Demobot

This was due to an exploit. I lost about 48 billion because of it, but I did get the Bug Hunter badge.

I got in just under the wire and made my first ever donation. Thanks for keeping the game alive!

I'm kinda curious if there are any changes that could be made to seeded salvage without raising the barrier of entry for the invention system. I understand the reasons why seeded salvage was added, but it has the side effect of making common and uncommon salvage drops mostly worthless. Granted, it may just be my nostalgia for the old market seeping through, as I have fond memories of rolling up new characters and building up a fortune from scratch, often relying on that first Luck Charm as seed money. I know there are quicker and easier ways to get inf on new characters (and I could easily mail them a few million out of the billions I already have), but I kinda miss starting from nothing and having to claw your way to that first million.

Fastest speed I've gotten on the luge course is about 42 seconds. SS+SJ, taking the left fork through the portal and immediately jumping to the right to the next waypoint, and taking the left at the second fork as well. I don't know how to go any faster than that.

My main was an Energy Blaster on live. Played on and off from launch to shutdown. I am 100% in favor of a global KB->KD IO.

I was able to snag the name of my main on every server except the one I wound up playing on. I have managed to grab a few good ones though. I think my favorite so far is 'A Woman Scorned', and yes, last week I did finally get the 'Hell Hath No Fury' badge to match.

The Gunslinger 3 belt with Sleeveless Jackets is literally the same costume piece as the Gunslinger 2 belt with Tops with Skin. Beyond that I'm not sure what to tell you.

OP mentioned dead bids. So huge bids on level 53 Hami-os would be my guess. That's what I do. I favor putting a bid for 10 HOs at 100million each, it stores 1billion in a single slot and is easy to manage. Excuse me if I don't understand this... if you put a bid in for 10 HO's and someone sells one, won't you automatically buy it? Or are HO's no longer being produced yet you can still bid on them? They don't exist in the game except as an item to be bid on. You can't actually obtain them from playing the game, so you can put in a bid without ever buying anything. Thus storing however much inf you bid. I used this method on live to store over 20 billion influence.

The first million I made on the market on Homecoming came from someone paying about a million each for three pieces of salvage.

I couldn't disagree more about Energize. It provides a massive endurance discount in addition to a hefty regen bonus.

Just a quick note: take Energize. It will solve your endurance problems. It's also a heal and a regen buff. It won't single handedly keep you alive, but it reduces downtime while soloing. Some more things: Power Bolt and Power Blast really should be better enhanced. At bare minimum 5 slots. These are your bread and butter attacks and you'll be using them constantly. Power Push is worthless as an attack. Ditch Power Boost as well. While it does boost defensive powers, it only lasts 15 seconds and it's increasing knockback during this time. Speaking of KB, you're probably going to want a Knockback to Knockdown proc in Explosive Blast. I've tried the Panacea proc and I don't think it's worth it. The heal is too infrequent and too small to be of much use and the endurance boost is made irrelevant by Energize. Having Fly as your travel power is gonna be rough without Afterburner. It looks like you've got roughly 20% Defense to everything. Typed and positional defenses don't stack, so I recommend picking one or the other. The magic number to shoot for is 45%. You've got some recharge bonuses but not enough to make Hasten perma. You'll need roughly 105% +rech bonuses to make that possible.

I've seen the Flier event message pop up on Excelsior but haven't seen Scrapyard all dang day. Right when I needed his badge too. EDIT: I guess the server reboot fixed things, 'cause he showed up this morning.