I've earned hundreds of marks these last few days since there was a population explosion in the membership and the chatter on the forums increased. And I know I had another topic about what people planned to buy with their marks (still interested in that!) but what I want to know this time is how focused are people on gaining marks?
Do you create characters or post in locations that will earn them faster? Do you make bonus location characters or fill certain ranks which are attracting extra marks? Do you hunt down the newbies to copost with for the extra 4 marks each post gets? Does anybody hang around the forums just waiting to reply and make an easy couple of marks? (Let's not ask about people who start topics!)
Or are you the sort of person who has no interest in them and never looks at what they can purchase?
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I must say I love marks! I obsessively check them a couple of times a day to see if my total has grown. Then I figure out how many I need to get to my next intended purchase.
That next purchase is (I hope) Forever Reqs Free L4 at a Hold/Hall. I think they're the best value for marks, those options. Not only requriements free but rank limits do not apply! Two bonuses for the price of one.
I do adore getting extra marks for things, but don't base decisions on them. (Timing might be affected.) Asking for the headwoman for DCW was about wanting a headwoman, not about marks ... but hey, finding 20 extra marks on my profile was fun, too. I didn't want to be a welcomer to earn marks, I wanted to be a welcomer and enjoy the heck out of the marks that come with the job.
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Is there anybody out there who has little or no interest in marks and rewards? I want to hear from you as well as the people as interested as I am in the things.
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I don't really have an interest in marks or rewards. I look at mine, but I don't really care. There's nothing that super interests me, so I just collect marks and don't really care. I can think of a few things I MIGHT want in the future, but it's so far off I don't bother collecting marks to save for it.
I've already poured over the 'shopping list' and picked out all the rewards I really, really want! lol
WOW!
I never paid that much attention to marks. I post and chat for the joy of it. I've used some to get my @triadweyrs.org, and will spend some again soon to regain my title of Curmudgeon.
I'd like to think I've raised grumpiness to an art form, just ask Heather.
Other than that I write what I want because I feel the need to say something, and if the personae I have can't say it, I will create the persona that can say it.
I add a bunch to the forum for the sheer joy of chatting, having fun, or busting chops. Gee, maybe I am not so much the nice guy.
Quote from: "Mikel"I'd like to think I've raised grumpiness to an art form, just ask Heather.
That's for SURE!!!
:angel7:
I like marks. Marks are pretty. I am hoarding my marks. My precious marks...
Quote from: "Heather"Quote from: "Mikel"I'd like to think I've raised grumpiness to an art form, just ask Heather.
That's for SURE!!!
:angel7:
See? We can agree on somethings
I'm not a big mark horder -I've picked out a few things that I might be interested in if I reach them, but I'm not busting my butt to reach them. Mostly I just post if I feel like posting or if I feel I should answer someone. Other stuff I do is because I want to do it, and it is merely a pleasant surprise when I get marks for them.
I finally looked over the list and there's nothing that I really want. True, I had considered creating a new e-mail address for receiving club mail (receiving only, since I'm only lurking), so I guess a triadweyrs address wouldn't be a bad thing. But other than that . . . nothing really of interest.
Quote from: "vix". . . nothing really of interest.
Come on, Vix, doesn't this look even a little bit interesting?
2000 - Create a New PC Craft Hall & Hallmaster at an existing Hold.
Canon approval necessary.
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Quote from: "Amanda"I've already poured over the 'shopping list' and picked out all the rewards I really, really want! lol
And then you stopped typing ... right when we were getting to the bit where you
told us which were the ones that really, really interested you.
We're all friends here, you can share!
:computer: <--seriously addicted to this smiley
Quote from: "Jane"Quote from: "vix". . . nothing really of interest.
Come on, Vix, doesn't this look even a little bit interesting?
2000 - Create a New PC Craft Hall & Hallmaster at an existing Hold.
Canon approval necessary.
:computer:
Nope, cause she is only lurking.
Really
She said so :geek:
I have to admit, sometimes I get into a mark stock-pile mood. Not too much, because I really don't need any more, but its an off-shoot of real life. I am great at making an extra buck. I teach extra classes, sometimes four nights a week, just to make some extra money. But just as I am good at earning it, I am even MORE talented at spending it.
Case in point: Last night I taught a private lesson for 1 hour for $30. But then, five minutes after it was over, I picked up the phone, ordered pizza, and with prices being what they are I ended up spending $20 for it. Make 30, spend 20. Just like that. How easily it slips through my fingers.
I only WISH my real bank account looked like my marks account. I am very good at NOT spending those... (so far, just once for an extra L2 persona, reqs still required)
Well of course, there are a great many that sound nifty, and there may come a time when I want to go for one of the others, but here's the ones that REALLY caught my eye:
350 - Gold flit egg to keep or give away.
700 - One complete flit clutch to give away.
Between 7-11 eggs including 1 gold.
1000 - New Hears All Dragons Persona
2000 - Create a New PC Craft Hall & Hallmaster at an existing Hold.
