DSorrow

I'm puzzled by this.

I'm thinking the people in the government aren't smart enough for that.

Doubt that. The build is at perma-dom levels of recharge and has Consume.

I get my influence by providing this service to anyone who wants to pay me. I am eeebillll.

This pretty much sums how I operate. I rarely bid over 100k on common or uncommons, but if that one piece of salvage is the only thing between me and finishing a build, I'm going to buy it. Right now.

What I do hate, though, is my habit to start bidding low and then having to rebid insignificant amounts of influence. It doesn't really matter anymore whether I spend 1k, 50k or 100k on a common salvage, but I often end up bidding 3 or 4 times to get a common. It's hard to break old habits.

You use mind control to force them to pay a price they don't want to pay.

Maybe the bid creepers who exist have put 10 low bids each to ensure they get a freespec for every single one of their characters for I19. Maybe 100 people who don't actually have enough influence on hand currently have posted all of their current influence in hopes of catching one. Maybe 170 people want the recipe, but do not wan't to pay the "evil flipper price", thus proving that flippers don't actually make us pay any more than we want to.

I started doing that LONG before I started marketing. Up until I12 or something I basically funded all my characters by farming, but had resorted to ending stuff with x,123,123 or x,512,512 to avoid bidding 10x the amount of inf I wanted to. And also because 1, 2, 3 and 5 are all located so that I can only use my left hand to bid. Later I added this habit to posting items so that I no longer posted them for even amounts, but that, too, was well before I actually started using the market for other things than selling my drops and purchasing stuff I needed.

Most of the people here have just used salvage as an example of how flippers can actually benefit other people, too.



I don't see any contradiction there. Sure, there are tons of people who bid uneven amounts, but then there are also these "sheep" who just bid whatever the last player bid. Just this weekend, I've sold around 30 IOs at the "last 5" prices even though I posted them at about 75% of the going value. The people who know how the stuff works, buy recipes instead because it's cheaper that way, and the sheep just blindly bid on my crafted IOs to be able to slot it RIGHT. DAMN. NOW.



The point is countered completely. People don't pay prices higher than they wanted to, because ultimately it is their choice to pay the price they just did. If you paid the price, it means you wanted to pay that much to get the item. I hope that was enough emphasis.



Plenty of people? Where do you get that from? Most people who know about the Fitness change expect with 99% certainty that the devs will, like with every other major power change, give everyone a freespec. No one I know in the game has resorted to getting a freespec in store just because.

Oh yeah, and your conclusion can be countered by the conclusion itself. Maybe those people with multiple uneven bids actually want to get a freespec in store for every single character they have?



What I think Misaligned meant was that certain costume pieces are only available through recipes, while we have multiple ways to get a respec. If 3 at your leisure and a freespec just about every issue is not enough, I don't think a freespec will help it much, honestly. Many people also have one or more vetspecs available.



To be honest, most vets should know how to build their characters well enough not to need multiple respecs every time a power change is introduced. I pretty much never respec my characters, for example. I level them to 50, respec to a final build and that's it. I only change it whenever bigger changes happen (like the PPP/APP thing for heroes/villains). If you goof up your respec, you deserve a punishment. Hell, if I did that I'd think "damn I was stupid". Then again, I don't "waste" my respecs and have multiple respecs (4+, freespecs/vetspecs/voltaspecs combined) available on pretty much all my characters.



Anyone above level 24 can do a respec trial provided that they have around 1.5h to spare just about any evening or afternoon. I cannot fathom a single way of life where you don't have that much leisure time. If you do, but don't want to work to get your respec like everyone else does, no sympathy from me. Under level 24 you shouldn't even need respecs. You have a second build for that.