Transferring Infamy/influence

Is there a way to give your villains infamy to your hero character?

Best option is to go to the Forum for your particular Server and post a request for someone to help you facilitate this transfer.

You'll be expected to gift them some inf in return.

I've done this a number of times and have never been ripped off, never been turned down, and have made a few new friends in the process.

(p.s. in your sig: "you're" reading this... you are. "Your" is possessive, your car, your influence)

Why is everyone so picky about grammar?

Anyways the question is how do you do it. Like could you please give me some instructions? Please.

Thanks heaps man ill do that with my friend I know in real life so if he steals I can basucally call his Mum/Dad. LOL

ok thx heaps for link

This has all been explained a couple of times in the thread, but since there seemed to be some confusion I thought I'd try to explain it again using examples. Hope it helps.


Influence and Infamy are different currencies and can't be traded for one another - so there is no way to move funds from blue to red or vice versa. The usual way of moving money across factions is simple:

Player A has a rich villain on Server 1 but no rich heroes. Player 1 wants a way to move some of his stockpiled infamy to a new hero but no such way exists. Player 1 posts on the forums asking for help.

Player B has a rich hero on Server 1 but no rich villains. He sees Player 1's post and they agree to meet in-game. Player A gives Player B 11 kagillion infamy. Player B logs off and returns on his rich hero and gives Player A 11 kagillion influence. This is the usual way these transfers are done.

As noted above, this all depends on Players A and B being honest and dependable. If Player B turns out to be a scumbag and runs off with the 11 kagillion infamy without ever giving Player A his influence, there is nothing Player A can do about it. This is pretty rare, however - most people are decent in this game. Choosing someone well-established in the community is a wise choice since such people probably care more about the game and their own reputation in it, making them far less likely to rip someone off.


P.S. People are picky about grammar because this is a text-based medium. All we have to go on is what you write and how you write it. Spelling errors, grammatical errors, general sloppy writing - all of these things suggest that you either don't speak English very well or (more likely in many cases) don't care enough about what you are saying to say it properly. And if you don't care, why should anyone else care? It's the equivalent of showing up to ask a question wearing a ratty T-shirt and your underwear. People are going to look askance at you a bit. Obviously a forum post doesn't need to be a masterpiece of composition, but neither does it need to look like a typewriter exploded.

You did ask why.

Huh, didn't know: askance was a word

What's the exchange rate? like a million infamy is like 1.25m influence?

I'd say it'd be negotiable between the two people doing the transfer. There's no service for this, it's just an agreement between two players, so the exchange rate is whatever you and the other person agree it to be.

Some people trade straight across 1:1. Some people put a premium on Infamy because with CoH being the older side of the game there's more influence out there. I'd say your suggested exchange rate of 1:1.25 is a reasonable one. If you happen to be dealing with a person with lots of inf who doesn't want to do much math, he/she might trade you 1:1 just for the simplicity of it. It's whatever the two of you decide to be fair.




P.S. Askance
The More You Know...

My standard answer to "Why are you picking on my grammar?" is "I'm not your English teacher. Nobody's paying me to read your [stuff]." You've had [say] fifty people read this thread. When you posted in an illiterate fashion, you made it quicker and easier for yourself, and harder and slower for fifty other people. The same people you want to help you out.

Why would you do that?