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Lawl. Inf Transfer using Salvage? I doubt it.
More like an extra 0 bidding.

Also:
The St. Martial Market is very close to the "Abandoned Lab" complete with a row of crafting tables.
The Talos Island Wentworth's is very close to a base portal, for those who have SG's with crafting tables equipped.
I find these to be even more convienient, personally.

Looking at the two bolded sections, you're talking about stuff that is Vendor Trash first, yet claiming that it's hard to find because people are vendoring it all. My advice is to place a bid that is higher than the Vendor price and wait. It'll show up.

About the italicized section. I could see items that are vendored being placed back into the Market at 4x the Vendor Price by "The House". All the Circuit Boards are vendored at 250 inf each? There's a supply available at 1,000 each. Billy Blaster gets 10 Circuit Boards from Council and places them on the Market, 5 for 100 Inf and 5 for 400 Inf?
Then Timmy Tank bids 110 Inf, grabs those first 5 and vendors them for 250 each, profit of 700 and the house puts them up for bid at 1000 each. Constance Controller comes by and bids 125 Inf. None available at that price. She bid-creeps until she bids 400 Inf. Bingo, she scores 5 Circuit Boards.

Let's look at how this practice would affect high-demand items.
Someone gets a respec recipe and Vendors it. Nevermind the Last 5 of over 150 million, he gets 1,000 instead. The House tosses it onto the Market for 4,000. Ding! An outstanding bid of 133 Million is filled. Denise Dominator grabs her shiny new Respec Recipe and 133 Million inf is removed from the system. She then puts it back onto the Market for 175 Million and waits.

Also: We would NEVER run out of supply of Snipe Set Recipes.

If the foe is suitably evil, the ends justify the means?
Think more like putting a stake into Dracula.

Agreed.

Long Answer:
For other players, L50 isn't retirement, simply because the character isn't done. While your character progresses upward to get to L50, they get more powerful by expanding outward after that, like the capitol letter "T".
Usually when I hit L50, there are still quite a few contacts whose arcs I have not completed, and that's not even counting doing TF's and raids.

Upon hitting L50 you've just hit where you can slot Purples, for example, so there's another instance where L50 isn't the end, but merely a new beginning.

There's already talk (or at least rumor) of a method of making L50's more powerful through something called "Universal Enhancement Slots" or something like that. Again, expanding outward, not upward as my previous analogy runs.

Your idea of a Sidekick is interesting, and could be expanded upon by itself, but I don't think in conjunction with a level increase.

Short Answer:
LOL at the first guy to watch his Hami-Os turn yellow, then red.

Suggestion: Defeat a foe outdoors in a zone and Influence/Infamy and Prestige gain is calculated at a higher rate. (Maybe +50%?)

Rationale: While the actual battle is no more or less difficult (no modifier for XP), defeating foes in public makes a larger impression upon the public (and the enemy).

Ingame Consequence: Would be an incentive to streetsweep, but wouldn't be the death-knell to missions, which would retain a fair number of attractive advantages over streetsweeping.
While direct Influence gain would be increased, it wouldn't have that big of an increase in wealth gains. In my experience, selling salvage/recipe drops have provided much more wealth than direct Inf gains from foes. (by a margin of 10:1 or more).

Okay, we can go another way with this.

The thugs are complete criminal scum. The MM is a hero offering them a last chance to redeem themselves by completing a series of missions that are at almost impossible odds.
Example: "The Dirty Dozen" starring Lee Marvin.

"Whinge" and "Whinging"?
What is that, a combination of Hinge and Whine? Somehow being able to whine while rotating upon an axis like a motor with a bad bearing?

I'd do it.

But I don't think it's really a mirror in the way that you are thinking.
Not everyone has a living doppleganger.
Recluse's counterpart was killed. (A mirror would be that Recluse would be a hero. Spider-Man?)
Nemesis' counterpart died as a simple toymaker.
It's a place where history took a left turn where ours took a right, and the rippling cause-and-effect added up to quite a different place, but not 100% opposite in every way.

Ditto.

Yes, but also 6-slotted Stamina was par for the course.
When ED was implemented, Positron saw to it to have reduced End costs across the board.

Huh. That's too bad.
There's certain skills that a person just really ought to have upon exiting school and entering the real world.

How to balance a checkbook, how to do CPR or apply basic first aid.
How to read a map. How to write a decent resume'.
That sort of thing.

I'd say that it's gonna happen.
What EXACTLY it means, though, is anyone's guess.

I don't think free levels would ever happen.
And it's not like L50s really need anything. They can already earn everything they want.