If you are new to the game or even have been playing for a while it can be hard to level up and get influence fast. A very good way to "farm" these things is to do this:

-First you have to be around level 40+ and have to go to the contact named Harvey Maylor
-Next you have to do maybe around 5-10 missions for him to get in his arc and get the mission "Defeat all villans in area"
-This is a great farm all you have to do is set the mission for six people (on invincable lvl 50) and sidekick your lower toons to a higher level character that is lvl 46+
-Then all you have to do is kill as many mobs as possible (except a few mobs so you don't complete mission)
-Next what you do is have everyone exit and reset the mission for six and you can do this over and over as many times as you would like until your toon is the desired level or you make the influence you please!
-For this map you can also do something called salvage farming where you set the mission for 6 people and then kick them all and solo it (heroic works fine) this way you get everything that someone else (that would be on the team) would get except they are not there. You can get salvage drops such as: Hamidon Goo's (500k-2 mil), Pangean soil (1-2 mil), Prophecy (1-2 mil), Platinum (1-2 mil) and much more...
-This is a great mission/farm and can get you from lvl 1-10 in just minutes or can make you millions in minutes.
-Last thing have fun