So I was bored and checking the market...

This is correct.

You may still accidentally overbid to your heart's discontent.

Yeah, but what is to be done about it?

I don't know of anything. So I just celebrate.
I don't have time to be sad for someone else's loss of play money.

Where does one start with a post like this? The assumption that farming is the way to wealth? The assumption that "you" (presumably us, the ebil marketers) are glorying over People Like Eloora? The assumption,for that matter, that "you" have never made that mistake? I've been on both ends of the misbid. It's not that big a deal.

Lighten up, Francis.

If you are trying to imply that the person in this case who accidentally bid 800 million instead of (presumably) 80 million was not swimming in inf... well I'm not sure I agree with you there. 800 million is a lot to me and this person had it available on that single toon when that bid was placed...

Is 800 million a lot now or does everyone have that much? I haven't been keeping up with inflation I guess...

If this pointless thread wasn't created with the intention of bragging about the acquisition of a small fortune the OP didn't really earn, then perhaps I missed some loftier message. And yeah, I'm sure a lot of us have been on the wrong end of a misbid, but to say "it's not that big a deal" is a pretty bold, hm, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, right, assumption.

I would consider 800 mil to be "a lot", personally. I'm sure some do not. But I can't really say whether it is or isn't a lot to the person that has just lost it. Maybe they have a few 2 bil emails sitting around. Maybe 800 mil was literally all they had. All I'm saying is there's another side to every story, and 800 million just might suddenly seem like a lot more if you just lost 799,200,000 of it to an input error.

... or even, 720,000,000 of it?
Math is hard.

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I consider 80 million to be a lot, in that I've never had that much Influence on one character all at once. I was looking at IOs today and coming to the conclusion that planning to IO Set out a character isn't currently feasible for me since most, if not all of the sets I'd want to use either lack in the availability department or else cost more influence than all of my characters combined currently have.

their laziness isn't our problem.

my sig speaks the truth.

I'm making well over 10 mil a night just selling salvage and crafting IO recipe drops that look promising. I sell the recipes for generic IO and crappy sets at the vendor.

I don't consider it wrong posting "bragging" like this when you get lucky. It's like a lottery, you know, people buy tickets and someone who happens to be lucky gets their money. It's not the best analogy, but I think you get my point.

I've done misbids, but not of this scale. That's because I like to spend 5 seconds checking I have the right number of zeroes in my bid. Don't do that and mess up? Not my problem.

Adjust your wants.
You can do a build that will blow SO's out of the water for under 10 million. You can do a noticeably better build than that for 20-30 million.

You can get over 30% recovery bonus cheap (in that 20-30 million range). You can get 200% regen in the same range. Global accuracy isn't too pricey either.

Global recharge or defense bonuses would be far more expensive.

Global accuracy isn't something I find I'd need to shoot for, generally.

The Recovery is something I achieved (or nearly so) by necessity on my Toggle Man inspired build, but on most other characters I have isn't something that I would find particularly useful. I did that about a year ago, I believe, and the availability of recipes in general seems to have gone down a great deal since then.

Regen might be something to aim for on some characters. Perhaps my Defense-based characters who I'll likely not be able to softcap.

Defense is what I often find myself wanting, of course, but it is from my perspective ridiculously expensive. And rising further out of reach - last time I was seriously looking into IOs I was shocked by prices of 10-20 million coupled with rare salvage prices of 1-2 million, now I look at the market and see those recipes going for 60 million+ (when available at all) and the salvage sometimes rising up to 7 million or higher. It's daunting to get into.

I could try going for merits, but in my experience merit rewards are far too meager for the time and effort involved.

I hardly ever get salvage or recipes that sell for a significant amount (though my Toggle Man inspired character did just sell a recipe for 40 million today, edging him slightly over the aforementioned 80 million mark and making him officially the richest character I've ever had). And I find the crafting system to be dull, so I would only be crafting recipes that I'd be personally using.

Figure out what you want, figure out how much tedium you're willing to put into it, that will let you know whether or not it can be done.

I'd be startled if Frankenslotting wasn't worth the tedium for you... but maybe it isn't.

Edited to clarify: I'm willing to put in 5 minutes of work to make 5 million inf. That's a decision you seem to be making the other way. I find that ... surprising, but as long as you're consistent in your beliefs I don't have a problem with that. You seem to be consistent in your beliefs- that is, you've accepted that you aren't going to get the shinies since you don't want to do the irritating things, and you're OK with that. Go you.

If only more players were like that..