Is lvl 21 really this bad?

If you need some quick cash, I wrote a guide for this very purpose. Link is in my sig. =P

And to echo what others have said, level 21 usually sucks. But once you get SO's at 22, you'll definitely notice some improvements.

Welcome back! Level 21 really is that bad. It's the only level where I'll accept powerlevelling through it.

When you've got NO inf and you want some, here's a couple of tricks. Don't worry that you're "taking advantage of people"- you're not.


1) No risk, minimal reward, boring as hell: Go to Wentworth's and buy unloved set recipes at level 50- I'm going to be specific, because you've already got a lot on your plate. Nightmare, Enfeebled Operation, Kinetic Crash, Blood Mandate, Expedient REinforcement, Lethargic Repose. Find something that has zero bids and, like, fifty for sale. Buy them for 200 inf or less until you're full. Run to a regular store and sell them for 5 or 10 thousand each. (You have to scroll down, it's under inspirations for some reason). You can right click and "Sell all". If you're selling say 10 recipes each time, you're making about 48,000 inf per run. If you do this ten times, which I admit SUCKS, you'll have a good start.

2) More inf, more learning, less work, slight risk: Buying and reselling common salvage. As a practice thing, pick some of your salvage and list it for 1 inf. Some won't sell immediately; that's trash. For something that DOES sell, you'll probably see prices clustering around two different values- we think of those as "buy it now" and "Sell it now" prices. Almost everything in this game has those two values, and in between them is profit for people who are willing to buy stuff and resell it.

An important thing is, you don't list AT 100,000 inf if you want to sell at 100,000 inf. People put in simple bids, and the lowest outstanding price gets that bid. To oversimplify, assume there is one customer, who is going to double his bid until he gets the item. 50,000 then 100,000 then 200,000 . If you list at 100,000 and another seller lists at 51,000 then the other seller will get every sale, until they run out of stock, and you will watch sales go by as your rage builds. So there's sort of a guessing game for what to list at.

But [to give an example- don't do this specific thing] right now the "Sell it now" price for Steel is 111,556 and the "Buy it now" price is around 400,000 inf- customers are throwing 500,000 at it and getting it. You could leave a bid up for ten at 111,557 and they'll be waiting the next time you log in- maybe faster- and then you can sell them for 351,000 and scoop the 400,000-inf guy. You might even sell them for 500K each!

If you do this too often, the 111,556 guy will change their bid... eventually.

3) once you get enough inf you can get into bigger games. There are people who can't tell the difference between 5 million and 10 million inf; those people are great customers.