[Geno]

first collect and sell shells > next start mining.

do you understand what merch means? it refers to selling merchandise, how do you plan on making money selling merchandise as a new player? first you must acquire merchandise that people want, which means expensive/rare items. You have to grind to acquire such.

build your fortune working like slave then slowly you will be able to buy stuff. Thats what i did until i became a business owner (dippin donuts) then i just took all the profit from there to buy whatever i want.

another good option would be learn to scam people, that is the best way to get a jump start in my opinion, you just have to be clever about it.

it's hard to make friends when the player-count is so low.