [Amount Need to Craft].

That is

Objective

What I am trying to do, is to bulk the crafting queue of each craft into a bigger stack, so I would reduce the time I need to click the XXX process button in Skillet.

I’ll wait till I lack a large amount (Instead of crafting one or two), and also restocked over the the target size, to allow more room for buffer.

Example:

• The worst case scenario: one glyph sold between each ktq scan.
  In the previous system, I had to craft that glyph each time it scan, now I only need to do one every 6 scan (Re-craft at cycle 4, then I am overstock with 2 glyph), A longer craft time, but I reduce my queue click at 6 to 1.
• Popular glyph, the faster the glyph consume, the system will overstock more, effectively increase the buffer space.

Some of you may notice, in this scheme, even with the extra crafting, I will never overstock a glyph more than 20 (The stack size), so I will not run into bag slot problem as well.

Summary

This reactive setup hopefully will save up much of my time on restocking. Now only if I can get my mail faster……..

P.s 1

If anyone interested in my little hack, just leave a comment,

I’ll have the code released. (And I guess that would be after KevMar’s public release first)

P.s 2

Some explanation, if you care enough – I don’t like camping the AH, so the possible profit is my acceptable loss, and I am not able to sustain the need of my server, the profit per glyph and the glyph crafting time will overwhelm my play time, so, No, I didn’t use the Gevlon Method.

I hesitative to talk about the guild changes of cataclysm, I know it will be huge, but since it’s not set, so I don’t want to talking about it much before.

Heat discussion had been on, and I am with the goblin.
Guild life won’t be better, same people, different game setup. (Just another thing to grind, IMO)
M&S will still out-number the player with the right attitude (or Elite-Jerk at their view).

Attaching player’s effort to keep them to a guild,
= Enforce a harder divorce policy in a country to reduce Divorce Rate

Of course the benifits on the guild (IRL, tax reduction from goverment) will make player hesitative to look for a better guild, and stay in a guild (Sololist on Elnia ’s term).
It surely will decrease divorce rate (Guild Hopping) and increase the number of couples (Player stay in guild, rather than soloing).

But will that increase happy marriage (Which we really want?)
or just prolonging painful matches?

We’ll see…

P.s
Once again, I respond on topics rather than a original one, call me traffic leecher if you want to, but I rather post my comment here than a sinking long list of comments

Thoughts and Blogosphere

Quite busy this week, had been trying to put myself together, but no luck…
There are some interested topic (experiments) reported last week, last talk about it

Begging

Seth concluded his experiment on begging

I must say most of us won’t take the time to do such an experiment.

Leveling an alt named after beggar, leveling it 40level and begs for 8 hours? I’ll never do it myself…

It spring lots of thought for me (Yet-Another-Thing-Want-To-Blog)… but I will not risk this idea from not publishing, I’ll just make a short list instead L

Here is a short list:

1. We tend to have a implicit thoughts about old people (See Reference), which also apply to beggars (IRL) as well. Do our despite for beggar really work as rational, or a comfortable (defensive) excuses for not helping (Social’s Subroutine)?
2. Reasoning if a person is indeed need of help before giving out the gold, seems pretty make sense to me, it’ll be much better than, “I’ll give you gold, since you asked”(Is the mount necessary is another question)
3. Is helping others that bad? E.g. the example Larisa talk about in comment a IRL’s friend first character on your realm, will you give them gold said (10g for first 10 level’s training fee)? Consider the fact, You earn money much faster than them (Since you have a 80 toons).

I didn’t make up my mind on this one yet. While a green goblin in my mind said “Don’t this will encourage slacking, and why don’t they earn their own gold?” and a pink-haired Gnome would say “It’s only cost you for selling a glyph, and they need to collect the trash on low level area, for at least 30 minutes”

I don’t know…

I used to give little change to old ladies on street, but not now, I keep thinking about it though. For the old ladies are picking cardboard box, and recycling beverage can. I know their life is harsh, that’s 160 beverage cans worth $1 USD.

The Apprentice

I love this series of blog from Gevlon I must say.

http://dalarangardens.blogspot.com/

from the first glance of the post

http://dalarangardens.blogspot.com/2009/07/mishaps-of-misguided-apprentice.html

I clicked the subscribe button on my Google reader

Gnome – Check (I grow up as a gnome mage)

Mage – Check

Sense of Humor – Check

Sarcastic – Check

Keep the good work coming, Ydraisa

Business

It had been boring recently, continuous on glyph business. Nothing special other than 2.6k /week (Try to avoid using the gold/day for weekend sells much better). With 10-30 mins play time per day on Auction Hall, I guess it’s more than enough for me. Saving up for my level Alt… (Should be able to meet my 20k milestone this few days.)

