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  1. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's a property management company. The owner lives in Germany actually, although he happened to be in town when we moved in so we met him. The company is actually really awesome and was super professional when we moved in. Florida is kind of weird, you have to keep paying the rent until they...
  2. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Drove out yesterday and there was a single, old white guy, grading the yard. I'm guessing he's higher up in either the construction company or the sod company. Just as I was leaving, got a call from the builder and my realtor saying that we were going to shoot for a closing on Monday...
  3. Gravel

    New World

    So what's the consensus with FoH and Vingolf? I mentioned previously thinking about switching so I'd have people to play with and you all said wait. Interestingly, I saw a Reddit post today with someone encouraging people to my server (Krocylea) because of how balanced the factions are, and one...
  4. Gravel

    Shitter’s Full - An RV Thread

    I can't speak for the summer, but it's generally the time you need to book very early anywhere because of summer vacation. But we did half a dozen national parks in April this year just fine. I don't think we ever stayed in a park, but there are assloads of places just outside of them. We...
  5. Gravel

    New World

    There was a link in one of the comments. Apparently you send gold, log out, and both players keep it. Don't know the details on how it works though. On the plus side, gold is capped at 500k. Downside is this is surely going to make gold sellers worse. Some servers saying their markets are...
  6. Gravel

    New World

    I'm too lazy to look, but someone mentioned they had a highish jewelry skill, what'd you do? There was an infographic that said do normal gem amulets from 50-100, brilliant amulets from 100-150, and pure amulets from 150-200. But I keep looking at the experience amount on the normal ones and I...
  7. Gravel

    The Prepper Thread

    What do you plan on doing with all the lemons? We're in northern Florida so not quite warm enough where we can grow the good shit. But citrus is pretty high on the list of things that'd do well. I just don't know what I'd do with a bunch of lemons or limes.
  8. Gravel

    New World

    It's a weird issue. I saw someone in chat say they didn't give a shit about gear until they hit 60. I didn't wanna tell him that at 60 it doesn't matter either. I'd say even once you hit the point of 600 gear score dropping, it won't either. The grind never ends until you find the perfect gear...
  9. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    So the sideways market lasted about 6 weeks. I don't know that I've ever paid attention to a sideways market as opposed to a correction, so I don't know what to expect. It does feel nice to be back where we were at the end of August though.
  10. Gravel

    New World

    I can't remember if I posted about it earlier, but as someone who went to business school, the deflationary cycle this game is going through is fascinating. Not the least because I can see my own psychological stance change in real time. It's pretty rare to see deflation in an actual real world...
  11. Gravel

    New World

    Weird, because I went to Ebonscale for portals because Myrk just didn't have any. There are way too many level 60s now and the portals are all going to be closed almost immediately. They really have no idea what's going on with their game.
  12. Gravel

    New World

    I think Everfall stays top only because it's got so much iron close by. Anywhere else is also going to be fighting inertia with housing established, trading post centralization, and workbenches upgraded (oh, and don't forget rep! Gonna need it for all the storage and tax reduction). And like...
  13. Gravel

    What We Do in the Shadows

    Weird, I didn't particularly like this one. Guillermo has always been my least favorite character, but this season I haven't particularly liked Nandor very much. So an episode that's almost entirely focused on them just didn't hit for me. But it's also why all the Laszlo/Colin scenes have made...
  14. Gravel

    New World

    Ironically, my server is almost completely split. Purple owns the southern ones, green the (most valuable) middle ones, and yellow the northern ones.
  15. Gravel

    New World

    I don't know if it's true, but everyone on my server has been saying the loot drops scale inversely with the amount of people there. So zerging shit means your drops get throttled down. I've only ever done it with a single group once (and it was basically just me and a tank, and we slowly...
  16. Gravel

    New World

    Is FoH still syndicate? Just want to make sure if I switch I don't fuck it up.
  17. Gravel

    New World

    Is Syndicate the predominate faction on Vingolf? Thinking I may transfer there, but I'm Covenant right now. Although I'm not entirely sure I can change factions to Syndicate on my server either.
  18. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Isn't that what I said? I write contracts for a living, I know getting a lawyer does nothing. What I should've done is just ate a month worth of rent (give 30 days notice after closing). It'd cost $2k and that sucks, but it would've meant no stress.
  19. Gravel

