influence

"off-market" what the--? What do you mean? You broadcast you have this recipe and wait till someone contacts you? Or are there forums for this sort of thing?

The Market & Inventions forums right in these very forums regularly feature such offers.
The details of how the transaction is managed vary.

you get influenza

I assumed nothing. You said so yourself. In what universe is uttering the sentence, "Oh, I see, you hit a magic wall," to a technical person who's trying to explain why what you're demanding can't be done not patronizing?

HINT: Not this one.

There is also a Market-related global channel. Well, I imagine there's more than one, but I'm only on one. I sold a PvP recipe that way. I let it go for 2 billion. The buyer got a bargain and I avoided paying the Consignment House 10% vig.

Oo! Oo! Is it in the universe where people are made of money? Someone posted about that one.

Could even put the 5% trading interest on either side of conversion to help as an inf sink

You can spam it in broadcast, or on the Market channel. You can also post it here on the market forums as well.

I don't deal in such items often, but I believe the accepted method is 2 one billion inf transfers, hand over the recipe, then the balance.

At this point, even if someone were to stiff you on the remainder, you'd still be ahead of where you would be with the 10% market fees.

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Yeah like the others have talked about I've only sold a couple of high priced PvP IOs myself, but I know some people do that fairly routinely.

The level I usually "play" the market at nets me about 1 billion a week, and I can get that much with only putting in about 10 minutes of time per day on it. I don't farm or flip anything to get that amount - all I do is buy, craft and sell certain recipes that I've learned have a fairly reliable rate of return. Obviously there are ways to earn more Influence faster, but at this point I don't really need it.

Probably because the number of people that would benefit from that tedious testing is a very small portion of the population.

You have maybe 1 in 25 players who have ever run up against the 2 billion influence cap. Even fewer who routinely do so.

I've personally never had an amount of influence above 750 million at any one time, and that was spent almost immediately. The majority of players in the game are probably in a similar situation. Just like real life, the majority of the wealth in the game is held by a very small percentage of the population.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

We don't expect much from most in management. The Dilbert "pointy haired boss" is sadly pretty accurate.

I agree completely that the 2 billion cap is only going to be a "problem" for a handful of players at most.

Like I implied in my first post in this thread the 2 billion cap was clearly designed at the beginning to be a "more than enough" limit for most people. It was only through the advent of things like the markets and AE farming that it even became realistically possible for average players to hit the cap. Before the markets I had barely managed to pass the 200 million mark on any of my characters much less the 2 billion mark.

As long as as there's only a small minority of "ebil" marketeers and there are alternatives like storing your Influence in emails or the market the Devs are probably not going to see a need to increase this limit.

Oh noes! The 99% comes to CoH!

OCCUPY ATLAS PARK!

Yep that's all we need here to make me avoid AP even more.

There's just one slight problem with applying "the majority of the wealth in the game is held by a very small percentage of the population" concept in this game: the game can generate an infinite supply of Influence for everyone. There are no real life "economic" barriers keeping any player from sitting on 100 billion Influence if they want to.

The only reason there are only a handful of people in this game who are multi-billionaires is because there's apparently only a handful of people who are bothering to figure out how to make multi-billions of Influence. It's not that hard, but it does take some effort and knowledge.

At the very least the "99 percenters" of this game can't claim it's unemployment or lack of opportunities that are keeping them down.

I agree 100%. Anybody that wants to can sit down and easily come up wit strategies to make very easy 10s of millions, and somewhat easily hundreds of millions in short (relatively) periods of time. Some do. While most of us spend a large majority of out time in game fighting or hunting badges, these folks are marketeering like that was why the game was created. Some have gotten so good they are making an actual effort to destroy as much inf as possible. i have seen it, and the amount they destroy is truly amazing. The equivalent of watching someone burn stacks of hundred dollar bills to keep the stove lit all winter.

We had that thread already. It mysteriously disappeared...

As sympathetic as I may be to the 99s IRL, in this game, they have no ground to stand on. This market just doesn't work that way.

It's THE MAN keeping them down!

Its the not wanting to sit and market for hours thats keeping them down lol.

Nah, it's a lack of caring and/or knowing simple strategies keeping them down. You don't have to spend much time with the market at all to make hundreds of millions. i have several alts who accidentally ended up with over a billion and a half on hand while i wasn't paying attention.

If you make a small effort you can rake in hundreds of millions a day with only a few stops at the market. Usually i only do that when i have something specific i want to do, like acquire sets to complete a build. The funny thing is that if you start playing the market to get the IOs you want for a build it's actually pretty easy to end up with far more inf than you started in addition to getting the IOs.

Sorry. But I'm just so damn GOOD at it!

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Hours my behind!

A couple minutes at the beginning and end of a play session. Yeah, if you want to do occasional mid-day check-ins, it can go faster. But it's not necessary.

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