BBQ_Pork

Perhaps. I've seen examples of characters like that.

I do like the idea of having more ways than one to complete a mission objective. Such as tossing immobilizes, slows and holds on said boss to prevent thier escape in the first place.

I'm not so sure.
The $Inf directly gained by defeating foes is a small fraction of my total income. I'm fairly lazy in that I use the Market in only the simplest fashion (buying what I want, selling unwanted drops).
Doubling my Inf gain by dropping out of SG mode wouldn't be that big of a boost.

Anyway, responding to the thread title:
"Is influence that hard to come by?"
No. Not at all, when almost everything you do in this game gains you some kind of reward with a value attached.
The only problem I see is when folks come here to complain about the ingame economy based on their belief that they should have the income to slot a full set of top-tier enhancements (usually Purples or PvP sets) with one hour of game time spent running radio missions at +0/x1, and the assumption that anyone who has more pixellated "stuff" than them is somehow doing it by robbing them.
And yes, we see threads like that.

This.
I often keep a stack of AE tickets handy for just such an occasion.

La-dee-da, looking through my recipes...
Ooh! There's a good one!
*runs to the Market*
*Buys one of this salvage and one of the other.*
*Sees six-figure sums in the Last 5 for a Common salvage.*
*Bid creeps up a bit, gets nothing.*
Screw it.
*Runs to the AE building to roll a few times on the Random Common table.*

I would love to see that too.
White, Yellow, Orange, Purple.
Granted, some of the yellow and orange are from vendor-trash sets, but I'd still want to know.

I'm not surprised.
I was with a teammate in Skyway when I aggro'ed a pair Clockwork. I knew I didn't have the damage to kill them and (FF/Energy Defender), but I could drag them away from the mission door so we could enter. I told my teammate I would tank the clocks so he could enter.
I turned on Personal Force Field and ran around through half of Skyway. I was quite surprised how far away I could get for how long and still have them shooting at me.
If Hellions or Skulls had that kind of dedication, they would be in the big leagues challenging the Freakshow for turf, not relagated to spray-painting KR.

Or, as I see it, how much you like going out there and shooting badguys, and how much you like to see your enhancements degrade while you fight.
While the IO player is spending time crafying and trading, the SO player is spending time re-purchasing the same racks and racks of enhancements over and over again.

I don't understand why some people hesitate to slot IO's until L50.
On the way to L50, the SO player is busy buying new enhancements for every single slot of every single power every few levels. In the meantime, Common and Set recipes and the salvage needed for those recipes are dropping for free out of those pixelated pinatas we call mobs. So are enhancements, but unless you are only fighting mobs that drop your origin's same type, they are just vendor-fodder.
The IO player is crafting the recipes that fit his needs, selling the rest. Using the salvage that he's getting as drops or trading it for what he does need. And he only as to purchase one to three new enhancements per level.
And if he levels in a mission, he's still okay after the leveling burst of inspires wear off.

If I may reply in haiku:

"Too vague, specify.
Otherwise, must /jranger
for lack of info."

I'm sure that there's more behind the idea, but on the surface, I've got nothing to go on other than "Hey, let's maintain the servers while recieving zero subscription income!", which is an awful idea for the financial well-being of the company.

From this, we would hear:
*Citing player concerns regarding travel suppression in combat and the feeling of super-powered combat, it has been scrapped. Regeneration, however, will use the old "travel suppression" code, and a -Regen effect has been built into a few enemy powers that previously lacked them.

If you exaggerate, it isn't by much. They might be the most persistent little buggers in the game.

DoooOOOOOOOOOOOoooom on toast.
Enjoy.


In the meantime:
1) Less Broadcasting and more turning on your LFT flag.
2) Join a global.
3) Use your second build option to have a solo build available at all times and go earn your own dang XP for a while.

2nd Addendum:
*Never forget the difference between opinion and fact. (For all) Everyone has the right to an opinion but your Opinion on a topic and your Feeling about something isn't a fact. So don't state an opinion as if it were a fact. (Trust me, I've seen it here.)
*Title of your thread. (For the OPs) Having a descriptive title that is appropriate to your topic gets eyeballs on your page. Example: "A Buff for <Name of Powerset>", rather than "What I think would be cool".
Spelling it correctly prevents responses that address your mis-spelling, which distract from the conversation. Example: "More dammag for Brun!"
Being vague doesn't help you out. While someone might look into the thread out of curiousity, you will miss out on some of the potential posters who are interested in that particular topic. Example: "What would be good" instead of "Increase the Spawn rate of <CritterName>."