    New World

    I should also point out that I've used thousands of the tier 5 reagents, too. And I think my highest skill is around 125. Getting to 200 with the old drop rates is going to be a grind that makes most people quit the game.
  20. Gravel

    New World

    I wasn't trading them, I was using them.
  21. Gravel

    New World

    Nerfed drop rates on refining agents. Good luck crafting from here on out!
  22. Gravel

    New World

    It really is though. You don't notice a lot of the time because you can just brute through shit. But like I mentioned earlier today, nearly every perk on weapons/armor is broken. They either don't work at all, make your skills do literally zero damage, or like the armor one make you damage...
  23. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    It's funny, my wife the other day said that in a few months we wouldn't remember this. I was like, uh, no, I will definitely be pissed about this for years. When we bought our house in 2015, the title company fucked up and didn't courier our documents to the county office on time. It was a...
  24. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    I'm just not sure what a lawyer does in this case. Our contract doesn't guarantee a particular date they have to close by. And from my research, nearly every new construction contract is like that. There's not a lot to hold a builder to a schedule. You just kind of have to eat the shit...
  25. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    So we talked to the builder sales rep. He basically said they grade the property and lay sod at the same time. Once again I feel like he's lying to me. But maybe they do sometimes? Apparently one of the sod guys was arrested, and two others didn't show up to work. So I asked if he had a schedule...
  26. Gravel

    New World

    Fuck that, I'm not contributing 10 orichalcum bars for 750 rep. I abandon those every single time. They were okay (starmetal) when I was leveling because they gave a ton of exp, but that's useless to me now.
  27. Gravel

    New World

    Sadly, I'm just now realizing I should have leveled entirely off town boards and nothing else. The amount of rep you need to get worthwhile storage is obscene. And you can't do shit without storage.
  28. Gravel

    Lost Ark Online

    Another closed beta? Why?
  29. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Last night we asked if we could just do the sod ourselves (we had assumed the property was graded). They said they can't allow us to for "liability reasons." I may ask if we sign a liability release if we can (assuming they grade the fucking place). We're hopefully going to talk to them soon...
  30. Gravel

    Home buying thread

    Well I've been absolutely seething this morning. We were originally supposed to close today, but on Friday they told us the appraisal came in late (Thursday, was supposed to be Tuesday) and they had to push it to this Thursday. Last night our realtor said, hey, good news, the sod is outside the...
  31. Gravel

    New World

    Was reading about some item perks, and wow, it seems like almost everything item related is broken at the moment. Most of the perks don't work, amber and diamond gems aren't working. This game is more of a shit show than I knew. Gear seems to barely even matter since it's all broken as fuck.
  32. Gravel

    New World

    The repair cost after a full night of grinding is also several hundred gold. I think my last repair all was like 300ish, and stuff was probably half durability. You're essentially just treading water at this point.
  33. Gravel

    New World

    "Money is worthless" "I use my cash frequently" Uh...
  34. Gravel

    New World

    I think that's a fundamental error in having t1 materials be the bedrock of everything. Why pay for them when I can just go gather them myself? And without gold injected into the economy from mobs (or vendors), I'm much better served doing that. If it was faster as a 60 to farm mobs for money...
  35. Gravel

    New World

    Yep, it's a complete race to the bottom. I think people have realized it, too, and are just trying to get whatever they can before everything is worthless. Like, I noticed cinnamon was 8g the other day, so I went and farmed a bunch. Put it up at market price, and this morning it's selling for 4g...
  36. Gravel

    New World

    Weird, I was able to sell two (old) log storage chests for 350 yesterday on my server (which is slightly above population of Vingolf). Cherry bunk bed is still the best way to level from 56 to 100 I think.
  37. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

  38. Gravel

    Investing General Discussion

    I'm curious how a "study" like this works. Because as I was reading it, I was thinking that I opened a new Robinhood account in 2021, and I have about $500 in it. Are they counting me as part of the 90%? Because Robinhood sure as fuck doesn't know about my other accounts which firmly puts me in...
  39. Gravel

    Shitter’s Full - An RV Thread

    I guess if you want to stay directly in the park, maybe? Arches only has I believe one campground. There are a fuckload outside though. And a lot of those are first come, first serve. Yosemite I know for a fact you can get in with just a few days, as we did it two years ago.
  40. Gravel

    Shitter’s Full - An RV Thread

    Yeah, that's why I singled out Yellowstone as likely being impossible. I haven't been since 2007, but that place is kind of a different beast.