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To make money. People selling common salvage for less than 250inf are doing so at a loss to themselves (because you can sell them to a vendor for 250inf without the market fees). It's not efficient, but it works.

The same can be done with "rare" recipes selling for less than 10,000inf and soforth.

Selling Inf on the market won't help stop RMTers, in fact it'll probably make it worse because they *can* farm 24/7 and then re-sell the inf at just below the market price which makes it much more attractive because you know that you're getting a good deal (as opposed to the fairly nebulous pricing at the moment).

Not only that, but it would inevitably lead to massive inflation, which means you'd be exactly as badly off as you are now. If you could just buy inf at will then all the recipe and IO prices would rapidly skyrocket and you'd only be able to afford the best gear if you could literally afford to pay real money it, because no amount of farming would allow you to catch up with someone rich.

Edit: Also, if you're taking 20 hours in the AE to get 1 or 2 IOs then you're doing it wrong. All the non-Purple, non-PvP IOs can be had for 1 or 2 HVM which are available once every 40 hours per character for around 2 hours work. Convert 2 merits into one LoTG Recharge, Kinetic Combat or similar high-value recipe and sell it for 100+ million, which will quickly allow you to afford whatever you want.

If he's a returning player then he'll have 2+x unlocks depending on vet status. Those unlocks are Global Unlocks and can be used on any server, however, once used on that server they can't be reused on another server. Server Unlocks are specific to a given server and as far as I know are only used when you move a Free/Premium account to VIP.

You can only cast Veng on fallen player characters that are part of your team, for obvious prevention of exploiting your pets to veng everyone without any real "loss".

Just because you're breaking a law for free doesn't stop the lawyers coming after you

I think it was based on the 4.5 hours that most players spend in the costume creator before entering the Tutorial with a new character.

No I don't, I want to make my *own* heroes and villains, otherwise what's the point?

http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/p..._2011_live.php

And servers are back up.

It's just a shame that it's about as effective as this thread.

It's never been cool, but it is a useful ad hominem in a lot of arguments and a valid argument in some others.

Yes, I shouldn't *have* to remember, it should be clear from the Market what is available to purchase and what I've already purchased. This becomes increasingly important the more you purchase.
None of this matters as it's a lot of effort to go through every time you want to go browsing and I don't really think I should have to keep a spreadsheet of what I've purchased just to make my life easier. Also, that last one isn't as easy as it seems due to all the Reward unlocks and in-game unlocks (Badges, Vanguard Merits, etc).
There is, but it's totally and utterly useless for this purpose because it lists *everything* attached to your account individually, whether purchased from the store or not, so unless you can memorize what every single "pack" contains it's basically impossible to know if you bought it or just some of the individual components. Plus, my chat logging is still buggy as hell so half the time none of my chat text gets logged anyway and it's certainly not readable in a chat window.

Unfortunately it doesn't help for the 6 level gap between potentially taking Unchain Essence and being able to take Dark Extraction

The Thursday window has always been around for general server and DB work. The downtime yesterday was for a live patch publish (which was unusual as they're usually on Tuesdays).

Well, Weekly. See: http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/s...ver_status.php

You can buff them like any other pet, but their inherent self-res debuff means that a single hit will almost always kill them. They also appear to have a higher threat level than you as "undecided" mobs will usually pick them to attack first over you.

Because everyone has learned that as Microsoft proved with Xbox Live that disconnecting Points from Pounds makes people spend more of them because it's harder to keep track of how much money you're actually spending. It's the same reason that you can only buy points in chunks that are almost entirely incongruous with the number of points that anything costs, so that you always have just too few or too many (leading to too few next time) points for what you want so you have to buy another chunk of too many or too few points.