Ironblade

Definitely not. We're talking about counting EVERYTHING, including purples, etc. However, the comparison is based on influence gained vs time spent. You mentioned a good farming run that took an hour. An hour spent working the market can return a lot more *per time invested*. A skilled 'marketeer' might spend spend 1 hour per month at the market and make a billion influence. How many hours of farming would that require, on average?

If you hate farming and hate the market, would you rather spend 20 hours farming or 1 hour working the market? That's the comparison that people are making.

Of course, someone will say, "Oh, but your time is spread out over the month and you can't get the money any faster but I can farm every day." Yes, I can get the money faster. I can marketeer with 2 characters and earn twice as much by spending 2 hours per month instead of 1.

FYI, I wouldn't say that I "hate" either farming or the market, but I really don't care much for either. Therefore, I work the market. It takes less time away from the stuff I would like to be doing in the game.


If people would wise up and stop smoking, they'd have more cash and live longer, healthier lives. You're talking about human nature. In your market example, the factor is LAZINESS. Not gonna change.

Wait a minute. It *IS* a global. Therefore the level at which you bought or enhanced the power is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the level of the enhancement itself.

If I have a level 10 Winter's Gift slotted in Flight, which I took at level 30, and I exemp to level 20 so the power is greyed out and unavailable - the Winter's Gift slow resistance still works. It has NOTHING to do with the power it is slotted in. I can exemp as low as level 7 and still have the benefit of a level 10 Winter's Gift Slow Resistance IO.

Let's clarify that no keyboard inherently violates the EULA. You may choose to use it in a manner that violates the EULA. If you use it to set up a set of automated macros to make your mastermind pets dance and sing, no one cares. If you use it to automate play (like chaining multiple attacks), then you are in clear violation of the EULA.

Ah, and now we get to why I used level 35 in my example. I, and many others, place a considerable value on the ability to spend some extra time enhancing the character somewhere in the 30's and NEVER DOING IT AGAIN. I fully enhance my characters with IO's around level 35 and never have to touch those slots again. I only have to enhance additional slots as I gain them and then never touch them again. Also, I get to keep my set bonuses when exemping for many of the task forces.

Hey! Mousie.. I mean Minnie Taxi signed up before Turbospeed but hasn't shown up on the list!

No, it's definitely not all-or-nothing. It's just a question of how much work it is. It might be more work for them to pick and choose what can be traded. Or it might not be. It might be easy.

I think the third number here should be a 50, based on the context of the rest of the sentence.

Oh, right.
Also, if you're in a supergroup, you want to be *OUT* of SG mode to maximize your influence.

It counts the influence from defeats and mission bonuses for certain.
I suspect it would also count 'end of arc' bonuses, as well as anything you click that directly grants influence. Offhand, I can only think of two: one of the Christmas gifts and exploration badges once you hit 50 - so not much potential there.

As for maximizing earnings: GO GO GO. Do a lot of content. Personally, I did lots and lots of task forces. Once you get started, it's just mission, mission, mission and you earn some merits while you're at it. I was at 1.6 billion badge progress when they lowered the requirement.

I consider this the epitome of lousy content. The 'puzzle' that can't be solved through observation or deduction but is merely a string of random actions that you have to figure out through random trial and error.

HORRIBLE idea. That kind of BS was common in games 20 years ago and it stunk.

Yeah, and?
I have both.

The OP was asking specifically about fire, not looking for a comparative analysis.

That would just be wasting everyone's time. You can rip off names of Paragon Studios created content all day long. Make a Mr. Aeon, Golden Valkyrie, Master Recluse, whatever. There's no problem with that.

I am SHOCKED. Simply SHOCKED!

That sounds like a reasonable approach. The low-damage defender will be able to get the mission done, but his/her XP gets kicked in the man-biscuits.

Congratulations.

You're mixing apples and oranges here. The level cap has NOTHING to do with the 'endless content' you want. You can access all the content in the game at level 50 (well, except the tutorials). And no game can ever have 'endless content' unless the players are creating it... oh, wait, we have that.