How to make money?

What are you guys doing to make cash these days? All of my toons are knee deep in a recession.

Sell salvage/recipes mainly.

The AE is good for getting the exact high selling salvage you need.

It is, but that's why we like you.

If you're gonna be an encyclopedia of useless knowledge, you might as well flaunt it to those who appreciate that knowledge.

I started a new hero char and got it to lv 22 and I have no $ for enchancements because apparently lv~20 SO sell for 30K+??? THey need to pt in a way to transfer $ in the game I don't want to farm just to be non gimped.

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: Profit

Ultimate Damz - illusion/rad controller

Either goes to the shadow shard and farms the large level 50 mobs [even with the bosses they go down VERY quickly and quite easy if you know how to do it]. Good xp and great salvage drops. Tend to be my "lucky area" for that character where i seem to get really lucky with drops

Secondly he likes to do the mender silos taskforce solo, at the speed i do it i can roughly earn 1.2 million influence every 10 minutes without taking into consideration drops [first 4 missions, quit and restart]

Noob Buster - fire/dark scrapper

Via ouroboros i do one of the RWZ arcs in which you can pratically stealth every mission and get 10 merits roughly every 15 - 20 minutes on average
Also my strongest character to bomb through missions quickly.

Lord Lightman - AR/NRG blaster

Took me a while to get this character to the level i wanted it to be but eventually did With capped ranged def now and a good solid all round build, he can now farm the demon map with great ease [by the time they get to melee they're all dead]. Boost range + full auto + buckshot = mob dead. Up every mob too.

I'll pass along the secret of wealth that was given onto me:
"Shake your groove thing, Shake your groove thing"

You don't need to know how to work the Market to profit.
Even the simplest of Market use nets enough $Inf to get you fully equiped with good enough enhancements.

Slot whatever recipes and enhancements drop (via normal gameplay) that are usable/desirable.
Vendor the remaining (TO/DO/SO) Enhancements and Common (non-set) Recipes. Put all other Salvage and Recipes on the Market at 200 $Inf.
(That's pretty much a "Sell Now!" price).

This is definately NOT the most optimal Market strategy, but it's the simplest, easiest way and over time, you will have more than enough to be fully equiped with enhancements.

The only way to be broke in this game is to either:
1) Intentionally and deliberately waste money.
2) Be completely team-dependant.
3) Power-level.
(Super-fast methods of XP gain usually don't multiply the profit:time ratio nearly as much as they multiply the XP:Time ratio.)

Recipe and Salvage drops are the primary source of income in this game. I have characters with 300 Million $Inf who have followed my super-simple, less-than-optimal Market strategy above, but have not yet made 10 Million via straight enemy defeats, and the $Inf dropped that way.
That's a 30:1 ratio and not counting that they are slotted out with decent IO sets when I could have settled for Generics.

Everything you do in this game nets $Inf.

Want to get cash fast and easy? Here's what I do:

1) Have a look at the Recipe Level/Divider chart on ParagonWiki's Common Invention Recipes page. If you divide a Common IO's crafting price by the appropriate divider, you get the amount of Influence an NPC vendor will give you for that Recipe.

2) Hit Wentworth's or the Black Market and look at what Common IO recipes are selling for over there. You want to find Recipes with plenty for sale and showing a sell price history well below what an NPC will give you for them. This is easier than it sounds, because people are silly and slap Recipes on the market for whatever amount instead of checking what they're worth. Especially look at Recipes which relatively few people use, like Confuse Duration and Range Increase. You can usually skip Accuracy Recipes.

3) Set up buy orders for as many underpriced Recipes as you have Influence and/or market slots for. Go for it! So long as you're bidding less than an NPC pays, you're good.

4) Go. Play. Have fun. This is the part where you wait, except you're not really waiting, because you don't have to be right there at the Consignment House. Beat up some enemies, enter a costume contest, log off and do something else, whatever!

5) Come back after some time. Sometimes you'll buy a huge stash of Recipes in a matter of minutes, other times you'll have to wait overnight. For this step, I recommend going to a Consignment House very close to an NPC that buys Recipes. Grab as many Recipes as you can carry and sell 'em to said NPC. Repeat until you've sold all the Recipes you just bought. Then, place bids on more Recipes.

This method isn't going to generate massive amounts of money, but it'll easily get you enough to SO out a character, and it takes minimal time and effort. I've got characters in the teens that have generated millions of Influence through this system.