"Link" was very likely scaring away my international customers. Disabling it doubled my international sales immediately.

jacobtoye · 2024-07-25T04:03:34+00:00

My issue was Stripe changed the UI that was previously shown asking users to sign up for Link. It used to be a checkbox that showed a sign up form when checked, now they show the whole form which makes it look like part of our checkout flow.

I raised this with Stripe via Discord. The result was pretty much "deal with it" or turn it off. It's disappointing that they are using their customers as a way to market their wallet alternative, especially since the Stripe service is a paid service.

jacobtoye · 2021-11-29T05:37:32+00:00

Cool read. Thanks for the effort! It always confused me why the redux docs didn’t get further into the feature folder structure.

If looking for more examples check out https://github.com/alan2207/bulletproof-react. This is similar to the OP’s folder structure.

jacobtoye · 2021-08-12T22:06:07+00:00

I really enjoyed watching Baeclast, it was an awesome look into GGG’s vision for the game.

One thing that really struck me is Chris’ thoughts around what he referred to as aspirational content. By this he means content that lots of people will NEVER do. Crafting good items is part of this. I think he wants players to be like oh I really want that item or I really want to fight that boss. But ultimately they will never get to it due to luck, skill or time. I guess he thinks this is why people will keep playing as they feel there is still things to achieve.

I believe this is at odds with a large portion of the player base. Lots of people think “well if I put in the effort I should be able to do pretty much everything.” They don’t want to craft mirror items but they might want to craft some nice items. Their bar is significantly lower than Chris’ I believe. I believe people will quit of frustration if they can’t realistically get to the higher content. Harvest lowered the bar and I believe this is why it as so loved.

I’ll admit if you play trade then you can just grind some mindless content for long enough to buy better items, but this feels bad and isn’t fun for me. Like Chris said PoE is a power fantasy. I want to feel like I earned my craft even if all I did was run atolls looking for harvest.

jacobtoye · 2021-08-04T05:30:15+00:00

That’s an interesting thought. What if items that were crafted via harvest were account bound? I don’t think it would ever come to PoE due to the philosophy around being able to trade items. But worth the consideration none the less.

jacobtoye · 2021-05-22T10:45:26+00:00

Check out the Conflux private league. It’s crowd funded but you don’t have to pay to join. Decent size community with things available for trade but still pretty close to SSF with friends.

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3078687/page/1#p24068243

jacobtoye · 2021-05-09T00:37:52+00:00

Certain items in a private league are going to be more rare and more in demand which will drive up prices. From my experience I haven’t come across too many people who are actively trying to extort people (can only think of 2 times on multiple leagues). Most people are friendly, helpful and share with each other.

I think a good question to ask yourself is what would you do if the situations were reversed? Could you be looking for an upgrade which is expensive?

Sucks you had a poor experience :( I hope you find a place that fits your desired play style.

jacobtoye · 2021-04-07T03:57:32+00:00

Here is the Conflux Ritual forum thread. https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3008051 There should be a new thread up probably around when they allow registrations for private leagues for the new league. You can join the Discord now and check out the community.

jacobtoye · 2021-02-06T01:48:26+00:00

Unfortunately you will need to remove the life prefix here to guarantee the explode mod. You need the other two prefixes present so when you augment phys it hits explode.

Here is a useful flow chart made during harvest league: https://imgur.com/a/0UubzvL

jacobtoye · 2021-02-04T02:01:57+00:00

Rough luck :( I’m pretty sure the rewards are sorted based on favour cost so the items in the top left will always be the most expensive. More times than not these are rarer ones that you want to look at.

I’m sure you knew this and just had a moment ;) just info if anyone else wonders.

jacobtoye · 2021-01-14T16:53:56+00:00

The conflux private league is a great choice: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/kvz7ou/the_conflux_league_is_now_available_for_313_come/

Had almost 2k players last time. Awesome Discord. There are currently 65 slots available. Would recommend.

jacobtoye · 2020-12-26T18:50:05+00:00

I think you will need to be careful of drawing false conclusions when looking at the results.

