Andreah

I used to buy prestige for new RP Supergroups by the million, and the 500:1 ratio seems about right.

I have noticed this too.

We had a Crazy-88's chapter on Virtue, too.

You can disable earning XP and join a high level team for a bit, just for the inf and drops and such. No one will mind, and they can be a lot of fun. That way you get all the drop benefits of a high level, fast moving team, but not level out of the stories and missions you'd prefer to do. Unless you do want to level fast, in which case a high level team will be great to earn XP on, too.

They were also a marketing group on Live :D They ended up still wealthy. :D

Student: "Master, what is the greatest lie told about the market?" Master: "That listing for 1 inf benefits poor players."

A mini-carnival strongman?

Since Fulcrum Shift does not accept sets, you have limited but still very powerful options for slotting it. Two 50+5 accuracies and two 50+5 recharge IO's will get you far enough. You could also mix in, or entirely use D-Sync Provocation special enhancements, but bring your (in-game) wallet. Those individually buff Accuracy, Recharge, and Threat. Threat won't do anything for Fulcrum Shift, but Accuracy and Recharge sure do.

(Verse 1) In a small town, where the winters are cold, There's a person, with a story yet untold, Lost in a whirlwind, their world turned upside down, Oh, this tragedy, it's a country song renowned. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Verse 2) Influence slipping through their fingers like sand, Twenty-five trillion gone, slipping through their hand, Yet amidst the chaos, they found a silver lining, Cause losing their ex, well, that's a blessing in disguise. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Bridge) Through heartbreak and sorrow, they rise above, Finding strength in the simple things they still love, The beauty of a sunset, the comfort of a friend, In the depths of despair, they'll find a way to mend. (Chorus) Lost 25 full winter sets, memories now just a ghost, 25 sets of frozen blast, ragnarok, and apocalypse, A thousand aethers, gone like a fleeting dream, But the biggest loss of all, their loyal dog by the stream. (Outro) In this country song, we find hope, we find grace, For even in the darkest times, there's a smile on their face, They'll rebuild what's lost, with a heart that won't break, And with every verse sung, their spirit will awake. Who says AI's aren't good for anything.

We've all been there and did that too! :D And, in the big scheme of things, it's s tiny bump on a very wide, long road.

It would be awesome if you could have more than 10 bars of patrol xp, so long as you couldn't earn more than that much just from being logged off.

Whenever I run a Death From Below, there are at least a few people who want the badges and we try to get them. I suspect it will be the same. Many people will notice if they get one of these badges, and sometimes, if the roster looks close to getting one or the other, someone will speak up and ask about it or offer to swap to get it. Yes, there are people who don't care about it at all and think it's a waste of effort, but that's true about almost every game change.

I am generally pleased with this change. Making the reward for role diversity a badge is huge improvement over the previous means. It will still cause people to stop and think about team composition, but with the counterbalance for Archetype Duplication, I think it will get people to think about how the game supports player choice, and doesn't pigeon hole a team into roles. Badges are important and noticeable, but won't skew team building on an ongoing basis like a compensation with in-game financial value would. This now leaves me in a neutral position. I may not love it, but I don't hate it.

IMO, a build's slotting can only be optimal in the context of the purpose for which it's intended. Do you have different slottings for different purposes?

Yomo may not toot his own horn every time -- so I'll do it for him. He is, to my knowledge, the first confirmed Trillionaire in Homecoming. I'm not too far behind. And I don't farm at all. Others are up in the hundreds of billions too. Some might be past Yomo and have been quiet about it. Hard to say. Yes, people with this amount of game-wealth could spend 3-10x the going prices of things just because they can, and not even slow down their wealth gains. But that's generally not the kind of personality that enjoys the market game. Overpaying for things is, to me, an affront to reason, frugality, and all else that is holy. Those I call Marketeers hoard their wealth as a way of keeping score, often privately, to measure their success. And it has a side benefit to other people. My hundreds of billions are sequestered out of the economy, never to be spent. What I do spend is ever only a small fraction of my market gains. Marketeers are a "Money Sink", we permanently pull money out of the game economy. It sits on alts we never play, in emails we never claim, and in market bids that can never have filled. If you recall your basic economics, inflation is caused by "too much money chasing too few goods". Marketeers attack both sides of that equation -- they remove money from the economy, AND create those goods the markets demand. Those LotG +7.5% global recharge enhancements didn't show up from nowhere; people like Yomo and I made them out of trash no one else wanted or cared to bother with. You're welcome. IMO, the prices are already fair -- and if a person disagrees, they don't have to pay them; no one forces them to. And they could make their own LotG's out of trash drops too.

