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Actually, I think this whole thread has been because he spent a great amount of time farming the stupid way without bothering to check if he was farming the stupid way. He made 2.5 billion and spat out his binkie when he found out that it wasn't enough inf.

But yeah, the system is rigged FOR farmers.

Aww. You'll always be mentally challenged to me.

At the risk of repeating myself, like you do at the 18,000 post mark: I think that the "first AM costs 20 million" probably took a bite out of the inf glut. (order-of-magnitude guess: If an average of 1 AM per player got converted, at 50K players, that's a trillion inf gone. I would also guess there's on the order of 100 trillion inf in the game, so we've still got some work to do.)

If even a third of the AM's for a PVP IO come from reward merits, that's half a billion. Which is a nice chunk of change and I'm glad to see it gone. But there's SUCH a backlog of inf to get through.

If I can put in time X and get reward Y, should it matter if Y is split up into 165 little pieces or one big lump?

Because you can get 165 rare recipes or one big PVP recipe... and if you can get 3 billion for the 165 rares, why shouldn't you get 3 billion for the PVP?

Posts 306-312 in your OWN thread. Maybe a couple more posts after that.

I don't have a problem with ignorance, because it can be cured. What we have here is willful blindness.

It may be petty or idealistic or something, but I explain to people why I put them on /ignore. I'm putting you on /ignore because you aren't responding to input. You're a write-only device. A conversation happens when two people talk and two people listen, and if you're not listening I don't have to waste my time.

If we were driving up prices, how come all the stuff I used to buy for 20M, craft, and sell for 50M, now is "buy for 2M, sell for 10M?" [Example: Impervium Armor End/Res. I still have a couple of those listed for 32 million somewhere, I think. Also Decimation Dam/Rech. ] Or "buy for 10, sell for 20" where it used to be "buy for 50, sell for 80?" [Celerity: Stealth] Or "buy for 30, sell for 40" where it was "buy for 45, sell for 70?" [Numina: Healing ]

If we're manipulating prices, we're doing a really, really bad job of it. Must be all those damn competitors.

EDIT: The exact numbers may not be right above. They're off the top of my head. But those are all niches that collapsed on me recently. Any niche profitable enough for me is profitable enough for someone to undercut me.

... I told you what I was crafting. I told you what level. I told you what I was buying and selling for. Buy for "me plus a couple inf" [it's easy to spot, my bids end in 908] and sell for just above an even million somewhere in the range I mentioned.

How much less vague can I be? You've got like six things to try. I don't "own" any of those niches- I probably move 1/4 or less of the IO's in anything I mentioned.

I'm sure this is one of those things where I'm so far from being a new marketeer that I can't see it from here, but what else did I need to mention?

Why is your abnormal playstyle better than our abnormal playstyle?

Look at my most recent post. You can make money in this game BY PLAYING THE GAME.

I mean, extraordinary results may require extraordinary actions, but you can do pretty well by running ITFs, STFs [some of those synth-hamis go for 200M each], ouro arcs, LGTFs, tip missions... what do you want to do? We will tell you how to get rich spending MOST of your time doing it. [I don't know anything about farming, I'll admit.]

ETA: Yeah, I'll admit it. I spend as much as fifteen minutes per session marketing, sometimes twice a day. How much time did you spend farming? Did it get you 100 million inf per hour?

I was actually checking crafted prices. There can be a significant variation in price between the two. I have bought things for 302 million, crafted, listed for 450 million and acheived 600 million. Some people with THAT much money have, well, even more.

Blue Centurion said:
I can verify that she burns a few billion a week to prestige. I've been there, I've seen it. I've donated. I mentioned how I make around 140 million a day and I gave you the specific details of what recipes [currently] I'm using to do it. I have a few others I shuffle around between, because someone might look at that post and crash my niches accidentally or on purpose.

As far as your claims that you farm, you do all these things and yet you are not wealthy: You HAVE to be doing it wrong in some way.
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OK, here's what you say you do, playwise:
That math IS wrong.

You're running new characters up- unless you're doing nothing but other people's story arcs and newspapers, you're getting merits. Merits Are Money. I was paying 20 million inf per random roll for a while [to characters under level 41] and I didn't break even but I came pretty close- and I think level 50 rares are still more expensive than any lower level.

I think one AM gets you 5 rares which sell for an average of maybe 60 million inf these days. (I haven't recalibrated after the temporary ToT price crash, so that's not a rock solid number.) It is very easy, on a new alt, to get 200 Reward Merits on your way to about level 35. Spend 80 million inf to get 4 AM's, sell the 20 rares for about 240 million, and you've made 160 million JUST FROM MERITS on your way to level 35. If I'm buying, which I'm not always doing, you've made 320 million guaranteed and I've got 20 highly random sub-35 recipes.

Go through your alts. Look for reward merits. I bet you've got a billion inf sitting around that you didn't even know about.