Here is a method to help out fellow players, balance the economy and make some kinah for yourself.
Notes: Dual Monitors a plus. Computer than can handle windowed mode a must.
Step 1: Have Aion open in windowed mode and have aionarmory or other database site open.
Step 2: Search for an armor or weapon type in a range that most of the server is on. 20-30 is nice for me.
Step 3: Once you've gotten 1 type of gear, search for it on aionarmory. As you can see the vendor price in the top right is MORE than what white items are being sold for. The reason for this is that it's such a hassle to check vendor prices before putting them on the AH. People use the Broker to check prices, not a vendor. White items are the best for this because no one buys them, but everyone sells them, thus making them very cheap.
Step 4: Buy them. All of them. You will want to make sure you have inventory space as you can see I ran out. Then trot on over to a NPC vendor with your wheelbarrow full of gear and weapons and sell them all.
Step 5: ????
Step 6: Profit
Mechwarrior 5 legal problems
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battletech,
legal,
macross,
mechwarrior,
mechwarrior 5,
robotech
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I'm a few days late on this one, but as a mech lover, the Battletech and Robotech universes are very close to my heart.
For this reason, I am really, really bummed out about the current legal dispute between Harmory Gold and Mechwarrior 5. Harmory Gold owns the rights to Macross/Robotech.
Mechwarrior hails from the battletech universe. A long time ago, a few mech designs migrated over to the Battletech universe. FASA, the original license holders for battletech in the US, realized the possible legal issues down the road and obtained licenses to use the designs. (I think. Don't quote me on this, but I think they also removed a ton of designs from their universe)
FASA Corporation and Harmory Gold worked out this situation long ago. I cannot say for sure, but I believe this was not the fault of either company, but rather the misgivings of one designer who either sold to both companies similar designs, or copied the designs from another person.
So here's a comparrison between the two robots in questions. From Mechwarrior, the mech is called Warhammer. From Macross/Robotech it's called Tomahawk. These are the SAME design, but it was already arranged to allow for them to exist in both univereses. Along with many other designs.
I think since FASA is no longer the owner, the legal speak gets murky and it allows for non-artistic types to get involved.
A very good post on the situation here.
In closing, what worries me the most, is that the story and time that this game takes place in is populated almost completely with mech designs that are in dispute. How can you make a game where you aren't allowed to use any canon material?
It's like trying to make World of Warcraft, but a few months from the release date you suddenly not having rights to use Orcs, Elves, and Dwarves because Tolkien owns them.
I guess my thing is that I know Harmony Gold has a right to sue for it's IP, but instead of killing Mechwarrior 5, why don't they actually get off their asses and DO something with their intellectual property. All they've done recently is re-release an anime made in the 1980s and completely deface their universe with a horrible mobile phone game. Granted Robotech: Battlecry on the console wasn't a terrible game, but that wasn't Harmony Gold. that was Vicious Cycle. Harmony Gold needs to either do something with their IP, or license it to someone who can.
The only problem is that the Battletech universe is so much more serious and thought out. It's not an anime series with robots, it's a whole universe with a very rich lore/history.
the images that depict how the game will feel later on.
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