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Experience

Whenever you defeat an enemy or complete a mission, you receive experience points. The greater the deed and the more difficult the challenge, the greater the experience you receive. Acquiring experience points will grant you access to higher levels and more powers.

Upon reaching level 10, you will begin to accumulate experience debt when defeated. While in debt, all experience gained normally will be split evenly between paying off debt and accumulating experience toward your next level.

While exemplared or malefactored experience gain is treated differently. As an exemplar or malefactor, the experience you would normally gain is converted to other forms:

• If you have debt to pay off, the amount of experience you would normally gain is all applied to your debt rather than being split 50/50.
• Need to check to see if XP is converted to inf or prestige when out of debt. Was thinking that was how it worked, but it's been a while since I've paid attention.

For more information, refer to the following:

• Experience
• Debt

Influence/Infamy

As with experience, upon defeating an opponent or completing a task, heroes are rewarded with influence and villains are rewarded with infamy (both are commonly abbreviated as "inf".) The more difficult the task, the higher the reward received will be. Influence functions similarly to a form of currency in that it may be used to acquire enhancements, inspirations, recipes, and salvage either through trade with other players or by "purchasing" them from stores, contacts, or auctions and may be used to pay for services such as modifying costumes or adjusting notoriety.

Beginning at level 25, the amount of inf earned while in super group mode is reduced in exchange for earning super group prestige. The amount of inf earned gradually tapers off until eventually reaching 0 at level 34. Exiting super group mode at these higher levels allows you to resume earning full influence rewards at the cost of prestige.

For more information, see the following articles:

• Influence
• Infamy

Prestige

With membership in a super group you gain the ability to earn prestige. Prestige is a measure of your group's reputation. The more prestige earned, the more likely it is that your super group is well-known and recognized by others.

Prestige is used to gain access to larger plots, rooms, and items for your base. You cannot use prestige to buy items that require influence or infamy for purchase.

Prestige is similar to inf in that you earn it by defeating foes. However, there are a few differences. First, you only earn prestige when you are in super group mode. (Your group can't become famous if you're not out there representing them.) Even the lowest-level members of a super group can earn prestige for their group. There is also a trade-off. As you get higher in level, you earn more prestige, but this increase in prestige earned comes at the cost of inf gained. At times you may want to adventure out of super group mode in order to gain inf while at other times you may want to enter super group mode to gain prestige for your group.

Another key difference between inf and prestige is that prestige does not belong to you-—it belongs to your super group. If you leave a super group, the prestige you earned stays with that group; you cannot transfer prestige to another super group. If the super group disbands completely, all the prestige it earned is lost.

It is possible to convert inf to prestige in lumps of 1,000,000 inf/2,000 prestige by speaking to Super Group Registrars.

For additional info, please refer to the following:

• Prestige

Inspirations

Inspirations are also possible rewards for victory in battle and can be traded among allies or acquired with inf from a contact's store. These are one-time-use power-ups to help you in battle. They have different beneficial effects depending on their type. Your available inspirations are displayed in your Inspirations Window located above the Tray Window. After you use an inspiration, it is gone forever and disappears from your inventory.

There are eight different types of inspirations, each of which comes in three power levels. The higher the level of the opponent from whom you won the inspiration, the more a dropped inspiration powerful is likely to be.

For more information, please see the following articles:

• Inspirations
• Inspirations Window

Enhancements

Enhancements may be received as a reward when you win a battle. They may also be traded with other players or acquired with inf.

Enhancements increase the effectiveness of your powers. Most are not permanent (invention origin enhancements being an exception), but they do have the potential to last for several levels before needing to be replaced.

You receive new enhancement slots at every level without a new power slot. It is up to you to decide which of your powers will receive the new enhancement slots. The more enhancement slots you attach to a power, the more aspects of that power that can be enhanced. To place an enhancement, just click-and-drag it to a slot in the appropriate power on your Enhancement Management Screen. Once an enhancement is placed in a slot, it is locked there. It cannot be moved, but it can be discarded. (To discard an enhancement — an action usually performed when that enhancement is no longer effective — from the Enhancement Management Screen, click and drag it with your mouse to the trashcan at the lower left corner of the screen.)

In addition to the enhancements you assign to powers, you have an inventory of 10 slots in your Enhancements Window in which you can carry unassigned enhancements. Enhancements in inventory that you have no use for may be turned in at a store, in exchange for inf.

Enhancements

Types of Enhancements

There are twenty-six different types of enhancements (not counting invention origin enhancements). They have various names, depending on their origins, but each type is color-coded. The twenty-six types are listed below, with a corresponding colored emblem. Unless otherwise noted, the type of the enhancement indicates the kind of power that it improves. Note that some enhancements can be used with a broad range of different powers, while others are highly specific, applying only to a very few powers.

	Accuracy	Increases the accuracy of an attack power.
	Confusion Duration	Increases the duration of a confuse power.
	Damage	Increases the damage of an attack power.
	Defense Buffs Damage Resistance	Increases the effectiveness of a defense buff power. Increases the damage resistance of a power.
	Defense Debuffs	Increases the effectiveness of a defense debuff power.
	Endurance Discount	Decreases the endurance cost of a power.
	Fear Duration	Increases the duration of a fear power.
	Flight Speed	Increases the speed of a flight power.
	Heal	Increases the effectiveness of a healing power.
	Hold Duration	Increases the duration of a hold power.
	Immobilization Duration	Increases the duration of a immobilization power.
	Intangibility Duration	Increases the duration of a intangibility power.
	Interrupt Time	Decreases the duration of a power's interrupt window.
	Jump	Increases the height and distance of jump power.
	Knockback Distance	Increases the knockback distance of a power.
	Range Increase	Increases the range of a power.
	Recharge Time	Decreases the recharge time of a power.
	Endurance Modification	Increases the endurance drain or recovery of a power.
	Run Speed	Increases the run speed of a power.
	Sleep Duration	Increases the duration of a sleep power.
	Slow	Increases the effectiveness of a slow power.
	Stun Duration	Increases the duration of a disorient power.
	Taunt Duration	Increases the duration of a taunt power.
	ToHit Buff	Increases the effectiveness of a tohit buff power.
	ToHit Debuff	Increases the effectiveness of a tohit debuff power.

Enhancement Origins

Each enhancement’s outer ring defines its origin(s). There are fourteen possible types of outer rings — generic (training), five single-origins, five dual-origins, Crystal Titan origin, Hamidon and Synthetic Hamidon origin, and invention origin.

Ring	Enhancement Origin	Useable By
	Training Origin	Everyone
File:E origin magic mutant.png	Magic/Mutation Dual Origin	Characters with magic or mutation origin
File:E origin mutant scientific.png	Mutation/Science Dual Origin	Characters with mutation or science origin
	Natural/Magic Dual Origin	Characters with natural or magic origin
	Natural/Technology Dual Origin	Characters with natural or technology origin
	Science/Technology Dual Origin	Characters with science or technology origin
	Magic Single Origin	Characters with magic origin
File:E origin mutant.png	Mutation Single Origin	Characters with mutation origin
	Natural Single Origin	Characters with natural origin
File:E origin scientific.png	Science Single Origin	Characters with science origin
	Technology Single Origin	Characters with technology origin
	Crystal Titan, Hamidon, or Synthetic Hamidon Origin	Everyone
	Invention Origin	Everyone

Recipes

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