Pamkatz has a thread up thanking someone for buying an item for 6million, and saying she will use it to help newcomers.  People are always complaining about auction sharks and the prices of the items in the auction and they got outbid or someone bought all their low priced items when they were just trying to help people new to the game.  In real life I'm very competitive but I don't mind losing.  I hate when somebody 'lets' me win, I'd rather lose.  I don't want anybody to take it easy on me, I want what I get to be because I earned it.  If I play a sport I want an honest effort from someone, that's how I can measure myself and see if I'm getting better. 
When I started these games nobody helped me.  And it was hard but I rose to the challenge and I'm proud of what I've accomplished.  Without money.  I remember how hard it was to get building supplies and how I had to troll the auctions looking for any kind of bargain that I could resell so I could afford a pair of Worker's Boots.  And Lily didn't even do the auctions for the longest time, IIRC, so it was even harder for her.  But aren't you proud of what you accomplished?  I'm glad nobody helped me.  That was the challenge of the game.  I didn't even get the glitch gold, in fact I even lost some because I though things were in auction for 100 coins and bought them, not realizing it was 100 gold, I didn't even have the update to be able to do that.  I know some of you got the gold, but I don't think you've really used it, have you?  You've basically played with what you earned yourself.  And of course we've helped each other with DQs, but that's not the real game.
I kind of seem like I"m babbling, but it always just kinda irritates me when people think it's such a good thing to just give people things.  It means so much more to earn it yourself.  I'm not saying it's not nice to give, people give me stuff all the time and I really appreciate it, but it's just so much better to earn it yourself if you can.
 

Wendy & Tirama -- Interesting posts you have here.  I'm still not a fan of the auction and only go there occasionally.  I have spent some of my glitch gold (never had millions to begin with) but I usually try to win or find stuff.  Al the whining about the auctions drives me nuts too.  One day DirkT outbid me (by a coin or two) for my DQ.  He had only bid on it because it was cheap. No big deal to me.   I can't prove it and could be totally wrong, but I think lots of the whining comes from a sense of entitlement (parents giving their kids everything their little hearts desire & this "everyone is the best, everyone gets a trophy" nonsense) and the short attention spans most younger people have due to TV, video games, smart phones.  Also, no one wants to save to buy something.  They want it NOW.

ETA:  It would be interesting to see how much of the 6 million goes to newbies. 

Last edited by lilyr (March 17, 2015 8:41 pm)

You're thinking of the Deerstalker.

I put in a lot of hours buying and reselling on the auction.  It wasn't so much hard as it was time consuming.  You have to be able to tell instantly when something's a good deal.  No time to check notes, you snooze you lose. 

And after the special events, everybody is overstocked in the exact same items, which shakes up the pricing.  Remember after last spring event, we were having Buy My Junk sales.

Both games have  become so boring, ART with the steady stream of building and AK with the chest.  I hate to say, but I haven't even really checked out the new locations on the map, there hasn't really been a reason to , except to use energy.  I might be more enthusiastic if I didn't have so many games going at once.

I've got 2 museum buildings at level 4, soon to be joined by another presently under construction.  The dinsosaur hall is at level 2 and I'm searching for pipes in New Zealand.  Need 18 more.  Hope I can find them all tomorrow.

These building quests make the old bow figurine look like child's play.  That quest would only take a week or so and you got to cycle through 20-22 hidden object scenes.  With the museum quests, I'm playing the same 6 scenes over and over and over and