INF, what a joke.

Another inspirational post for anyone out there trying to make a few INF for whatever.

The markets in CoX are crazy!

I took a toon to level 41, by that time I was just rocking regular SO's and I think I had about 4M influence, the fun level for that build dropped and I rolled another toon and just for the hell of it I wanted to see what i could turn that 4M into by just playing the market, he's now a full time auctioneer.

I bought things that moved fast(or there was alot of) and put a bid price in really low and waiting a few days (I do this with salvage) or buying a craftable recipe for cheap, crafting it and after the cost of mats and the price to actually craft it, selling it for a 300% profit or more....

To be honest, Im not even trying hard its just something I do every now and then, or I'll do a bunch of transactions if I know I wont be on for a few days.

I turned that 4M into currently 307M in about 3ish weeks, not an insane rate as some people can churn out, but for doing almost NOTHING but spending a few mins shifting through the market.

My only tip really, is patience. Have plenty of it, so many people will toss up a 100K item for much, much less, and then you can go around and sell it for 95K, that it almost feels criminal. Almost.

Keep in mind this I did this without reading anything here in the market place, but hanging around here has given me a few more ideas.

Basically, If I can do it, you can do it.

Best of luck.

It's an entitlement thing. We're more successful, so that must mean they are morally superior or they would be able to be as successful. It's because they hold themselves to a higher standard that we have more money, and that allows them to look down on us.

Plus there are the super secret cabals that purposefully run items up in price so that the casual players can never have any hope of being able to afford anything beyond SOs.

Sorry What's the joke?

I do hate the game (which was added on to what I still consider to be the real game), but have been told I am wrong to do so. So now what?

No, you're in your right to hate the game. However, you can hate it while still learning it and beating it at it's own rules.

Inf is a joke, and at this point so is the market, I think now with H/V merits, the only thing I will be needing off the market is salvage. You can make 3 H/V merits every 2 days at the end of the month thats 45 merits at the end of the month, between 3 toons that is a full set of purples, 3 PvPs, or a plethora of sets and uniques.

Yeah, those high prices in the market now will only appeal to the impatient.

...assuming it takes 10 minutes to do a tip mission, and 20 minutes to do a morality mission, and you don't get bored, ever, that's 2 hours of playtime per H/V merit. Assume you can do 50 merits of TF's in an hour. So that's 3 H/V merits in 2 days for 4 hours of play. Between 3 toons that's 12 hours per 2 days. Or 180 hours a month. (or a little over 40 hr/week, to put it in job terms.)

So, yeah, you can avoid paying market prices by putting in 60 hours per PVP IO. Your definition of "impatient" and mine may differ a little.

The market prices will adapt to the new supply. The only reason the prices were so high before is because there was a large demand and a very limited supply. You dump a bunch of new ways to get things into the game, and prices drop as the new supply trickles in. The effect is already visible on a number of items.

Um. I think he was choosing an impossibly high number to illustrate why there will still be demand for these recipes on the market. He was pointing out to the poster above him how much of a time investment is involved with trying to generate 3 alignment merits every 2 days with 3 characters.

If you have to spend 2.5 hours running TFs for 50 merits and an hour on average on tips / morality missions, ever day, every character, and assuming you're going to make 60M a day doing that content without spending any merits, then you're putting in 2 hours 20 minutes per Alignment Merit. You're talking about playing 10 hours a day at 20 merits per hour, even assuming everything else is fast.

Point is, there is "impatience" and there is "efficiency." If you're going to put 70 hours a week into this game, you're better off buying it on the market.

I figure I couldn't do 50 merits of TFs in an hour, like I probably can't do 10 minute tip missions, but I figured let's take the most favorable assumptions and see how much pain and suffering we get ANYWAY.