So Frelliel and Frellien finally got to Michael Delving and learned the wonders of (a) auction houses and (b) farming (as in, y’know, actuall growing-seeds farming).<\/p>\n
A good thing, too, because we were all full up on swag that we figured could be auction for Big Silver, which we desperately needed, having had to basically rebuild our active inventory from scratch due to major repairs (shakes fists at dwarves).<\/p>\n
The auction house mechanism is pretty decent — a minimum price based on what you could sell it for directly, a chance to see what things are going for, etc. Using the mailboxes is a clever way of delivering the results.<\/p>\n
Margie observed that LotRO is all about the money. Everything costs money (except getting missions). It costs money to buy things, it costs money to level (slot talents, etc.), it costs money to travel (except by foot), it costs money to put things up for auctions and it costs money to mail them to other folks. It even costs money to die, indirectly, due to repair costs.<\/p>\n
It’s a restraining mechanism, to be sure, so I understand why it’s there. But it does lend a mercenary air to the whole enterprise which I find sometimes a scosh jarring (though not necessarily incompatible with Tolkien’s world).<\/p>\n
Which brings me to farming, and crafting in general.<\/p>\n
So not my bag, baby.<\/p>\n
“Here, let me plant some of these onion seeds I found. Oh, wait, need to get some water (and water for farming, not water for cooking, can’t get those mixed up). Okay, I’ve found a field I can plant in. I’m planting now. Now things are growing. Now I’m harvesting. Okay, got a few good onions out of that — but some poor ones, too. Oh, wait, I can go back to the workbench and turn the poor ones into more onion seeds. Great. No, wait, I also need to buy more water. Okay, now back into the field to plant more onion seeds. Cool! More onions!”<\/p>\n
I’d rather be battling orcs.<\/p>\n
So I need to find (for me) the right balance between direct sale of swag, auctioning of swag, and using of swag to grow (craft) more swag. Which is a bit more logistics than I really care for, though I’m sure there’s a sweet spot that will satisfy me. We’ll see.<\/p>\n
And off to Bree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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