Neuronia

I don't think I have ever "ghosted" anyone; that said, I am generally getting multiple tells to join a Strike Force or team or whatever, and I do respond to all of them as quickly as possible. I also respond to conversation attempts, though most of those tend to happen in global channels like "Excelsior".

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This is a great guide. I'm too lazy and parsimonious to use converters an so on, but I went well past 100 mil recently. Don't do what I did, it's super ineffiicent. ;D I rolled a Kinetics Defender, because people love Speed Boost and Fulcrum Shift and I get those earlier than on a Controller. I sold all salvage for 1 inf. I crafted rare recipes with what salvage I had on me or in our base bins (I run a 2-player SF with an irl friend), then listed then either for 1 inf or for x11,231 if they sold for more than 1 million. Once I got to 50, I just ran ITFs, LRSFs, Hami Raids, and farm runs and sold the drops. If you play on Excelsior, you may have seen my "Still not a Centriole!" after getting a Hami-O or a Synthetic one. They get dropped on Market if we don't need them for builds. Any purple picked up on our farm runs that wasn't going to get used in our builds hit the market, generally getting us 20 mil or so. Reward Merits have been unspent so far. I am currently at 1,639 Reward Merits. Hoping to pass 2,000 by end of week. Once I hit 4,000-5,000 I'll spend a bit. Not sure if this is "a lot", but I've converted all Vanguard Merits into Reward Merits, and the odd Empyrian into them, for rounding purposes. I'll have to do this today to get to 1640. I detest unrounded numbers. If I need a "quick hit" I just buy an ATIO proc with reward Merits (100 is trivial, it's 2 Positron TF, 1 Synapse and some change) and that generally gets me 11 mil or so. I used a bunch of my inf to finance my friend's Stone Melee/Invuln Brute, King Stone Wolf, and still have tons left over. I've long passed the point where I got upset at people with tons of inf. There's just too many ways to get it. And once you hit 50...it's an endless tap of income. I have been super lucky on drops. I got a Panacea proc killing Hellions, an Unbounded Leap + Stealth killing Jurassik. ALL PvP IOs I cannot use on my Ill/Emp or Stalker get crafted and sold as well. Since I'm lazy, I also drop millions (super inefficiently!) for pretty meh stuff like Titanium Coatings and so on. Edit. I am running on Single Origins only, with my only IO's being a Karma, KB protect and a Karma Defense on my Defender. I might have a Numina proc on him too. Currently at Tier 3 on all Incarnate stuff because S o l a r i s is a great leader. :-) And the money still rolls in! (I don't consider myself wealthy ingame, that will happen once I hit 600,000,000 inf or so, which would allow me to get most of a build off the Market.)

Slotted one of each allowable enhancement in my Mind/FF's powers. I couldn't solo to save my life, until a RL friend saw my build, chuckled a lot and fixed it. Instant improvement!

There are achievement-based goals (Accolades, Badges) to keep those types going. There are endless costume options and naming options, to get that perfect look and feel. Even though the base adventures are the same (blasting stuff), mob placements and reactions are different enugh in each instance. Levelling is pretty quick these days...

Cool, all noted. I will probably just level the Controller first, then the Def after. I didn't get an answer to this in help chat, but are we using all the crazy Incarnate stuff in Zones, but just Alpha in Arena?

I heard on Reddit you need Sorcery pool on Emps now. What's an ill/emp build these days.

The Panacea is a PVP IO, so I think those are available at the Merit Vendor for many Merits. Not sure though. The NUmina Heal/Recharge should be around though, if you check in the...level 30 range I think?

I'm saving until I hit 250 or so (Have 126 now after a few days SF'ing) so I can get two sets of LOTG 7.5 for our Dominator pair. With the Villain Merits as well, and my Spines/Fire doing content both sides, we should be kitted out in no time. It really depends what you want to do in game. If you are happy with just SO's (and the game itself more than supports this) then use your merits to get an expensive recipe, sell it for 20,000,000 and you can use that to flip stuff or just outfit yourself forever.

Myself and Shotty Mario are back and re-rolling our alts and I'm running Strike Forces like crazy. I think I saw "Bronx" in chat...so I'd better get my stuff off the Black Market while I still can. :D I met Sandolphan on a Tarikoss the other day, they are still super cool.

I got invited to a "Atlas Teleport Tour" by some Blaster, he went to flight ceiling and dropped me lolz. That and I had no idea how to slow my Bubble troller, and it took a rl friend to tell me where I was going wrong.

I know Shotty Mario is back, I'm probably going to level an ill/emp and grav/ta on Indomitable, but I'll level some toons on Excelsior too, since that's where Shotty is. Assuming my install completes, it looks like a big patch, haha!