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Then start a campaign to get all player to stop paying so much. If everyone would stop paying 2bil+, then the prices would drop. Prices are set by whatever people were willing to pay.
If you list a glad proc for 6 inf, you are very unlikely to get 6 inf for it, no matter how much you want to sell it for 6 inf. As the seller, you can't control that.

Expert or no, you have suggested that you know what's better for the market than the people who use it regularly with success.

Then you should accept the consequences of your decision rather than try to nerf others fun.

The prices don't make that impossible. Second, in my experience, there's not been much "finishing" of a toon. I got a toon "finished", then they came out with IO sets. I got it all "finished" and then they came out with purples and PvP IOs. I got that toon "finished" again and they have made fitness inherent and added Incarnate slots. I expect that after I "finish" that toon yet again, they will make more changes.

And you need a toon slotted with 10 PvP IO sets to have fun? Or no?

Like reward merits? Like alignment merits? Like inf and random drops?

AFAICT, marketeers play the game. Examine some of the marketeering guides. One of teh big selling point of the guides is how little time is needed for success. Why would these guides emphasize that? What is that they are doing with the rest of their play time?

Most marketeers will tell you that farm grinding is for suckers.

I could, but I won't and I haven't.

It seems that if you understood the system you are wanting to change, you could make a much better case for why and how it should be changed. But that's just an opinion I have formed from my anecdotal and idiosyncratic experiences of my life. It may well be that in this instance your lack of understanding of the system you are wanting to change will lead to you some great epiphany for improving something you don't seem to know very much about.
But, it hasn't yet.

It certainly shows that the buyers set the price.
If buyers won't buy it at the price the seller wants, the seller takes a loss

shhhh
We weren't suppose to talk about the screw B_C club. Otherwise everyone would want to get in on the massive profits to be gained from buying PvP IOs for 2bil and then selling them for (2bil - listing fee).

I don't think the bolded statement is true. There may be some build where that makes sense, but I highly doubt it's "most builds"

The prices will be at 100 when all buyers bid only 100. Try putting things up for sale @ 100 and see if you get 100 or if you get more than that.

they priced them about 50% higher than purps. Purpls run about 20 A Merits and PvPIOs run around 30 AMerits

So 'about an hour' is constant effort?
Are you having fun? If you are having fun, then you're doing it right. If you're not having fun, then you're doing it wrong.
What server do you play on? I play on Freedom. My global is @cossatot. It would be great to have you come along with me sometime.

Where would these recipes and enhancements come from? Players? Or from the game?
As has been pointed out previously, the Market is much more powerful than any player. The market manipulates players, not the other way around.
There need to be things that are hard to do and hard to get or interest dies.

You mean 2 months of 20 minutes per play session. That's all the longer it takes to do your tips.

Why do you post so much mis-information?
Why is it that you don't see how ill-informed you are?
Why don't you see that your lack of understanding leads you to reach the wrong conclusions?
Ummm you don't know how many PVP IO sets there are do you?
You also have no idea how incredibly few builds could possibly use all of the PvP IO sets in any meaningful way.
You ignorance of the market and builds makes you suggestions worthless. As a rule of thumb, one should learn how things work before you try to change them.
It has been pointed out over and over and over, it doesn't take years to "finish" a toon here.

And will these recipes come from players or will the game generate them?

Take it to the other thread--the appropriate one.

It's been well explained in a more appropriate thread.

I know that I for one await his next post.

Chaos has been having some computer problems iirc.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=308
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=312

Would the recipes/enhancements be supplied by the game or by players?

Actually, the marketeers are quite content. It seems instead that you are the one who is a malcontent.

No one is abusing the market.

Which one would you like?
My theory is that the less than friendly reception is the result of you doing things like not reading / acknowledging posts. It's not because of the bad ideas you bring up.

Oh and also possibly because of the misinformation you keep posting.

It has been demonstrated that you are unfamiliar with how the market works. Given your unfamiliarity, why is it that you think that the people who are familiar with the market are mistaken when it comes to the extreme difficulty if not impossibility to corner a market in this game? Why can't you accept that there are things about the market you don't know and are unfamiliar with? Why can't you accept that some other players understand the market better than you do?

@ 4000 kils per purp, you're only killing 100 per play session.
How long does it take you to garner 100 kills? I am pretty sure I can get more than 10 kills a minute w/ most any lvl 47+ toon I have.

Additionally, you could also and at the same time get 20 AMerits in 40 days while still getting your chances at Purple drops.

And, to beat the dead horse that's obvious, many, many people have pimped out their toons in much less time than 7 years.
Saying it takes 7 years is not realistic.

Anyone can get a PvP IO in 24 days buy playing the game running tips and SFs. Or in 60 days if you leave out the SFs and just run tips.
Why should it should take someone one year to do what can be done in two months or less.

You're right. Somehow that cost hasn't seemed noticeable yet. lol

if you add in some reward merits from arcs and SFs you can reduce that significantly
you can get about 1.5 AMerits per day iirc.
I think it's the PvP IOs are the ones that are 30 Amerits
I think purple sets are only about 20 Amerits

So it would be closer to 100 AMerits for 5 purps
@ 1.5 /day => about 67 days or so for a set of 5

Also consider that in the course of events, a purple may well drop.