Cats Hour Challange - Part II

I'm lazy so i just did a single run on the map, it took 13min30 and based on my experience what i got is a fairly good average sample so i'll just multiply by 4 to make it a "one hour run".

Character: Gwandoya (spines/dark scrapper)
Settings: +2/x8/No bosses/No AVs
Mission: Demon farm from Harvey Maylor

Influence from Kills: 5.368.635 *4 would be 21.474.540
Influence from Drops: 835.175 *4 would be 3.340.700
Total influence gained: 6.203.810 *4 would be 24.815.240

Final time would be (let's round up to 14mn): 14*4 = 56Min, leaves some margin of error

I know it's not exactly how you asked it but i don't feel like doing one hour of rush and a lot of maths so better than nothing hopefully. I'm fairly confident i can do a slightly better average than that as i wasted half a minute here and there to answer some chat or something, and i think i got a slightly low average. I'll post more accurate data if i ever get motivated for one hour like that.

Character: Fumina Hara (Purpled Plant/Storm Controller)
Settings : +2/x8/No Bosses
Mission : Custom AE mission

Time 14:05
Influence from Kills: 4,091,757
Villains defeated: 261
0 Bosses
106 LT's
155 Minions

Hourly Rates
Influence/Hour : 17,418,279
Villains/Hour: 1111

Character: PyroDomiantion (Fire/Fire/Force Blaster) IO'd for recharge
Settings: +0/x8/No bosses
Mission: Everybody's favorite council map

Inf from kills:9,333,112
Inf from drops: 3,105,536
Total Inf: 12,438,648

Not a farming build, built almost as squishy as possible around the assumption that he's always on a team with somebody to eat the aggro. Consequently, whenever i was getting more red yellow and blue inspirations than green purple and orange my speed got wrecked as I had to make inspirations in order to survive. I pause the timer when I sold mid run, but travel time is included. Also I lost about 5 minutes total to global chat channels and general absent mindedness.

Character: fire/ss/pyre tank
Mission: AE, +4/8
Total Challenge Time: 57 Min

Influence from Kills: 29,932,160
Influence from Ticket rolls (lvl 50 Dmg Recipes): 1,277,100

Total Influence Earned: 31,209,260

So I went out and did this again just for kicks.

Character : Velocity Rift (Elec/Shield/PyreScrapper)
Settings : +3/x8/No Bosses/No AV's
Mission : AE Mission with custom LT's

Starting amount : 874,715,067

Influence from Kills : 27,556,368
Influence from drops : 0
Tickets Earned : 10,263


Ending amount : 902,307,453
Final time was : 27:26

So I only did it for a little under half an hour and stopped when I ticket capped. Let the thing run the whole time (including loads and travel) Since that was 7 or 8 runs I just decided to extrapolate the rest.

Influence per hour : 60,236,045 (Booyah)
Influence per minute : 1,003,934

Tickets per hour : 22,434

If tickets were converted to level 50 DMG recpies at 250 a piece selling for 116,100 that would be 89 of them for an additional 10,332,900.

Total potential earnings in 1 hour (if I was dUmb enough to buy instead of roll) : 70,568,945

Villains defeated : 1676 Custom LT's
Per hour : 3663


Ran the the Plant/Storm to the ticket cap as well, then extrapolated the rest.

Plant/Storm/Stone (S/L soft capped, purpled)
Map : AE Mission with custom LT's
Settings +3/+8 No Bosses, No AV's

Influence from defeats per hour : 40,835,925
Tickets per hour : 15,318
Influence from drops : 7,113,675

Influence : 17,394,641
Tickets : 6525
Time : 25:33

Influence per minute : 680,598

Total : 47,949,604

Villains Defeated per hour : 1396

Truth be told, I don't imagine my numbers will be all that exciting - I don't farm, I'm not a seasoned farmer, and my impatience was shaping how I played. Towards the last half hour I was ignoring the bosses (who were chasing me from spawn to spawn) while I wiped through lts and minions. Plus, Freakshow aren't fabulous targets to fight on a pure-smashing character.

Character : Saxon Valiant
Settings : +0/x8
Inf From Kills: 3,801,972. Ewww.
Tickets: 4,208.

