How do I send Influence to my other character

In that little itsy bitsy, teensy weensy Game manual i followed the instructions to send influence from one player to another and NOTHING HAPPENED!!

boo hoo hoo hoo hoo....

So How do i send influence of 98 million from Samson Moses to NOMANN successfully?
and remember you are providing instructions to a 66 year old Computer Illiterate, who is retired and collecting his social security disability income and all he looks forward to is City of Heroes as it is bully enjoyable!!

.....except for the transfering of money....

You can send Influence to your toon with the e-mail function. You can send it to your global name.

For example: I send my e-mails to @Fireblaster

Just to clarify the process:

1. New email.
2. Put global in the recipient address.

When you select who to send it to, don't pick a character name, but the global. Say @COHDude has ten characters, and wants to send 5000000 INF from Blaster Bob to Controller Carol.

If he addresses it to Controller Carol, it'll fail. (You won't lose the INF, it'll give you a warning instead.) Instead, in the "to" field, he puts his own global, @COHDude.

3. Fill in anything for the subject.

I don't recall it autofilling for INF, but for enhancements and recipes it will. You can override this and put your own in, of course. Everything needs a subject.

4. Put anything in the body.

If you have nothing in the body, it just won't send. Even an "X" will do, but if I'm sending stuff to myself, I'll often jot down which character I want ti to go to ("For Controller Carol.")

5. Send!


Now, if @COHDude logs off Blaster Bob and hops on Dasterdly Dom Don, he'll still see the INF he sent - it's visible to (and claimable on) every character. He finishes his dom, heads over to Controller Carol. Y ou'll see a mini window that says "5000000 INF," with a "Claim" beneath it - grab it. (You may need to stretch it so you don't accidentally hit the "Report as spammer" button. UI issue.)

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Also if you're worried in case you get your global wrong just send something you don't care if it gets lost first - 1inf or even just an empty email. Once you see it in your inbox just hit reply and you can be certain the global is enterred correctly.

Don't forget to delete the email after you have claimed as the inbox is not exactly huge.

Also, once you send it correctly you will have INSTANT confirmation of that. The email will immediately show up in the mailbox of the character who just sent it, since it is claimable by ANY character on the account.

Yes, you can email from one character and claim it on the same one. This is frequently done when people want to have an extra supply of inspirations on hand before attempting a difficult task.

Or if you want to store a few hundred million inf so you don't go over the 2 billion inf limit while you're doing your impressive financial wizardry.

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