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Yeah, I tend to bid creep like that. For salvage it goes something like 11K, 22K, 55K, 105K but if the last 5 are in the 10-50K range I might skip the first one.

At a [hypothetical]million a minute saving 50K is worth 3 seconds. I don't personally make a million a minute but I can see where some people would .

I wrote down the numbers for the SG below and the two SG's above us. So I can see if they're a significantly moving target. Advance warning was given to someone from #26 and #17 (Dragons/Rogues of Ruin).

#10, Paragonian Knights, is currently at about 151.6 million prestige [that's 76B] and we're at 67.7 million prestige.

I figure it's going to be a little while before I can toss in another billion here- my finances are coming back from my prior imprudent spending, but slowly.

It seems to me there's a key ingredient that you don't analyze, but take for granted:

We're #32 and it's going to get a little slower from here on in, I expect. I changed the SG message to "Relaxed, casual players buying our way through the top 100. SG started 9/23/10. No requirements for first rank. Second rank at 2,000,000 prestige. Third rank at 4,000,000 prestige. Fourth rank at 10M and fifth at 20M. Join us on #themarket! "

What do you think? Is it ... insouciant enough?

Welcome to the game! There are a few things about this game that are severely different from other MMO's.

You CAN solo with any character in this game. Empathy and Force Field defenders are notoriously slow soloers as are [I'm told] Earth controllers. You will get very good results from a Scrapper or a Brute.

Major differences in this game: the benefits of buffs [self and other] are very, very large in this game. As an example, a Force Field Defender can lower incoming damage for the rest of the team by up to a factor of 10. (Not that force fielders are the 'best' Defenders out there, but it's very simple to explain what they do.) As a result there is no Holy Trinity in this game, at least not after about level 15- a good tank is so tough that the healing can go to the rest of the team, and there is lots of no-tank teaming, no-"healer" teaming ["healer" is kind of a dirty word, as many defenders have stories of dedicated healers taking the glory when some sort of actual defender did the work] and... well, everyone does SOME damage, and in many cases surprisingly good damage. One of the fastest teams in the game is eight Fire/Rad controllers.

Welcome to City of * !

If you're going to be mean, or obscene, or socially unacceptable ["edgy", whatever]... you better be REALLY funny. Ask Andrew Dice Clay.

Here's the thing: If you get bored, you can always come back to it later. I recommend starting with (for instance) a couple of 45-50s and 35-40s. The 10's and 15-20s go really fast.

Fire/Mental blaster.

Fire alone gives you the AOE to wipe out even-con minions without using Build Up or Aim (one of those is renamed to Concentration or something. The power still works the same way.) Mental gives you another AOE cone, with -Recharge for defense, and, very rarely, enough Recovery that you can use Inferno and keep shooting.

Ten guys every ten seconds with enough single-target to finish off the middle management in between. Survival is for cowards.

You don't need to spend a billion to join! You need to spend a billion to get promoted. Totally different thing.

Squez did it, in this forum, but it was pre-forum-changeover and it looks like got mulched.

We've sponsored Teutonic Rogue.

Having said that, we will take ANYONE in the SG. And ANYONE who donates a billion has edit privileges. [Yes, this means that the Rogue is risking his/her work any time a marketeer gets bored.]

So if you really, really wanted to work on our base... and you have a spare billion inf... you could.

Edit: The base is large and the work has just started, but there's already bearer bonds with coins for paperweights under the stairs. *snf* it's beautiful.

We have a base designer ! (Azure Albedo.)

And we're about #45 in the top 100- we've broken the top 50, definitely.

I'd move Dispersion Bubble up in the build and get Maneuvers ASAP after that. At that point you will nearly softcap all defenses to anyone within 25' of you (with SO's, or four level 20 IO's if you're in a hurry to softcap the team.)

Force Fields is one of the few cases where Maneuvers makes a significant difference, e.g. "team takes half as much damage".

Trial accounts have a LOT of limitations- you can thank the goldspammers for that- but you may have some luck if you put "Trial player, please invite to team!" or similar in your search field .

The way the servers are organized when you come into the game is this: The server you logged in on most recently is on top. The rest of the servers are in order of increasing population.

Freedom and Virtue each generally have about the same number of people, with all the other US servers being in a pack at about 1/3 to 1/5 that number. So the bottom 9 positions flip around a lot from moment to moment, but the top 2 are WAY ahead.

Freedom has a rep as a place full of idiots, which is not entirely undeserved. My theory is, because it's so large, idiots have no real incentive to change their behavior, and people who've been socially ejected from other servers may end up there as well. There are a lot of good people and good players on Freedom, and there are a lot of fools and losers on non-Freedom servers, but I think there's some truth to the reputation.

Virtue has a reputation as the place where Roleplayers go. The uncharitable stereotype i that those are people who say everything actually gamerelated ((in parentheses like this)) and spend a lot of time writing little soap operas together. I've never seen adult roleplay chat there but I'm told there's way, way, way too much of it. Roleplayers are, in many cases, happy to play the actual game and play it very well. They may just throw in a bunch of thees and miladies.

All the other servers have various reputations (Pinnacle is elitist game-hacking drunks, or whatever) and smaller communities.

Welcome back!

Yeah. I destroyed 90% of my inf and now I don't know how much money I have.

It has come to my attention that you don't get base building privileges until you get to rank 2.

You don't get to rank 2 until you turn a billion influence into prestige.

I'm going to have to sponsor someone... so there may be a slight delay while I rustle up some cash.

Can someone find that example thread where [redside] a flipper created a market for a midlevel recipe? If I recall, it had 0 for sale, prices all over the place and one selling every couple of weeks before the flipper came in- going to 5 or so for sale, prices floating within a factor of 2, and one selling every couple of days.

I think it was Nethergoat, but damn'd if I can find it.

I have about a 50% chance of remembering to set this up in time:

"I AM NICTUS?"
"... and I need to be loved."

Generally, when someone asks a question, there's a race and three different people answer it ANYWAY, improving the odds that you get an answer you understand.

Welcome to the game!

The Crazy 88s on Virtue have a lot of prestige and an incomplete base. "A lot" meaning something like 24M unspent. "Incomplete" meaning "we have rooms with circles on the floor".

I'd like to hire a base builder, but I have no idea what a fair price is. (Prrrobably somewhere between 10 million and 10 billion inf. Somewhere.)

Anyone interested? What do people charge?

Can I have some echo here?

One week [eek eek eek]

Sixteen characters [erssss]

#86 on the Virtue Top 100. [SQUEEEEGNNNNNNNNN*clk*]

( Sorry about the feedback. )

TWENTY THREE BILLION INFLUENCE BURNED.

Remember, you can acheive a classy, muffled, clapping by not putting away the fistfuls of inf first.

Give yourselves a hand, everyone!

Rodion: are you saying that people are getting disproportionately more purples, or disproportionately more inf?