So here I was faced with task of what I'm going to turn my tickets into. My normal method is to roll them into 35-40 bronzes. If all recipes rolled turn into level 35 uncommons, they'll go for 3500 each. So, that gives us a low value of 210,400 inf from pure recipe sales... which puts as at a total earning of 4,012,372 an hour. Even if those things are all level 50 rares - which they're not - that only makes up 601,142, a mere 400,000 over the base value. I just don't generate that much inf on my AOE monster. I actually feel a little unmanly due to this.

Wow. Son, I am disappoint.

(It's worth noting, however, that in my first 20 rolls, I got a performance shifter proc, multiple thunderstrike pieces, miracle, touch of death, and crushing impact - any one of which would sell for more than the vendor value of all those tickets. Yeesh!)

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Talen, one thing to bear in mind is that Freakshow give reduced exp/inf at 50. I'm not sure how much less because I've not farmed Freakshow at 50 since the Burntank days, but I'm sure it would be a factor in the lowish inf from kills value you got.

I want to say its 90% XP (so a 10% reduction), but I can't find the relevant patch note. Grrr

See what I mean? Inexperienced. If anyone can suggest an easy, convenient place to go to generate inf on a shield/ss tanker, I'll run the test a second time.

I also considered running the 5th overthrow on my widow or claws scrapper - in an hour, I could be generating two merit rolls, plus whatever drops/sells in the 35-39 range.

(Additionally, this morning, with about a third of the sales going through across two characters, I've spent about 12 million in craft/post fees, and made about 75 million in sales. Which means I destroy inf far more effectively than I do create it.)

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I can't run herostats while I play on this outdated machine I have or it'll lag me out, so I did this the old-fashioned way, with a clock and a pencil.

Council Empire map, DM/SD Scrapper, +3/x8 yes bosses (actually slightly more efficient than no bosses; DM's ST focus makes killing them worth having for the higher inf reward) came out to about 26-27 mil an hour after sales, plus a few assorted pieces of rare salvage.

Insps used: tons. I try to keep the equivalent of 4-5 small reds running at all times, plus the occasional green because Eagle's Claw crit really hurts.

Finally gave this a shot, been meaning to for a while. Elec/Elec brute.

+1/x8 Ran the Code Merlin Arc, finished after 57 minutes. I didn't separate drops from kills, just started with zero inf, and sold almost all at the end. Ended with 4,468,053, keeping two rare salvage, and 1 performance shifter triple. So add another 15k to my earnings for:

4,483,053.

Kind of sad since that's by far and away my highest earning character and it was a pretty good run for me since I didn't get hospital'd.

@Talen Lee: I'm right there with you buddy, I destroy Inf far more efficiently that I generate it myself. /em fistpound

I didn't get to post for a few days, and one night Virtue crashed so my data is lost....
Anyway, subjectively, I ran the Council Empire map at +0/+8 and +1/+8 with my Claws/SR Scrapper. +0/+8 seems to be a little over 2 mil inf. per run, +1/+8 was 4 mil per run, for just the inf. gained from kills. Dropped a purple, 4 rares, several uncommons. You gain at least mil per run on normal IO recipe drops selling to vendor. Average time per run at +0/+8 was 24 minutes.

Ran my Stone Melee/Energy Aura Brute through the Search Nemesis Army Base mission for about an hour (give or take 5 to 10 minutes for afks):

Set to +1 x4 if that make a difference.

Defeats: 5,208,396
Drops: 251,608

Total Inf: 5,460,004 so about 5,500,000 in less than an hour.

^^ I know the drops seem kinda wonky compared to the defeats, I did get a Mako's Quad, Essence of Curare Acc/Hold, Photonic Weapon, a bunch of common and uncommon tech salvage and one common recipe drop.

I'd just like to say that I don't know how I would survive with only 20-30 million per run (given 5 million for the Mako crafted and a few more million for the rare salvage etc)...clearly the bigtime marketeers are keeping me down in the sewers. I especially blame Peterpeter, as I've developed a conspiracy theory that he's controlling the Fir Bolg in Croatoa...and they aren't giving me a Deific Weapon with every kill.

Damn you marketeers, damn you. =(

AE arc 271212 at 0/x8 with bosses and a second toon in mission ( was pling alt account brute for GR ).

1170 tickets in one run, estimated 5k tickets an hour via herostats
estimated 7 million inf. per hour just from defeats.

Farm toon was a basic IO only SS/elec/mu brute.

Rolling 10k tickets an hour ( 5k from both toons) would likely yield 50-200 mil an hour at market prices in many level ranges of rolls.