What do you do with your Billions
By
BashfulBanshee,
Posted on: 2010-07-29 19:15 in The Market and Inventions
Counting what I've got slotted in characters and sitting in base bins I'm probably looking at something in the 50-60 billion range but for some reason I can't drive myself to drop a lot of inf on stuff. Been meaning to slot out stupid expensive builds for my Psi/EM and Mind/Emp but I never actually get around to it and I cringe at how expensive it'd end up being even though I know I can afford it.
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I spend (buy) to make more (craft and sell).|
Originally Posted by BashfulBanshee
Now....How do you spend your influence?
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I've slotted some PvP toons but mostly I usually wind up giving alot away both to friends and strangers. I did the same thing when i was poor though, I would get 100 mil (alot for me last year) and hold a PERC event and give it away.
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I use a large portion of my ebil riches to help cover the cost of BaB's summer vacation home. We all know he actually runs everything.
Aside from that, I listen in global channels to people who want to buy modest goods off the market instead of trying to get the top-end stuff. When they can't afford such things, I go buy the stuff they want and drop it on them. I give moderate millions to SG and coalition folks so they can frankenslot early and start planning on better builds for later. I buy all salvage priced under 10 million and destroy it in categories where there are thousands for sale and zero bids (last time I did that, it took 3 hours to buy and destroy 11,000+ salvage!). I've converted a few billions to prestige so my 7-year-old son can play Barbie Base Builder in my private SG. I try to corner the market on a few of the "Good stuff" IOs and recipes, store them in my base, and keep supply low so others can profit more.
And, every once in a while, I like to try to do some marketeering and get richer but instead grossly miss the mark and loose hundreds of millions. I don't so much enjoy the losing, but I do learn and get better.
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What have I done with mine.....hmm....well along with Fulmens I work on reducing inflation in the game by destroying infamy in a few ways.
1) My main has 41M prestige so you can imagine how much that was (quite a bit with matches).
2) I sometimes buy most of an object on the market and then dump all of that item at 1 to clear the bid-ask spread. Alot of infamy is semi-randomly redistributed this way along with about 20% of it being destroyed.
3) I have earned the portable crafting station on 11 toons. I assure you this is infamy destructive as far as the game is concerned even if I make a profit or break even on it.
4) I store it on exiled alts on servers like Pinnacle and forget its there. Since these toons' marginal propensity spend approaches 0 it effectively reduces inflation.
What do I do that isn't infamy destructive?
1) Well I gave away a Gladiator Armor +3 def unique (2B+ cost off market) to someone who had a very nicely written backstory that not only incorporated the game mythos but also built on it and wasn't hackneyed.
2) I paid someone 100M to broadcast World Cup action from the Spain-Germany in Cap for like 30 mins.
3) I give sums of money away to teammates so they can buy what they need. Usually because I see they're a decent player who doesn't whine or whatever and just needs a few 100M infamy to make a better build.
4) I let my husband's alts leech huge amounts of infamy off me to support their builds....no matter how oddball.....even the all-fear dark/dark brute with the presence pool. I assure you even well equipped it still sucked and was worse than just using the terrify or spectral terror powers.
5) I run costume contests from time to time though I have become bored with these and more often recently I have been doing backstory contests since those are more skill-oriented IMHO.
6) I sponsor odd-ball games like "Mook Golf in St Mart." for a few 100M infamy.
7) I give away infamy to many if not most toons I come across who don't have a vet badge yet. I'm sure I've enriched someone posting here's 2nd account....oh well.
8) And as many others have already stated....I use the roughly 100B in value I have unslotted to make more infamy/influence.