Grouchybeast

No.

Inf is, as you say, put into the economy by enemy defeats, mission bonuses and selling drops to stores. Trading in Wentworth's, on the other hand, actually reduces the total amount of inf out there.

Letting you buy a billion inf on the Paragon Market would add a billion brand new inf to the economy.

Selling an ATO on Wentworths for a billion inf moves 900 million pre-existing inf from one player to another, and removes a hundred million inf from the economy in Wents fees.

Selling ATOs on the market does not drive inflation. Pouring extra inf into the game by letting people buy it outright does.

Seriously. 'Being able to see what I'm buying before I buy it' is a pretty basic piece of functionality for an on-line store. The store interface is an piece of crap that should never have gone live, never mind still be in the state it's in months later.

Yay! I feel like this thread has been an epic triumph of CoX community awesomness! :-)

Right-click the slot to bring up the enhancement pop-up, then select the left-hand circle in the top row, which gives you an empty slot.

I'm happy that one survived. I use it on my fire blaster, especially when I'm showing up for Mo badge runs.

Unfortunately, the yearly rewards are FUBARed, and have been since Freedom went live. It's an acknowledged issue, with no estimate of when they'll be able to fix it, if they'll be able to fix it.

If you have /auctionhouse, then you probably also have (or can get with the next token) /vault, too? If so, then you can stand in a university by a crafting bench, and buy, craft and slot right where you are.

You definitely aren't the only exception. I'm a pretty introverted person in general. I basically play CoH in one of three ways: I solo, I duo with Archie, or I play TFs and Trials. If I team, I vastly prefer to play in large groups doing content with a specific endpoint, so that I don't feel obliged to chat if I don't feel like it, and I know that there's a point where I can leave easily.

This is pretty much why I passed on the purple-buying frenzy.

I've been playing for three and a half years. I have maybe 35 characters in total, only 25 of which are on the server I regularly play on. Eight of them are fifties. Only two of those fifties I actually still play. I already have a storage bin with about fifty purples in it that I haven't found a use for, yet, or needed to sell to fund my builds. I just don't really need any more.

That's probably a bug. Some people find they have the EATs unlocked when they're Premium, and some people don't. So don't be surprised if the bug is fixed at some point and you lose access to the characters again.

How about IOing out completely with level 40s instead, then? Everything will match, and there's really nothing to choose between 40s and 50s in terms of performance. I start slotting all my characters with IOs in the low/mid 30s, because then I can actually use the IO build as I'm levelling up, I can buy the IOs in a nice, leisurely way as I go along, and I never need to replace the IOs once they're in there.

Just let me know what you want when you have the final build fixed, and I'll send you the IOs. It might take me a little more time to get everything together if you want to go the level 40s route, as supply is lower (and I'm kind of stingy, so I hate paying more than I have to :-) But it'll be fun getting everything together.

IOs have the same breakdown as salvage, and the recipe names are colour coded the same way: Common (White), Uncommon (Yellow) and Rare (Orange), plus Very Rare (Purple) and PVP.

The Paragonwiki has the merit costss for Reward Merits and Alignment Merits.

The Incarnate Merit vendors in Ouro also sell recipes, although I'm sure that you'll have much better things to do with your Emp and Astral Merits than buy recipes.

Sam, why do you start these threads when they just make you sad, and in the end you don't use any of the advice that people give you because it's all fundamentally not how you are willing to play the game? It's nice that the info is put out there for other people to use, but it seems like you're just putting yourself through the wringer again and again for nothing.

When I22 hits, why not just fill up your e-mail with insps, set your difficulty to -1x1, and see how far you can get in the new DA content on an SO build? If your SO characters really can't cope, then worry about what comes next.

(And if it turns out that you still want to try out an IO build then, find one you like, send it to me, and I'll mail you the IOs you need at whatever level you prefer. Just go easy on the purples and PVP IOs, please ;-)

I thought I'd leave it to the people who would have more fun doing it. :-)

I think the rest of your post pretty much invalidates your opening sentence.

If people could buy IOs on the Paragon Market and put them into the Auction House, it might do a lot of things, but it wouldn't increase prices or contribute to inflation.