Inf Sink - - - Super Packs

I keep seeing the repeated suggestion that we need an influence sink in game. After watching much of the Pummit it occured to me that there might be a way to kill two birds with one stone.

How about selling the Super Packs (both pack I and the soon coming pack II) through a vendor at Pocket D? The vendor could have a booth like a legit biz or could be some shady character standing in a shadowed corner. Whatever, as long as one is there!

I am unsure of pricing so this number will need adjusting, but perhaps something like 100,000,000 or so would buy a five pack Super Packs. (25 cards total).

This would remove some (Or even much!) of the inflation causing excess Inf from the game and it would allow some of our more cash poor players a shot at some of the Super Pack rewards. . .

I'd love to see a decent inf sink in this game. Maybe the devs could cycle the Super Packs like the Tier 9 VIP rewards. After a unspecified length of time make the old packs available at an in game vendor and sell new packs at the Paragon Store.

I like the idea, although I think 100m might be a bit too cheap. 250m "feels" like a better number to me (which would push it from "maybe" to "mostly out of my reach" for me personally). A lot of the super pack rewards are pretty good (including the Elemental Order costume set!), so it'd probably still be worth the inf if you actually had large quantities.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

i would rather spend inf on the super packs than points, and i would also not mind paying a lot

it would be a better inf sink than the inf->prestige conversion at sg registrar (and more appealing even if it does cost a lot)

I think the devs are more concerned about something that is a true revenue builder being turned into an inf/inf sink effecting their RL revenue. Supergamble packs are serving the purpose they were designed for(revenue stream) and because of that I see no reason to change what is working so well.

Slightly off topic, I'm so glad our devs didn't go the path other games have chosen with their gamble packs where not only do you have to buy the pack but you have to buy a key to unlock each pack.

I haven't spent a dime on any of those games after they pulled that stunt.

I don't think this is going to fly.

Currently, the packs cost points or tokens, which means you are spending real money on them in some way or another. Thus they are making the game money.

If you put them in the game for influence, any Premium player with enough tiers to have a higher influence cap will be able to get them for free (as far as game revenue is concerned).

And a lot of people who currently buy them would start getting them that way as well, which would cut into the revenue the store-bought ones are bringing in.

Don't see this one happening, though I wouldn't really care if it did. 250 million influence is more than I'd be willing to pay for a couple inspirations and some reward merits.

You need an Inf sink? REALLY? wow....just...wow. Ive been playing for years and I very rarely have above 250mil.

If you need something to sink your inf into, then stop fleecing people on the market and stop gaining such huge amounts of inf for no reason!

Okay, this is mainly because I'm a giant softie, but I just thought of an alternate inf sink!

You know those charity workers in Atlas, now that Galaxy is a crater? The ones who ask for donations for clothes and feeding kids and the like?

Let us throw as much Inf at them as we want. I'm positive I'd donate several million.

If people need a "reason" for this then they could have badges or something for X amount of inf donated, but that would remove the altruistic part to me...

If they want an influence sink let us buy apartments throughout Paragon, a small sized personal base for a single toon with windows out to the city below from whatever building the apartment is purchased from with a choice of view direction. Don't allow them to be resold, one per toon, and relatively expensive, monthly rent in influence. Allow a small amount of storage in each apartment also, perhaps 2 storage items. Suites overlooking central Altas would command a higher price than a place in Founders.

Code them and make them modifiable like bases. You can even sell furniture packs in the game store. Get rid of influence and make money for Paragon Studios,.. sound win win and much of the work (base interface) is already in place.

Not sure how these proposed inf sinks are supposed to help the economy. Everyone I know has upwards of 50-100 billion. I am firmly between those two figures and would never fall for an "inf sink" unless it was something that made me go OOOOOOH.

Super Packs?? Meh. I use my paragon points for those. Unfortunately the only inf sink that I think would work would have people yelling "pay to win" because it would have to be something new that only inf could buy. Everything else in game I have no problem using paragon points or doing without.

I have spent billions on prestige because - wait for it - there is no other way to QUICKLY get millions of prestige to help my SG or friend's SGs.

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Originally Posted by Paladiamors I love you, I Burnt the Toast!

We have all seen the wild inflation at WW & BM, (Held in check only by the Infl cap) and that is largely due to an excess amount of Infl circulating in the game. Selling Super Packs for Infl will not solve that problem for all of our billionaires, but game wide, selling Super Packs for Infl could/would reduce the total volume of game cash in circulation. This would in turn bring market prices down to more manageable numbers. The "Gambleholics" would dump much of their infl on the packs, I really do think this would be a valid and effective infl sink game wide.

I do understand that Super Packs are big time fast cash for Paragon Studios, they are the #1 selling item in the market, that is because they are the most desirable item sold. Even with burning Infl for Super Packs, I still think they would remain the best seller. . .

I play another online game FPS it has crates(you don't need keys to open them)which you buy from the Black Market(yes that is actually what it is called). They have the types of crates ones with you know the fancier guns ak-47 camo, m4-k1 scopes, gold gatlins etc that cost actual money you know $$$ dollars to buy. But then they have the other types of crates with the normal guns ak-47, mk-41, gatlin etc you get the picture that can be bought with in game currency the type you earn just for playing.

I think this would be a good idea for this game you know lesser super packs just call them "packs" if you will that can be bought for in game currency. I'm not really sure how Paragon would work something like that with a game like this maybe take out the costume parts make the ATOs more rare and like the merit rewards 5, 10 and 25 compared to what they currently are idk just a rough idea of what they could be like.