How to make money

So going from playing fully IO'd toons to playing some that have a couple IO's or none is lame. I have a couple new 50's and while I like the background/look/feel of the characters I dont like not having defenses or recharge.

So whats the most effient way to make inf?
Done ticket farming. I can say when I burn through three thousand something tickets and get no steadfast 3% defense globals or any rectified recticles but a ton of air bursts is annoying.
Using converters is a hassle cause there isnt a simple way to get them. Cant run ITrials alone in the middle of the night, and A merits is either once every other day or once a week.

Are there other good options? Cause I'm becoming frustrated. Only plus side I see is that IO's are much cheaper now then they once were.

Tickets -> IO's is the fastest way I've seen to make inf on a single toon short of flipping purples. If you have a lot of characters with a moderate amount of inf, you can put in dozens of lowball bids on things that move fast (ATO's, popular IO's) and wait for them to fill. Pick up ATO's cheap, repost them for about 10mil apiece more than you payed, profit. It should only take a few hundred mil to IO out a build if you avoid the pricier sets.

See Organica's Zero to Awesome Redeux! 31 Day Project. She didn't say the final tally, I don't think, but the screen cap show 1.1 billion liquid, plus I'd say a ton more tied up in inventory. Nice and easy, without a lot of hard work.

I'm assuming you are rolling bronze 10-14 for your tickets by your comment about steadfast +def. I find bronze 35-39 another good range. Silver rolls can be good too. The nice thing about bronze 35-39 is that there are quite a few decent common sets (Red Fortune, Crushing Impact, Thunderstrike, Doctored Wounds, Titanium Coating) in there that you can turn a small profit on and sell relatively fast. The other thing to consider about 35-39 bronze and silver is that if your character is not yet IOed, you'll get suitable recipes you can slot yourself to tide you over until you can get purples or whatever. You'll have a shot at reactives and oblits and kinetic combats, etc.

If your goal is to get *billions* of influence fast, I don't think farming alone will get you there. You'll need to figure out how to use the market to make that much money in a short timeframe.

You asking this is hilarious Mike. Considering you were just telling another guy off for posting about a bug, that could be farmed. And here you are..asking how to make easy money. So that if someone DID post a super grand scheme..the devs could see it..and you know..stop it. The very way that they could for what you were complaining about. Great stuff!

I've made over 10 billion over the past three months just through casual flipping across three alts. Its a nice and profitable side game, if you're more aggressive you could definitely make more faster.

There's also the fact that, long term vets already start out with a power that can "twink" their ultra-low level earnings.

Inner Inspiration.

A level 1 character can produce inspirations that sell for tens and hundreds of thousands of Inf. Every 30 minutes.

So acquiring "seed capital" is about as tough as breathing.
Hell, breathing might be tougher.

Once you're past the first couple million, it's all gravy.

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Can't argue that direct flipping is the simplest way to make influence, especially if you're doing it with several different marketing toons. Put in bids, come back days later, list what you've bought for a good sell price, come back days later, you have money!

"Claim all" is nasty. Avoid like the plague.

yep you're both doing a much higher volume than I am, and I bet I also know which bids are Plasmas... =P