Reminder: Money for SOs available for the asking

A lot of people come here because they're broke, and find that... well, the market minigame? It's not for everyone.

And they find that becoming fantabulously wealthy, while "easy" for some of us, is either not-easy, or not-fun, for them.

So.

You can equip a character with SOs, replace them every 5 levels, and keep yourself basically enhanced, for about 20M over the lifetime of a character, typically. You won't be as powerful as someone who's got a ton of IOs, but you will be Good Enough -- up through incarnate, game content is balanced around the assumption that you're on SOs. Especially on teams.

Remember that stuff about fantabulously wealthy? I'm like the most casual marketer ever, I spend more time listing stuff for 1inf to open up slots than I do trying to make money, and I have maybe 8 billion inf lying around.

So.

If you can't afford your basic enhancements, feel free to drop a global email in-game to @Seebs Dot Net, and I'll send you 20M inf. You can have SOs, you can enjoy the game roughly as it was balanced, and you don't have to mess with the market to do it.

(Note: I'm not the only person who does this, there's others. Heck, I suspect most of the marketeers would send you 20M if you asked because WHO CARES, it's only 20M.)

Whenever I see someone who has no vet badges, and seems like a new player, I give em 20 mil :3
New player gratefully accepts and when I asked why I gave it, I just say it's tradition. ;D

Note to self-
New ebil scheme:
Create freemium accounts- scam billionaire marketeers at 20m a pop.


Kidding aside, this is a good idea for the health of the game. Need to encourage the (hopefully) wave of new players that Freedom will bring.

Okay, clearly this is not working as intended.

So far I'm up 400M on the deal.

To clarify: You are NOT required or expected to send back a ton of extra inf later. It's a gift, not a loan at 30000% interest.

Pfft. I'm not twinking my new tank at all. He's going to brought up to 50 the same damn way the ORIGINAL Hyperstrike was!

{Aide} Uh boss. the original Hyperstrike was brought up on excessive amounts of street sweeping.

Okay so slightly BETTER than the way the ORIGINAL Hyperstrike was!

He's already sitting on something like 6 million at level 19 (I've been lazy about marketing with him). But by the time he hits 22, he'll have at least 8 figures working the market for him and be fully SO'ed out.

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@Seebs, I often gift 10 or 20 million, and when they ask if I want it back, I tell them to pay it forward.

Someone must have linked to this thread, 'cuz I've gotten like 10 requests in the last two days.

Gotta start marketing some tears now.

I don't imagine such a small amount of outgoing funds will really impact your riches, but if it ever gets to be expensive enough to want help, let me know (via @RagManX1 or @RagManX2) and I'll pay into the SO fund.

RagManX

I'm not rich like some of the big marketeers, but I recently spent ten minutes alt-hopping trying to remember who'd been selling those five crafted purples. (Stuns, not hecatombs or anything, but...) So I'm not too worried. I think I've put maybe 200M into this so far.

It's a good investment in terms of fun per million inf.

Yeah, I am really really crappy on the market, I hate it, and I struggle with getting what I consider enough "good stuff". But if I see a new player who just seems flabbergasted by it all I always kick down a few million. A few just cheerfully say thanks, but most just get really confused.

Ya know, just the other day I was playing a new toon at 16 and teamed up with a guy who didn't have the cash to pay for some EndMods for his brute's Stamina. I had just sent my toon 50 mil so I gave this guy 20 and he just about fell over.

Nice to see I'm part of a tradition and didn't even know it.