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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slazenger View Post
    I thought one of the marketeers codes was patience?
    I make tons of inf so I don't have to wait around unless I WANT to wait around.

    It's a voluntary thing.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quasadu View Post
    Hmmm. I have an idea forming in my brain...
    dual build, leave the slots empty, hit radio missions.

    =D
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Minotaur View Post
    It can be done easily, I'm making upwards of 1BN a week marketeering and if I did more of it I could make more.
    this is true, and not hard at all.

    i've been getting my 1b for the 88's furnace doing basically two things:
    farming MA a few minutes a day and rolling recipes, using those as radar to find good stuff to craft, then bidding on ten stacks and crafting the wins. I stick it all in base storage over the course of the week then blow it out on the weekend when the action is hot.

    I could easily double or triple that (anyone could), but I'm happy with my 1b a week for almost no effort.

    The big secret to making inf in this game is........its so easy a child could do it.
    =p
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bad_Influence View Post
    Elitism is alive and well in this game; its characterised by those who can afford to slot a powers-list chock-full of 500 million-Inf recipes and those who cannot. Luckily purple merits mitigate this somewhat.... but only somewhat.
    the only junk in the game it isn't convenient to buy with merits/amerits/tickets are purples and PvP IOs.

    That's it.

    Two types of kit you actually have to put some effort into acquiring, out of everything in the game.

    And even those aren't very hard to get, since anybody with an ounce of motivation who's literate enough to read one of our handy Market guides will soon be making inf faster than they can spend it.
  5. Nethergoat

    Praise elsewhere

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Heraclea View Post
    But it's called a "market", you say it, I say it. To the noob (and may there always be noobs among us. amen and alleluia) this suggests a shop not much different from an in game vendor. What they find instead will startle them.
    Only if they've never gone near an MMO in their lives.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MunkiLord View Post
    I don't know how yall get that badge and make a profit, I always lose tons of influence. I mean, I know the patience thing, I just don't have the patience to bid and wait for reasonable prices.
    I focused on one badge per 'day', placing bids on recipes and salvage then logging off. Usually, when I checked back I had all my components at my price point. Instead of choosing the "cheapest" IOs to craft, I picked the ones that would sell the best- I ended up only having to delete a relative handful of 'junk', nearly everything I made went out at a profit.

    A couple of times I overpaid for stuff, usually when my full stack of salvage bids didn't fill.

    And I also engaged in opportunistic crafting- if I spotted something cheap that I could use to make something expensive, I stocked up, crafted up a bunch and listed 'em for overnight sale. The more memorization badges I earned, the easier this became.

    The profits aren't huge, but they're very reliable and the investment is negligible.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slazenger View Post
    I regard anything as "silly" when it breaks the game code, 2bil is highest amount you can bid in game, 2bil is as much as a char can hold in game anything more than that is just "silly" (or greedy as the more unfriendlier term).
    Insufficiently robust coding isn't the players fault.

    And with gleemail anybody can be 'carrying' 2b on them plus 2bil - 1inf X however many global mail slots we've got (10?).

    Currently the inf cap is a fiction.
  8. looks *worse* in higher quality...ooof!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jim_G View Post
    It's like pretending to be batman by sitting at a fleamarket selling used blankets.
    You could probably find a better exemplar of the incompatibility of superheroing and capitalism than Batman, who's vast fortune is integral to his mythology.
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lohenien View Post
    This is a simple idea : you give me money and two weeks, I'll give you more money than you gave me. I'll keep 10% of the net gain you get the rest plus your original input ( you put in 500m - I boost that up to 700m - profit is 200m - Ill take 20m you get 680m back ).

    So any interest in this idea ?
    you philanthropist, you!
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SuperFerret View Post
    Let me ask you this, after you pimp out your character with IO's what then? What will you do then?
    That's simple!

    Complain that the game is too easy and there's no content.


    =D
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by _23X_ View Post
    can you even burn such a small pile? I always burn in nice cube shaped stacks of 1 billion. I am in fact prepping my 4th cube now hope to set it aflame Monday night before the cold front rolls in.
    you can, in fact, burn that small a stack.

    although it does feel slightly pathetic, like lighting your cigar with a Monopoly dollar bill instead of a crisp, new $100.

    =D

    Quote:
    good on you, however I don't have the time to look for worthy players, instead I'll just give it to anyone that asks.
    I'm around here enough during my work week that I can afford to scan the masses for bright eyed candidates. Recruiting is a fine idea, though!
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    Craft your own.

    Craft twice what you need, sell the rest. You'll have more money at the end than when you started.
    I'm about to finish off Field Crafter on my 'generic IOs only' guy and it looks like he'll clear roughly 60m in profit while also Frankenslotting himself out, including a low-level Kismet +acc.
  14. I'm REALLY tempted to sign up and then consign the inf to the 88's base-heating furnace.

    =p




    disclaimer: I also give away a lot of inf to the needy- I keep an eye out as I roam the forums and when I see a sincere candidate I ask for their global and send them a bag full of cash.
  15. r/e 'typo moment':


    Maybe I've found a hidden coven of SERIAL TYPO-ISTS, because I've been working several niches this week where I've listed eighty or so crafted IOs at 2-4 million and sold every last one of them for 15-20 million.

    Who knew CoH players were such awful typists!
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by MRDEANE View Post
    I use to do that when market prices were reasonable actually
    the low end for generic IOs is about the same as it's ever been.

    Or at least I haven't changed my lowball bids and they still reliably get me IOs...maybe you were dealing with a lower price point or something.
  17. I like DM.

    MA is a fine set, but I'm prejudiced against pure smashing/lethal damage.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by je_saist View Post
    Two words for you: Shadow Shard

    Just because you don't like the existing end-game content is no reason for you to say that there isn't any.
    As much as I love the shard, pretending it's any sort of 'end game' content is ridiculous. As well say that Radio Missions are end game content.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Stealth_Bomber View Post
    So what got YOU hooked?
    A few buddies saw it at E3 and told the rest of us it looked great, I loved comics and the idea of 'playing hero' again since all my pen and paper Champions buddies had moved away so I picked it up the day it was released.


    And here I am!
  20. I'm beginning to think I was waaaaaaay too generous with my 'plate of onion rings' analogy.
  21. Nethergoat

    Praise elsewhere

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TamakiRevolution View Post
    Pretty sure that's a bug, and not WAI.
    here's hoping!
  22. Nethergoat

    Praise elsewhere

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    I'm going to throw this out because its something you might not know.
    Issue 19 does away with publicly seeing set bonuses. Come I19 it will be impossible to know who is purpled and who is not.
    Lame!

    I always enjoy checking out what folks have slotted when I'm hanging out at the market.

    Although it'll hopefully invalidate those occasional tall tales we get of people who were KICKED FOR NOT HAVING IOS. =P
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Catwhoorg View Post
    Why not slot common IOs at 25-35 levels.

    Save replacing the IOs and save a decent chunk of amount of inf over the remaining levels ?
    this is an excellent money saving tip from the Cat.

    if you plan ahead a bit, you can get most crafted generic IOs for less than they cost to make thanks to our friends the badgers.

    Buy em, slot em and forget em until you're ready to upgrade, for a fraction of the cost of constantly fluctuating and expiring SOs.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I've just found out via the beta chat channel that if you've disabled receiving the NCSoft newsletter on your master account profile, you'll never be eligible for a closed beta invite ever again.
    I checked my spare email for the first time in a long time last night to click a registration link, and LO there was an I19 closed beta invite sitting there.

    Oh well, I haven't really got the time to test anything anyway.