Theoretical IRK Question
10OK, this is purely theoretical because it probably won’t happen…
But say the allotted time expired without people buying the IRKs, would we be able to go back to a previous IRK for sale and buy it. (like we can Mehrathon items that we slept through now).
How could it happen? In reverse order of liklihood.
- A major data center that connects to Irk’s servers collapses.
- WW3 erupts and we’re all watching our television to see Slovakia in flames. (spoiler WW3 is everyone nuking Slovakia)
- Aliens zap earth with a stun ray knocking everyone out for 15 minutes.
It probably won’t happen… but if it did, could we go back and buy an IRK if the time runs out without the IRKs selling, or will we lose our opportunity?
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Is this like one of those “if a tree falls” questions?
@shawn yes, if a tree falls in the woods and no-one buys an Irk before the timer runs out; can we still buy one despite no one hearing the tree fall?
@OnionSoup who could say?
@shawn do you think we could get everyone to agree not to buy an Irk the next time one comes up, so we can see what happens?
@OnionSoup @shawn Yes…Everyone should totally NOT BUY AN IRK NEXT ROUND…I PROMISE I won’t buy one either…
@shawn Maybe Meh could tell us not to buy it. They could warn us that we would regret it, if we did, for example.
@shawn @UpLateAnyway I would definitely heed such a warning. I wonder why they don’t do that.
@OnionSoup @shawn @shoelessjoek So glad you totally promised not to buy one. That will leave one for me. Thanks!
There have been Sidedeal Irks that went for sale for days and I think the last Sidedeal Irk was so hard to find, it just expired and never sold out.
@densa I don’t think I’ve ever come across a sidedeals Irk.
@OnionSoup Oh…they’ve popped up on occasion. Usually as a thank you to VMP members or there will be a side comment in the comments. I’ve noticed the quality to be a tad better than the Meh Irks but that might be my imagination. I think I’ve had three (and missed one)
@densa ahhh… I haven’t been a VMP in a long time. Let mine expire.
@OnionSoup I think the first one was on April 1 last year. They mentioned to check out Sidedeals and they had a few hidden there for people to find.
@densa @OnionSoup I guess you have to be an VMP to see it.
@densa And there might just be one there right now…
@cinoclav @densa you are a hero and a lifesaver and deserve the congressional medal of honor.
@cinoclav @densa is it only during mehrathons they appear on sidedeals, or do they appear at other times too?
@cinoclav Is there one? I haven’t seen it yet. I’ll have to look for it.
@cinoclav @OnionSoup I’ve seen them appear after the Mehrathons.
@densa Yep, there is one.
@cinoclav Guessin it is gone by now
@bruceoite Loooong gone.
I mean theoretically yes it probably follows the rules of the Mehrathon its in.
@DoctorOW you would think, but they’re definitely coded a little different, because for example, you can’t buy more than one in a day, and they put captcha on them too. So I don’t know if they necessarily play by the same rules. Irk’s predate the era of being able to buy past items too! So they might play by the rules of a previous era- the old Mehrathons.
I installed CAPTCHA to save my fellow robots from wasting money on this crap.
@OnionSoup I assume that the Mehrathon settings are separate from the deal settings to save time so they don’t have to enter it 200 times. That said I have no idea how they have it setup.
are IRKs theoretical? i’ve always thought they’re more hypothetical.
@carl669 proverbially speaking, yes.
@carl669 @OnionSoup Definitely a possible maybe
@carl669 they are more heuristical than hypothetical.