McNum

Well, the first thing I did was frivolous spending. I bought my last Incarnate slot. You know, because I could. Lore Unlocked! 50 million Inf out the window, then I claimed my other sale, and I was back at the cap.

Is it normal to end up with a twisted sense of Inf from doing this? I used to be a penny pusher, thinking 10 million as a lot, now I can lose 20 million in a typo and just laugh it off. Or spotting a cheap recipe/expensive IO combination and just throwing 100 million at it in a blink of an eye knowing that it'll come back threefold or better?

Also, just for the record, I hit the cap without ever holding a purple recipe. They just don't drop for me, ever. I considered flipping some, but decided against it since I had a niche or two that were slow but steady profit and was happy with that. I also didn't farm, don't like doing that. Plus, you know, Forcefield/Energy Defenders don't farm that well. I did, however, handle several of the good stuff IOs, like Numinas, LotGs, and Miracles.

But yeah, you're probably right. I should keep on doing it, I'm not going to burn my Inf in a giant fire pit, though. I got several characters that could use a boost for IOs so that comes first. Plus helping out friends and SG mates find the IOs they want at a good price.

Yet... I still find purples to be overpriced for what they do. Not that I'd be asking less myself if I actually got a drop, of course.

I'm just going to say this about this guide: It works!

Pay close attention to the tip about putting stuff up for sale a lower than the going rate, it's pretty much the key to getting a decent turnaround on your sales. So thanks for the guide, it worked wonders for me.

Hi there, I'm McNum, and I used to hate the market. It was a dark, unfair place where few rich players were out to grief the little guy. In this case "little guy" meaning me and "grief" mean price stuff higher than I had ever seen Inf. I was an annoying little whiner, in other words. That is, until last October.

Last October, I cautiously approached the scary place that is the Market Forum. For I had a pile of Merits, but no clue what to do. As I said back then, I felt like a Dachshund who had caught a car. Great, but now what? You were all very helpful, and thanks to your advice, I got my pile of Merits turned into some three hundred million Inf, causing me to dream of IO'd characters and a billion Inf. I worked slowly on it, playing market casually until I19 hit and I dusted off my old favorite: Aegis Rose, Forcefield Defender. She was running all SOs (and a couple of HOs), so it was time to put what I learned earlier to the test. One month later and I posted a genuine thank you note as what you had taught me had allowed me to not just fully IO out my Defender, but doing so at a profit. Something I would have considered impossible a year ago.

In that thread I may also have said this:

On the whole Responsibility arc, there's actually one contact that really surprised me: Anti-Matter. Oh, sure, he's an evil genius who's building a vast robot army for Cole, but when Arachnos shows up and tries to blow up a third of the city, he's practically the only one doing anything about it. Well, him and Kang. And this is done in direct violation of Cole's orders: "Let Arachnos win!" There's a reason that Anti-Matter lost his Praetor title, and while he's by no means a good man, he could very well end up as the lynchpin to take Cole's regime apart. Turn Anti-Matter and you've got two Positron class geniuses on our side. He's already being treated badly by Cole and crew, so a little respect and a way to get back at Neuron and there might be something worth trying. He's by no means the worst of the Praetors, might even be the only one that can actually be redeemed.

Kang, while he could be seen as trying to redeem himself, I think he just snapped, really. You can do a lot of bad things "for the greater good", most of which aren't good at all. But when the illusion of the "greater good" is shattered, all the bad things he did are coming back at him. Hard. So he lashes out at Cole, in the only way he can: Leaking the invasion plans, the very plans that made him snap.

In light of the newest episode "Party of One", I would like to retract my statement that Pinkie Pie is without evil. Friendly tip: When Pinkie Pie invites you to a party, you will attend and you will have fun. It's better for you that way.

I liked this episode, but poor Pinkamina Diane Pie. So cute, so very, very broken.

Just to let you know, if you log in on the German and French servers, the entire game will be in German or French, interface and mission text included, so if you can't speak those languages, you have a decent excuse to just add two new teams.

I know there's a ban on other video games, but this is an account security matter. I hope that's an allowable exception.

Read this: Update on PlayStation Network and Qriocity

Read this in particular:

Only the Alpha level shift works outside Incarnate Trials, the rest don't. You can be +1 in normal content, but not any higher than that.

Thanks! I'll just email some Inf to another of my characters when the time comes to hit the cap. Probably send over some more so I can still earn Inf by beating up thugs, too. After I get the screenshot, of course.

Fly
Seven years in, and I STILL catch myself go "Wheeee!" when I jump off a tall building and hit Fly.

Assassin's Blade
POSE! Wait for it... Wait for it... *SPCHLOOOORT* "Tee hee hee hee..." The sound is just perfect.

Hi again all you ebil marketeers!

Early this year, I posted a thank you since your advice helped me get my favorite FF Defender IO'd out (at a profit, no less), and I've since been marketeering on and off a bit, trying to get to the Inf cap in a casual way. My luck is as i usually is and I've seen no purple drops, despite playing for Incarnate parts now. You'd think I'd have seen ONE, but rand() hates me. My patience and market skills make up for that, though... I love logging in and collecting a nine digit payoff, even if I wish that would happen a bit more often.

Anyway, as I was selling my last Miracle +Recovery IO today, something hit me: I'm two or tree of those away from my goal. But what happens if I can't collect the full price of a sale due to the cap? Like I'd be at 1.9 billion, but sell something for more than 100 million? Do I waste the Inf, or does it just fail? What do you guys do to get that 2,000,000,000 Inf screenshot with the monocle?

It's a silly little question, I know, but you guys have been helpful before AND I'm now an Inf billionaire thanks to your advice, so one last question on the home stretch to EBIL.

You missed an obvious reference, actually. What school was Twilight Sparkle applying for? "Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns". They are the C-Ponies, obviously. Twilight is Phoenix, she even bursts into flame when angry.

Also, Pinkie could totally take Batman. Her special power is that of the Looney Toon. Wild takes, teleportation, singing. Heck, she started a war once. By singing. "You gotta shaaaare! You gotta caaaare!" She's the Joker witout the evil. Random without malevolence. The only one who could throw Batman a surprise party, and it'd be an actual party, not a disguised death trap, much to Batman's confusion.

You see the Atlas globe? That thing has the perfect size as a target for a ballistic missile. It's big enough that it's possible to target it, yet small enough for it to be a challenge and it has a big symbolic value. The perfect target, in other words.