Rocket Rose
Obscure Industrial Visions
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Posted - 2012.07.09 10:54:00 -
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Danica Kaliinen wrote:Tried it... Won an Apocalyspe and two Brutix BCs... Spent 348mil, which is more than the combined value of the ships. Was fun, though. The big items almost seemed to autofill. I only got a ticket when I started them, and then, I could only get one.
Blink players have to be quick clickers when a new blink appears. Someone mentioned that FPS experience was helpful for fast targetting and clicking on the tickets they wanted as the board jumps around to give every player the same chance to find their desired number.
It seems the large ISK items have the blinkers with most experience at clicking fast on the numbers you want.
It is certainly no time to dawdle and say, "hmmm now what were the other tickets I wanted ........" because they are already gone by that time
When there is a promo, it may get 250 tickets taken out in under ten seconds. So you can imagine if 250 players are after the 8 or 16 tickets on an expensive blink, the fast on the draw are the gunslingers who get the numbers they want.
But that is all part of the excitement and fun - but I can see how it can frustrating for a new player not expecting such rapid buying, but then the big blinks can sit there for a half hour with one or two tickets still for sale... The smart blinkers have been watching the numbers and going for the ones that seem to hit more often as all of the numbers rotate thru their cycles in the theory of probability. Very interesting reading for anyone who wants to gamble on any game like Blink.
A tip is to clear the cache in your internet browser and close as many processes as you can. You can google instructions for whatever browser you are using for clearing the cache. In windows, I do a disk cleanup and defrag every before I play. I live in the part of the US where the only internet connection is thru either dialup or Hughes net which is about the lowest rated satelite ISP service out there - so many DCs and almost no part of Eve where I would want to play can be done on dialup anymore. I read recently somewhere about how many dialup players they have and was shocked, but I might counted as one of those, but when Hughes out and I need to change a training, I'll use the dialup we have as backup.
I can almost ell what kind of blazing ISP connections some players have, just by watching move around so much fster than I can. When I see in chat players talking about playing from work on from college campuses - I know the have me beat on the quick draw.
But we didn't buy this spread and move to Big Sky Country for fast internet connections - course, there was no such thing as an internet connection when we moved out here, anyway.
Well, good luck to you - just do all you can to make sure your compter is working as fast as it can to give yourself as much of an advantage as you can get. |