Reference:
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism
In Freakonomics, Stephen Levitt’s surprise hit of 2005, the study of hidden (or “implicit”) ageism was brought out of the psychologist’s laboratory and into the TV studio. Levitt described how, in the US version of The Weakest Link, contestants’ voting decisions were, on average, biased against older panelists. At the stage of the game where it is in participants’ interests to vote for poor performers, older people were likely to be chosen even when younger adults had performed worse. But when contestants would benefit by choosing top-performing rivals (to eliminate the competition), they tended to choose lower-performing, older contestants. Subconsciously, the panelists simply did not want to be around older people.^[27]

P.s a post about undercover economist is still on my pending list… didn’t finish the book yet thought ;P

Side Note 1: [Warning : non-Econ related post]
I’ll be start writing on non-Econ related content as well.
More about my wow-thoughts other than money-making, may be side-track a little. But hope that you’ll enjoy. (Didn’t have a name for it yet)
Side Note 2: As promised on yesterday. I was having a bad sleep, maybe due to excess work yesterday, so I decided to finish the post first.

Side Note 3: Damn! I lost my edit version yesterday. Seems like I only previewed but not saved the content >.<

Sin of being Red

The Sin of Being Red.

Recently, I was quite busy at work and for my wow game hour, I spend most of the time with my girlfriend, as she just started to join me in Azeroth.
(Thanks for the effort, my love). (Another reason for slow update on blog as well. No, darling, I am not blaming you)

Okay, there is a lot of curious question a new player will ask, when they just started. And there are some I find particular hard to answer, here is one of them.

“Why we are killing these animal/people ? they looks pretty cute to me”
“Because they name is red, that means they’ll attack us if we get too close”
“My kitty(in RL) will bite you if you piss her off, will you kill her too?”

and I recalled recently Larisa talked about moral, and Gevlon talked about raiders of dungeon. This raise some question for me, long ago.

Reasons

Why should I kill them
because their name is red,
because killing them drop loots,
because killing them give me XP,
because those NPC asked me to! (Which give me gold/loots/xp)

This question strike me before twice..
1. when I was leveling my paladin, and I would try to role-play it, upon each judgement I would try to come up with some war-cry. “May the light forgives you”
I am not having problem with miners, and students, but for helping a crazy prince for killing his citizens?. “You are damned since your name is red to me.” seems the only universal answer for me. Other than that, it’s hard to come up with any “rightful” reason to justify myself. Isn’t that paladin means to be good? or I am just some zealous paladin which kill everything on the “path of the light” which is not good (aka, the name is not green?)

2. The Second time is my paladin’s first run on Alterac Valley, on my way to get my [Cold Forged Hammer] . My BE paladin is my first Horde Character, I kept running on Alterac Valley with my Alliance main, and did little pvp on my BE. That run is a slaughter, and I am healing my way thought there. I put a macro for playing “Lament of the Highborne” on my BE’s hotkey bar, And I played the song all along that battle.

It’s go like this

By the light, by the light of the sun
Children of the blood
We ride through the “cross road”

Our enemies are breaking through
On the first tower, the battle is swift, 5-6 Hordies vs 1 gnome warlock,

Children of the blood
By the light
Failing children of the blood
They are breaking through

The are trying to resist on the First Towner, an Female Draenei paladin try to defense, but was chopped down Brute-force by Tauren Warrior, we burn that flag right a way

O’ children of the blood
By the light of the sun
Failing children of the blood

The Alliance formed a defense line on the bridge, as any other “turtle” game in Alterac Valley. Billzard, Arrow Rain, Rain of Fire…
Tons of corpses of Gnome, Dwarf, Draenei. (My Alliance is a Gnome Mage).
We finish the battle with exceeding alliance’s resources, aka creating Corpse Piles.

Post-Alterac Valley Syndrome

That shocks me, while I was so get used to, the alliance’s races.
We won, single handedly, but I was sad.
I never set foot again in Alterac Valley with my BE Paladin. (I do in winter-gasp later thought, when I get used to it)

Finally, I gave up reasoning or justify my brutal killing again in the game. It just pure self-fish earning as a person, not big heroic thing, I kill because I need that/this as a hunter preying on its prey.

I still refuse to kidnap kids everyday just to make those cute Seal-Men happy.

