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Bingo.

Yes, I would still AE under those conditions, but I am only one player, and a poll with a very small sample size doesn't give much accuracy.
And I only solo in the AE, when I do go, so #2 and #3 don't apply to me.

Something else in your computer logs you off of programs when inactive, maybe? Could this be a third-party thing, outside of the ingame AFK timer?

Exactly.
Except, there's no "Playing the Market" needed. Just USING the Market earns you enough money off your drops as you play the game to allow any character to be monetarily self-sufficient and equiped in decent enhancements at all times.

Unless you want the very tippy-top-most peak enhancement sets. In which case, you still don't need to use Marketeering. You can earn them playing the game normally and collecting the $Inf accordingly.
It is my belief that the $Inf earned directly from defeating foes pales in comparison to the value of the drops they give. At L50, you may want Purple sets. At that point, you should be completely capable of earning a lot of $Inf/hour. And it's not like Purple enhancements are any good to a character before L50, who can't slot them, or to a character that won't be played after L50.

I've tried being stupid and lazy and I'm still not broke. I still ended up dinging L50 at 300 million and enhanced to soft-capped Defence.

670 Million Inf, plus whatever he had on him before the transfer?
Can't call poverty on that one. His total value of all his stuff, both liquid (Inf in pocket) and invested (enhancements slotted) are pretty high, by many folks' standard.
Poverty eludes you.

I've heard that levels below 22ish (give or take. Stamina + SO's, usually) are a poor indicator of a powerset's combat ability. So I feel it's safe to assume that L1-10 aren't a good indicator of how well wealth can be accumulated in normal gameplay.

It's not like it was a secret.
Not with terms like ZPM (zombies per minute) being thrown about the Market forum at one time.

And it's not like I would have a character or two who are designed to play primarily at L50 and L29-ish.

Quite nice.
Dropping 6-slotted Aid Self for this power will allow me to 6-slot it as well.
And then, there will be the question of what to trade a 1-slotted Aid Other for.
But I welcome the change greatly.

X% of Spain's Population vs. Y% of America's population?
Maybe, considering that US employers don't consider you bilingual unless the second language is Spanish.
Afrikaans ain't very useful here.

On Virtue, yes.

On Justice, it's not as heavily used.

1) Turning into a Bird or a Wing Animal. (Other than bats, I can't think of too many winged animals). There are a few seagulls in Port Oakes, I think, but it would take a bit of work to turn these into usable player skeletons, requiring a metric boatload of animations to reflect reacting to various attacks and powers used on you.
Would you lock out your attack powers while using your travel powers, like Kheld forms lock out some powers? It would look silly to throw Assault Rifle or Broadsword attacks from an African Red-crested Swallow.
2) Turning into a Wolf or Tiger for "Super Speeded". See above.
3) Traveling Underground. You couldn't actually travel below the map, so I assume that this would be like Teleport, only along the ground and with a digging in and popping up animation instead of the hover period.
4) Swing on a vine or grappling hook.
Would require thousands of connection points added in every zone.
And some zones like Nerva or Indy Port would have no buildings to swing from, Spidey.
5) A Jet Pack or Rocket Boots that weren't costume pieces or Temp powers? What would they be then? Power customization thrown onto the Fly power? Okay. Fine.
6) Ice/Water/Lava Sliding? Sure. A new trio of Prestige Sprints?
7) Auras around travel powers? Okay. One can hope for travel powers to get hit by the Power Customization bug eventually.
In the meantime, get two identical costumes. One with and one without an aura. (Yeah, this only works for L30+) I did this with Insect Wings and Fly.
/bind H "cc0$$powexectoggleon Sprint$$powexectoggleoff Fly"
/bind J "cc1$$powexectoggleoff Sprint$$powexectoggleon Fly"
Yes, you can only switch costumes no sooner than every thirty seconds, but other than that, it works.