Organica

See this thread for one solution. People store influence in the market by placing bids of up to 1,999,999,999 on something that (they assume) will never actually be for sale -- level 53 IOs, for an example. But please note that this takes up a marketing slot (the person in that thread has 53 slots though).

I just use multiple marketeers, and buy stuff to store in my base.

Yay, I'm famous!

I dug up This thread to try and pin down the point where I decided to be a serious marketeer... it was July 2009, about three years ago. At that point I could claim a few hundred million to my name, didn't know a lot of what I know now, and had only one (partially) IO'd character, but I was over 2 billion 6 weeks later.

Flipping is this:

You put in a bid for, let's say, a level 50 Cytoskeleton at 201 million influence. After maybe a week, you've manage to purchase it. You relist it for 303 million influence. After a few days, it sells for maybe as much as 400 million.

Basically, you're buying something at a low price and selling it at a high price, and the reason it works is that you're patient and can wait for the right price, and other people are impatient and want to sell their crap immediately and/or buy what they want immediately. But you're not crafting anything, or converting anything, or bringing anything to the market on your own (except patience and the use of your market slots.)

Some of what's being talked about here is converting purples into different purples and relisting them -- technically I wouldn't call that flipping, you're offering something to the market other than what was there before.

The above example would be on the high end of things. On the low end, people flip things like salvage regularly.

Hmmmmmm....

I don't like running TFs at plus anything. If you want extra experience, you should probably be running regular missions where a problem with the difficulty is more easily solved. This weekend on one TF people wanted to bump the difficulty, and we were seriously plowing through things so after 1 or 2 missions the leader bumped it up. I'm generally okay with it in a situation like that, based on already knowing that our team was was not being challenged at all. But in most situations there are at least a few people on the team whose primary goal is merits or a badge, and turning it into a slogfest isn't going to make them happy. At least, warn people BEFORE they join the TF that this is what you plan.

By the same token, I tend to like steamrolling TFs over speeding through them, especially certain TFs like an ITF. Last week I joined a friend who wanted to run a sub-20 minute ITF, and it was really kind of sad. When I turned left in the 2nd mission to solo one of the hallways, more than half the team followed me. And some of them died, even though they were not no their own. When we got to the third mission, the person tasked with pulling the AVs down to the computer only managed to pull Rommy, and we had to go up and kill Requiem on the platform after. Then, in the final mission, we had a full team wipe on Rommy. It wasn't clear if people intended to clear first but on a speed run I just assumed that you'd kill Rommy and ignore everything else, but our team wasn't able to handle it. Which is really sad because the people I normally run with, who don't bother to try and speed, would have handled it easily, but they're generally not interested in a speed run in the first place.

I like a kill-most TF run with people who could probably speed or possibly even solo the TF if they wanted to. Those are fun, and good experience for the team. ^_^

We also ran a Penelope Yin over the weekend, and one friend asked if it was a speed or steamroll, and when we said steamroll he said, "meh" and declined to join. I just don't get why you'd want to speed through a Yin TF, it takes all of 30 minutes even killing everything in front of you, and I enjoy it more. I mean, I've run a lot of speed TFs in my time, but usually the older ones that are not very interesting to begin with, and you tell people that's the plan before they join.

HOWEVER: It amazes me how many people don't understand that you can change the difficulty on a task force between missions. Almost every other week I'm on a team that argues that you can't do it. Yes, you can.

Four: her butt.

My first character ever was Organica, a katana/regen scrapper. I did eventially get her to 50. Also my 2nd 50 and the toon I played once I came back to the game years ago, and the character that was considered my "main" for several years is Mouse Police, also a katana/regen scrapper. So I know exactly where you're coming from here... I don't really like playing either of them, but they are some of my oldest characters and they're both 50.


As nearly as I can tell people that hate this TF have been on teams that couldn't handle the teleporting AV at the end, and got pummeled by the air strikes. Because it's a very fun TF on a good team. I like it!

Strangely enough nearly every run I've been on (on Virtue) has been a badge run. People almost always ask and someone usually says they want it, and the majority of people are good at using only single target powers when asked. I think all of my DfB-only characters here already have the badge, except for the one I haven't played yet, and it hasn't even involved unusual pulling tactics.

I'm not adverse to forming my own groups, but so far I haven't had to either, there's always one forming that I can join.

Liberty Cowbell, perhaps. Sadly, you wouldn't be able to put the tricorner hat on a minotaur head, that would be aces.

With DxP starting tomorrow I've decided to not run any of these characters again until Monday. I'm mostly interested in how long it takes me to 50 on regular DfB runs, and I'll probably pick a different character to try and level up for the big XP weekend. So here's my 2nd update on the project:

8/8/12 Terran Angel, run 4-5, level 14, 16

Terran Angel is a psychic/mental blaster, for no particularly good reason other than it's a combo I don't already have. I was teamed with another psychic/mental blaster, who had a kind of 30's pulp look and a name like "Dr. Psychosis" or something... I have to say, his look and name matched the power sets much better than mine do. But he had no bio, and he turned out to be one of those blasters who constantly complains about having melee attacks, and how it's "counter productive" and makes no sense. I imagine he's been airing the same complaint for years.

8/9/12 Darkwave Surfer, run 4-5, levels 14, 16

The best bio of the night was a time/bots Mastermind named Fernsworth. (I assume Farnsworth was taken.) His bio began with "Good news, everyone! I've just invented..." and ends with, " uh... where am I?" Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed. ^_^





Darkwave Surfer is named after a song by Japanese electronic dance/pop band Aural Vampire. They don't play dark wave, which is really music like Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees and a lot of German bands that came along much later, but the general feel of the song title and the music makes me think of a goth raver, so my character is a dark elf goth girl who loves going to rave dances. This is a time manipulation/water blast defender, because I can't make all of my water blast toons corruptors or blasters (and anyway, I don't have a time manip fender yet).

Water Blast, btw, is another extremely fun set on a Death from Below run.