Others percept this differently from me, some could just rightful themself, and even ganking others. In which I never understand, it seems meaninglessly to me just to grief others, and the ganker cannot generate any profit either, just a waste of both time (At the end of the day, Blizzard wins with the game time consumed)

Some refused killing for leveling,
but for others it’s too much to be leveling that way. (Which I admire the effort on doing so, I can never done that myself)

How did you reasons for the dreadful life for your wow character? especially if you are “Holy” as priest or paladin.

(Sidenote: My Warlock alt, smirk a lot and find it very enjoying just to see other suffer, so no guilt at all, MuWahahaha~~~~ )

I had adapted a weekly update per week is a nice thing. While I had many little thing noticed a long the week, I would like to have a sumary post on the little thing and news to share. I’ll schedule the post ons Sunday Morning, for the summary of the week.

Share

My plans for future posts is to schedule posts every two days, about 6-8 am in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. and with a Sunday Weekly update. Occasionally with hot news updates.

The reason behind this is,

1. I don’t want to flood the blog with posts (people tends to miss out the second new post, if that happens, and I want them in full coverage)

2. a well-seasoned post everyday is a bit hard for me. But I would read blog, email and comments daily though.

News

Gevlon’s Return,the whole event come shortly in a few days.  In Summary
1. Gevlon Hit the Gold Cap.
2. Gevlon Missed for a few day, many commenter guessing what’s going on
3. Gevlon posted a post on LF Guild, and state his term of find a new guild, if failed he’ll stop blogging.
4. Since Gevlon post do not allow blogging, many blogger post their view on their own site. (Including me, list will be on the next item)
5. Gevlon got deal finish in jsut a few days, and Announced he’ll continue blogging.
6. Everyone is happy (Expect those M&S and Socialist maybe?)

Change of Name

Okay, I had changed the name from “Zekta’s Stuff” to Phase3Profit.net (Reason), Since Zekta’s Stuff is too generic here. I also made a small picture with model viewer for the new name here, hope you like it.

Linking Policy

I had wrote a page on my linking policy, the reason of writing that is…. Instead of blocking people ask for link. What I really wants is to encourage them from asking, since I found a little hesitate to ask when I just started blogging.

New Blogosphere member(s)
(that I come to notice):

Shy At Wow

From recommendation from Larísa, shy is a really good writer on her raid life
I like her writing style and humour tone, especailly this article.

Only Ten More PointsGlinda started blogging about achievement there, by the time of children week, I found that serving achievement achiever is very profitable, (and makes a better world for both of us (Traders and Achievers)). She had a great post of how to make profits on selling cakes. Glinda if you are reading this, Thanks for the reminder and keep the nice post coming. I’ll keep visiting you for your next tips

Not Another Mage Blog
Cassini was a old come-backer of Wow. Okay, I admit that I am not sure that what’s he’s going to focus on, but from the aspect of his class of choice and my toons, I guess I’ll get much interesting founding there. Will feature anything I found interesting later

There are also many sites I came to notice, will include more later

Note to self, make a new nice topic pic for the report

Change of name

No, Your link is not hijacked
I had change my blog name! previous known as Zekta’s Stuff!

[Start - boring background, skippable]
I was write a main blog, and here was some random thoughts dump..
But recently I found that I have more and more to say about WoW’s Trading here and many support from others.

The Name was Zekta’s Stuff, but it seems too generic and personal. So, I keep thinking about a new name for it.
[End - boring background]

So, I decided to hunt for a new name. While I am doing this, I find a new nice blog over

http://ahtrader.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-direction.html

by Marvco’s Suggestion. After reading his post, I got a sense “That’s also what I need to do too: Focus!”

Keep Focus!

Now, what I am going to do, Gevlon is really cool on the philosophy thinking on raid and market, Skrooge is good at all the fun stuff and encouraging discussion, and I won’t talk about Addon for sure.

What I excited me and get me interested, is the big question, Why?
There are reasons behind everything (Most of the time), and I am eager to find them out. It won’t be 100% of post here, since these topic is somewhat dull and hard to find(But I like it anyway).
I’ll try to pick once a week.

The Name, The Name

Here comes the hard part,

Most the great name had been taken, for instance (Goblin and Gnomish). I decided to use a catch phase of South park.
Phase 3, Profits

What Phase are we now?

What target of mine is to feel the gap on the big question mark, (of course it didn’t start at collect underpants)
Where is phase 1 and phase 2?
Where is Profits?
Why there are Profits?

that’s what I want to answer here.