What do you do with your Billions
By
BashfulBanshee,
Posted on: 2010-07-29 19:15 in The Market and Inventions
I fund development of MMORPGs.
I like to host Random Trivia Night in Atlas.
I usually give away a total of anywhere from 50 million to 100 million from these contests. I try to do it fairly often and I'm sure I've given away close to a billion in total since I started doing it. It's a lot of fun and almost everyone in the zone plays.
Edit: Realized I have more time to post.
I give away influence a lot when it comes down to it. Almost any time I see someone in the market that needs some influence for a particular salvage or to cover a posting fee I give it to them. Someone broadcasts with help with influence and I'm nearby then I'll give them some. Sometimes if I am sitting on a farm and the farmer is really bad and I find out that he charged other lowbies then I will cover costs of the others without the farmer knowing. Influence practically grows on trees in this game so I figure, why not share the wealth?
I mostly save it for rainy days, where I define a rainy day as a day where I decide I want something really expensive right damn now. Then I spend a bunch of it, and eventually go back earning it again.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Spend it all on purples or a pvp build, then start over again.
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I use it to craft IOs that I store in a bin in my SG for characters that I am working a build on.
Then the day after I go to the bin and find out my wife has taken them out and either slotted them in one of her toons or sold one of the key pool C's to fund one of her many alts........
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
Then the day after I go to the bin and find out my wife has taken them out and either slotted them in one of her toons or sold one of the key pool C's to fund one of her many alts........ |
This sounds eerily familiar. I share storage bins with a close friend...I generally do the earning these days but sometimes he does too. Inevitably, one of us will impulse slot without telling each other, leading to bemused looks and endless frustration...
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sadly I spend it faster than I make it haha...yesterday morning I had 13 bill to spend, second my mind/therm got to 50 now I have 270mill :*(
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Pretty much this.
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Originally Posted by UberGuy
I mostly save it for rainy days, where I define a rainy day as a day where I decide I want something really expensive right damn now. Then I spend a bunch of it, and eventually go back earning it again.
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Two things for me. I either seed(twink) team friendly alts, or save for a rainy day.
Sleep on top of it.
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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
What do some of you others like to do with it?
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Use it to make more billions.
Where to now?
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I used to save it up for rainy days, but now I use it to fund my alt builds. Been having fun with a earth/storm troller that used to suck....now she kicks butt.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Sleep on top of it.
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Im so rich, I pay people to sleep on top of it...
It does not do to leave a live Dumpleberry out of your calculations, if you live near him.
Edit: I don't put ALL of it into prestige matching. Some of it goes to bribing people to make low level IO recipes. I even put some of it into a build once or twice. And I keep some around to trade from side to side at aggressive exchange rates.
Mini-guides: Force Field Defenders, Blasters, Market Self-Defense, Frankenslotting.
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Heh. Been there, done that.|
Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
We know that some Ebil people like to do Prestige matches with their Influence while others offer Billions for a challenging AE arc.
What do some of you others like to do with it? Give it to new players trundling through Atlas? Maybe, sponsor Granite Tank races? I like to hold Costume Contests with mine. Here is a link to my latest one. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231431 Anyone who wants to join us for a brief spell on Justice is more then welcome. Now....How do you spend your influence? |
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=210488 (2B given away)
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=226514 (1B given away)
We're all small potatoes next to Smurphy and PumBumbler though. They've given away tens of billions.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=229189
Since I can't roll around nekkid in it
"Can play" is not a binary. It's a float.
There are some pretty low values of "can play" out there.
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Just keep saving, flipping, storing, lol. I'm ebil to the extreme. Need more character slots plz...
Over the hills and through the woods.
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That looked like a fun contest Fury. I'm assuming it is long over.
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Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
Heh. Been there, done that.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=210488 (2B given away) http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=226514 (1B given away) We're all small potatoes next to Smurphy and PumBumbler though. They've given away tens of billions. |
Enjoy your day please.
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That is a good idea too.
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Originally Posted by Huron
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Enjoy your day please.
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Nice! Goes to show that you need to buy for two!
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Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
I use it to craft IOs that I store in a bin in my SG for characters that I am working a build on.
Then the day after I go to the bin and find out my wife has taken them out and either slotted them in one of her toons or sold one of the key pool C's to fund one of her many alts........ |
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a *real* useful invention. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...t-sarcasm.html
I wait.
Only my main character is purpled. Some day, they will add purple sets for defense, healing and resistance powers. When they do, I will buy them.
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split in fours, give a four away to some random bloke, pile two of the fours into a nice pile and burn it. The last four I keep as toilet paper and to light my cigars.
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Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
That looked like a fun contest Fury. I'm assuming it is long over.
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-Female Player-
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Originally Posted by mauk2
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I roll dice against people lower than level 10 in Atlas. If they win they get an easy mil, if they lose they only get 500k.
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Originally Posted by Nights_Dawn
Hazy is right
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We know that some Ebil people like to do Prestige matches with their Influence while others offer Billions for a challenging AE arc.
What do some of you others like to do with it? Give it to new players trundling through Atlas? Maybe, sponsor Granite Tank races?
I like to hold Costume Contests with mine.
Here is a link to my latest one.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231431
Anyone who wants to join us for a brief spell on Justice is more then welcome.
Now....How do you spend your influence?
Enjoy your day please.