Low-Level, Low-Risk, Nest Egg Guide

How to: Low level Nest-Egg start up with almost no cost

When I began this guide, I was attempting to get into “diet” marketeering. I wasn't interested in making billions. Well, to be fair, I was, but I knew myself and I knew that I wouldn't be willing to put in the time needed to make huge money that way.

The method below is perfect for those who want to get a foot in the door at the market. It helps you build a nice steady stream of inf over time, and can be used on any server at any level. There really is no "trick" to it. In fact, the system below is easy enough that both a 9 year old, and a 15 year old have followed it and made it work! This will get you millions, and if you have a few years to kill, BILLIONS!


So I began my journey with Experiment 1b. I made a brand new, level 1 character on Infinity, a server I had no characters on, and got to work. First things first. I had to level him a bit. You get very little in terms of storage at level 1 (salvage, market slots, ect.) and so I needed room to grow.


I ran around Atlas killing things as I normally would. I tend to street sweep a lot in lower levels. I made it to level 4 and visited Ms. Liberty.


At this point I had almost no money. Lucky for me, I have alts who do! We however, will cover what you will need to do to get some money if you don't have some you can send over. I didn't send anything to myself and you won't have to either! (Though I highly recommend it!)

Step 1: Getting started!


You're now level 4. Grats! Eventually you will want to shoot for level 10, as you cannot email your vast fortune off to any of your other characters until you're level 10, but for now, level 4 is good enough! We reach level 4 because at level 4, you can hold 15 salvage. This is key to our market adventure, so don't try this before level 4. It will make you pull your hair out! Level 3 will get you 8 slots, and soon enough you will have 2 extra to make 10, but come on... its level 4! Plus, you'll need a tiny bit of start up cash.


You have a bit of inf from getting to level 4, and really, this is all you will need to start out. I ended up with 1,517 inf from killing stuff and selling my enhancements that dropped. I don't plan on playing this guy, so I sold my training enhancements. If you simply must keep them or if you slotted them, no biggie!


The goal for this step is to get at least 50,000 inf.

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If you have 50,000 inf or more on you, skip to STEP 2

“50,000!!?? Oh my! I've never seen so much money!!”


Don't panic! Its not too hard. Here's what we're going to do. Go to the Black Market or Wentworths and start putting your market slots to work!


At this point, you have 4. This is plenty! More is better, but this is perfect for your brand new character!


At this point, you will have to put in a small bit of leg work if you're not sending yourself the 50k. I promise this will be the absolute hardest part, so don't be overly worried about it.


On the left side of the market interface are categories. Click on the bottom one: Salvage. Now expand out the Invention header by clicking on Invention. On the right side you will have a somewhat long list of all of the invention salvage that is available in the game.


Notice how some are white, some are yellow, and some are orange? We're going to start with the white ones. Start clicking through them until you find one where there are 0 bids. I cannot tell you which piece of salvage this will be, so this one's on you, sorry Generally whites will have the most sales at 1 inf. If you're having no luck, or if you just want to, you can try the uncommons (yellow) and rares (orange). Just remember to stick with the stuff with 0 bids on it!


Find one? Great! Now bid 1 on 10 of them ( Bid 1 x10 ). Do this for 4 different pieces of salvage. Get any? Well, maybe you did, maybe you didn't. If you didn't, don't worry! This is a bit like fishing. If you prefer to speed up the process, you can Bid 11 x10 instead of 1. But I find it to be about the same.


Keep doing this, collecting the purchased salvage until you can't hold any more. Feel free to cancel a bid at any time if you're not getting any bites.

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Alternate method: If salvage isn't your thing, you can always open the recipe area, click “other” and bid 1 on level 50 generic IO recipes. These sell for about 80-100k each, so you will only need to get lucky once Since you can only carry 1 recipe at a time right now, don't go too crazy with this!

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Alternate method #2: 1. Do the Tutorial and don't use your big inspires. 2. When you Atlas, train and sweep to Wents. By the time you do that you will have a few hundred influence. 3. List the inspires for 5 inf each. Watch them instasell for anywhere from 60,000 to 150,000. 5. Profit

Once you have 15 salvage on you (not the market) it is time to start making your starting money! Run over to the closest vendor and sell it all. Whites are worth 250, yellows 1,000, and oranges are worth 5,000. To get to our 50k starting point, we'll need to sell about 200 whites. Bleh. Yes its some work. No, its not a lot of fun. But it CAN be done if you have 0 inf on another character to share. If you can spare the 50k from another toon, do it! Otherwise, its 14 trips to the vendor for you!




