Put on your speculation caps

I think he's referring to the fact that to have permaHasten you need over 100% global recharge.

I'd also like to see the build that can be bought for 250m in three days with permaHasten levels of recharge on the villside market.

It doesn't really count as costing x amount of infamy if you use a bunch of IOs you have stashed. In terms of your wallet getting lighter, sure, it technically counts. But for saying you can have x build for y amount of infamy, it's inaccurate and misleading.

For example, my recent Ice/Cold Corr respec. I already had all the expensive stuff for him already slotted or in base bins, so all I needed to buy were odds and ends. In terms of money I spent buying him stuff, I only spent about 200m. But you certainly can't buy his build for 200m, (4 purple sets, 5 LotG 7.5s, health procs).

Yeah, for someone who claims to understand the market so well, you seem to be falling into the "if I farmed it it's free" trap that a lot of people do.

If you possess or acquire an item of X value by whatever means other than purchasing it, and you do not sell it, you just spent X.

The point is that the stating the "cost" of the build at 250 million is misleading, because that's just what you spent on after including other (non-inf) resources which you had available to spend, and which you didn't include in the final price. The build didn't cost just 250 mil inf. It cost you that, some hundreds of merits, and perhaps some stuff you had laying around.

I can't confirm this (I don't play AE much, so I don't have the tickets), but I've just been told that the AE Gold Recipe Roll can be set for a specific lower level.

I was under the impression that the AE Gold Role worked the same exact way as the Merit Rare Recipe Roll, and checks the exact table.

If it does check the same table, but the level can be chosen, well, that seems like at least a partial problem-solver, assuming people stay in the AE building at all.

Of course, I usually take info I hear and can't confirm with a grain of salt, so I'm throwing this claim also out there not to spread the rumor, but to see what the larger pool of folks here says about it.

Eventually, I'll verify it, and post what I find, if it looks like nobody knows for sure.

I find it as much fun as soloing anything else. (i.e. not tremendous fun - I'd rather be teaming.) But if I'm going to be playing alone, I might as well get some merits in the process. Conveniently, my main is /regen so, even before the exemping change, I had Quick Recovery by level 15. Also, Reconstruction gives toxic resistance.