Clearing Out Junk

[Scarlet Shocker]

I seem to have a lot of junk on many of my toons.

 

Recipes that are near to worthless but if I make them into an IO set enhancement, they become even more worthless and convert to something equally valueless.

 

Salvage I can mostly deal with, as I can with most common IO recipes but I still end up with some of those I've crafted that can't be sold, have little use value and my aversion to the sunk cost fallacy makes it hard for me to dispose of without a regretful sigh and/or a wince.

 

Then there's  Incarnate Shards and their associative crap. That shit really annoys! Once your Alpha is T4 slotted, why would you ever need them again and yet they cling to us like some kind of ghost parasite, not actually doing anything but accumulating in inventory and silently judging us for hating them. They are horrid and I loathe them but I am usually too broke to throw away a million inf to create threads... which don't seem to offer a massive benefit in and of themselves. Once I've got T4 in everything then what... Superuninsiprings? Luna was a lovely girl in life, in game and it's a poor legacy for her to be vending upscale junk.

 

Recipes confuse. If I craft something that looks ok it invariably sells for a lot less than it appeared when I was researching if I should make it.

 

Standard IOs... I get there are some uses in game for some of them. but many many are just crap we don't need, want or value. Sure I can sell the recipe at a vendor but once it's crafted (which invariably costs way more than buying it on the AH) if it has no immediate use, it languishes, taking up space, like that fat guy you know but hate, who seems to think that you like him and comes to sit on your couch without interacting much and you wonder why they are even in your life!

 

YES! THAT IS HOW ANNOYING SOME OF THIS JUNK IS! It's got me fat-shaming IOs!

 

Common Salvage is mostly a PITA. I know the stuff I want to hoard. Luck Charms and some other uncommon magical white salvage but the rest is less useful than an actual inanimate carbon rod (you can draw pictures with them and conduct electricity, after all!) I could make some empowerment buffs in my base but if I'm at high Resistance anyhow there seems to be little advantage.

 

I have it in mind that the crafting tables in bases made some interesting stuff but they got turned into ornaments, which is sad for a few reasons but it seems to me they could be turned into a thing to "disassemble" crafted stuff that doesn't have much value post-manufacture. It might give us back the recipe and components - even if we didn't get the cash we used to make it. But then maybe people would just buy shit in the AH and disassemble unless that was somehow restricted.

 

Of course I could just throw stuff away.

 

But I don't like doing that, I earned it, after all. And like many older folks I tend to hoard stuff even if I don't want it.

 

So what am I supposed to do?

[Doomguide2005]

Fire sale!!!

[JKCarrier]

I've been accused of being a packrat in real life. But in-game, I hate seeing that stuff pile up. Every session, the last thing I do before I log off is pop into my base and vendor anything and everything that can be vendored.
I feel you on the IOs...I've got a pile of level 10 Taunt, Confuse, and Sleep IOs (created back when I was chasing the crafting badges) that have been sitting in the Market at rock-bottom prices for like a year. They'll probably never sell.

[High_Beam]

In real life I hold onto things that I have actual memories attached to vice things like DVDs and such.  I have unloaded stuff or simply donated to the country donation bins; clothes, movies, books to the library.  This comes from my childhood and to a lesser extent military adulthood of moving around and not having lots of room to keep stuff or having to leave stuff behind.

 

In game, well I freaking hate busy inventories.  It kills me actually.  I will totally break play flow in order to clean up that shit.  And not just CoH.  I did it in tabletop D&D, and the games and any game with an inventory, often to my regret.   I really notice it when playing ipad tappy tap games like Merge Mansion, I love merging that shit to free up space but go bonkers when the space is getting tight.  I am so selling that damn wrench, screw Maddie.

 

In CoH I am that person that the market workers love, I just throw it up for 5 inf and take whatever I get.   unless I am tossing it into SG bins.

[Biff Pow]

I wish there was a big "sell stack" button next to "sell" to speed up the vendor-ing process.

[mistagoat]

44 minutes ago, Biff Pow said:

I wish there was a big "sell stack" button next to "sell" to speed up the vendor-ing process.

You can right click and press "E" to sell a stack at a vendor.

You can also delete a stack of something from your inventory page by right clicking and pressing "S".

[lemming]

Great use of salvage, Empowerment stations

[Biff Pow]

12 minutes ago, mistagoat said:

You can right click and press "E" to sell a stack at a vendor.

You can also delete a stack of something from your inventory page by right clicking and pressing "S".

 I know, I just wish it was even easier because clearing inventory is the dullest part of the game.

[Major_Decoy]

26 minutes ago, Biff Pow said:

 I know, I just wish it was even easier because clearing inventory is the dullest part of the game.

This is voice of a person who has never spoken to me.

[Captain Fabulous]

I have a metric frak-ton of IO recipes I simply don't know what to do with, so I feel your pain. 

[Healix]

How about going to Atlas and just gifting them to new guys secretly?

[Oklahoman]

13 hours ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

Then there's  Incarnate Shards and their associative crap.

 

I made a suggestion one time that after you unlock Alpha, it would be nice if Luna gave you the option to reject shards.

 

I also suggested a "shredder" you can put in a base that you could toss anything into and it would destroy it - after the requisite "Three Body Problem 'you wanna donate your head to science?'" level prompts. I often end up with a character with 13 vMerits on them whom I never plan to take back into Rikti War Zone, and I can't even just send those to another of my characters who might be able to use them.

 

In short, I feel your pain.

[Troo]

14 hours ago, JKCarrier said:

Every session, the last thing I do before I log off is pop into my base and vendor anything and everything that can be vendored.

 

WAIT!! How are you vendoring things in your ba s e... aw, shoot. I read that as if you were using the auction house from your base.

[mistagoat]

6 minutes ago, Troo said:

using the auction house from your base.

That's the dream buddy! I know there are tech limitations that prevent it but, jeez, that would be so awesome!!!

[Scarlet Shocker]

17 hours ago, Doomguide2005 said:

Fire sale!!!

 

Never works for Ice controllers