Why do so many people want to pull out their IOs?

I was thinking the devs would probably set a higher price than what Claws suggested myself.

Lock the last powers to accept only those 6 additional enhancements between them.

But the as for the rest, it's just a lot of extra clicking and waiting.

i find it interesting you went with extremely negative connotations there. another choice might have been 'practical'. another might have been thrifty, another might have been budget conscious, another might have been economical.

...and considering i've given away more influence over the years to absolute newbs and friends i'll step around the scrooge monocle as well.

If the devs didn't program the game to tell us that when we slot an enhancement it's permanent and that they were being generous when they decided to allow us to recover 10 enhancements with a respec I'd agree with the terms 'thrifty' and 'practical'.

And I think it's really great that you go out of your way to help people. I hope it's something you continue to do in the future.

But bear with me on this train of thought, if you have no problem giving away hundreds of millions in influence to help out friends and strangers, it stands to reason that you'd also have more than enough influence to simply buy new enhancements rather than use respecs to pull them off of a build.

(and again I really like Claws idea for a way to let us pull enhancements off a build without using a respec)

i certainly see your point, but timelines need to be considered as well. one doesn't tend to purchase their lifetime's supply of toilet paper all at once, nor do they tend to have the funds generated all at once to make such a purchase. even if it would keep that long (and you had as place to store it) would you be able to fork out 10k in one shot for t.p.? would you expect your employer to front you a lifetime's worth of paychecks? the same goes for multiple characters and io's. someone, somewhere had to run content to generate the influence to purchase it. influence generation has been suggested at anywhere from 2-15m inf per hour making an lotg +rech worth approx 8-60 hours, as opposed to 100-120m inf (leaving aside the rng and merit randoms/purchases, or general drops). if merit currency were solely used, then approx 6 tf's of varying flavours, with the built in diversity mechanic, likely across several days or weeks depending on one's availability (tf purchasing power may be off some off the top of my head), for 1 high end io.

please don't get me wrong, there are a variety of paths, and i'm not trying to play a woebegotten part here. it was simply a consideration of time over influence. unfortunately, this does tend to pander to the rmt side of things if patience is low and desire is high (note: i have never or will ever use such a service).

I guess a big part of what is forming my opinion on this topic is that I've seen so many posts by other people explaining ad nauseum how easy it is for them to make tons of inf thru the Market flipping, AE tickets, Merits, etc that it doesn't make sense to me what the fuss is about. (It's the insanely "rich" that baffle me the most when they get mad they have to burn respecs to strip a character)

Another part is that I just can't seem to form an attachment to an enhancement. To me being able to recover is a convenience but if I can't I can't muster more than a 'meh, oh well."