Ok! Back so soon?! Great job! It took me about 50 minutes to get my 50k. Like I said, mailing it would have been MUCH easier.


Moving on!

Step 2: The good stuff!


Ok, now that you have your 50,000 (or more) its time to turn it in to millions!

Step 3: Show me the money!


Now, here is where the risk comes into play. You're about to list your salvage and the fee will make it so if you cancel your sales and vendor the salvage, you'll lose a tiny bit of money. Don't worry. All told, you will only lose 10,000 total and we've already seen how easy it is to get that back!


Post your salvage, all of it, in stacks of 10 with a sell out price of 10,000-15,000. The 10,000 results in more sales, faster. The 15,000 results in more profitable sales. Pick a number and stick with it! I use 15,000. I'd rather make a bit more and do a bit less sales. To each his own!


Now, GO PLAY! Its a game folks! PLAY PLAY PLAY!!


Back? Have fun? Great! How did you do? Die a lot? I have that problem too


Well, how did your sales go?


Sold them all?! Wow! Amazing! Great job! Repeat the process and go to STEP 4


Sold some? Great job! Did you sell enough so that you have a market slot available? Bid up 10 more of those bad boys for every open market slot you have and GO PLAY!


Didn't sell any? No worries! Check back tomorrow!


When you come back tomorrow, did you sell any? Did you sell at least half? Are you happy with the amount you sold?


Here's the part where you need to decide if you want to look into another piece of salvage. If you've sold even one, you've covered your costs. So no worries about vendoring your stock if you decide to pull it.

Step 4: I got the power!


Now is when you need to start balancing out your salvage storage on your character and the available slots on the market. You always want to have stock on hand ready to be posted. Keeping 20 in your inventory is great for that! So try to find a good balance of sales vs bids.


I try for an even split myself, but it doesn't always work that way.


Step 5: Repeat as necessary.


Once you find a good salvage for you, work it. Work it hard! Check on this character at least when you log in and right before you log out. If this is your only character, make sure you check the market while you're running past it on missions!

I can confirm that this will work and that playing the market for profits is easy. Really easy. I had my first billion earned through it when I was 16. First influence cap achieved a bit after I turned 17. If a kid can do it, so can you, and this is a very nice way to get started!

I would say that getting 50,000 to start is the easiest part. In fact you can do it at level 2.

1. Do the Tutorial and don't use your big inspires.

2. When you get to Atlas, train and sweep to Wents. By the time you do that you will have a few hundred influence.

3. List the inspires for 5 inf each. Watch them instasell for anywhere from 60,000 to 150,000.

4. Profit

any low level nest egg guide should include the 'trick' of selling the big inspirations from the tutorial.

Other than that, fine job!

I disagree with your proposed mechanism.

Here is what I do:

Phase 1: Sell the two level 1 damage TOs.
Phase 2: List the two big insps from the tutorial for 1inf each.
Phase 3: Collect money.

This should get you at least 20-40k.

Now. Here's the thing, you DO have to be over level 4 for the really effective thing. That is:

Bid 150x10 on a lot of level *45* IO recipes. Level 45 IO recipes vendor for 1/4 of the cost-to-craft. But you can get a ton of the less-used ones for 150inf. You're turning 150 into 15-30k repeatedly. Once you get that going, start bidding maybe 5k on some of the least popular level 50 IO recipes. Again, just vendor 'em.

That'll get you to a couple of million quite fast, once you have recipe slots. Make getting to level 10 or so a priority, though.

Third "early money" trick- and I don't know if this one is as easy to explain: Level 50 yellow set recipes. If you can buy them for 511 (pick your number of choice) and sell them for 10,000 inf each, you only need to sell six to have 50K. I actually check level 40-50 because some people keep an eye on "Exactly 50". I'm bad at explaining how to do these things because I've done it so much it's built into my fingers.

Also, if you're higher than level 4, you may have salvage of your own to drop on the market. When I did my "first 100 million" thread I started with something like 37K just from selling all my salvage for one inf.

Edit: Fourth. Seebs beat me to it.

How many market slots do you get from selling stuff? I don't think I've ever gotten one yet, or if I have, I don't know on which character.