Holy crap! I never paid any attention to that! It is totally cheaper for me in the Ppwn Shoppe, thanks a bunch! Log in to see images!

SG94 Posted:

Now that haxl is free, buying smileprins at the Ppwn Shoppe is just wasteful. You can up your frugal to max, buy/sell everything you want, then go for a build where you put the upgrade points to better use.

Depends on timing. For example, if you’re going for consecutive forums and playing Dom, you might need to keep your build for speed and so can’t afford a 4-day turnover just to save some  .

amaranthus Posted:

Wait, what???

Doesn’t anybody read the blog? From back in July

MC Banhammer Posted:

Depends on timing. For example, if you’re going for consecutive forums and playing Dom, you might need to keep your build for speed and so can’t afford a 4-day turnover just to save some  .

What kind of crazy speedbuild are you using that cripples you when you spend 7 points on frugal?

MC Banhammer Posted:

My build is actually for the Jingjiing and higher-level forums. And I don’t analyze the numbers like you do. So I put lots into Defense and Offense and bought drugs.

This is why you are at the top of the Flezz leaderboard, and I have  11 and a bunch of broken equipment.

Look I’m not saying that the smileprin at the Ppwn Shoppe is such a terrible idea to buy under all cirgreat timesstances, but I do consider telling people to “stock up” under these conditions bad advice. Stocking up is done with 6 frugality. Period.

Of course, in a speedbuild for the higher level forums you can make use of most of your upgrade points… but if it means you’re going to need to buy smileprins at PP it just seems like a better idea to stock up during a domination off-week, or run some non-heavy forums (where the only useful up points go into damage output) with high frugal first. The amount of time lost on the majority of forums during the four days you’re stuck with a slightly slower build (can’t think of many scenarios where it would cost you more than one or two turns) is pretty negligible anyway and may not even translate into scoops.

Also you recently commented about the Ppwn Shoppe threads being a bit much lately and reserving them to charisma glbumes/cat mask (that may not show up for weeks, I whipped up a complete DML without those thingsLog in to see images! and the Leather Cat Mask has been MIA for a WHILE before recently) seems like a good idea. It’s not like anyone is going to really regret missing this “opportunity”.

Point taken; I’ve edited the OP.

SG94 Posted:

Also you recently commented about the Ppwn Shoppe threads being a bit much lately and reserving them to charisma glbumes/cat mask

I didn’t actually say that. I just said I’m going to close them the day after they’re no longer pertinent, whatever they’re referring to.

3 of those days could be used saving visits, and you’d be burning 4 visits at a sub-optimal spec, which IMO is a worthwhile tradeoff, especially if you can stock up on enough consumables to last for a few weeks/months hence.