1 million influence in 30 min or less at lvl 10

I started with the desire to get enough money on my new blaster to buy some enhancers. My toon was not in my SG yet and none of my friends were online so I decided to try it the old fashion way by earning it at the market. One of the most reliable ways to make good money at the market is to put in some low bids on items with a decent spread and then let time be your ally. But I was feeling impulsive at the moment and wanted my cash now.

So I looked at my funds available and had 26k from running various missions and street sweeping. I decided to run to Kings row because of the close proximity of the store and market. Knowing that uncommon salvage sells for 1k at store I promptly put up bids of 111 inf on a few stacks of 10. Some filled but I reallized that this would take way too long the average person to stay interested in. I then remembered that common IO recipies can be sold for a good profit if you can get them cheap enough.

I started at lvl 10 accuracy and bid 111 inf on a stack of 10. I then worked my way down the list. When I had run out of slots I then collected what I had purchased and ran them to the store. After selling that bunch, I continued on placing bids on the next 10 items in the list. Soon I had 300k inf just doing that which gave me a little more money to bid with so on some of the lvl 35-50 enhancers I started bidding up to 1,111 inf.

I made 1 million in about 25 min just buying, running, selling. I stopped at 30 min, had made it to lvl 50 snare IO's and had made 1.64 million inf.

Recap:

1. Go to Kings Row
2. Place low bids on common IO's (mine was 111, yours may be different)
3. Run to vendor next to blue steel
4. sell the recipies
5. return to ww and buy more
6. repeat as needed

After Making a million + visit the market forum for advice on how to make more.

Hope this helps you outfit your next toon,

Gitch

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Alternately - if you DO have access to a SG base you could swap to an alt and run a quick AE mission or two in 30 minutes time - get 2-6 million influence AND 3000 tickets to roll for potentially much more influence if you get solid rolls. A general run of something like that would result in about 4 million influence on hand and 20-150 million influence worth of recipes.

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I am an ebil markeeter and will steal your moneiz ...correction stole your moneiz. I support keeping the poor down because it is impossible to make moneiz in this game.

Yes its very true that you can make much more in the same time frame using different techniques. What I wanted to show here was that a new player with absolutely no connections could earn enough money in the span of a long mission to bankroll themselves for an entire toons carreer. I am sure there are other examples of how to do this but I believe this one is applicable for any toon that finds themselves in need of cash.

Thanks for the additional example,

Gitch

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It's always helpful to include the advice of posting the two large Insps you get from the tutorial on the market because they can easily go for over 50k apiece and that will give you the starting funds you need to get rolling on those purchases.

This is a bit easier for heroes since they can use Atlas Park safely and efficiently, whereas villains have a very long run from Kalinda/Burke to the Mercy Black Market.

But it is still good advice. Every now and again I see someone in the tutorial use the insps and I just cringe thinking of how much they just burned of their starting wealth.

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"Hmm, I guess I'm not as omniscient as I thought" -Gavin Runeblade.
I can be found, outside of paragon city here.
Thank you everyone at Paragon and on Virtue. When the lights go out in November, you'll find me on Razor Bunny.

Or, you could, of course, read the definitive guide on recipe vendoring
(published in Oct 2008) that covers the topic in extensive detail...

It all still works as good today as it did then... See the link in my sig...

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.

I use this exact method on all my toons to get them started.

I love that the ease of accumulating currency in this game allows me to treat each toon as a self-sufficient entity... because I hate, hate, HATE muling.

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Awesome Thread! Everyone likes money ^^

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