Thank you.

(That's how the same statement would have looked like a little while back, before CO opened. )

I like BBQRP too.

Anyway........
I wrote "IRP" on one character, but folks who see it probably see it as "I like to Role Play", signifying that yes, the player will speak in character.
I intended it to mean the opposite of the Rated R "Mature RolePlay" with the swearing and violent themes and such. "Immature Role Play" was going to be Rated PG. No swearing, no sex.
But this was on a 4-foot Brute named Terrible Two who dressed in a red one-sie with a star on the front and some dirty bare feet. So I figured that the character would be pretty obvious in where RP with them would stand.

I don't think the abbreviation ever caught on, so I don't expect to see it on anyone else.

Let's look at threads.
Section 1: The Original Post(er):
Every thread has one thing in common. It starts with a single post.
A bad opening post usually dooms the whole thread, even though any thread can devolve with little to no warning.
*Before starting a thread, do a little research. Think your thread through. What details will you need to include? Have there been any recent discussions on the same topic? Use the Search tool, or at least page back a few pages (try to get at least a week back). This isn't to say that you don't have the right to start a new conversation on the topic, but to get you to see previous conversations for facts and/or ideas that you might have missed.
*Start out in a positive tone. Starting out with hostility, ranting or whining pretty much gaurantees that you will end up with an argument, rather than a discussion. Also see: Trolling.
Tacking in argumentative things like implying that anyone who disagrees with your opinion must be a "Troll" or "Flaming" you is also counter-productive.
* Speak Clearly. You don't have to have an English degree or use perfect grammar, spelling and punctuation, but typing in gibberish or sloppy text not only looks bad (to some, since "bad" in this case is opinion) but is more difficult to read and most importantly.....generally causes your post to be taken less seriously.
Wall-Of-Text formatting (lack of line breaks, paragraphs, etc.) will cause your post to be ignored by many.

Your Grand Idea! This is the Suggestions Forum, a crucible by which bad suggestions are politely dismissed, great suggestions are supported and decent suggestions (the most common type) are discussed with intention to improve them. Or at least that's the intent.
* Present the problem or the desire for change. What is your intent? What is it that you want.
Be honest with the flaws in your suggestion. Let's face it, the ideas suggested here often have shortcomings or negative consequences if implented in rough draft form. Hopefully, your idea can be tweaked to be a win-win idea! Gracefully accept (or decline) the solutions that responders provide.
* It's not your baby. Remember that disagreement or criticism of your idea is not criticism of YOU PERSONALLY. It's about the idea, it's not a personal attack.
* Also: Don't be a drive-by poster who dumps an idea off in one post and abandons it. Don't be afraid to sit down and discuss the suggestion with us.

Section 2: The Initial Responders Yes, I'm talking about those who stumble across a fresh Suggestions thread.
* It's someone's baby. No matter how bad an idea is, try to keep your personal disdain out of it and politely point out the irredeemable flaws for which you spurn the idea.
If it's a mediocre idea, try to point out ways that it could be salvaged into something worth implementing.
* Don't get personal.

Section 3: The Discussion. Yeah, everybody. OPs included.
* Try to stay on topic, or at least in the near vicinity of the topic. Also see: Thread Derailment.
* Be polite and professional to each other.
* Remember that there are Moderators present and forum rules that no poster can expect to break without consequence.
* LolCats pictures are funny, but should be used rather sparingly, and only after the thread has already derailed.
* Links to that TV-Tropes site can cause readers to get lost for days. It's the Bermuda Triangle of the Internet. Leave warning.

Special Addendum: (Okay, this is for the Player Help: Questions section)
*When you ask a question and someone answers it, don't delete it. It just means that the next person who has the same question has to ask and wait. If you leave it there, they can just pop in, look and be done.

I like some of these ideas for additional powers added into the pool (which I'll admit is a full enough pool already that I had to skip a few powers that I wanted).
However, I enjoy Omega Manuever as-is and don't see why you don't just skip OM if you dislike it.
I enjoy tossing it into a crowd of Longbow and imagining them yelling "It's a grenade! SHOOT IT!" (Even better when one of them decides that punching it is the best way to disarm the bomb. Amusing.)

Also: obligitory "Cottage Rule" reference.