Canon approval necessary
4000 - Create a New PC Hold & Lord Holder.
Canon approval necessary.
5000 - Jr. Goldrider Exempt from the 1 Goldrider Rule.
I spend mine really, really fast.
I'm a spender. :p
Aside from the custom title in the forums (already ordered), the only thing that really interests me on the list is the 1000 marks for a HAD and whatever it takes to make the character forever regs free.
There are some things that the list could use but lacks:
10,000 -- Persona with more than 3 pets
15,000 -- Persona with a pet other than a canine, feline, runner, or firelizard
25,000 -- Persona with violet eyes
50,000 -- Persona with a wher (any color except gold)
100,000 -- Persona with a gold wher
250,000 -- Hear All Whers
500,000 -- Hear All Flits
750,000 -- Hear All People
1,000,000 -- Hear Everything
5,000,000 -- Dragonrider persona (non-gold) who had come forward to present.
10,000,000 -- Goldrider persona who had come forward to present.
1 billion marks -- A white firelizard.
10 billion marks -- A white dragon.
50 billion marks -- Bribe the webbies to remove the bug in the code that automatically resets your marks to zero when you hit 9,999 marks. ;)
*shudders at AJ's list*
That makes me not even want to lurk any more.
I can't even get excited about a custom title because I don't feel imaginative enough to come up with one. On another forum I've been dubbed "The Spitmeister" -- I earned a custom title, couldn't think of one, and asked for suggestions and votes.
Hmmm. . . maybe I should let others decide how I'll spend mine.
Of course, they'd have to be types that allowed me to remain a lurker.
Suggested custom titles for Vix:
"Eternal Lurker"
"Perpetual Lurker"
"Faux Lurker"
"Amish Lurker"
"Wannabe Lurker"
"I'm Just Lurking..."
"1st Class Lurker"
Any other suggestions?
Well, those are interesting ideas, though I meant "how to spend those marks in general."
As to the suggestions to purchase a ranker and create a new location or craft, I glanced over the credits last night, remembering how much work went into writing those already created. Nah. Not gonna happen.
The Lurkmeister!
*SingSong voice* I'm Mister LurkMiester I'm mister quite.*end song mode*
Ok now that I've got that of my chest.
I'm currently saving up so that my first ever character can be brought into the Triad world untainted. No fixes or anything. I'm already getting rid of his six flits! He was the character I made when I first read Pern and was kind of Godmodding. But I'm softening him down for Triad, I promise. But thats all I'll say for him. :stumm:
Once he's alive and kicking outside my head I want to save up for a HAD and a Junior Goldrider. Maybe as the same character, maybe not.
Like Jane I didn't make my Hallsecond for the marks, that wasn't even part of the deal when Kouna got approved, just a nifty bonus. I also wanted to be a welcomer because it sounded like fun. I will admit to one thing. I try to post as much as possible on the board for the easy marks. :angel7: Don't hurt me because I use my resources!
Patrick! For shame! Posting on the boards just for the easy 2 marks is... is... Oh who am I kidding? That's what I did to earn the last of my 50 marks for the title I ordered.
I already said don't hurt me cause I'm resourceful! Now you made me sad that I'm earning marks. (Not enough to stop earning them but still) And you know what I noticed, we have very few sad smilies. or Angry ones. How odd.
Quote from: "Patrick"I already said don't hurt me cause I'm resourceful! Now you made me sad that I'm earning marks. (Not enough to stop earning them but still) And you know what I noticed, we have very few sad smilies. or Angry ones. How odd.
That's cause Bree brought in the smilies and Bree has always been known as a bearer of goodness and light and smilies and sweetness and . . .
I better stop before I overdo it.
Quote from: "Mikel"The Lurkmeister!
Hmmm. . .
I might have to search out that list of rewards again.
:lurk:
There's no rule that I have to be a member to redeem marks, is there?
I don't really pay attention to them, but I don't currently want anything off the list either. I'm sure if I decide I want a sona that costs then I'll start paying more attention :D
Quote from: "Patrick"I already said don't hurt me cause I'm resourceful! Now you made me sad that I'm earning marks. (Not enough to stop earning them but still)
Every time I post something frivolous on the forums I do think that the 2 marks is much easier earned here than in coposting (or soloing) two 5kb+ Weyr posts. Then I remember that when I get up in the morning I rush to the forums *first*, long before I read the posts.
Yep, the sense of community is a great thing to foster ... and I console myself that my frivolous posts do their bit.
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Quote from: "Heather"I like marks. Marks are pretty. I am hoarding my marks. My precious marks...
This is very close!
I have the Tolkien illustration of Bilbo talking to Smaug. The dragon settled on the pile of treasure ... Yeah, that's how it is with me and marks.
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Quote from: "Jane"Every time I post something frivolous on the forums I do think that the 2 marks is much easier earned here than in coposting (or soloing) two 5kb+ Weyr posts.
Shhh! Don't remind people of that -- it's more likely they'll reduce posts here to 1/2 a mark than increase Weyr posts to 2 or 4 marks.