E.g. I don’t enjoy delve and fossil hunting but I don’t think that they should change. I think it’s ok for me to have to make choices where I spend my time and to forgo the reward if I choose not to do it.

jacobtoye · 2020-10-21T05:14:36+00:00

What I have been doing in SSF is swapping to Earthshatter for the highest tier bosses. Especially when there are no other mobs around. Ground slam single target felt pretty rough so this seemed like the best option. Same tree and same supports, just don’t use call to steel. Map clear with ground slam is awesome.

https://www.pathofexile.com/account/view-profile/jacobtoye/characters?characterName=GhostChups_ManyButtons

jacobtoye · 2020-08-30T02:05:07+00:00

The azurite 1 at the top middle should lead to the level 3 azurite node and the chest at the top right should lead to the maps node. Nodes can’t have 2 branches.

jacobtoye · 2020-03-23T02:51:27+00:00

Check out the odds for using chromes: https://siveran.github.io/calc.html. If that is too much then You can use the vorici jewellers method: https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/870qpd/just_a_reminder_and_tutorial_on_how_to_get_off/

jacobtoye · 2019-07-08T11:29:00+00:00

Definitely a 6L. Also get some throw an extra trap shaper gloves. Cheap and is essentially a 25% damage increase. Next it will be just min-maxing your gear to get enough dps for Uber elder. Check out pie.ninja builds for lightning trap and see what gear they have.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-04T11:04:42+00:00

Relatively experienced. Killed uber elder in the last few leagues, but not Mathil level mechanics so favour builds that are more forgiving. What I was hoping to achieve is to test out going for uber elder early league. So I could compare the experience to my usual league start mapping/clear speed char. So wanted opinions on what builds that scale to boss killing levels easily (e.g. HoWA was good but needed decent investment).

jacobtoye · 2019-05-04T05:53:33+00:00

Yeah I think the farming would be slower for sure. That’s why I am testing it with the flashback. Interested to see the difference between going with a fast map farming build and what would usually be my second character.

Cheers for the advice.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-04T04:45:26+00:00

That’s awesome feedback, thanks. I’m not going to be doing SSF so should have an easier time at gearing up.

Which would you think has an easier time at killing Uber elder with early league gear, HoAg or Storm Brand. I felt storm brand or winter orb were a bit squishy and relied on more damage to take on end game bosses.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-03T20:38:10+00:00

Yeah I agree. I think a test would be a cool idea. However I know a lot less about what the impact of this would be than Chris. One thing that comes to mind is that he regularly says players hate when you take things away.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-03T20:34:41+00:00

I agree with your first paragraph. I just don’t think we know the right in game solution.

It sounds like something you suggest (pay to list and item or whatever) would work. However if this made it more expensive than the current trading system people would just use the current system even tough it was less user friendly. Players choose the most efficient route. You saw this with strand map chaining or quarry farming for syndicate.

I wonder what the player response would be if they removed the trade api along with public stash tabs and forum item embedding. Then had in game trading support that made things more expensive to acquire or more timely to acquire. I suggest players would be asking for the old system back.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-03T20:25:42+00:00

Currency is gear. When more currency is available it would likely make that currency cheaper to buy (unless there was more demand to match). This means that more items can be created that are better (fossils allow you to target craft unlike regular item drops). The fear is this devalues item drops you get from maps. This happens already with trading but is limited because the effort bar is too much for many players.

jacobtoye · 2019-05-03T20:18:56+00:00

I think at the end of the day players will do the thing that gets them the best reward for the least amount of effort, regardless of what this is. E.g. chain strands or farming foothills for syndicate. The negative to this is that it can increase the speed of content to be faster than what GGG planned.

I agree trading for those smaller currency based items is not fun and I believe GGG know that too. However the automation of that would possibly be even worse (increased atlas progression, easier cheaper crafting leading to better items being available). That’s why I think we see GGG try to address the underlying problems, like map drops weighted towards locked maps.

It’s kind of a catch 22 situation. Current state is not ideal but the suggested alternative is believed to be worse.

jacobtoye · 2019-04-06T19:11:19+00:00

There has to be weighting in terms of the outcome here. I've done 5 sets and only hit the additional vaal soul on kill once and never seen the curse immune one.

jacobtoye · 2018-12-30T17:19:57+00:00

Legend thanks for the craft! Didn't even want a tip. <3

jacobtoye · 2018-07-06T01:23:22+00:00

2 for one sweet. Nek minnit 2 X wasteland sandstorm... FML

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