[UI] Increasing xenomit quantity in Auction

Hello, just something I've always wondered -- Would it be possible to increase the xenomit prize in auction from 10 to something like 1000? Xenomit is a fairly important resource (think: Insta-shield, Smart bomb, aiming cpu's), but I think having the prize of 10 xenomit in the bid pre-dated all of the above-mentioned things and really no longer takes into account the needs of today's players. I know no one is really laying normal mines anymore, but the prize of 100 mines gives you the necessary components for 10 smartbombs, and having a prize of 1000 xenomit would accomplish the same thing.

Only issue I could imagine someone (BP?) having with this is the function to buy the things from the auction in uridium. It's probably a little-known loophole that you can buy xenomit on the auction page, albeit the small quantity coupled with the abysmally-slow load time (for me at least) of sections of the back page like the auction would require something like 20 minutes to buy enough xenomit for 10 ISH's/SMB's. If the option to buy xenomit isn't something that developers want, they could remove it. Otherwise, it would be a cool thing to be available for purchase.

Eso es my 2 cents.

 

Actually you are wrong, these were all available and are the reason the Xenomit was added to the Trade system way back when. The ore was available for purchase in SHOP (still available via "Buy It Now" in Auction) but there are too many people complaining about how much they get from the Galaxy Gate Materializer. Just spin an already completed Gate (that has not been built) and use the multipliers on a 5X spin, I seem to get Xeno instead of ammo or gate parts every time I use the multipliers, and a completed gate automatically gives all multipliers instead of Gate Parts, thus increasing the Xeno received.

 

A few points:

I don't understand what you're saying -- what am I wrong about? That the loophole is little known? Could be the case. I started playing in 09 so I've been here (on and off) a while, but I don't remember it being available for purchase. Even if it was, that's not relevant today.

Also, are you saying that people complain about getting TOO MUCH xenomit? Not only is that not something to complain about since it takes up no cargo space, but it sounds like that can be mitigated by... not spinning completed gates.

Finally, this isn't for players who spin a bunch of galaxy gates. Save for boosters, cloak cpus and log disks, a player with money to spend a lot of gg's doesn't have much business being in the auction anyway, since they probably have all the lasers and shields and generators they need. It's about taking a useful item in the auction from a useless and obsolete quantity, to not so. As stated above, it really isn't feasible to try to buy any real quantities from the Buy Now function on the auction; it may as well not even exist as it is now.

 

that's a bad idea

 

Back years ago, yes you could simply purchase xenomit. I miss that option actually I am always running low on it.

Wish they would bring back that option.

-FT

**Success is never Final & Failure is never Fatal**​

 

You can still buy it from Auction with Uridium, if desired.

 

Not like before though, long ago we could purchase 10-20-100k at a time but now you can purchase only 10 at a time. That equates to waist of time . It should be changed back to the way it was. Discouraging really.

-FT