How much do you make per week?
Ironically, over-reliance on one character as a single source of income is a very "Gregor Samsa" thing to do.
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Beaten on speed AND skill. Nerf brains!
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
... and I was trying to get something going about "the troubles with flipping weren't so much a cause as an effect."
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Now I need to get busy and toss it all away before God notices what I did.
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Since I'm not a spreadsheet type of person and I'm suspicious that I've vastly overestimated how much money I rake in in a given week, I logged in all of my marketing toons last night and noted how much influence / infamy they actually have at the moment.
So by next Thursday I'll have an idea of what I can make in at least this specific coming week. ^_^ Gonna report my results here.
One thing is, on some toons I've priced crafted IOs at a price that is too high to sell right now... but my standard policy is to just leave them up until they sell. That's an advantage of already having plenty of cash and having more than a dozen different marketing toons. ^_^ It usually works out eventually.
my lil RWZ Challenge vid
I make as much as I need.
Some weeks, it's nearly zilch, and some weeks, it's 10's of Millions.
All of my toons are required to be self-funding and self sufficient, so when
an active toon needs a shiny or ten, I put on my marketeering suit.
Otherwise, it's a non-issue.
My actual "marketeering" toons - made their billions, and are pretty much
retired and living on private islands somewhere, nice ...
Regards,
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I've been rich, and I've been poor. Rich is definitely better.
Light is faster than sound - that's why some people look smart until they speak.
For every seller who leaves the market dirty stinkin' rich,
there's a buyer who leaves the market dirty stinkin' IOed. - Obitus.
The cap for non-trial accounts is 2bn.
There are tricks for storing more influence than that (by placing bids on items in the market UI that don't exist in the game, e.g. level 53 IO recipes), but I consider them too risky to use. |
Win/win.
1.5 billion a week if I put forth some effort. My main build is pretty much complete so I've slowed down on market manip. Still making about 500mil I end up dumping back into the market.
You know, the usual altitis.
my lil RWZ Challenge vid
I'm a rather casual marketeer -- I'd much rather run missions with friends or roleplay than devote HOURS to the market....
...that being said, since I can't resist the lure of easy loot OR spending it on shinies, I'll usually park that weeks'/months' marketeering character at the market so I can log in, spend ten minutes at the market, and THEN do the stuff I'd rather do. On average, I probably make a couple hundred million a week that way -- by basically doing nothing. I've had a few months where I've hit a billion or billion and a half, just being lazy.
Now, that's blueside -- I finally took an interest in one of my villains and would like to go a little nuts on IO's by the time I hit 47! With a level 20-something toon and a little MORE work on the market, I've made about 250 million a week en route to level 43. (I suspect I'll have a lot more earning power at 47 or 50, but right now I'm doing the "craft what drops" and "buy recipes, craft them" shuffle between the base and Black Market.)
"But it wasn't anything some purples and oranges and lots of screaming in fear couldn't handle." -- Werner
30 level 50's: 12 scrappers, 7 other random melee types, 11 blaster/blapper/support squishies, two accounts, and a TON of altitis since 4/28/04
I don't post here very often anymore because I have almost no time, but I've done pretty well.
As of last week, I had 26 billion influence and 7 billion infamy. I had just bought a Mod for 5 billion influence, so it had just taken a hit.
Since July, I've averaged about 2 hours of playtime a week. I'm averaging about 1-1.5 billion a week.
Last May, I began blueside with 4 million influence. In September, I was given 500 million infamy by a friend to see what I could do there.
In May, I'll give away either everything I have or 50 billion influence and 10 billion infamy (or so, not set in stone yet). Then, I'll start again.
- Ping (@iltat, @Pinghole)
Don't take it personally if you think I was mean to you. I'm an ******* to everyone.
It's a penguin thing. Pingu FTW.
