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Thread: Would this violate the EULA? (I'll prolly be called insane for wanting to attempt this...)
The other day on TC some guy was begging for creds. I told him I didn't like just giving creds out so I asked him what he wanted to buy most of all. He said he really wanted a speeder.
It just so happened that I had my old X-34 in addition to my flash speeder, so I gave it to him. It took him a minute to figure out how to call the speeder and drive it and then off he went. He seemed really happy and I felt good to give an unused piece of equipment to someone who really wanted it.
) in Theed a few days ago, hanging around a bazaar terminal and begging for 1000 credits to buy somethingornother. He was running to everyone around, asking them for money. When he came to me I suggested that he go to a mission terminal: that most missions would give him how much he needed plus a little extra. He went looking for one immediately. Hope that he's doing better financially now
Quiet420 wrote:
Dork
However, without wanting to burst your bubble I think you will find that a huge stack of random junk loot kit parts is not worth millions of credits. Go check the bazaar and you will most likely find these parts being sold for 1-3k each. OK you will pay more for table tops, rug dyes etc but even then I'd expect with a bit of shopping around you could get them for under 20k with the only 'valuable' bits being the adhesives which I have now seen for 100k each.
You see on the one hand you are saying this is highly sought after loot but on the other you have proved just how easy it is for anyone (a novice brawler can take meatlumps) to aquire huge stacks of this loot. You see there are now hundreds of people who have stacks upon stacks of these loot parts, the servers are awash with them, therefore the prices are dropping daily.
I'd actually say that giving away anything other than completed loot kits is about the market value for them these days.
Sorry! But I applaud your generocity and hope you have fun with the event.
The only thing I'd say you need to be concerned about is that if you intend to publish winning stories on your blog site you should inform entrants that by submittiing an article they agree that you have the rights to publish it on your blog site.
Your own ULA if you will
Yomin-Carr wrote:
If I were you I'd try to trade one of your extra adhesives for a blue rug adhesive. Then give all the other stuff away.
My lovely "spousal overunit" saw what the finished blue rug looks like and thinks it looks pretty snazzy, so she's hoping I can get one. I'd love to have it on the floor of the dining room on my yacht (which is fast becoming a VERY neat combo pleasure craft on-the-outside/smuggler and bounty hunter vessel beneath-the-surface... complete with holding cell for captured marks!) A blue rug in the middle of the room would add to the aura of this being a completely "reputable" ship
Yeah, I could see if anyone had a blue rug adhesive to trade, but at this point, after committing so many hours to trying to loot it on my own, this has become a personal vendetta against the SWG loot-drop stats! I cannot, will not, take the quick and easy path to victory and give SOE's devs - a pox upon their householdsand may their telephone numbers always be one digit away from that of an all-night pizza delivery stand - the satisfaction of knowing that I yielded to the temptation. Because I could not say "yes I will" just one more time than their servers said "no you won't".
With the Force as my witness, I swear on the Altar of Exar Kun that someday, of my own temerity and determination, I shall kill an obscure Meatlump or Mugger and take from his steaming, stinking carcass the fabled Blue Rug Adhesive. Be it on the grassy plains of Corellia or the misty streets of Naboo, I shall hold aloft my prizejust as noble Perseus raised Medusa's head to the heavens in defiance ofmen and gods and fate. Lo, NPC and PC alike shall stare in wonder and awe at the sight of the lone smuggler who challenged the system, who showed that it was not unbeatable, that the impossible was possible... before it's destroyed forever when its tossed into the Blue Rug Loom and churns out a piece of furniture that will be such a conversation piece untilKreimheld, my petdewback, soils it duringpaper training
'Sides, I really am the kind of guy who loves to help people out whenever I can. This'll be good for them, and it'll be good for me 'cuz it'll give me room for more stuff (the looted JTL ship components alone take up an entire room of my house on Tatooine!) And after consulting with a fellow player this morning, it turns out that I've actually had a lot more valuable loot all this time than I realized, way before starting to go for the Blue Rug Adhesive. I've no need for an Exquisite Dancer's Leotard Schematic, so that'll go on the list of goods that'll be given away, along with Gong Adhesive, Naboo Sculpture Adhesive, all the threads for the Blue and Orange Rugs (Orange Rug Adhesive is the only other thing that I can't seem to get, even though I've concentrated on finding Blue). JTL ship parts will probably also be considered for this giveaway/contest/thingy. The only thing I'm going to hold back is a schematic for a Craftsman's Apron (I think that's what it is) because that's already been promised to another player - in addition to paying him a reduced rate - that will be exchanged for an expensive item he expects to have back in stock soon.
I've no doubt that someday and sooner rather than later, I'll get the Blue Rug Adhesive on my own. But in the meantime, I really am looking forward to doing this for other people, though they may be complete strangers to me even apart from their on-screen avatars. And the pleasure I'm taking from even planning this already has been far, far more rewarding than it would have been to loot the adhesive and sell it for millions of credits If I did that, how much meaning would that really have apart from myself and whoever it was that bought it? Now, how much more memorable and special would it to be a LOT more people to have a giveaway like this... and to make it all the more fun by staging it as an essay contest (that anyone can enter) with a holiday theme?
I'm seriously looking forward to doing this, if I can be assured that this would be okay per SOE's policy.