Stillhart

Thanks!

I've been crapping Zephyrs for a tidy profit, but all more than L43. I'll keep my eyes open for anything lower.

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Thank you! So I did a mix between that mission I told you about and playin the market. I'm up to 32 mil now. I really appreciate you taking the time to map something out for me.

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Just to chime in, making money in CoX is spectacularly easy if you have the patience to play the market a bit. I recommend hitting up the market forum and checking it out. There are several good guides and really if you just post a thread and ask, you'll get a ton of great advice (and plenty of flamers, but you can just ignore them )

My quick advice? Do some quick research to find a recipe that sells for ~1m inf and look at the price of the crafted IO. Usually this will be in the 4-5m range. That means a quick 2-3m profit after the cost of salvage, crafting and fees. Buy, craft, sell, profit. Pro tip: Watch the dates on the last 5 to make sure the crafted IO will sell. You'll want all 5 within about 2 days or less.

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cant be any more boring than flipping in WW. i log my 2 accounts and do the same thing. farming pvp>farming missions>flipping= lots of boredom going on but that is CoH these days.

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Can I have your stuff?

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Can I have your $15 per month?

Amusing that someone felt the need to come in and rate this thread 1-star.

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Hey I put a pvp heal proc up for 800mill a while back it cost 40mill to post it and 40 mill to sell it I wouldn't mind having some of that back.

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Yeah I know...720mil won't buy you a gallon of gas these days! And where does that 80m go? Into the pockets of the lazy, that's where! I...wait what's that you say? It gets destroyed, which helps the economy? No [censored]? Well then...huh....

I tried grinding out a pvp IO this weekend. At my level, I couldn't get kills that fast and it's just not fun or time-efficient. I'm gonna have to get some more levels before I really attempt this seriously.

On a side note, the PBAoE pvp set (forget the name) is ridiculously cheap for how badass it is. I'm thinking of slotting 5 of these (the 6th is the proc and THAT on'e expensive...) in all 4 of my PBAoE's on my PBAoE blaster. If I could grind out the proc too, ouch! That's a lot of -resists!

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Just posted on the BM with a list price of 98,101,101

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I have a similar one up for 50m...been up for like 3 weeks and hasn't moved an inch. I'm gonna just use it, once I pick my main.

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Buying one lottery ticket has an entertainment benefit, it's true. I'm not sure that $20 a month (for instance) has less utility than the 20/1,000,000 chance at $500K or whatever the numbers are. I tend to think it has MORE utility.

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I tend to share your outlook here. There are a definite group of people who play because it's fun and they don't expect to win. Admittedly, many of them play out of desperation or addiction, but there are just as many (IMO) that just play to play. After all, one lottery ticket per day is a lot cheaper than a cup of Starbucks per day, it's a lot less fatty, and there's always the chance of winning you $1 back!

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Edit to add: I think I'm actually using "flipping" in the wrong context here. I buy recipes, craft them and sell them. Whatever the word for that is, that's why I do.

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We totally need a word for this...half crafting, half flipping....flifting? crapping? "I crapped a Postiron's Blast proc for 6m profit this morning!"

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I don't know Bender's catchphrase, but a third/half billion is NOT chump change, regardless of how rich anyone is.

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???!!!!

Bender usually tells someone to "Bite my shiny metal [term I believe is censored on the forums but it a 3 letter word for what we sit on or another name for donkey]."

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Daffodil!

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Now if you're the type of person that thinks after 2 years of failure, you're "due," for goodness' sake stay away from slot machines. That's what got eryq1.

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LMAO! Priceless. :-D

Booya! Another satisfied customer. Man, I'd better get crackin on my brute. I've got him on high-margin, slow-turnover niches while I play some new blues I made on Freedumb. I gotta get them rolling too.

Sweet, GL!

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I think they could fix the problem by making purples available for buying with architect tickets.. that would probably vastly increase the supply and lower the price.. then again they would probably have to increase the ticket cap too. I don't even know why they made it so low. Probably technical reasons.

