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So basically F2P players get everything that existed when the game went live, and more? And this is bad?

For those curious about "the rest of the story", the OP posted most of it over on the Virtue Name Watch thread.

Short answers:

Generic'd Name: Phantasm
New Name: Sight Effect
Old Name: Available again so that someone else can also get generic'd later, though Animorph claimed it with a level 1.
Who is Bliz? We may never know.

Congrats ^_^

My primary love has always been Scrappers. Massive damage, and can be built to be nearly as tough as a brute or tank.

My most recent 50's have been two brutes and a corruptor, and I'm really enjoying the one brute and the corruptor a lot. At the moment those are my favorite characters, aside from my scrappers and my widow.

I've tried just about every AT. I don't hate any of them, except possibly my Peacebringer, but none of them are as fun as the above. My fire blaster, for example... is fun, but the fire/kin corruptor does so much more. I have a lot of Defenders, but the corruptor does more.

Yes, ditto.

I probably have about 20 billion cash on hand at any given time, and about the same in IOs in my base. I know several people have burned more than that in a single session. >.>

I'm a magic scrapper and I'm okay,
I hunt all night and I sleep all day,
I kill AVs, I join i-Trails,
I take a quick bio,
On Sundays I kill Hami,
And farm for purple IOs

Lol, I was going to put some low bids on these, but there's 125 bids out now. I'm hardly the only one who decided to buy.

Tell us what you're driving down next!

You do realize two can play this game, yes?

It's a TF with giant robots, what else would you want to know?

I'm trying to sell one of those!

Actually I think I just listed something else instead. I can sell the KB IO later, heh. But I remember seeing that and thinking, "Huh?" and placing the IO back in my tray.

Being a rogue just means you can team blueside when you want, and start radio missions and TFs. Otherwise, you're still a villain, so you have all your redside contacts and access to a Villain Group base if you're in a VG, and (most importantly) the Ouroboros portal will take you to the villain version of Ouro, which means you can only exit to one of the redside zones (a bad thing if you're running a TF, heh. It won't kick you from the TF but if you're the leader you can accidentally spawn the next mission redside).

What you don't have are any contacts heroside, or access to a hero SG base, or access to the hero version of Ouroboros. That's only for Heroes and Vigilantes (who are still heroes).

If you want to stay heroside, gather up tips and run tip missions there. Your only option on these tip missions will be the hero option, and actually a lot of the missions are tailored for rogues turning hero specifically. A rogue can turn hero by running tips heroside, or turn villain again by running tips villainside, just like a vigilante can turn villain by running tips villainside (where their only option is the villain one) or turn hero again by running hero tips heroside.

The big wheel of life is Villain --> Rogue --> Hero --> Vigilante --> Villain again.

The big advantage for rogues and vigilantes is being able to team anywhere. This is balanced by some of the things only true heroes and true villains can do, such as earn and use alignment merits.

Cleverbot only knows what people on the internet have said to it... so in one sense it's a vast warehouse of stupid.

Day 30

Last day of my experiment!



I checked the market early in the morning before work. My 2nd KC triple also sold for 170 million, just as I'd hoped, and one of the Decimations had sold.



I'd also purchased the last 6 of the Decimation acc/dam/rech recipes, and the last of the acc/end/rech. Also I'd picked up the rare and uncommon salvage needed to craft the acc/dam/rech recipes.

I was able to pick up the common salvage pretty easily and craft everything.



When I got home, a lot of stuff had sold.

I converted 50 merits and bought a third KC triple, and crafted and listed it for sale, along with the rest of the Decimation acc/dam/rech IOs that I hadn't been able to list this morning.

I ran a BAF and joined a Moonfire TF (on Shinobu Eden -- hit 48 and almost to 49 now). I played a bit with my $1.99 3rd account CEBR claws/fire brute. That was my evening, really, wasn't able to join a Lambda or an ITF.



By the time I was done in the evening, several of my Decimations had sold and also my third KC triple, again for 170 million. Nice. (I'd also listed this for 158 million).

I had two more Decimation sales after this screenshot. At the moment I have the two Eradication damage IOs for sale, the Thunderstrike, and I think three of the Decimation acc/end/rech IOs still for sale. All of the acc/dam/rech sold already!



In the end I have T3 Destiny, Lore, and Judgment, but only T2 Interface and T1 Alpha. I ran too many trials the last week and not enough regular content, so very few shard drops.

Although I benefited from from the two purple drops to the tune of a bit over a billion infamy, I finished with over a billion infamy anyway. So I raised enough money even without the purples to pay for my build, although I might have had to wait a few more days to purchase those Enzymes. A large part of the money I made in the last few days came from the sale of three Kinetic Combat triples that I bought with a-merits, but I also made nearly as much in the same time span just buying recipes, crafting them, and selling the IOs.

I still have 83 merits on hand as well.



For comparison, the CEBR brute that I've been working on since Aug 17th is up to nearly 900 million infamy from AE recipe rolls that I craft and sell (mostly low level bronze rolls). This character doesn't have a nice build yet, but I wanted to show that making money from AE tickets is also a fast way to earn cash.

Probably a balance of the three approaches would work best. Either way, it's not hard to make money in this game. ^_^

Day 29



Sold more stuff. Ran some trials. Did my five tip missions, got a villain merit for that, and another for converting 50 merits. I already had one from the day before, so I bought a KC triple and had 1 villain merit left over.

Because I sold so much stuff, I had little left for sale. I needed to buy more recipes.



I wanted to give a very clear picture of how I made money the last two days. That's why I waited a day to post this.

I placed bids Tuesday early evening for 10 Decimation acc/dam/rech at over 2 million inf each, and 10 Decimation acc/end/rech for 560,000 each. These actually sell at similar prices -- about 10 to 15 million crafted -- despite the fact that the second recipe is much cheaper to come by. But the second is also harder to sell, since there's always more available, so it's more of a squishy market I guess I'd say. You can get 10-12 million or so, but not necessarily as quickly.

Anyway the recipes purchase much faster, as you can see by late in the evening after I've run my trials and stuff, I already have 9 of the cheap triples, and only four of the more expensive ones. I've also bought all the salvage needed to craft the ten cheaper recipes (bought over several hours as I was running trials and tip missions).



I craft and listed all 9 of the Decimation dam/end/rech at 1 inf over 10 mil, which is being slightly optimistic. The KC triple I listed at 158 million. I listed the last one at this price, and it sold for 170 million, which is the price I was actually hoping for.

I make money even when I'm not doing anything.

Your scrapper/tank/brute will laugh at bosses. That's a different kind of fun. ^_^

You can already build a tankmage in this game, I have several, and you can already reroll an alt and get them to 50 inside several weeks if not a couple of days, the only downside being you lose your badges and extra stuff you've earned. I don't see the need for free-form character building or entire power set respecs (and I think the former does not make for a good game in the end, as others have said.)