Andreah

Pay attention to upgrading your enhancements first, but it's a useful power to have for a pinch.

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Breaking the Veil". Breaking the Veil.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Midnight Masks", expressing conflicting feelings on secret identities and the draw of fame. Midnight Masks.m4a

When people are truly hungry, starvation level, they'll try to eat surprising things. The body is basically saying "We're gonna die otherwise. What's the worst that could happen?"

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Katie's Soul", for the Katie Hannon Task Force. (AI assistance was used in casting my lyrics into Elizabethan English) Katie's Soul.m4a

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "The Ghost Ship of Talos Island" Ghost Ship of Talos Island.m4a

Great Idea -- except not Catalysts. Those cost too many merits for what they sell for. Converters, Unslotters, and Boosters are your best alternatives. Prices on the market can swing up and down a bit, so figure out what they're getting you per merit on the auction before you trade in lots of merits at once.

@Frozen Burn is absolutely correct. Only turn on rejection of things if you don't care about what they're worth and want your trays and inventory to fill slower. I think there's ten i25 badges for rejecting a certain number of insps or recipes (from 50 up to 1000), so you might reject things if you are a badge-hunter.

A while back, I did a test on a radio mission at all different combos of level and team size, solo from the same level 50 character. I didn't save the data (wish I had) but I recorded the time it took to defeat the first spawn in the mission, how much xp and inf dropped, how much damage I was doing vs a minion, lt, and boss with single-target attack, and how many HP they each had. From that I concluded that I got maximum Inf and Xp per minute from +2/x8. I figured If I had my incarnate alpha slotted, then +3 or +4 would make sense. This was on a tanker, so I had no possibility of being defeated myself, I just wanted to know how the level scaling of their hit points and my dps combined to affect the clearing speed. Overall, I've settled on a rule of thumb for when I run mixed-level radio teams to produce the best overall xp and inf gain per minute for the whole team. I start at +2/x8, and if I have an extra well-built 50+1 on the team, I increase it to +3/x8. I tend not to run at +4, since lower level players sidekicked to level 49 and often without good slotting can struggle to hit them. Even at +3, half the mobs will spawn at level 54, but the the other half will feel hittable. If there's a lot of deaths on the team, I'll drop it back, all the way to +0 if needed -- Imo, Fun>Efficiency. Sometimes people get focused on experience or inf per mob-defeat, and forget that mob-defeats per time is just as important.

LOL. :D (never encourage rule-breaking)

Black Viper and the Midnight Choir perform "Shadows of Rome", an ode to the Imperious Task Force. https://www.udio.com/songs/cwtyboVcfckmpTSyYhEaHe?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I'll add that if you have a fixed rate and quality of drops per kill, then you want to optimize kills per unit time. In this case, you would want to run at a lower relative level and a higher team size.

Black Viper and The Midnight Choir perform "Duality" Duality.m4a

And so? How does that cause inflation, which was your original assertion? And you do not have it correct. The highest offer to buy can never exceed the lowest listed sell. The moment a buy order comes in above the lowest listed sell order -- it sells. And whenever a sell offer goes in below the the highest offer to buy, it is bought. This is Market 101 stuff. These margins above fees you speak of are not simultaneous -- which is one of the main benefits that flippers bring to the market -- stability of prices over time. Flippers connect impatient sellers and buyers together, doing each of them a service. The flipper has in abundance what the others do not, and is selling it to them -- "patience". The flipper is risking their stake on a bet that their sell prices will eventually be those low enough to sell through. And in a deflationary market, the chance they'll have to pull them, eat half the fee, and relist, possibly at a loss, is real.

I don't know that one, I'll check it out.

It was a good idea in theory, it just dropped something in implementation. I would have liked to see the city redone to make more sense from a roads, traffic, and buildings perspective. But it wouldn't be the same game anymore. Kallisti should follow the design patterns already established by the existing zones, even if its assets are more up to date. And it might be cool to have newspaper red-side sorts of missions AND police radio missions. So who/where would the newspaper contacts be?

Black Viper (Everlasting) sings a song about Wentworth's in a seedy bar. The Marketeer.m4a (( Lyrics mine, heavily inspired by Kenny Rogers': The Gambler, edited and tuned for rhyme and meter scan with help of text AI. Music and singing prompted using Riffusion.com ))

No, it doesn't. Flippers can't just set any price they want. Flippers only ever sell their wares when they are the lowest listed price at that time. At best, you could argue they pay high prices for the item at their time of purchase. But in this case they're also paying suppliers more than anyone else was willing to at the time -- this encourages supply of goods, which is de-inflationary. Flipping also causes an extra round of market fees to be removed from the economy, which is fundamentally de-inflationary.

My experience isn't like some of the feedback here at all. Usually, I see people who didn't build for some degree of sturdiness being defeated and needing to respawn or waiting for someone to rez them, all the while the now short team slows has to slow down. Sometimes over and over to the point I wonder how it could be fun. I'm also not speaking about lowbie toons, for whom it's understandable. I see it as my first responsibility to be sturdy enough to not do that to my team for whatever mechanical role I play. Even so, the game isn't hard and I'm more interested in having fun than rewards/hour. If they're okay with working their debt badges and still having fun, press on!

It doesn't only happen with TF's; sometimes I'll join a story arc team and they redirect to radios or tips part way through, and vice-versa. When running teams, I've had player join and then ask if we can run their missions, or say something like "This team's great - we should run a TF!", instead of what I've advertised and others have joined for. I just imagine the other players groans. So I quickly say "Thanks, but I advertised to run X, so that's what we'll do." If you have content or a play style you want to team for, just form a team for that -- don't try to hijack someone else's.

I generally try to be a good person, but I'm minded never to invite any of their characters to anything, ever, if see someone multibox farming in an open zone. "You don't need a team -- you have your own. Have fun on it."

marketeering doesn't cause inflation. not even "flipping". Inflation is caused by there being too much Inf in circulation relative to supply of goods. And we don't even have inflation. We have very slow, long term, deflation.

If you are patient selling converters, you can do a little better, but 50k is a good rule of thumb. We've had persistent slow price deflation in the game, so most things you could spend merits on are poor deals compared to buying them on the market, except, as noted above, converters, sometimes boosters, sometimes unslotters, and most Winter-O's.

"MegaMech Falls", sung by Black Viper after completing the Ernesto Hess Task Force: "MegaMech Cometh" https://www.udio.com/songs/xrV4eZfFmXVAfrhdpREJnJ?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

"Heroes Rising", a City of Heroes Theme by Black Viper and the Midnight Choir. https://www.udio.com/songs/4DaeoP55yRxGRSEtsZRkLt?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing