BA cost increase problem. (in General)

Facts:
-BA cost is defined by your largest character.
-Ba cost will drop if you retire your biggest character. (not 100% sure on this one)

'Problem:
I am using my NCB character Disco. I have not been using my largest character Deceptively Massive. My BA costs however are increasing at a rapid rate. I notice the cost change as I am fighting and gaining XP with Disco. How could this be if my largest character is Deceptively Massive? I tried retiring "Dec Mass" for 5 days, did not affect my BA cost.

Correction:

BA cost is defined by your character that gains XP fastest.

I would just like to highlight this statement:

***I notice the COST CHANGE AS I am fighting and gaining XP with DISCO.***

Didn't see your post before my second Jon.

But am I still paying too much? It's currently $560.

BA cost was about $470 or less when I started my NCB character.

BA costs more for NCB and NUB chars

So BA cost will increase with NCB character and (somehow calculated in conjunction with) the cost of highest mpr character?

sssimmo, BA currently costs me 733 each. I haven't been able to afford to buy BA in quite a while now :(
Well, I would be able to if I wasn't upgrading my gear... ;)

Mine costs 894 each and I haven't missed buying any yet, since starting my NCB.
But it's worth it. There are quite a few days, that I have 100% of all possible ba used for the day, and others that put me in the 90% range. I am expecting to see 1k per ba before my NCB expires.

if you fought all your normal BA and fought all higher lvl opponents, you might be able to afford NCB BA, otherwise, have a bankroll to back it up.

Lovely, ain't it? The NCB multiplier is applied to normal BA purchase costs as well as any fight penalties for missed bot checks or multi fight suspensions.

yeah the ncb like doubles your ba cost it sucks.

which is why the NCB is a choice... you chose for the NCB and the downside is higher BA cost...

(end of off topic whines i hope)

what is the purpose of the ncb if you cant purchase as much BA there is no decent reason why the BA cost should go up.

the NCB lets players who were unable to get to the #1, get another chance at that by increasing their experience rewards.

the trade off is that those players who get an NCB character already have either played a long while or have had the NUB and were able to acquire enough money already.

So then you have it that you 'could' have had the money you so desperately need to buy your precious ba to get even more experience than you already get.

get the point?

yes

good ^_^

(note: i did not mean any offense in my reasoning, its just how i see the NCB in the game, and that's the reason why i don't use it)

Shade, you weren't offensive, just brutally honest ;)

yes he was brutally honest but normally some of the stuff he says to me seems to be kinda offensive or maybe he just tells the truth.

i guess i just dont like the truth.
truth hurts. lol

so i could make a new char, and not retire my main, and fight with the new char for a bit, and then go back to forging and buy BA at like 100 per BA just because my new char was making exp faster than my main??

that's where the 'for a bit' comes in play, if you only play with it 'for a bit' it doesn't work ;)

As far as I know, trying to do the character swap trick to manipulate any of the character-related rates (forging, BA cost, BA refresh, etc.) doesn't work, or only works for a bit as you switch back in forth. In other words, you will never really get any net gain, you will just be building two characters at once. *smile*

When I first started my NCB character, I still had my old large character active, which made my BA cost more than it normally would have. By the time I finally sold that character (maybe a week later) my NCB character was large enough that BA cost more they had with my older, larger character... *sigh*