I started playing on the realms...

[protoshoggoth]

It's funny how on one hand people are equipped to the teeth with uber gear, and on the other hand people are in need of anything.

That's the strange part. It's like there's no middle ground. In the trading channels, people laugh at anything less than 'uber' uniques, but in a game people grab at Cathan's Mesh like junkies in a smack factory. Somehow the idea of trading low-level items for OTHER low-level items never seems to occur to anyone on the realms.

Also, whatever strange thinking goes into people's evaluation of items isn't transitive. For instance, at one time 40 chipped ~ 1 SOJ. But when I tried to trade chips for 5k gold, or normal gems, I'd get no takers. However, I'm sure that if I offered to sell SoJs for (40x5k) 200k gold, they'd go like hotcakes. It just doesn't add up. (example as of a few months ago, before the latest round of duping reduced SoJ's to something approximating reichmarks in the late 1920's.)

- Protoshoggoth, proud owner of exactly one SoJ, which I actually use <-- (LOL noob).