I have a warshade with Shadow Slip too, and it's just as fun and effective as Fold Space. I've even wondered about using a second build taking the teleport pool TOO and getting Fold Space so I can cast both of them interleaved in rapid order. :D :D edit: .. and my purse overheard me and just called for ambulance. :D

I've never published my personal one, which depends on being absolutely, embarrassingly, rich in-game; but this thread is recent and has some good older ones linked.

There are other, non-gameplay, ways to make money, too. Both take some artistic skill: Enter and win costume contests Make and sell Supergroup Bases

I take exception to your wording here. The techniques people are talking about are not exploits. Exploits are actionable violations of the Code of Conduct, sections 7.1 to 7.3. These are deliberate game systems, being used for the purposes they were intended for, by a great many players who know more about how the game works than you do, for now. These aren't secrets; players easily discover them for themselves, and we teach anyone who asks about them. Frankly, it's hard to get us to shut up about them. ^_^ You can learn these systems too. Pick one, and learn it. Or don't, and gain your Influence a little slower. It's up to you.

A new player need only pick one of the many ways to earn Inf, and do that one thing. None of them are so bad that a player would regret using it for the first 20-50 levels of their first character. But really, don't buy ATO's with merits. That's shockingly bad. Fortunately, new players don't need ATO's right away.

Another basic method to get a million Inf even at low levels and if you are dirt poor is to pick a zone, like Atlas Park, that you can get around in easily. Explore it and find the eight exploration badges in it. This will award you an accolade badge for exploring the zone, and that badge in turn, will reward you with five reward merits. Take those five merits to a merit Kiosk, like the one just inside City Hall and off to the left. Trade those five merits in for 15 Enhancement Converters. Type "/ah" in on your chat bar, and this will bring up the Auction House. List one of those 15 converters for sale, for 1 Inf. This will cost you 5 inf for a listing fee, and that converter will sell instantly for at least 60K. If it sells at 60 K, you'll have a profit after the sales fee is paid of 54,000 Inf. Now post the other 14 converters for sale. Pick a price you are comfortable with. You'll pay an up front 5% listing fee, and the balance of 10% of the sales fee when they sell and you get the money out. If you sold them all at 60K, you'll have made 810,000 Inf from this process, just from atlas park. If you got lucky, and they sold for 75K, you'll have a cool 1,012,500 Inf burning a hole in your super-pocket. Don't get greedy this early -- don't try to post high, just let them sell. You can become a Billionaire later. This will get you enough cash to get some goodies from P2W and to buy your first low level enhancements that will get you onto the missions and teaming train, no problem. If you run low, pick out another zone and explore it for a badge. Hollows, Kings Row, Perez Park and even Skyway City of Steel Canyon are easy zones to explore. If you don't know where the badges are, you can ask people or get the map overlay that marks them all. We have very helpful people who'll help -- some might even offer to take you on a badge tour!

Leap Day will be cancelled this year!

To this specifically, it makes sense given how the market works. You do not see the seller's price in the history, but what the buyer offered to buy it at. Yours may not be selling because there are others listings offered for sale lower than your price. Those sales showing up that are higher than your price are going to the people who listed their for sale lower than you. Example; let's say I list a few hundred yellow salvage for 1. Yes -- 1. I just want to dump them. Then, you list yours for 100. Still a very low price, but you expect they'll sell. A third player goes to the market and wants a stack of yellow salvages. That person bids 25000 each, because they just want it all now. Those sales will go to me, and I'll get all 25,000 each, less the 10% listing fee. Yours won't sell until all mine are gone. Someone could have bought mine for 1, but they never expect those buy orders will fill. Why? Because too many other people are bidding much higher; and just like that the sells got to the one who listed the lowest, the buys go to those who bid the highest. Buyers usually are impatient, and they can't see the posted sell prices, so they offer a bit on the high side. And the next buyer sees those, and tends to bid just as high. They most all want them right now, they know they wont' get them so long as someone else is bidding higher, and don't feel it's worth the wait to get yellow salvage at a better price. Because honestly, to serious crafters, 10k or 25k or such is a tiny amount of money that won't hardly affect their costs or profits.

In the beginning, I mainly played scrappers and stalkers and mostly soloed. Now, It's mainly support and tankers, and I almost exclusively team.

I get it! You don't want your character to be a villain -- you want to be a villain.