BTW didn't mean to ignore you, I'm mostly marketing with my Justice toon at the moment. I've been working on a scrapper on Freedom, splitting time between that and my Midlevel Crisis toons and occasionally playing my level 50s on Virtue. ^_^
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It hasn't been a week, but i made over 500mil since yesterday. Farming. Make that 640 as i just got and sold a respec recipe.
-1.1B last week. Not counting buying IO's for personal use, but just marketing.
Gambled abit on a big risk market manipulation, that I found myself unable to sustain. Thrilling, fun and interesting, but a very expensive experience.
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Unbelievable. You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!
My dear sir, I must insist that you turn in your monocle.
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I disagree. The fact that he had 1.1B to gamble is a sure sign that he deserves a monocle.
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
I've moved on to Diablo 3, TopDoc-1304
If you owe $100,000, you have a problem. If you owe $1.1 billion, your bank has a problem.
Ask Mr. Trump.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
So you think you're a hero, huh.
@Boltcutter in game.
Yes, it was a MINUS sign, and sure it was alot of inf to blow on a failed scheme but it really doesn't matter, I'll just earn more inf. There's more than plenty to go around, I just have to figure out how to do it quicker and better.
Oh, and the answer to the "is it that hard to come by inf" thread that I learned lately surely must be: Anyone can make a buck or two on the market, the hard part is to make it quickly.
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Unbelievable. You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!
In May, I'll give away either everything I have or 50 billion influence and 10 billion infamy (or so, not set in stone yet). Then, I'll start again. |
Rendezvous Fire/SR Scrapper 50 (Main), Sole Savior Kat/WP scrapper 50, Papillon Noir DM/SR Stalker 50
Cascavela NW 50
50 billion makes my 15 billion seem tiny.
"One day we all may see each other elsewhere. In Tyria, in Azeroth. We may pass each other and never know it. And that's sad. But if nothing else, we'll still have Rhode Island."
I actually made over 2 billion this week. It's the first week where I mixed farming with marketeering. Anyone who does one without the other should really reconsider.
Spent 200 million tweaking a PVP character.
Lost 200 million trying out a new get rich quick scheme.
Invested the rest back into the market.
It still feels sloooooooooooooow. Especially when you have PVP IOs going for 1 billion and a full purple set costing close to 2 billion. I've got a growing queue of characters to slot out!
So I lied. Took me 7 days not 6 to get to the influence cap. Last 55M actually took an entire day and I sat at 1.945 for a day a half.
I emptied out one of my characters when I first posted to this thread, and now she's at 2B plus change (note the 2B bid on the LoTG).
My technique is also a mix of farming and marketing, but mostly just crafting recipes and selling them at a modest mark up. The recipes are acquired either right from the market or from AE.
As you can see, I trade mostly in stuff that a lot players just throw away.
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Unbelievable. You, [subject name here], must be the pride of [subject hometown here]!
I don't keep track of how much or how little I make. I make money when I need to slot out a toon and then I stop. I guess if I was constantly building up cash I wouldn't need to wait to slot out my toons, but I'm too lazy for that.
@Demobot
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When trying (marketeering/farming) I've made upwards of 1-2b a week.
I rarely try though, so I usually pull in a few hundred mil a week at most :3
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I haven't tried in a long time, so I mostly get about 200-300 million in a week from casual farming or AE tickets.
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Hard to say.. Depends of the need for influence. I Usually only farm (AE with XP shut of ) when I'm low on cash for enches.
Not more then a million per week i think
Just casual marketering (which, oddly, I don't do on my L50 purpled warshade since I don't have one) I probably make 100-300M combined across all characters. If I'm really trying to earn, I can double that. The most I've done in one week that I'm certain of was just under 1B, on a villain I was trying to get to the cap.
But there are also weeks I don't touch the market except for actually slotting characters, and I rarely make more than a few million those weeks because most of my buying and selling goes to me.
RagManX
"if the market were religion Fulmens would be Moses and you'd be L. Ron Hubbard. " --Nethergoat to eryq2
The economy is not broken. The players are