Troyusrex

The mere MENTION of Luck Charms on Live fills me with dread. Wow... were those things manipulated! One of the things I distinctly disliked about Live. Given that player numbers aren't as large as they were back on Live, I think the changes the GMs made to the market make a lot of sense and have worked really well. On the one hand, anyone who spends a few minutes reading the forum can make lots of inf very quickly, on the other, few prices are crazy high and supply is reasonable. That's much more balanced than I'd expect given the average number of players. Not that there aren't issues, but overall it seems to work pretty well.

Whoever wrote the Doc. Buzzsaw arc has my respect! [NPC] Sgt. Yorkshire: This is the LAST TIME I cover a shift for Russell. A PUN convention? Is that even a thing? He's going to owe me for this one. Later... [NPC] Agent Tavish Bell: I can't afford another demotion. [NPC] Agent Tavish Bell: I... can't go back... to customer service. And a bit later still.... [NPC] Dr. Alexander: Nothing can go right for me this year. [NPC] Dr. Alexander: Sometimes I wish I had just followed Dad's advice and taken welding.

Another Classic from Doc' Buzzsaw's missions:

One of us!

I created a character on Torchbearer just to check it out. Wow! Very cool. It must have taken a lot of work. I must admit it's not like the inside of the Tardis I remember, but I was a fan back in the 80's, so no doubt it's not even close to the same. Keep making cool stuff!

I love this entire paragraph. It's totally true! I, too, make these mistakes all the time.

I'm very fond of my storm/ice. In TFs I wait for everyone to choose a direction and then I clear the opposite path. I do have tough and weave plus maneuvers but even at +3 with tough and weave off (this guy is a huge end hog) I rarely encounter issues. The three rain powers + tornado + hurricane keep things so chaotic they almost don't have time to target me. I'm not saying this is the best combo, just that it's my favorite.

I just started selling my Winter-Os in bulk. I went a little (ok... a LOT) nuts this winter. I spent all my considerable fortune buying and opening winter packs. Then I sold every scrap of inventory and bought winter packs. Then I pulled the enhancements out of some of my alts an bought yet more winter packs. I even took all the reward merits and brainstorm items I got from opening those packs, made sellable items, sold the items and bought yet more packs. What I didn't sell too many of was the Winter-O. Until now...

I refunded him as well (with some extra). I appreciated his willingness to ask on the forums and I love the game so much I want everyone to have a great experience so we'll keep players!

Two days. Very little work. Over 250,000,000. It's a get rich quick scheme that works!

I was a bit bored today so, while doing other things, I started buying, crafting, converting and selling enhancements. I'd done a lot of this a year back and made a very nice fortune, but got bored. Anyway, I crafted 75 or 100. I was a bit disappointed to log in later and note that 49 still hadn't sold. But, then I noticed that I'd made a little over 93 million already on what had sold. Once you count the cost of the converters (which I had from opening so many packs), I still netted a good 75 million or so for not much work. And they are only half sold! I had forgotten what easy money this is.

I remember when they added the change to leveling so that it not only buffed you extremely, but revived you if you had face planted. It's still one of my favorite add ons. And, I agree that it's a bit disappointing to hit a level right at the end of the mission, but that just reminds me of how great it is to even have that level change!

I thought the Windfall power was nerfed and really doesn't do anything anymore. Is that incorrect? In testing I see no difference in inf gain.

6 slotted hover (before ED) was amazing. Faster than fly, a bit of defense thrown in but with none of the minuses of fly (I think to accuracy...). Only downside was 5 wasted slots.

I've now got my staff/regen scrapper up to lvl 50 veteran lvl 6. Alpha, judgement and interface slotted. I'll concur with what others have said, it stands up well to most things, but is a little clicky, it is important to "pre-heal" as animation times make healing in combat a bit frustrating at times and you can be doing great and then suddenly drop dead. Still, while it's possible other scrapper builds are more durable, I'm fighting +3/X8 Arachnos and doing fine. It's not a cakewalk, but I survive most battles very much intact. Again, I'm not comparing one sort of scrapper to another, I'm just saying that I find regen to be fun to play.

I have closer to 10B liquid. Much more than that illiquid (building up a thousand plus snow beast army isn't cheap!). I think after I made a killing last year on Winter Super Packs I had 12 or 15 billion. I might build higher for awhile if I'm trying something (like taking the rare salvage market). I just can't seem to get above about 15B. Oh, I certainly have the ability, just not the drive. As is, I can purple out multiple alts in a day with no sweat, so I have everything I need and therefore I just can't motivate myself to build up yet more.

That should change soon. I had a ridiculously large inventory (like I said, I was OBSESSED!) that I've been selling off. They were selling slowly at just under 8mil and then BOOM over the past day or so they sold out. I put another thousand(ish) out there at about 10mil price and only 109 remain as of now. Frankly, I didn't realise how many WOs get used. I suppose someone could be buying them from me for speculative purposes (and, I got my money back and more so I'm fine with someone else profiting as well).

I LOVE this!

I've been playing a staff/regen scrapper lately. I'm lvl 40 and was trying to take on some lvl 47 Rikti LTs. I gave up, but only because I was having trouble hitting/hurting them. They barely touched me. I don't play scrappers much, so maybe all the other scrappers are even more survivable, but I've been quite impressed by regen. (caveat: I am an Ebil Marketeer, so my scrapper is a decked out as a lvl 40 can be).

Mine too! I'm no longer broke and if I'm not even soon will be. With Winter IO prices increasing all that influence I spent on Winter packs is coming back to me and much more quickly than expected.

As of now there are 10,002,475 for sale. So, that's at least 2,475 more to work through. But I bet a lot of those are very close to 25,000,000.

Mostly admitting I had a problem. Certainly not bragging or complaining. I just couldn't stop and spent everything I could muster (which was a few years trading profits). But, it was all also tongue in cheek. Not only is it just a game, I could go back to converting IOs and remake the money. Oddly, the compulsion is now gone as packs aren't on sale anymore. Once prices start to inch back up on Winter IOs I might still break even but it's going to take a long time to unload the thousands I have (not to mention the converters!)

More Tiny Tim here... I might have lost a few (dozen) billion on Winter Super Packs, but I have a huge army of snow beasts and enough respecs to last a lifetime!

My Strom/ice has been great. At this point (veteran 20+) I solo +4/8 with no difficulties. Of course, stormies are a bit of an acquired taste...

I used to be a well-to-do merchant, trading in enhancements and salvage. I made a nice living and enjoyed the finer things in life, like full purple IO sets for all my alts. Life was good. But then I fell upon hard times. I got involved with Winter Super Packs. I told myself it was just because they were 60% off. At first, it was just a few, but I found myself buying more and more. It became an obsession. I not only emptied all my alts, but I cashed in all my Reward Merits just to get a few more super packs... Then I would sell the Winter IOs and buy yet more packs... Each sale at a small loss, but it adds up over time. So, now I've bought and opened thousands, maybe tens of thousands of packs, and I have trouble scrounging up enough influence for market fees when I put Winter IOs up for sale. Of course, I now have a few gazillion candy canes and snow beasts, so it isn't a total loss...