AgentMountaineer

The numbers may have changed, but with almost any toon you can set the difficulty at 1 and speed run any number of arcs via Ouroboros.

Silver rolls aren't that bad. I have no problem making a good chunk of influence off of my rolls. I don't think I'd call it my most productive niche, but it is still productive and extremely so when the RNG is feeling generous.

Shoot, good thing I'm in the club from actually having 1 billion. I only ever think of flipping my pillows for the cool side, except when I was camping this weekend and I was trying to suck in as much warmth as I could. It got way too cold for August nights in the middle of a desert.

BTW: I want to know why my niche suddenly crashed....Must be the craziness of 2XP. A 20 Million inf crafted IO that was going for 20 million has crashed to around 6 million.

You just reminded me of a website I came across during the whole porkulus bill fiasco earlier this year. It gives a visual representation of what $1 trillion looks like.

Imagine walking into *that* warehouse.

Either they spend it all or have a destruction party like Fulmens. When I think of his influence destruction project, I see the Joker burning a little Chinese man on a pyre of cash. How would that be to just watch it burn knowing it was once yours? Wow, I truly cannot fathom that.

'Tis true, which is exactly the way things are supposed to work. There's another thread talking about what it means to be rich and the relativity of the term is explained there quite well. Of course there are expensive items, but if there weren't, what would I have to spend my influence on? Not everybody has the ambition to build their own base, which is something that I rather enjoy, but creates quite a price tag because my SG is one i run by myself and fund mostly by converting influence to prestige.

I may not have as much influence as Bill Gates, as it were, but I only need as much as it takes to make me feel rich. With time, there isn't anything in this game I haven't been able to acquire.

Fiddle faddle. Have you noticed what's been happening to RMTers? The amount of influence they sell has increased dramatically. If memory serves correctly, I last saw 1,000 million (One Billion for those who aren't good with numbers) influence was being sold for around $40. If they had the monopoly on influence generation, they wouldn't be doing this and would still be charging the same price for 100 million. The general populace is also generating more influence than ever before with MA farms. With how quickly you can gain levels running AE farms, it almost makes me wonder if RMTs aren't becoming a bit obsolete in this game.

Sheesh, where do you get this silliness? Accountability is just a synonym for control in this context, and I don't know who you think you are to be the one who determines what is fair in this game. Capitalism is all about individual liberty to be able to pursue a goal in the way that individual sees fit. Natural law will lead him to find out whether his course will ultimately get him there and leaves him with the additional freedom to alter his course if needed. What you seem to want is control, not realizing that when there is disproportionate control, it limits you just as much as it does anybody else and only makes life more difficult. Instead of whining about the market, why not play the market. It is not a difficult system to figure out.

The intricacies of market control have been talked about over and over again on this forum. The bottom line is that the market works best when the individuals engaging in the market set the rules. If there is inflation in the market, it is because there is more money moving through it which means an increased opportunity to snag your own portion of it. The goods traded in this game are not a static pie that is divided and subdivided amongst the players, but is a pie that is continually expanding due to player activity. You too can have a purpled warshade and any one of us would be more than happy to tell you how if you're interested in learning.

I might get some flack for saying as much, but we are not as ebil in this forum as we would sometimes like to think. Though we do have our moments when we like to toy with the system.

I have a solo SG that I am running via funds earned with my main. Now that I have my Gladiator's Armor, it will be nothing but accumulating influence to convert to prestige to continue to build my base. Maybe someday I'll bust it out of solo mode, but for now it's just me and some alts that I used to gain my initial funding. I love that I can convert influence to prestige. Otherwise it would take me a helluva long time to even get where I am now.

I play a rotation of ways to make my big bucks. In no particular order:

1. Many have already explained the basics of flipping. You just need to move away from the salvage and start looking at recipes. Level 50's are probably the easiest. You just need to know what people want. Damage, healing, and defense are the ones I normally work in.
   
2. The cousin of flipping is the buy recipe-> craft-> sell route. You find recipes with a good difference in sales between the recipe and the crafted IO. I generally look for about a 10 million influence profit and buy recipes in bursts at slightly more than what I think anybody else who might be niche-ing the recipes are doing (Look for non-round numbers like 10,203,455). Then I turn around and sell for a few million influence lower than what I think the going rate is. This will not generate as much profit as it could, but it helps ensure your product moves faster than the other guy's which is the whole point.
   
3. The last method I use is to roll-> craft -> sell route. This method is a little more volatile than the others, but can still earn you influence faster than flipping salvage. I'll find a good map, or make my own, in AE and then farm for tickets. A good lietenant map set on difficulty level 4 (can't wait for the new difficulty settings in I16) means you can mow through it pretty fast and get pretty close to the ticket cap without quite going over. Once you've accumulated a good pile of tickets, go and do some rolls. I like silver 30-34 rolls. It's one of the largest pools, but still gets you some pretty good stuff even on the low end of things and still profitable. I don't throw away the junk. I craft everything.

