Zero to Awesome Redeux! 31 Day Project

A fine read (and thread). I've enjoying following along with your adventure.

Thanks for posting it Organica, and gratz on another successful toon.


Cheers,
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Organica, you've finally gotten me interested in actually looking at the market and how to make it work for me.

I've gotten hooked.

Curse you.

Seeing all these people say thank you reminded of one of those forum arguments I got into with someone on the last thread Organica posted.....heres the central point to his argument.....

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Originally Posted by eryq2 If you love these ideas, good for you. For me, big deal. I don't think we will see a new poster reply saying thanks, i didn't know that if i ran missions and bought stuff in WW that i could get to 50 eventually and IO my toon. I'll be waiting to see though.

Id like to think somewhere, eryq2 sees the sun being blotted out by a cloud of wrong and is a better person for the realization

--Frog

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone! And I'm glad I inspired a few people!

Aftermath/Wrapup



Because saying something can be done and actually doing it are two different things, I continued to run tip missions and confirmed hero status this afternoon, then ran SSA1 for my weekly hero merit. I think this is pretty neat -- it takes 10 days to go from hero to villain and back and confirm hero status again, but since you can have 10 vigilante tips already run without being a vigilante yet, and can run your SSA immediately after confirming hero status, you really can do two SSA's 7 days apart for hero merits while still making the full round trip journey.







By the evening of Wednesday the 1st I was a hero again, and had nearly 1.5 billion influence on hand. I immediately set about buying influence to expand my base:



I think I spent at least 1.2 billion influence on prestige conversion -- which would net me 2.4 million prestige, I think.

This was far more than I needed for a fully functioning base, but I had the chance to add a Super Computer and a Turbine Generator, and I figured, why the heck not? I'll never need more power than that (most likely) and probably will never need more control either.



I expanded my plot, added larger control and energy room and a much larger workshop, and added a teleport room large enough for four hacked teleporters.

As it turned out I still needed to get the King's Row beacon (I had done that before starting my SG I believe) and the Pocket D beacon, and I still don't have my Rikti War Zone Beacon. But I have 22 of 23 possible destinations so teleporting to anywhere isn't a problem.

I arranged my teleporters as so:

Main Low Level Zones: Atlas Park, King's Row, Steel Canyon, Skyway, Perez Park, The Hollows

Midlevel Zones: Talos Island, Independence Port, Faultline, Croatoa, Striga Isle, Pocket D

High Level Zones: Peregrine Island, Dark Astoria, Eden, Founder's Falls, Brickstown, (Rikti War Zone)

Miscellaneous: Echo of Galaxy City, Echo of Dark Astoria, Boomtown, Crey's Folly, Terra Volta

The only important thing is that you can remember which one to use quickly.

So far it's not a very interesting base, but it's big and does everything a proper base should. And I managed it in just over 31 days along with everything else.





Although I spent nearly all of my money on prestige, I sold my hami-O the same evening for 400 million, so I was hardly poor. Bought a few more things to list too.



And since I wasn't focusing on doing a lot with Dilthium Flower, I turned back to one of my other projects on Wednesday and got Jennie Nova, a beam rifle/radiation corruptor from 47 to 50. Build nearly complete on her and she's already been redside and back for the scorpion shield so I don't expect she will occupy a lot of my time, but I do plan to incarnate her. That was the point of leveling her -- a /rad corr can be useful on something like a Mag trial, I figured.

Aftermath/Wrapup 2

And now for an accounting of what I have at this point, aside from a fully IO'd level 50 dom and a fully functioning base:

I have just over 500 million on me, despite dropping 1.2 billion on the base.



I have quite a bit of stuff for sale at the moment -- some probably listed too high, but I'll leave it all for now and see if it sells.



I have 432 reward merits and the hero merit I just earned tonight. I have 7 converters. I have the 818 vanguard merits I earned the other day -- haven't spent them yet. (Oh, hey, earned 2 more on a tip mission!) I have 15 shards which probably means I should have my Tier 2 Alpha soon and I have a catalyst into the bargain.

As for what's in my base? I have 74 IOs/ATOs. I crafted anything slightly interesting while leveling and dropped it in here, so I certainly have a lot of semi-junk, but you never know what might come in useful in the future and I can add more storage bins. But some of the stuff in here can be sold at a later point too:















As you can see, a base full of junk!

And that's it!

As for what I might do next... I kind of want to take a Praetorian to 50 without leaving Praetoria, and I also kind of want to run a toon to 50 in Death from Below with a build specifically designed around that concept... just because. I do have a "Sewer Ratty" scrapper around somewhere who was supposed to get to 50 all on old-school sewer runs, or maybe with the occasional abandoned sewer run, heh. But after DfB came about, that no longer seemed like such a difficult goal.

Anyway I don't think those are things I'd write about, but they're on my list of possible future goals.

Figured I should chime my own thanks in with the others. Thanks to this, I'm closing in on the 1 billion mark for the first time. A lot of this stuff I knew already, but actually confirming it was the push I needed to figure out how to best use my farming toon.

I think you missed some of the context. He likes getting his weekly SSA merit but he wanted to turn villain to get the Scorpion Shield patron power.

The portion you quoted is how Organica resolved his conflict without missing out on his weekly A-merit fix.

Organica = Awesome


I got the bulk of my cash doing bullet-headed PVP farms, mass AE tickets, and low-end mass crafting.

Your skill humbles me. Well played.

I read through this entire thread last night and I must say it was really insightful for someone that is returning to the game after years away.

Thanks Organica!