Quote Originally Posted by Ballie View Post
I guess the choice is to pay for a valar 105 or 120 and get a chunk of VXP to fill the gaps or hope that you are a winner gambling your 8 MC for a gold present.

M'Lord, I think you are the man to go onto the last round of BR and buy a large stack of MC and document what you get over a few hundred gold presents. Compare spending with store costs of items received as well as total VXP acquired against that provided by valaring at 104 (15X20k and 5X70k). Given the lack of a 120 to test... Suit a craft alt with little virtues but high(ish) level for the vxp space. If you can't make it I'll try to find the time and inclination.
You are correct, I probably would. However atm I have very little time. First we have had a leakage in my home during the heavy rains this summer. They are still trying to fix that. Some days water is turned off as they fix with plumbing, others days the electricity is switched off. I could go on about of de-regulating the hosuing market here has turned it into chaos with greedy landlords raising rents by 40% over a few years, or even over night in some cases. Regular people with low to avergae income not being able to afford rent, or having to norrow money from the bank, get in debt to buy their home, as even the interest is cheaper than rent atm. All the landlords do is go in and repaint a home (some cosmetic changes to the surface, so called concept renovation) and then raise the rent, while not fixing anything under the surface like plumbing or anything that needs fixing until it breaks totally. A de-regulated market has really made the greedy sharks smell blood and it's a mess right now for many. There is even an interesting documentary about this issue, but that might be too political for these forums to link that.

We are also in the process of preparing my mothers home for sale. First we have gotten instructions from the broker on to remove this and that for the photo session that they will use in their catalogs and online to attract buyers. At the same time there are things that needs upgrading and repairing, due to faulty installation from the company that sold us the home 5 years ago. They have finally admitted it after some preassure and will do it for free (which for once is good), but it still takes time and we must be there etc. Among one thing they had placed the kitchen fan intake 10 cm too low so it's a hazard that close to the heating plates on the stove and must be raised etc. Only a government inspection finally pushed them to have to fix that for free.

We just sold my moms and dads old home 5 years ago after our dad died, but of course our mom needed a home, so we got her a smaller one. However now her dementia is so bad that she is in a nursing home, so here we go again. Needless to say alot to do during the upcoming months. So playtime has to adapt not only to my regular life, my sons school, but now also all this. Real life always manages to throw all kinds of things at You it seems and never much rest.

Alot of personal details there, sorry about that, but wanted to explain as to why I most likely will not have time for such deep tests right now. If You want and can do it that would be an insteresting result to compare. I'm sure people would appreciate such info. I know I would.