2,000,000,000 Influence.

So you have 2bill, what do you do? Be as specific as you can, i'm looking for tips really.

Donate it to the Whoorg home for impoverished Kitties

You get more.

That's as specific as you can be.

Inf either goes up or down. If it stays the same you're not playing the game, which is what I'm doing a lot of now.

I can't offer you niches for that reason.

Anyway, it's really not hard to make inf.

1) Identify the buy it nao! price
2) List items under the buy it nao price but not too low.
3) ????
4) Profit.


Next: Flipping

1) Identify something popular that people want and find the lowest price.
2) Buy lots of them and list for BUY IT NAO!!!
3) ???
4) Profit.

Crafting:

1) Identify a popular recipe.
2) Buy lots of recipes and the salvage at the lowest price you can get overnight
3) ????
4) Craft and list for Profit!!!

If you spend 10 minutes before you log of doing this, providing you actually engage your mind doing this, you will make inf.

You already have 2 bill inf and you're trying to get into the market scene?

simplist way to make it last is to buy 3-5 of every recipe you want and then sell the other 2-4 at a profit.

Things I've done with my money:

* I built one [1] character that can solo some AV's.
* I decided to burn 10 billion inf between market fees and other stupid human tricks. I did this to lower the inf in the system. To lower the prices. I did it for YOU. (I'm halfway through burning another billion in crafting and fees.)
* As part of that, I got into the habit of occasionally burning off a billion of my own inf, plus a billion of basebuilder inf, in prestige. I've done three or so of these.
* I started a currency exchange, modeled after Smurphy's. This is actually a good way to make an occasional 10% on very large sums.
* I do occasional experiments, like "seriously, am I unable to affect the prices of Bat Wings if I REALLY TRY?"

... or were you asking how to make large sums of inf on the market? Find things that sell for large sums, and craft 'em.

Give it away.

See sig below.

For myself, I IO'd a lot of my characters. Then I got 2 billion again, and at the moment I have a 2 billion bid in on the Glad +3% def lottery. Last night I almost bought one off-market for 2.3 billion (I was willing to up that a bit if asked), but the guy suddenly said someone had offered him 4 billion for it. If that's true, that's a pretty amazing deal.

Meanwhile I'm making more influence. I don't have any problem giving out my secrets since they're not that secret and I don't work a single niche. I buy, craft, and sell: level 50 (or top level) damage IOs in stacks of 10, generally working Mako's Bite, Touch of Death, Kinetic Combat, Positron's Blast, Scirrocco's Dervish, Obliteration, Decimation, Devastation, several others but basically any high-end set IO with useful set bonuses, and usually triples, damage/recharge, damage/accuracy, whatever seems likely to sell for a profit to me but is not so rare or uncommon that I can't buy them 10 at a time.

I also buy, craft, and sell: Defense IOs (Luck of the Gambler, Gift of the Ancients, usually Defense or Defense/Endurance), Resist IOs (Aegis, Reactive Armor I think, usually Resist or Resist/Endurance) and various Heal IOs, Miracle, Numina's, Doctored Wounds, especially Heal and Heal/Recharge.

I switch around a lot because I market with a lot of characters and things change, but on nearly all of the above you can buy the level 50 recipe in stacks of 10 for a price millions below what the crafted version will sell for. It may take days or a week or two for your 10 stack bid to fill, but I usually have several different bids in at once, and when one fills I put bids in for the salvage, then craft and put them up for sale. And I may only check the character once a week anyway.

I don't think any of these are very secret niches. Most people who talk of niches I assume are buying special procs, IOs at lower levels, things that aren't the most blatantly obvious. Damage, Defense, Resist and Heal at the top levels seems blatantly obvious to me, but it works well for me.

Well in all fairness I can be a buy it NAO person on occasion. But that's partly because I can afford to be, as long as I'm not doing it all the time. ^_^ And it doesn't bother me to wait a week or two to purchase 10 copies of an IO that I only plan to craft and sell. When I'm buying IOs for my own characters to use I'm sometimes less patient.

venture over to virtue and pay a bunch of ERP'ers to act out The Wizard of Oz as a porno...

but no seriously, i would use it to make more and io out some of my toons that need it.

Considering what I consider a "cheap" IO build is still 250-500 million. I build out a few toons or make some progress on an "uber" build.

The whole time working on getting more.

Occasionally I'll give a purple set or billion to a friend who needs it.