Anyone can get started. It's so easy.

Big oops! It wasn't me but I can see how it happened.

My guess is that the person quoted 1,112 on some item but didn't place the bid and didn't clear the bid amount. Without looking up they then placed a bid for 55,555 on another item and hit 'enter'.

I've noticed that under certain conditions that if you put in a bid price on some item and then don't bid (just leaving the bid numbers up there), then move to another item the bid price reappears and whatever you enter after that is more digits added to the earlier bid.

It's a sort-of-a-bug I think should be fixed, although anyone who hits 'Enter' without at least glancing up to be sure the number is correct is taking an unnecessary risk.

After rolling two new characters just prior to the weekend, I did pretty much what you did. One is at 12th level, the other at 7th, and they're both modestly rich millionaires.

But instead of buying enhancements like I had done in the past, I straight away started buying and crafting IO set recipes to frankenslot. A frankenslotted duo/trio (acc/dam + acc/rech + dam/rech, for example) is way better than two or thee single aspect IO's (forget about TO's except for powers without set bonuses, and we're not even at DO or SO level yet). The recipes and salvage at that level (10-15) are so dirt cheap and will hold their value at least several levels until upgrading them about five levels later. What's curious is that there are IO's from level 10-14 for sets, but not generic IO's at that level.

Granted most folks zoom past these levels anyway and don't consider IO's until about 22nd level. But as I play quite a bit of solo and duo/trio with friends, the levels go a bit more slowly and there's actually time to take advantage of what IO sets can provide even starting at character level 7. And I follow this IO-set enhancement only philosophy throughout the characters' careers as they rise in levels all the way up to 50. What I realized this weekend, just for fun, is that you can start as soon as level 7 and keep at it without worrying about the inf to support it.

Bingo!

As an 85% solo (I duo the other day of the week), this is the approach I
use on my characters. Common IO's for key powers/attributes at L7, L12,
L17 and then frankslotting thereafter.

Even though powers get their key attributes maximized, I rarely have an
IO above L35 or L40 in the builds. On top of that, the toons exemplar well
and have pretty nice set bonuses to go with it. All for about 50M, total.

Obviously, these toons are all self-sustaining and rich, because 50M can
be made over the course of a few days, and any inf after that is gravy.


Now, if we could just teach that mythical "casual" gamer how to do this,
we'd have a lot of people having cake and getting to eat it too...


Regards,
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