Coyotedancer

I'm a frequent "active only" farmer (AFK farming just feels too much like an exploit to me, personally, so I don't do it out of principle-) who runs two accounts tandem... my active farmer and follow-along sidekick built to help hold aggro. Together they tend to average about 60m or so for an hour's run after everything is sorted and sold. (ETA: Obviously, that can vary quite a lot based on exactly what drops. Looking at my notes from when I was actually figuring out averages, to see if having the second character in there was worth it or not, it went anywhere from 50m on the low end to 71m at the highest. That's combined earnings. Not what they each made individually. Each run was made using Byro's version of the Atta cave map.) I vendor all of the common recipes, but toss the vast majority of the uncommon and rare recipes I get on the AH. There are a few specific recipes that I keep for our own use, along with any purples or PvPs that come along, but by-and-large I do consider supplying the market to be a big part of the farmer's role in the City ecosystem. Common and Uncommon salvage goes to the AH, likewise. Rares I keep for crafting. I'm not in any way a marketeer... I find that entire process absolutely, mind-numbingly tedious... so I just supply the raw material that lets the people who do have the patience for crafting and converting their way into monocle and top hat territory make their billions. As "just a farmer", I'll never have the vast INF hordes that you and Yomo do. But with Sunni and her Barn Cat sidekick, I do make enough INF to be comfortable. I've been able to equip my own alts to a pretty high standard, and I've had the extra resources to support the CoyoteNephews and their mom's alt experiments. (They're new to the game, and at this point in the learning curve, worrying about how to afford the SOs on the fourth alt idea they've created this week would be more annoying for them than fun. Economics and income-earning lessons will come along eventually... but for now I'm honestly more concerned with just teaching them how to actually PLAY the game. 😆 )

Just as an aside... Nope. Not unless you get very lucky with recipe drops (to the tune of multiple purples in that hour-) and then sell them on the AH. AE's influence earnings have been nerfed twice since Homecoming went live, so even a well-built speed-farmer isn't regularly pulling in 100m in an hour. Drops are fickle. You need to marketeer to get that kind of potential rate.

That's pretty much the way it goes with my Oranbegans (who tend to be Rogues, alignment-wise), as well. No one seems particularly concerned that they have a Death Mage along for the ride... as long as it's the Rikti, or the Romans or the Talons who are getting covered in inky darkness and a mass of creepy tentacles. Once in a great while I'll run into someone who gets testy IC about it... A few even to the point of being disruptive and, frankly, really assholish... but that's been pretty rare. More often it's a nervous laugh and a "You're not going to body-snatch me are you? No magicians in my family. I swear!" .... Or cheeky questions about succubi. 😝

Don't let Granny White hear you say that... She'll thwack you into next week! (She's also a staff brute who uses the broom. 😆 )

None of the Above.... (I play Oranbegan magi. They all have Sorcery. 😝 Is its Mystic Flight really just Fly? Is it Teleport? Both? Neither? I dunno... but it's fun. )

I'd have to build one on my second account and set it to "follow"... I've never had much fun soloing a Defender on its own. 😝 (Yeah. Not all of us team.)

Yeeeeah.... Poor Life Choices, there.

"And really, we're ALL playing immortal characters frankly. Unless we choose to actively kill them* then each of our characters can (and DO, according to the gameplay and narrative) survive events which should be undeniably fatal." Hey now... some of us are *undead*. Don't be all Livingist. 😝

I have to agree with Laxx here, and I have the same reservations. To give a little context... I mostly play this game with my nephews and their mom... They've only been playing for a few months and are absolutely NOT in l33t pro-gamer territory where City is concerned. (CoyoteSib-in-Law can only navigates using keyboard tank controls. It took her over a month to learn how to move her camera around to look up, something that finally let her fly at altitudes greater than ground level. I'm not kidding. 😅) One of the reasons FCM and I pulled them into this game was its very "casual friendly" nature, both in terms of the gameplay and the community. My concern is that chasing too much after the 'City of Dark Souls'-style demand for MOARL33T will eventually alter that casual culture, even if the (now-considered "scrub mode") ancient content still exists somewhere in the background.

