Very Noice!!
Comic and Hero/Villain Culture
Saturday January 29th, 2005 (12:37 PM) ~ Monday August 9th, 2010
Those Who Lived It Will Remember Long after your Ban Hammer Crumbles and the servers flicker dead.
We Will Remember This One Moment In Time! ~ Shadow Ravenwolf
Super-gratz on hitting the cap!
Currently Playing:
A bunch of toons! (Freedom, Virtue, and a few on Infinity)
Grats! I'm still 200M or so short... grrr...
Grats. I've just entered the villain market myself, so hopefully I'll be joining you soon. 
- Ping (@iltat, @Pinghole)
Don't take it personally if you think I was mean to you. I'm an ******* to everyone.
It's a penguin thing. Pingu FTW.
Happy B-Day, iltat.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Very nice Job congratz....
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Happy B-Day, iltat.
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Oh and grats UberGuy
Cong grats on the e-bil
Lead Squirrel at Dr. E Spider robotic site #643
Nothing saids its your spot like an ourob. Portal dropped on the ground.
I have this horrible problem, I cannot stop buying stuff, I am constantly seeing deals and saying "Hey I might need that in the future, let me buy it now while it's cheap." So I've reached 2 billion once and never got there again lol.
Virtue: @Santorican
Dark/Shield Build Thread
Just lovely!
The Nethergoat Archive: all my memories, all my characters, all my thoughts on CoH...eventually.
My City Was Gone
Nice.
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I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is definitely better.
Light is faster than sound - that's why some people look smart until they speak.
For every seller who leaves the market dirty stinkin' rich,
there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.
Well, it's been a while since I hit this benchmark. Since I achieved it, I purpled out my Dark/Dark Corr, which was pretty darn expensive when I did it - it cost me about 1B inf. However, I made some profit along the way and ended up with about 1.5B on her.
Of course, I had two other characters listed who were tantalizingly close to 2B, and I just couldn't resist getting them to the mark too. So here's my first simultaneous Inf Capping. My Stone/Fire Brute and Nightwidow. As you can see, my Widow's not technically capped yet - but the results of claiming that LotG sale will require a tad of inf juggling if I don't want to drop a few million off. The Brute's last sale was far more modest - a 5M crafted Doctored Wounds that was only about 1M over the cap. (Yes, I saved it.)
The Widow is actually mostly purpled, shy just one set I still want. The Brute is going to get a pretty complete overhaul. I plan to wait a while on both, until I16 gets a chance to settle in, on the gamble that purple prices may actually fall some.
By the way, it turns out I mean "simultaneous" a bit more literally than might be usual. The two characters are on separate accounts. 
(If your looking for the inf counters, they're hyperlinked above. The picture below is just a smaller image to show the two characters online together.)
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Dang, Uber. That's very impressive!
50s: Inv/SS PB Emp/Dark Grav/FF DM/Regen TA/A Sonic/Elec MA/Regen Fire/Kin Sonic/Rad Ice/Kin Crab Fire/Cold NW Merc/Dark Emp/Sonic Rad/Psy Emp/Ice WP/DB FA/SM
Overlord of Dream Team and Nightmare Squad
Thread, rise from your grave!
Well, I'm clearly a sucker for this sort of thing. Despite claims in the original post that I had no intention of doing this on all the characters, I did it on all of them. I have now reached the inf cap on my Stalker.
Big screen shot here.
I really am done with this inf capping things on my villains. The ways I'm making my money, I prefer to do it playing level 50s. All my level 50 villains are now either already purpled out or inf capped (or both!)
Now to level up some lowbies and maybe inf cap some heroes.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
So, while the villain market still is high-priced compared to the hero one in my experience, things have been on the uptick in terms of market volume pretty much since the AE explosion. That's an interesting combination - higher prices at higher volume means you can make a lot of money faster. Of course that's not necessarily more useful practically speaking. If you actually buy market goods then you also pay more for them.
However, it did let me reach a nice if gratuitous goal. In case you are wondering what I want you to look at on that screen, check the last stat in my attribute monitor, middle upper right. Yes, that's 2B inf, AKA the inf cap.
I've made some nice progress on other characters too, though I have no intention of driving for the cap on them all.
These are the other villains with wealth of particular note.
Night Widow: 1.6B
DM/FA Brute: 1.4B
MA/Regen Stalker: 1.1B
Ice/Dark Corr: 880M
As I've described in the past, none of this has been obtained by classic "marketeering". Only the rarest of flipping, no painting of sale histories or anything like that. I primarily sell drops, including ticket and merit rolls/purchases. There is some farming in there, mostly on the Widow. The keen-eyed reader would notice my mission selection, but my DDC isn't my favorite choice for that particular set of foes. (Fear protection and +toHit and all that.)
For the potentially curious, the character pictured is a Dark/Dark Corr.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA