Efficiency Tips?

Howdy!

I'm at the point now where two big changes have happened.

First, I've completely lost interest in actually playing CoX. Since the AE nerf, I can't get an invite to a decent team or form my own decent team quickly enough for the game to keep my attention. I farmed solo for a while, it sucked, I'm done.

Second, I've just found out that my wife signed me up for 7 months instead of 1 month the last time we renewed. I have an open account for a game that I currently find terribly boring. I'm sure I'll be desperate enough to come back again later, so I'm still interested in using that 7 months to stockpile inf in case I need it in a year.

My usual approach is to spend 10 minutes a day on the market, and then go play the game. Since I'm not really interested in playing the game (or rather, I'm intensely interested in playing the game and entirely disinterested in waiting for a team) I find that I'm not logging in often enough to get a real understanding of what the current high and low bids are.

I've got a niche that's been making me 25m a day pretty reliably since a month ago, so I have some cash to throw around. I plan to continue playing that niche, but probably with much less regularity.

Can anyone recommend a long term, high profit strategy that's only worth tending weekly? Ideally, I'm looking for something along the lines of a 'craft and sell' scheme for an IO that takes so long to sell that it's unreasonable for an active player to waste a slot on, but that makes a lot of money for that reason.

I'm redside, if that helps any. Thanks in advance!

Buy low, sell high?

I haven't really checked redside in a while and there is a big difference between the two sides. Some general trends that I've noticed blue side is a devaluation of common and uncommon salvage, and an increase in the price of rare salvage. I'd assume that would be true redside as well, but maybe not.

Like you, after five years I frequently get bored of the game and have to come up with goals or mini games to keep my interest. After I hit the billion mark on my main hero, I lost my desire to play crafter in the market, other than crafting and selling any worthwhile drops that I find along the way.

If you haven't already done it, I'd suggest getting the field crafter accolade as a first step for any craft and sell plans. It's an investment in time and infamy, but it more than pays for itself in the long run.

Although I'm active on the market with most of my characters, I have one character who I log into about once a week just to work the market rack. Over a few months, he has built up more than 1b inf on slow movers.

My suggestion is to look for something like valuable (in demand), but slow moving procs that are available across multiple levels, but move slowly, like 1 or 2 a week at each level. I won't give away the proc I'm working, but the bottom level one and the top level one move too quickly and the prices are higher. For the mid-range 'odd' levels, there are lot fewer bids simply because they don't move fast enough for most marketers. Put up spread bids across those intermediate levels, maybe 8-10 spread low bids of 3-5 quantity each. Pick up about 10 of each salvage you need and keep it on hand. Any other salvage, store in base or sell off.

Once a week, log in. You'll see maybe 10 or a dozen filled bids sporadically across the levels. First, top off those bids back up to 3-5 quantity as before. Craft the recipes you got and pick up another round of salvage before putting the crafted proc IO's on the market. Price the crafted items below what is going at the faster moving lowest-level and highest-level procs, where prices are typically higher because nao demand. Players who know that level doesnt make a difference in terms of performance (only when exemplaring) will search for these levels and buy them instead of the lowest/top ones if it's cheaper for them. Watch this closely for a few weeks and make sure your bid price and selling price balance where you get about as many recipes in as crafted items out. Then you're home free - once a week, 5-10 minutes and you're done.

If I were you, I'd probably craft high value lvl 50 set IOs (including purples). I wouldn't look at anything worth less than 20 million each. (Or at current prices, 100m plus)

First of all, you'll need to scan WW's for items that sell at least 1 a day and that match your minimum price. Make a list. It'll save you doing it again in the weeks to come.

For your weekly trading session, pick up your recipes, craft and list near the highest price for the week. (You'll have to guess the high point if the last 5 went in the last day.) Place really low bids for new recipes. If it looks like the margin has gone from your niche then check your list for a new candidate.

Crafting will be a pain unless you've got a base with salvage racks. If you haven't, then stick to flipping. It'll take too much time to get the right ingredients otherwise. If you've got a base, then set up a row of salvage racks to hold the salvage you use most often. You may find it convenient to use an alt to fill the racks rather than using you main.

1)So, you werent tired of the game before AE? Or you fell in love with CoH when AE exploits came out and now, you're done, since it has been corrected? Sorry if i sound coarse, but i'm so tired of the whining about AE. I can't sympathise with players ONLY getting tired of this game AFTER AE got shot down. If you enjoyed it before, then go back to what you were doing before it came out. I have been on many teams before and since AE existed. Esp. now when teams are a plenty. (at least on Justice)
2) What do you need or want inf for if youre not playing and building toons? Just curious.

I know it's not the point of this thread, but I can't help but to comment anyway. I don't get any of these posts about 'waiting forever' for a team. I logged on last night (Tuesday) and within 10 minutes or so I had gotten a tell asking me to join a team. Later on I hopped over to redside with a friend and it took less than 15 minutes for us to get a lowbie villain team formed up. During this time I saw at least 2 taskforce teams being formed on global channels. I see MORE activity now, rather than less.

I understand in a way. Nerfs suck, but as we get stronger with sets and stuff, i guess they have to find a way to pull us back a bit so that we will need or want teams. Why have toons be able to solo AV's, run solo TF's, or anything else that hinders the way the game was meant to b played?

I play with the same 3 people every chance i get, so i don't have to worry about sorry a55 pugs. When they aren't on, i grab my fire/kin and farm and get lots of loots. I hate to play alone, but hate pugs too, so what else to do? Ya know.

If you want a good solid team, make an alt on Justice and look us up. (although they have toons on many servers, i only play on Justice)

Nerfs?

On a macro scale, this game is easier than it has ever been. Debt is almost literally gone. I don't know if you can get into "perma debt" these days if you tried between the reductions themselves and things like Patrol XP. Leveling is extremely fast with several changes to that structure, particularly to the sub 20 game that used to be so annoying. Perma Hasten got "nerfed" into people running around with 180% plus recharge. ED got "nerfed" into players running around with huge set bonuses rather than enhancing that specific power attribute. Once you hit the 30s, a slow team means I got 3 powers off the round. A "weak" toon is now one that either can't solo an AV or can't take on full team sized mobs. We have tanks that now do great damage and soft capped blasters.

On a micro scale, for individual powers, some things have indeed changed. The fairly recent pet recharge issue is one of them. No real way around that with things like slotting options. At least not yet......

Frankly, it sounds like some just don't like playing the game without an "I Win" button. I find this game to be rather dull anymore because it is too easy, and apparently the devs think the say way. Promise of new challenging end game content is coming with the new expansion and I can't wait to see some teamwipes again.

Again with the people trying to solve the "bored, hateful" problem instead of the "how to make big money" problem:

Again with the people trying to solve the "bored, hateful" problem instead of the "how to make big money" problem:

Funny. In between playing the game and marketing/crafting, I've been trying to build a character using (apparently hard-to-acquire) IOs for a long time now (my first draft of the build was post in June; character won't be finished tonight, and that'll bump it into December.) Having seen how difficult it is, part of my plan has been to level up some gamblers to specific levels to do random rolls and try and get the really tough IOs without paying full merit price.

So I am spending a certain amount of my time online in the market or at the crafting table or trying to get my gambler mules running...and I am frequently interrupted by teams asking me to join them. Often within moments or so of logging in. Of course I usually join, which back-burners my project again.

I can't do the kind of fast market work you want to do because it's too easy to get teams.

What Sailboat said. I'm constantly interrupted at the Market by team-invite-tells. "Join my team!" "Care to SF?" "Want to do a Trial with us?" I only just turned off all the /hide options last week, and I feel like turning them all back on again!