What effect is I16 having?

I know it's early, but what impact are you seeing?

Reduced MA farming/pl'ing?
Increased solo farming in standard missions with extra difficulty options?
Lots of new alts increasing low level drops and starving mid level drops?

As far as market effects go, I know I've pulled all my cash out of the marketplace and am waiting for someone else to make the first move.

I'll probably start crafting and selling either generic IOs or the huge pile of random junk I ended up with from gold rolls, and give it a week or two before I invest heavily.

Just one gal's POV for about 15 minutes while in AP (waiting for my awesome coalitionmates to log on) at about 6:00pm eastern on go-live day...

One AE team announcement (could have been a joke) and several "sewer team lfm" announcements.

Market turnover was pretty slow yesterday, easily visible with the lack of large crowds present in WW and the BM. Lower level salvage and recipes seemed to be moving more quickly as people started playing new characters and placing their goods on the market. I expect it will continue this way during the week as people try out new power colors and new characters and then this will all resume fairly close to normal turnover when the weekend arrives as more higher level (come colorized) characters resume play.

As for the effect of I16, I'll still be buying, selling and crafting in the niches I'm in and the niches I'm watching. It'll shift, but I doubt it will be drastic.

On mercy island, "bank farm lfm" is popping up a lot.

On Virtue, there were 2 instances of PI at many points. That hasn't happened since before AE went live.

The only announcements for AE teams I've heard seem to have been jokes.

Played some new alts, had a go at the Cuda SF last night to work on Masters Tactics and fiddled with the difficulty slider settings on my brute.

Set for 4 council was fine, Rikti was rough but doable, Carnies, not so much.

Need to find a sweet spot, until he gets more IOs.

He also got his first purple drop of the I16 era.

I noticed Fortunes were selling for 1,000 or possibly less. They were recently selling for 50,000 to over 100,000. Not sure if that means common (and uncommon) salvage prices are dropping across the board, but if they do, that wouldn't surprise me much.

My main hasn't sold anything in two days. It's all stuff that was selling last weekend.

Anecdotally speaking, I'd say a lot of people are at Icon's (not spending money at the Market), playing brand new toons (who do not need IO'd yet), not making tons of money off of AE tickets as they were before (and therefore not spending that money), and that more people are running regular missions (or soloing them set to large spawns) and selling the salvage and items they get.

Sales seem normal to me, but supply is noticeably down on certain items.

So far the only thing that worries me (as a crafter) is if rare salvage will make a strong comeback. That will cut into my margins, and it's not certain if the price increase can be passed on to buyers. I'd rather have cheap rare salvage and expensive common salvage than the other way round.

Can anyone point me to the thread where the drop rate is proven to be broken? I hope many people pm'd a developer...

Here is the testing.

They have been running farms and missions and doing the math. I'm sure there are other threads too, this is just the closest.

Barring the effects of the drop rate problem, I expect to see an increase in the level 49 pool A sector. Seems there are a lot of people setting for -1/6 or 8

I'm loving dual boxing the demon set to 8 and -1. My fire/kin and fire/rad is runninng thru it in less than 20minutes. Salvage is getting close to full on each run and recipes are about 11 per run. About 1/2 and 1/2 on commons and sets. I've just been placing all salvage for 222 and selling it fast as i'm not worried about making a killing on salvage as much as the recipes.

Best drops have been 3 Crushing Impacts and 1 Oblit damage on one run and 4 orange salvage on 1 run.

Working on my blaster's defense build, I've noticed that the prices of a lot of the recipes I need for defense bonuses are lower than I expected. The LotG +rech has gone down too. Fewer people building for defense now that they're not facing +4 boss spawns maybe?