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Random lore $tuff
Aug. 27th, 2024 02:16 pmGot linked to some stuff from the Cosmodyssey event from long ago. Admittedly, I played through that thing without looking at any of the text (just focused on the numbers, lol). So all of this stuff is "new" to me.
This event came in the 2.1 patch, which was the Acheron/Aventurine banners, and the storyline up to the point where Aventurine got himself whacked by Acheron, and before the protagonists learned the full truth behind Penacony.
However, the Cosmodyssey encounters already had stuff about Yunli
Anyway, the original point of my looking up that event was for the encounter with Aventurine where he spends at least 58 trillion credits at the auction house.
Now looking at the bounties that the IPC has on the Stellaron Hunters... Kafka was worth 10.8999 billion credits, Blade worth 8.13 billion, Silver Wolf 5.1 billion, Firefly 9.723 billion. In retrospect, this doesn't seem like it's that much considering that the amount Aventurine spent is probably not considered a lot to him.
Of course, it's probably also why none of the IPC characters who showed up for the Penacony chapter bothered to even make note of Firefly despite her wanted status. To the likes of Aventurine, Topaz, and their boss Jade, the bounty for her is like chump change and not worth the hassle involved.
As an aside, I just looked at my account, and I currently have around 14 million credits. I would estimate that with minimal spending and no special events, I might make around 1 million per week. Building a character from level 0 up to max would take maybe...5 mil or so (not accounting for the gains from farming mats/EQ)? In that respect, a couple billion is worth a lot to the average player (not that we'd ever get the option to turn them in for that bounty, lol).
I saw some players joking about credits powercreep in the game. But honestly, Boothill was conceived for 2.x and his bounty is only 1 billion. So it doesn't seem like there's any inflation going on with the lore.
Finally, this cute little comic fic is relevant here.
On an entirely different topic, fandom really cracks me up. Some fan actually made a mock website for Dr. Ratio's university... https://veritasprime.pages.cc/
And then there's stuff like this. WTF CN?
This event came in the 2.1 patch, which was the Acheron/Aventurine banners, and the storyline up to the point where Aventurine got himself whacked by Acheron, and before the protagonists learned the full truth behind Penacony.
However, the Cosmodyssey encounters already had stuff about Yunli
Anyway, the original point of my looking up that event was for the encounter with Aventurine where he spends at least 58 trillion credits at the auction house.
Now looking at the bounties that the IPC has on the Stellaron Hunters... Kafka was worth 10.8999 billion credits, Blade worth 8.13 billion, Silver Wolf 5.1 billion, Firefly 9.723 billion. In retrospect, this doesn't seem like it's that much considering that the amount Aventurine spent is probably not considered a lot to him.
Of course, it's probably also why none of the IPC characters who showed up for the Penacony chapter bothered to even make note of Firefly despite her wanted status. To the likes of Aventurine, Topaz, and their boss Jade, the bounty for her is like chump change and not worth the hassle involved.
As an aside, I just looked at my account, and I currently have around 14 million credits. I would estimate that with minimal spending and no special events, I might make around 1 million per week. Building a character from level 0 up to max would take maybe...5 mil or so (not accounting for the gains from farming mats/EQ)? In that respect, a couple billion is worth a lot to the average player (not that we'd ever get the option to turn them in for that bounty, lol).
I saw some players joking about credits powercreep in the game. But honestly, Boothill was conceived for 2.x and his bounty is only 1 billion. So it doesn't seem like there's any inflation going on with the lore.
Finally, this cute little comic fic is relevant here.
On an entirely different topic, fandom really cracks me up. Some fan actually made a mock website for Dr. Ratio's university... https://veritasprime.pages.cc/
And then there's stuff like this. WTF CN?
