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Roboknee

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No Influence Rewards

For a little time now my main toon, The Atomic Arrower, has not been receiving influence rewards for defeating enemies.

I looked in the options and did not see anything enabled or disabled that would stop me from receiving rewards. The only IO set I have is Calibrated Accuracy and I'm going to go to the test server to see if taking that off does anything. The only other thing I thought could have caused the glitch was selling something for 20 million at Wentworths at a low level and hitting some sort of unknown influence ceiling.

Has anybody else had any problems like this?

02/19/08 08:28

Warron Peace

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RE: No Influence Rewards

Sounds like you are in SG mode. When you reach level 34, if you are in SG mode you will receive only prestige and XP/Drops. You will not get any influence at all. The only way to get influence is to leave SG mode. Most players alternate between SG mode and no SG mode, so that they get enough influence for whatever enhancements they need to buy, while still supporting their SG. Most would advocate doing every other mission in SG mode, though if you are only concerned with buying SOs, you could do every third mission out of SG mode and still have enough funds to buy SOs, especially if you sell your common IO recipe drops at the vendors, as they get to be worth quite a bit in the later game, especially accuracy and damage recipes.

W.P.

02/19/08 08:35

Roboknee

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RE: No Influence Rewards

I will have to try that when I get home from work. I had no idea that was the case. Thanks for your help.

Virtue: Atomic Arrower (Lvl 50 Arch/Dev Blaster)
Foxy Roxy Brown (Lvl 50 DB/WP Brute)
Sakura Starburst (Lvl 31 Peacebringer)
Dr. Joseph Mallory (Lvl 45 Ice/Storm Controller)
Arbitor Agony (Lvl 30 Wolf Spider)
Brimstone Sentinel (Lvl 20 Fire/Stone Tanker)

Liberty: Omega Pulse (Lvl 45 Kin/Elec Defender)
Solarflare (Lvl 35 Fire/Thermal Corrupter)

Protector: Wyld Kat (Lvl 30 Claws/Regen Scrapper)

Fredom: Howling Healbot (Lvl 22 Emp/Snic Defender)

Everything Else: Too Many Alts

02/19/08 08:39

Phedre_D

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RE: No Influence Rewards

Yep, Warron has it completely right. Starting at level 25 you slowly start getting less and less influence (or infamy) when running in SG mode. And at level 34 is has dropped completely to zero. It all depends on your SG, and how much they need prestige or influence, whether it is smarter to run in SG mode or not. Many SG's have rich level 50 characters that can help out as long as you bring in the prestige. Personally I am staying in SG mode almost permanently. Especially with the money that can be made at the (black)market these days I have no need for all the influence. But than again I don't buy IO's for millions. I am still doing it mostly with SO's and still rule the city :)

02/19/08 09:14

Roboknee

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RE: No Influence Rewards

Yeah, it was around the mid 20's that I noticed the stoppage of influence. It wasn't a big problem, since I could sell rare's for millions at Wentworths. I wonder if my 20 million windfall hastened the stoppage of influence?

So, is this information readily available in any way or is it something that people learned through time?

02/19/08 09:32

Electro

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RE: No Influence Rewards

I remember reading a recent Dev post saying this would be changed in the near future. I believe they stated that a toon would never earn less than 50% of the regular amount of influence regardless of their being in SG mode or not. Anyone else see this and can confirm?

02/19/08 10:03

Phedre_D

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RE: No Influence Rewards

I tried to find the official word on prestige vs influence curve, but had little luck. I found this 2 year old thread, so I guess I will have to dig even deeper to find the official word. I remember it was an hot issue when it was introduced, but it seemed to have slipped into the deepest gray matter of society, also known as history.

And I haven't heard anything about the 50% rule. But it seems to be fitting with the whole way the dev team seems to be going these days. Making everything easier and easier for us. I am not sure if I agree with it, but I'll just go with the flow.

02/19/08 10:47

Damion_mage

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RE: No Influence Rewards

Yeah Posi said

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In Issue 12 (no release date yet, sorry), we are going to have you never dropping below 50% Inf. earn rate when in Supergroup mode. We will look at the impact of that change and base future alterations on that.

HippocraticBot Lv:50 Emp/Rad Def Svr: Virtue
Lucious Fallenstar Lv:36 Nec/Poi MM Svr: Virtue
Amazing Lass Lv:7 DuB/Reg Scr Svr: Virtue
Umbral Cowboy Lv:8 Warshade Svr: Virtue

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02/19/08 10:50

Roboknee

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RE: No Influence Rewards

Thanks for looking into this. I guess I came along after the whole thing about not earning influence over level 34 if in SG mode. Well, I think it's time for me to get out of SG mode for a while.

Good to hear that the Devs are considering changing that because it really makes no sense to lessen one type of reward halfway through the game and drop it two-thirds of the way through if you're in a SG.

Again, thanks everybody for the help. You've given me more answers than customer support.

02/19/08 10:58

Electro

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RE: No Influence Rewards

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But it seems to be fitting with the whole way the dev team seems to be going these days. Making everything easier and easier for us. I am not sure if I agree with it, but I'll just go with the flow.

I am not sure I agree with it either. Maybe that's just the Grumpy Old 3-Year Vet in me talking. /e old-man-voice "You whippersnappers have it easy today! Why, in MY day..."

02/19/08 11:44

BigChill

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RE: No Influence Rewards

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But it seems to be fitting with the whole way the dev team seems to be going these days. Making everything easier and easier for us. I am not sure if I agree with it, but I'll just go with the flow.

I am not sure I agree with it either. Maybe that's just the Grumpy Old 3-Year Vet in me talking. /e old-man-voice "You whippersnappers have it easy today! Why, in MY day..."

I'll agree with that. I may have only been playing just over 2 years, but I can tell you, even the exp curver seems a bit much. I don't mind leveling faster, but being able to solo, and level nearly as fast as most random PuGs is weird. That, and I remember the grind to hit 50, and my frend just capped another 50, jumping the last 4 levels a few days after it came in. Maybe its just me, but this rush to get to the end is making it easy to miss a whole lot of side stuff...

Big Chill is a conscranker: he conrols a mob so they do nothing, scraps a target till they can't stand, and tanks what's left till the job's done.

Dive in, have fun, and think about it later.

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02/19/08 12:37

Roboknee

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RE: No Influence Rewards

I finally got a response from Customer Supprt 3 days after my second e-mail on this question. It took Gameampers 7 minutes to answer my question from the time I first posted this morning. Congratulations Gameampers, you rock!

02/19/08 13:03

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