DocArcus

You may not think this is a valid reason, but I see this as a huge reason. I don't farm. I don't have a need for it. Every toon I have has over 10mil inf by level 10 (two of my toons have over 1bil each.) I don't need to transfer inf around because I've learned how to use what the game has in it to make all the inf I need. Earning inf is not hard at all. It's so easy that I don't see a good enough reason to have a global bank at all. The only thing I ever move from toon to toon are recipes and IOs, And that's only because I don't like to buy something that I have on another toon.

Over the years the Devs have tried to find ways to get us to spend all the inf we have on our high level toons. The feeling is that a low level that has been given large amounts of inf has an advantage over someone else at the same level. They have taken out most of the things that made it harder for a high level to save up large amounts of inf, but I don't see them ever making it easy to give inf to your other toons.

The problem with this is that your powers in PvP work different than they do in PvE. It would be a huge coding problem to have the entire zone switch rules for the time the event is running. The other problem with having villian players join in is that not everyone wants to PvP. I know I would be annoyed if I got a mission in Bricks and found myself forced to PvP in a PvE zone just so I can get to my mission.

It isn't that they hate the bases, it that they hate lvl50s having so much inf. Back when they added the bases, they thought for sure that all the lvl50 would trade in their extra inf to build a better base faster. They don't want us holding onto billions of inf. That's why we used to have to chose between inf and prestige.

I've done this kind of foot race before and it's a lot of fun. The rules were simple. They had to be level 1, could not use anything other than the train to move from zone to zone, and be willing to put the toon in a special SG for the race so everyone could see who was a part of the race (and so they couldn't cheat by using a base.) We had a list of exploration badges that people had to get along the way (one in each zone.) If we have enough high levels, we would team them up to keep the racers from having a friend TP them from spot to spot. The first one to make it from AP to Portal Corp and have all the badges won.

Everyone I know plans on buying all the boosters as they come out. We know costumes and emotes is all we are going to get and it doesn't matter. We will still buy them. CoH has made it 5 years without needing to sell inf for real money. I don't see that changing. I see this the same way I see lifetime subscriptions. It sounds good at first, but in the end it will hurt the game. It's the monthly fee to play that makes all the money.

Get AE tickets and buy rare salvage (Pangeon Soil is one of the good ones for that.) Sell salvage in WW. The thing I do is buy recipes and craft them to sell. I don't flip salvage.

edit: I'm adding this because someone decided to give me neg rep for the AE tickets. I added that as an easy way to earn inf (and the more that do it, the larger the supply and will end up lowering the price). I am not a fan of AE. I stay away from it as much as I can. Some of my SG members like to make missions and have us run them. They put a lot of work into writing a story and building mobs for it. I will not turn down a friend when they ask me to run a mission they have been working on. That is about the only way someone can get me to join an AE team. Even with my disdain of AE, I find that I earn enough tickets to buy 5-10 rare salvage. That will end up selling in WW for 3-8 mil depending on the market price that day.