So there's my list of three easy ways to start generating influence a little faster. Have fun!

Oh that is just a little too sad, but I am still laughing! Muah ha!

Ooops...good thing you didn't see my purchase of a PvP IO for 1.6 Billion. That's right, it's with a 'B'. I still don't know if it was worth it, but if I decide I don't want it, we'll see if i don't just feel generous enough to give it away to some lowbie standing in Atlas who won't be able to use it for a while. I know I'll make it back quickly enough to buy another one and keep the prices high!

Kronk's Shoulder Devil: Don't listen to that guy. He's trying to lead you down the path of righteousness. I'm gonna lead you down the path that rocks.

I didn't see any level 30s available, but I did find a lvl 50 that was actually listed and I decided I wanted it, and I wanted it NAO! Even a patient marketeer can be impatient. Don't spend all that lovely inf in one place like I did

I was happy with this post until I got to this little clunker. I am having a severe case of deja vu. Somebody had better reconfigure the matrix. This could be trouble.

The hardest part of the warshade I found was figuring out how to place my slots. So many powers, so few slots to play with. I'm sure the dilemma is only compounded when you start to try to figure out set bonuses. My WS is shelved for the time being. I haven't found the ambition to get him through the last 10 levels to 50.

I don't know if you're planning to document how things work out for you, but I think it would be interesting to hear what happens if you do.

Wow, a monacled smiley! Now you just need the top-hat over it and you'll be golden!

My most sincere apologies. I didn't see you standing on the roof trying to snipe him. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't get any drops off him. I'll *try* to avoid slowing you down in the future.

I've solo'd a handfull of AVs and am just over 40% on typed defense and same for melee defense with DA double stacked.

The DPS on my build at last check was roughly 175 which is more than sufficient for bringing down any AV that doesn't have major lethal resists.

With WP's bag of tricks it really just depends on where you decide to focus. You can focus on regen and probably be fine, or you can focus on defense and be able to take down those AVs. The resists are mainly to help it not hurt as bad when you do get hit.

Tried hard to make cash? Hmmm, I seem to recall you bragging about selling a handfull of PvP IOs for just a little more than the OP over 2XP weekend. I am quite sure that in order to reach this level of influence gain, you didn't just list those IOs (were they just the recipes or did you craft them first?) for 1 influence. I don't know all the numbers involved in generating PvP IOs, but I know they don't just rain from the sky either. One could easily make the argument that you worked just as hard to make some cash as the OP, you just took different routes to get there.

Are you serious with this bit of rant, or are you just trolling? Again going back to your boast of selling a bunch of PvP IOs for almost 5 bil in inf, how is this not just as "exploitative" as what the OP did? You 'farmed' innocent PvPers just to generate some drops and then listed them at the 'going rates' and made some very good profits. Your own greed certainly didn't seem to get in the way of making as much as you could for your time spent 'playing the game'.

I don't know what is inspiring this statement; but if nobody's buying the warez of the OP, who is going to be buying yours? What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

I almost want to think you haven't been paying attention for the last several issues. Issue 13 was the first market nerf when pool c recipes no longer dropped from TF completion and boss kills. Issue 14 was another nerf on common and uncommon salvage. Then there was further nerfage when the ticket cap was implemented. Not to mention the nerfage of PvP IOs. All of these have resulted in a decrease in supply, which is what leads to an increase in price, not the greed of ebil marketeers. We are usually more than willing to help others learn how to make just as much influence as we do on these very boards. The asking price for this knowledge is simply that they be willing to make a little bit of effort to learn how to use the market and then sacrifice a little bit of play time on the market. It doesn't require nearly as much time 'not playing the game as intended' as you would make it sound.

Yeah, insulting the devs is sure to gain you a lot of points. It's bad enough that you come on this forum with your little tirades, but you have to go a step lower and blame the very people who brought you this game for your woes. Pure childishness!

Scrappers in general are probably the best AT to pick up and solo. With knockback and mez protection in the early levels in every powerset, it means you'll spend a lot more time mowing things down rather than watching them beat on you while you are sleeping.

My first love when it comes to scrappers was my DB/Regen. Fast Healing and Quick Recovery are absolutely divine in the early levels and helps avoid the pre-stamina down times. Also I can't think of a better flowing powerset than DB with its animations and combos. Regen does require you to pay attention to your health more than some other secondaries, but with careful monitoring, you should be able to run quite consistently without a lot of down time.

My main toon now is a Kat/WP. WP takes a little bit of everything and makes one sweet secondary. Coupled with Divine Avalanche in Katana, you'll find yourself getting hit very little when facing melee combatants and makes for a smooth ride through the levels (although with AE, you can scream through the leveling process and then get a feel for the toon once it's around level 20).

Scrappers are addicting to play and are awesome for solo play. Just pick something run it through a few maps of the AE and you'll have all the powers you need to see how you like the toon.

Have fun!