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It's been stated a few times in this thread that the devs don't consider teh scarcity of purples to be a problem in the first place. It's WAI.

Looks like I should be buying them at 30 right now....

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Another thing to remember is alot of people are just holding out till 50 to IO out a character and crafting IOs to fully slot out a lvl 50 can be really time consuming. When I hovered around the bill mark, I fully crafted/IO'd out a lvl 50 and it was nooo fun.

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You COULD pay extra so it's not so time consuming...

...or maybe you could plan ahead.

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I don't like the market. It's boring, not at all fun for me, and it happens to be the single most rewarding way, by far, to spent time in-game. Rewards FAR in excess of the usual ratio of rewards over time.

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That is ENTIRELY dependent on your definition of "rewards". Many people don't use inf as the yardstick for a rewarding gaming experience. They look at how challenging it was, how many friend they met, what kinds of cool concepts they created, how many baddies they killed, etc. Sure it's the fastest way to earn inf, especially if you don't have a lot of time to play. But as has been stated before, that's mostly because the people that CREATE the inf (i.e. the people who don't play the market) create so much that the amounts trading on the market are trivial.

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One thing I did want to ask: why is it that people who want to make systematic progress towards rewards are entitlement whiners, unless they happen to use the market to do it? And people who want the market to be the ONLY way to earn rewards in a linear fashion, eliminating all other ways of doing so, for all other players, aren't called on their sense of entitlement? Merits and tickets were put in by the same devs that gave us a market instead of a store. Not everyone will enjoy everything, but that doesn't make those who disargee with you wrong.

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Most people who come in here to complain about the market aren't complaining because they want to do it their way, they're complaining that they want everyone else to do it their way too. Also, I'm not a long-timer here so please correct me if I'm wrong, but at least since I've been here, most of the marketeers have been saying Merits and Tickets are good additions to the game since they allow the "whiners" other avenues to reward...the hoped-for result would be the elimination of their "whining" by giving them what they want.

I thought your post was pretty good up until this last paragraph...sounds like you're holding on to some outdated notions from before I was around at least.

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*scuffs dirt with toe*

Awww.

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I embarrassed him. How cuddly!

I asked this very same question a month ago. Now I'm well on my way to becoming ebil. Welcome to the club. Someone get this guy's membership processed, asap!

Is it bad form to mention the competition by name? I know CO but what is the other one? DC Comics or something? I thought that was like WAY on the horizon?

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Here's the easy interpretation. It's not an animation penalty for causing redraw. It's an animation discount for not causing redraw.

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That's what I thought you were saying. Which is relatively senseless in this discussion because no matter how you PHRASE it, the effect is the same. "One way takes longer" is the same thing as "one way takes less time".

So yeah, thanks for backin me up on that. :P

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Maybe it's just early, but...huh??? That didn't make much sense to me.

Let me put it another way. I don't know anything about old since I'm a noob, and I don't particularly care about how it USED to be. All I know is if my gun isn't drawn and I try to shoot it, it takes longer for the orange numbers to pop up than if it's already drawn. I'm not concerned about dps, I'm concerned about targets getting moved down and my shots (and cooldown, no matter how long) being wasted.

Anyhow, with my PBAoE guy, I have ridiculous animation times before most skills go off anyhow so it's not like it's any better. At least it's consistently slow tho.

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He's decently fun to play but the redraw on the gun makes me kinda sad.

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Unless I am mistaken the activiation time is the same regardless of having to redraw your weapon. I thought that the "it takes longer because you have to redraw your weapon" was a myth.

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The skill begins recharging as soon as you trigger it. The attack doesn't FIRE until the gun draws. You don't lose DPS in the long term, but your target might be dead before you actually get the shot off.

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This gives a cross-faction market, keeps the RPers happy, and provides an extra Inf-sink, and one that people will FLOCK to. It's win-win-win!

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Other than competition being spread out over 3 markets instead of 2 and everyone under level 35 being blocked out you are right.

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This. I have been playing for 2 months and I have heard of this zone a couple times and didn't even realize it was cross-faction.