Since it's been about a dog's age since I posted any screens at all... A few from my recent shots A random industrial area sunrise on the red side A study in darkness and light Mister Skinnylegs (My middle nephew's creation-) is a strange spider.... Sabine (an agent of the Nova Primeva Temple Guard's notoriously pragmatic Intelligence Division) keeps some odd company 'Know what you get when you put controllers together? Absolute madness. In this case, courtesy of the Wolfepack. (The CoyoteNephews' family SG)

Honestly? If they managed to pull it off well, like Granny White's player does, I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. Execution of the concept would matter a whole lot more to me than the basic idea that they were playing someone related to a canon character, or with more of a position in their NPC faction than Random McRedshirt. But then, like I said, I play Oranbegans myself. None of them are minions. A few of them are Death Mages. One of them, Amtes, is described in-character as the unfortunate soul charged with leading the cabal at the temple complex in Primeva. She isn't one of the canon arch-magi, but she's also far from being a random nobody. Do I pull off playing a mildly annoyed, fifteen-thousand year-old arcane cat-herder well enough to justify it? Maybe. You'd have to ask the people who have met her. But so far no one has ever voiced any objections or complaints about the way I do it. (Well, there have been no complaints about her CHARACTER, anyway. She's a Demons mastermind, so there have definitely been some gripes about certain other practical, game-related issues about having her on a team.... You have no idea how many times I've heard "Hey! Get your intern's big, demon butt out of the way. 'Silly, howling menace-"... But *that* had nothing to do with the character's backstory. 😆 ) Anyway, it's all about the way the character is actually played for me. I tend to think that a good player would do just fine with almost anything, no matter how silly it might sound in the abstract. Given a light enough touch, even the ridiculous can work.

The Crazy Office Designer can stay underground, helping to rebuild collapsed sections of Oranbega. Those are at their best when they're an absolute maze made of of weirdness and giant stone heads.

Right... So, like I said, /gignore is likely to be your friend here. You're going to find out that there are quite a few of us who play characters with "NPC affiliations" of various sorts. That's been a thing for as long as roleplaying in the City has existed. I doubt your disapproval is going to change that...

If that's enough to count as "god-modding" in your estimation, just do us both a favor and put me on /gignore the next time you're in game... You'd be offended by every single one of my active characters. ('Oranbegan magi and their assorted apprentices, Abyssal side-kicks, living spells, arcane artifacts and such-) 😝 Personally, I think it takes a little more than just knowing Statesman, say, or being affiliated with the Council or even being Michael White's granny (Yes. I know the person who plays Granny White. That character's a hoot. I love her.) to count as anything problematic or disruptive... but then that's just me. I'm not exactly a 'serious roleplayer', so what do I know?

I still need Banana Blast to make that Curious George pastiche...

I love my Stalkers... and my Time/Dark Defender.

Spine Burst... I can't play a spines character because of that noisy, ugly annoying-as-all-hell mess. I hate being around them.

Kai says that Percy is a dweeb. EVERY version of Percy is a dweeb. Which alternate world he's from doesn't matter. They're all 112% pure dork.

Quite a few of my characters are. 😝

Hell hath no fury and all that... I felt sorry for the old guy, but then I'm biased. 😆

Dear Mage-Killer, Stop sending your %&$^@ contractors to Nerva. (We get that you're ticked at your ex, but come on. Enough is enough.) Signed, Amtes and the rest of my Oranbegan magi

'Not entirely sure why I got pinged here, either... I only do very casual, mission-team type RP in the City anymore, and lately even that's been in "once in a blue moon" territory. I'm absolutely no help for anything organized or scheduled to happen on a regular basis. I'm just not in-game that often. As ever, people are free to use my Sanctum base if they want to, but the odds of me joining into anything myself are pretty slim. XP

Do. Want. Very much do want.

I admit it... I grinned at the idea of Assassin's Rock.

That poor Striker... He really ought to know better than to draw that kind of attention to himself. Floating danger-socks are fragile dudes. 😥