Hello,
Yesterday I was wondering with a friend why after CLDs price skyrocketed (MM, bots event etc etc) now AUDs prices are going up pretty fast (from 70-75 to 80-85 in a few days) without any main event coming up in Arkadia Underground (AFAIK, as I checked their forum too). Is it due to better returns from them? Or maybe just people is scared of the new Battle Simulator and want to invest in some "safe investment" just like gold IRL before some major changes?
Sorry if I caused a spike or two here and there. Sold off a bunch of auds a few months ago and repurchased some lately... mainly just paid buyout on a few even at higher cost because it'll pay off for itself in a while (that and I hate auction bidding wars). If more folks like you who don't want to see prices go up would start putting lower buyouts in auction the trend would head the other way...
Probably a silly mistake, but hey, this is a damn game, so what the hell.. it's entertainment.
(so, to answer your question, I overpaid on some stupid apartments with huge ass number of item points over here on Rocktropia (400+ item points each), then deposited to buy some more a few days back as the top floor with 600+ points each came available in the auction, got overbid since someone else was paying stupid high bids on the places so decided that instead of wasting the money on another dumb ass ring or armor upgrade buff thing money'd be smarter invested in deeds, so just bought all of em off auction with a buyout just for the hell of it...)
Over the last few years I've probably TTed more shit than most people out there when low on peds. I think 4 full sets of gremlin and full set of 5b plates have been fed to the TT in all...
Can't tell you how much I've lost in various peds over the years as I did quick sales to 'sell out' to pay off the tax man now and then... I'll probably stop depositing a while since we just had another meeting with the tax guy last night and we owe another god damned time this year...
If the money in game is sunk in to crap like deeds it's hard for me to justify cashing out again for a quick sale to delight the spouse and tax man irl...
I suspect some other folks that got overbid on the new ship on global auction are doing likewise... they already got the money in game may as well invest it since it's there. (or just put the money in to buy, felt guilty before they bid such a god damned high price for an UL ship when there's hundreds of low cost L ones out there that they could buy for the same price, and decided to invest in deeds as a result)
Money comes and money goes. In the end it's all virtual, either irl or in game. You can't take it with you when you die in real life so may as well buy and have fun.
Now that Mardi Gras's festive carnival is over, it's time to remember the whole ashes to ashes dust to dust thing...