Statistics from week 16:

Votes for unspawned items: 111 (161 in week 15)
Total placed votes last week: 182 (155 in week 15)
Votes used for spawning items last week: 136 (124 in week 15)

Items spawned and (estimated) worth:

A Mithril Chain Mail [28] ($551,250)
A Katana [74x1] (+0) ($110,250)
A Cornuthaum [0] ended $2,431,013
A Cloak of Balrog Flame [0] $3,675,000

Total estimated market value: $6,767,513 ($5,163,782 in week 15)

Current amount of placed 'wasted' votes: 46 which is 25.27% of total votes placed: (31 which was 20.00% in week 15)

Link:

Link to Black market page.

What we vote for:

Blade of Thuringwethil and Morgul Hammer.

Now the table:

Green=good votes, These are the goal votes for this week.
Red=bad votes, those items will most likely NOT be spawned.
Yellow votes are for items to look out for, could be good to vote for them as backup.

Name of item	Amount of votes last week	Amount of current votes
Blade of Thuringwethil	7	19
Morgul-Hammer	3	3
Elven Long Sword	2	6
Blacksword of Nan Elmoth	4	4
Executioner's Sword	1	1
Katana	5	2
Elven Long Bow	5	8
Enforcer's Crossbow	0	1
Assassin's Crossbow	2	4
Compound Bow	4	4
Heavy Crossbow	0	1

Name of item	Amount of votes last week	Amount of current votes
Adamantite Cuirass	0	1
Combat Gi	3	1
Trollskin Armor	3	1
Mithril Cuirass	0	0
Mithril Chain Mail	16	1
Steel Brigandine	0	0
Elven Cloak	2	1
Cloak of Balrog Flame	44	6
Shadow Cloak	0	1
Cloak of the Istari	1	0
Pair of Displacement Boots	7	23
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	1	1
Pair of Tulkas' Gauntlets	1	1
Pair of Elven Gloves	0	5
Cornuthaum	33	3
Helm of Intelligence	2	1
Helm of Durin	0	0
Mithril Shield	0	0
Buckler of Mandos	3	2
Tattoo of Endurance	0	0
Tattoo of Augmentation	0	0
Tattoo of Flame	0	1
Tattoo of Ice	1	1
Tattoo of Steel	1	2
Lesser Tattoo of Steel	3	2
Lesser Tattoo of Endurance	0	0
Lesser Tattoo of Augmentation	1	0
Lesser Tattoo of Flame	1	1
Lesser Tattoo of Ice	1	0

NEW ADDITION!!! Some Graphs:

Conclusion:

Going good!

For week 18: Blade of Thuringwethil and Morgul Hammer, yes again :)

And DB's next? plzzzzzzzzzzz

yay shade! finaly good items ;p

DB's will most likely come "after" we have spawned 2 blades of Thuringwethil and 2 morgul hammers Lukey, just wait in line please :)

just put up the post, check it out :D

Blade of Thuringwethil 35 150 76.7%
Pair of Displacement Boots 40 79 49.4%

/me applauds

Nice work Shade

voted...

Graphs rock!!!

Blade of Thuringwethil 65 150 56.7%

we need more votes!!! :)

/me thinks that having 3 votes for BoTH is usless cos i got no cash

Blade of Thuringwethil 69 150 54.0%
Pair of Displacement Boots 54 79 31.6%

going good :D

Blade of Thuringwethil 79 150 47.3%
Pair of Displacement Boots 61 79 22.8%

going good but we need more ;)

Muwhahaa! Go DB's!

Blade of Thuringwethil 84 150 44.0%
Pair of Displacement Boots 63 79 20.3%

getting closer :)

Blade of Thuringwethil 92 150 38.7%
Pair of Displacement Boots 68 79 13.9%

someone has to much free time on his hands

it is called dedication...

Blade of Thuringwethil 100 150 33.3%
Pair of Displacement Boots 73 79 7.6%

we are getting close!!!

Shade does quite the good deed for CB with his BMVG.

I think all the people who vote knowing they won't be able to afford some of the items should be congratulated too! =)

Sorry - I did type the following too -

'Shade, keep up the good work!'


But managed to delete it..... bad day...


So I'll repeat:

Shade Keep Up The Good Work!

 therea1ki11er, 6:41 AM EDT
 someone has to much free time on his hands

This could be said about just about any hobby. I'm glad Shade is volunteering his time for this and hope he will continue.

How much of this do you automate Shade? I'd be interested in learning more about the tools and methods you use to generate this information

Every sunday evening (my time) i just copy paste the entire black market page and paste it into a txt file. i then add the items in auctions that have spawned that week.

i copy paste the votes into excell and have a few easy formulas to calculate some basic things but i still need to calculate some things manually

(i can't yet calculate in votes that have expired... or i would have to check every item every week)

anyway perhaps i could send you the excell file that i use and perhaps you could add some information as to how i could perfect it.. :)

Johnnywas said it best but it can't be said enough.
Shade does a lot around CB, more than just the voting guide.
So, Shade,
Thank You, and Keep Up the Good Work!!!

Blade of Thuringwethil 105 150 30.0%

Great job for everyone voting on the Displacement Boots even though they weren't on the guide for this week.

but now get that Blade in auctions and after that the Morgul Hammer.


I will add that I will try to get that Morgul Hammer but my reason to let people know is NOT that i want it for a cheap price but that I just want to try and get it. :)

Blade of Thuringwethil 108 150 28.0%

one day left (or a few more)

after this BTh we should get out a Morg!!! :)

The market need few extra Bth and MH.

Also that allow players that dont have USD to spend on the game to have 1.

which was part of my idea :)

Blade of Thuringwethil 109 150 27.3%

only 41 votes to go :)

Blade of Thuringwethil 113 150 24.7%

:) only 37 to go