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what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:53 am
by du5t1n
as above

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:56 am
by Am Heh
You get a free USS for every 500 million you buy

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:27 pm
by Lore
Am Heh wrote:You get a free USS for every 500 million you buy

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

evil man, evil.


they use to add to your army size, so you could use them to "bluff", but that was removed.

now the only use they have is a makeshift bank, since weapons can be sabbed, you can buy mercs to sell later at a loss. They also give APP for ascending, but the Same Naq you spend to buy the mercs would net you more APP

other then that, a few of us like to collect them, kinna like baseball cards. I personally have a "ant farm" colony of untrained mercs.

Untrained Mercenaries 7,316,300,000

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:34 pm
by RepliMagni
You should be able to train them into ninjas.....wizard ninjas......pirate wizard ninjas.....

*hides*

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 12:41 pm
by Am Heh
I just wanted to show him, the banking aspect first hand :lol:

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 1:11 pm
by WeaponX
untrained mercs STILL give more APP than naq does meaning you get more APP buying untrained mercs than you do from straight naq.

the math does not lie either. it takes 2400 mercs to make 1 APP, it takes 6 million naq to make 1 APP. untrained mercs costs 1500 each, 2400 untrained mercs costs 3.6 mil naq. you get almost double the APP for the naq you spend but that doesnt matter since jason made anything above bare minimum ascensions pointless since you can just farm whatever DMU you need to make up for doing minimal ascensions.


but for those still interested in untrained mercs they do serve some purpose even now.


and from the ascension page:

Current Naquadah 1 to 6000000 67,567,147,681 (minimum 562,874,999 required) 11261

Mercs 1 to 2400 1,644,000,000 342500

that 1.6 bil is nothing but untrained mercs. buying trained mercs costs you more naq than you get in return with APP.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 1:27 pm
by Lore
I am confused by your first and last sentances.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:47 am
by Psi Kiya Trist
WeaponX wrote:untrained mercs STILL give more APP than naq does meaning you get more APP buying untrained mercs than you do from straight naq.

the math does not lie either. it takes 2400 mercs to make 1 APP, it takes 6 million naq to make 1 APP. untrained mercs costs 1500 each, 2400 untrained mercs costs 3.6 mil naq. you get almost double the APP for the naq you spend but that doesnt matter since jason made anything above bare minimum ascensions pointless since you can just farm whatever DMU you need to make up for doing minimal ascensions.


but for those still interested in untrained mercs they do serve some purpose even now.


and from the ascension page:

Current Naquadah 1 to 6000000 67,567,147,681 (minimum 562,874,999 required) 11261

Mercs 1 to 2400 1,644,000,000 342500

that 1.6 bil is nothing but untrained mercs. buying trained mercs costs you more naq than you get in return with APP.


last i checked, untrained mercs had half ascension value to the actual listed value. so it was indeed cheaper to use straight naq than to use untrained mercs.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:44 am
by WeaponX
there is no listing of untrained and trained mercs on the ascension page, only mercs, and untrained mercs were counted as mercs...hence untrained mercs give more APP.


or the game is lying...i doubt that though.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:07 am
by du5t1n
cheers for the advice guys most other game they add income just never used them till i saw 300 mil on the market

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:49 am
by Lore
Psi Kiya Trist wrote:
last i checked, untrained mercs had half ascension value to the actual listed value. so it was indeed cheaper to use straight naq than to use untrained mercs.


I was under the same impression, I'll see if I can find someone ascending to test this for conclusive proof.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:22 am
by ~Insider Trader~
So since they have an ascension value, (not much but a value nonetheless) if I were to list 125m untrained mercs for sale, what would someone be willing to pay for them? I doubt there's much of a market for them, but it would be nice to know a price or price range.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:48 am
by Lore
~Insider Trader~ wrote:So since they have an ascension value, (not much but a value nonetheless) if I were to list 125m untrained mercs for sale, what would someone be willing to pay for them? I doubt there's much of a market for them, but it would be nice to know a price or price range.


I would give you your naq back for them.

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 2:16 am
by Lord Blackhole
Lore wrote:
~Insider Trader~ wrote:So since they have an ascension value, (not much but a value nonetheless) if I were to list 125m untrained mercs for sale, what would someone be willing to pay for them? I doubt there's much of a market for them, but it would be nice to know a price or price range.


I would give you your naq back for them.

100% naq back? 1500 per unit

Re: what are untrined mercs for or worth

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:02 pm
by Lore
Lord Blackhole wrote:
Lore wrote:
~Insider Trader~ wrote:So since they have an ascension value, (not much but a value nonetheless) if I were to list 125m untrained mercs for sale, what would someone be willing to pay for them? I doubt there's much of a market for them, but it would be nice to know a price or price range.


I would give you your naq back for them.

100% naq back? 1500 per unit

Yes. More then you can sell them back to market for.