Part 2
So this part of the guide is for people already progressed from Part one, or people who have played a while and want to become self-sufficient within the game (e.g. no more depositing!)
Mindark having been harping on long enough about this not being a “game”, but being a “universe” where you can live out your virtual life… so think of it this way, in real life, can you have lots of fun for free? No! (unless you are a student!) you need a job to fund your fun activities. The same applies in the game. – sorry, universe!
There are loads of professions (jobs) you can take up, but you need to make sure you pick one that makes money from other players, not from Mindark if you want to profit… Some examples are: Beauty, Shop owners (Trading on a bigger scale), Pet trainers and Pilots… There are more, but look them up yourself!
All of these activities are providing a service to other players in the game that they either cant do themselves, or cant be bothered to do themselves. So you do it for them, and charge them a fee. Depending on the difficulty of the task, or the exclusivity of the service you can charge them a lot, or a little for the service. All of these businesses require some form of investment however, so this is why you either followed Part one, or have been playing a while and should have access to some cash…
OK, there is another profession I should mention here - crafting... As its nothing i know about, I got some information from a non-depositor Crafter (who does not want to be named) here is a direct quote which should give you some money making tips on crafting...
Quote:
"I moved to crafting dew to looting an OA103 bp (unlimited) seeing the market and how well they sold i decided to chip. a week of barter and 28k peds later i had the skills needed to set up as a highly skilled crafter with around 5.5k enginering and high skills in all other crafting areas.
After a while of buying ores from auction i found out just how broke i was getting from crafting even with a good bp and high skills.
So, I set up many very nice trade deals with 5 big societies. Slowly, I started to see I could make an in-game living as a crafter.
As I was paying tt for most my ores and PEauction / my2pecs prices on some, I could afford to comfortably undercut other crafters and still sell at a fair price for all.
With (L) bps there is not to much worry of the market becomeing flooded so market prices are steady but even so, I later found out you need at least two good bps to constanly make any money to keep going with.
So all you need for crafting is.
At least 2 good BPs (limited items or not)
Around 5k skill as a min (there are many other crafters with 3-4k that loose a lot)
and good trade deal (sorry i wont say how mine works)"
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Thank you "The Masked Crafter"
That’s it, its simple really, do your job and earn some cash. Obviously you need to apply business techniques to be successful, but they are yours to decide. You can concentrate on customer service, or compete with others on price, but if you do well, maybe taking on a second job, you can easily fund regular play, maybe even progress to Part 3…
