first some statistics from week 8:

228 votes for unspawned items: (280 in week 7)

Items spawned and (estimated) worth:

A Steel Brigandine [18] ($1,500)
A Cornuthaum [0] ($1,050,000)
A Katana [74x1] (+0) $294,000
A Mithril Chain Mail [28] $926,100
A Pair of Displacement Boots [6] $2,808,725

total estimated market value: over $5,080,325 (values in parentheses are current bids) ($4,832,159 in week 7)

current 'wasted' votes: 84 which is 36.8% of total votes for unspawned items: (41.0% in week 7)

What we vote for and why we vote for those items:

Tattoo of Endurance
Mithril Chain Mail
Cloak of the Istari perhaps as backup

after this week (week 10) we will try to get some more tank armor (CML Adam Tulkas Belegs) if possible

People have asked for these items most so they will be the goals for this week.

now the table:

Green=good votes,
Red=bad votes,
Yellow votes are for items to look out for, these have votes that could be wasted effords.

Green items are goals, Yellow items are backup (for when other goals have been met)

Name of item	Amount of votes last week	Amount of current votes
Blade of Thuringwethil	10	12
Morgul-Hammer	6	5
Elven Long Sword	4	3
Blacksword of Nan Elmoth	6	3
Executioner's Sword	9	16
Katana	6	7
Elven Long Bow	0	6
Enforcer's Crossbow	3	3
Assassin's Crossbow	0	0
Compound Bow	1	11
Heavy Crossbow	0	0

Name of item	Amount of votes last week	Amount of current votes
Adamantite Cuirass	2	2
Combat Gi	2	2
Trollskin Armor	2	1
Mithril Cuirass	3	2
Mithril Chain Mail	24	17
Steel Brigandine	1	0
Cloak of the Istari	17	14
Elven Cloak	2	3
Cloak of Balrog Flame	7	9
Shadow Cloak	0	2
Pair of Displacement Boots	69	8
Pair of Elven Boots	4	4
Set of Chain Mail Leggings	0	0
Pair of Helm's Gauntlets	0	0
Pair of Beleg's Gloves	0	0
Pair of Tulkas' Gauntlets	3	4
Pair of Elven Gloves	3	4
Cornuthaum	33	2
Helm of Intelligence	2	1
Helm of Durin	0	0
Buckler of Mandos	6	5
Mithril Shield	1	2
Tattoo of Endurance	30	67
Tattoo of Augmentation	3	1
Tattoo of Flame	6	2
Tattoo of Ice	0	0
Tattoo of Steel	0	0
L. Tattoo of Steel	1	1
L. Tattoo of Jigorokano	6	3
L. Tattoo of Endurance	4	4
L. Tattoo of Augmentation	1	0
L. Tattoo of Flame	2	0
L. Tattoo of Ice	1	2

Conclusion:

We are on the right track, getting less and less % of wasted votes :)

reminder for everyone, only 4 more votes needed!!!

and after the Tattoo of Endurance we need some more Mithril Chain Mails to spawn!!!

can we do adams and BG's next week?

Personally I think that the corn is worth more like 1.5 million instead of 1.05 million. :P check it out

ToE is out! Time now for the MCM.

Also, how can we get the same people to quit wasting the same votes on the same things every week? Do they just not read this? Can we send them a form letter? What does it take?

deifeln,
we could do those items next week (i already put it in the post, read better :P)


[ForgeMaster]NSFC[CBnk],
the corn has an "estimated" value, basically i take the at that moment current auction bid to make the estimation. so it CAN be higher as i also noted in the post already, read better next time :P


Bast,
i have chat mailed some random people that voted on an item that we already have 250+ of and one of them just replied this:

From: - - -
i voted on a compound because i wanted to waste my vote, ok?

when i only tried to nicely ask why he/she had voted for it i get such a defensive/offensive answer and such people are just the ones that make this work less good than it could work.

my quest goes on :)

oh well, you can't win them all. but i voted for ToE last week and I just voted for MCM...

Compound bow and Mithril Chain Mail have spawned...

now its up to you people to either choose for a CoI which already has some votes on OR vote for another MCM that will be put through to next week (if it doesn't get enough votes)

Cloak of Istari seems like a good choice.

Cloak of the Istari 26 81 67.9%

It's doing good!!! only 55 more votes :D

but also check this little critter below:

Executioner's Sword 25 29 13.8%

only 4 more votes and we have another powerful Executioner's Sword in the game, one of the top weapons so come vote for it!!!

I think that clan leaders could influence people to vote.
I do not mean that they should order the member of their clan to vote, but that they could send them chatmails like
"please remember to vote for the black market this week".
What do you think?

that could be possible but most of them don't care to send the chat mails and most players already vote :)



Cloak of the Istari 33 81 59.3%

only 48 more votes (if we dont get it this week then we will next week)


the Exec has been spawned good job people :D

I'm glad to see the wasted vote percentage go down this week, hopefully we can push it down a little more this week.

Thanks Shade, I really appreciate you doing this. Keep up the good work!

Thanks starseed and i will.


Cloak of the Istari 43 81 46.9%

we are making progress you people, i tell it!!!

38 more votes for this little cute and powerful Cloak of the Istari!!!!

stats 38 people that you can help voting just ask around with your friends if they voted this week already and get them to vote.!!!!

also a pre next week statistic on what has spawned this week with current pricings:

March 1 2005 7:55 PM EST An Executioner's Sword [82x1] (+0) ($358,864)
February 28 2005 10:06 PM EST A Katana [74x1] (+0) ($262,500)
February 28 2005 12:44 PM EST A Compound Bow [5x1] (+0) ($33,075)
February 28 2005 12:23 PM EST A Mithril Chain Mail [28] ($514,500)
February 28 2005 3:57 AM EST A Tattoo of Endurance lvl 20 ($551,250)

nice work Shade!

I am proud to say I contributed to both spawns of the Ex and Katana before reading here :)

Waiting for another vote for CoI

just voted for the CoI...=)
/me thinks we should flush the market with dbs and ToEs....^_^

Cloak of the Istari 49 81

32 votes left!

Cloak of the Istari 60 81

19 votes left :D