Literal months of prep... and then they don't go all out?
Not sure if you mean by the flights themselves or OOF fodder hoarders, but I think it was known pretty widely in advance that this wasn't going to be a wallet-bleeding deathmatch - I'm in Nature but not really involved with any of our dom programs, so I'm pretty sure I gleaned the relative casual-ness that this battle is going to be from discussion here. So hopefully no one hoarded at particular cost to themselves in anticipation of crazy payouts that won't be materializing.
Absent that...meh, as I said, not heavily involved, I like getting hyped about battles but don't participate beyond personal training/exalting, so it'll be kind of nice if the AH floor actually doesn't get too high (which I'm guessing it won't, payout hikes are just a feedback loop that way, mercs notwithstanding - though I do agree with you that some unofficial mercing will surely go on) so I can still break even without leveling too ridiculously far.
Only reason I'm mildly disappointed that this won't be a knock-down-drag-out kind of battle is because we've been waiting so very long for this particular matchup and it would've been fitting if it were ludicrously epic and memorable.
Re: N v P "battle terms"
Not sure if you mean by the flights themselves or OOF fodder hoarders, but I think it was known pretty widely in advance that this wasn't going to be a wallet-bleeding deathmatch - I'm in Nature but not really involved with any of our dom programs, so I'm pretty sure I gleaned the relative casual-ness that this battle is going to be from discussion here. So hopefully no one hoarded at particular cost to themselves in anticipation of crazy payouts that won't be materializing.
Absent that...meh, as I said, not heavily involved, I like getting hyped about battles but don't participate beyond personal training/exalting, so it'll be kind of nice if the AH floor actually doesn't get too high (which I'm guessing it won't, payout hikes are just a feedback loop that way, mercs notwithstanding - though I do agree with you that some unofficial mercing will surely go on) so I can still break even without leveling too ridiculously far.
Only reason I'm mildly disappointed that this won't be a knock-down-drag-out kind of battle is because we've been waiting so very long for this particular matchup and it would've been fitting if it were ludicrously epic and memorable.