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I don't have to kill 2 bill worth of NPCs to generate "new" Influence, that's the thing.

I just use the Market! Case in point, my Mind/Cold. She's level 44 now and sitting on 450 Merits from just doing Phalanx TFs for accolading and my Friday night TF groups (we recently did Shard TFs, massive influx of Merits there).
On the side, I did AE and cashed in at level 35. I made close to 100,000,000 influence just off those rolls from AE.

Other players gave me that money! *YOU* might have given me that money. On the other side, I run my bubbler through my demon farm and just craft the drops and sell them. On a bad run I sell a few crafted uncommons for 5 to 20 million and sell the salvage for 2-10 million. On a *good* run I get a purple and sell it for 70,000,000 plus.

My Warshade on Triumph, The Casual Player, is sitting on 10,000,000 at level 20 and that's not that much, but I've been lazy in playing her. All I did was sell drops to the Market.

If *all* you do is just defeat mobs and vendor stuff you'll make enough to outfit yourself in single origins and still clear the several million cap. Seriously. It's impossible to not make money somehow!

My SGmates on Pinnacle were actually wondering how they'd afford an LOTG for their builds: "It's so expensive!"

I told them EXACTLY how to do it:

i)Roll a new alt
ii)Sell insps on market (20,000 - 50,000 inf)
iii)Sell any salvage on market
iv)Place low bids on recipes and vendor them
v)Do a few TFs, cash in Merits and craft and sell.

Eventually you'll get your millions, and quickly at that.
The game also gives you "new inf" with mob defeats; millions of "new inf", especially at level 50! I think Catwhoorg did a report a while back that states an hour's play on even a low-damage character at level 50 got you 1,000,000 per hour...do the math.

I got a PvP IO on my rad/therm, sold it for 300,000,000. I bought a LOTG recipe for 200,000,000 for a sgmate that needed it then passed the rest to my lowbie Mastermind.

The population may be declining but even on a low-pop server like Pinnacle I can get an 8 person TF going which gives me Merits and inf...an infinitely increasing amount of inf coming into the game with few inf sinks outside of crafting and market sales and costume changes and prestige buyins...

Yes, correct. Thanks for the catch.

Your avatar is mesmerizing and makes me want to boogie.

I'd just Phase.

Seriously, to answer the OP any tweaks to the AI would be great. I'm not sure they can though; I imagine most mobs have a set of attacks they execute, sometimes haphazardly (Scientists opening with Consume anyone?) and such. If they could code it...say a mob had Cold Domination, hit the healers with Benumb, go from there.

Things could get nasty in a hurry. You have to take into account the average player that just logs in for a TF or mission or two as well. If they get frustrated they move to the XBox...or go out and do something else.
I think in this game, they'd be better suited to just add challenging content that needs gimmicks or temp powers or tricks to defeat...AE can always be used as a stress-tester.

Word.
I just wish I could have watched some of those sg vs. sg matches in the day. The cross-buffing must have been insane.

Transferring some more stuff to Freedom before the weekend is done.

Same here!

I know nothing about the expansion, but Praetorians use Behemoths, Behemoths have to be on maps, maps can be reset..."All I'm gonna do is farm more Behemoths".

Haha, kidding aside one issue is travel. I've gotten so used to shortcuts in CoX: bases, Ouroboros portal, multiple train lines...I don't think I'll do more than be a tourist in Praetoria if I have to slog across multiple zones doing deliveries etc. Hopefully they borrow from the CoV model here and make the zones more compact.

Yeah...real information please.

AE is nice and while there are nice arcs out there, I haven't played a Dev's Choice in a while. A lot of them have really annoying mobs and just haven't been very engaging. One of my all-time favourites is the Saul Rubenstein Discount Task Force, which had everything: humour, no really annoying mobs, no annoying unmentioned EBs or AVs and it was quick to complete.

Others I've tried had an EB (not mentioned by the contact) in the first room or so or just mobs with annoying powers...like overuse of end drain or -Defense abilities.

These days, I use AE to PL my alts to 20 or through the 30s before hitting the ITF circuit, which brings me to my next concern...end-game content itself.

If you look at the "End-game", it's basically 35+.

You have "Challenging End-game" in LRSF and STF (yeah yeah, some of us can whip these in 30 minutes...) and even Hydra can be challenging if people don't follow instructions. Then you have...the Shard TFs, which have nice storylines but are TOO DANGED LONG. Then you have Reichsmann TF, nicely paced but the last fight, heroside at least, is tedium in extreme. Just mashing buttons while a 250,000 HP boss goes down...not doing that a lot folks. While there may be an issue with the amount of debuffs available, making the end boss a large sack of hit points isn't the answer.

I'm crying for stuff to do with my purpled out alts. With the removal of the challenge slider for TFs (Just remove the ability to -1 them!) all I'm doing these days is ITFs, the occasional Positron/TF Commander run and a Respec every now and then.

This game has needed interesting End-game stuff forever. Heck, even some stuff specifically targeting high-end builds would be great, since at the moment AE is my only way of finding such challenges.

I got a second account a week ago and while I am running the contact arcs redside (which are generally great, Merit wise and story wise), heroside I see myself..."Well, I can go to Kings Row and do this Rescue Lost mission or...I can dual-box in AE and just PL to ITF level..." and that isn't a great place to be.

Give us stuff to do please...

I am looking forward to the self-invites to SGs and PLing my alts as well.

Being born into Paragon City without all my vet rewards, Pocket D VIP pass, etc etc was pretty jarring but it's still a fun game haha.


You've always had the sharpest wit on the server, PantherShade!

Also too late to 'vote' but left a comment.
Cheers Ping and spouse!

I'd server transfer my Rad/Therm or Emp/Psy or Ill/TA for this, maybe my Ill/Emp

Also. hai Robo!