Money making -_-

[WaDaFack]

Let's just get straight to the point, it's always the same players playing Era, the player count is on a stand still.
Reason being is that making money is quite hard, and is only easy for the players who have been playing before and are capable of selling one of there items for 1mill+.
I mean, yesterday I logged on and apparantly the best way to make money is mining. I spent 3hours mining and I only got 3k. How am I supposed to get anywhere when most of the weapons are 100k+?

Era is a great server, and I would LOVE to play it but how can I when I can't get anything but 3000$ in 3hours?

[cbk1994]

I don't think it's near that bad. I'll try some things out a bit later and see if the payment needs to be balanced out a bit. It had to be lowered from what it was right after the "updates" because business owners would have been unable to pay their employees more than they could have gotten just selling the minerals.

[Frankie]

players have too much control over gun prices and that's why you're seeing ridiculously high prices compared to how much money you're getting from jobs. if you raise the amount of money that jobs give out, then the players are simply going to rise the prices of their items so you won't really solve anything at all.

as far as a solution to this problem, I haven't really come up with one that would 100percent fix it.

[WaDaFack]

Perhaps a money cap can solve something, no?
It's ridiculous watching players asking for 10mill for a weap *cough* shipka *cough*.

But one thing I don't get is that weapons like the Shipka, M1, Sten ETC. you can't buy but since a month or two ago, there were only like 2-3 of each released. How are there 10+ now? :O

[LordSquirt]

No one on the server has 1million cash wise. People are just stuck in the past when there was an abundance of money.

The quickest way to get money though is to know the economy and merchant your way to the top. Buy low sell high.

[WaDaFack]

Squirt, the best thing you can buy is a Ak47 if you use the job methods, how can you merchant that? People are after big-guns, like PbP, PPSH ETC.

[LordSquirt]

You know I once was a noob with nothing on the server (this was a little while ago also) and I was able to dig shells and stuff to get about 50k. Also, I worked at AM, DD, and PT and was top stocker for most of the jobs. Combined with all of that money I think it would be easy to start off with merchanting off items. However, for people not as committed I guess you can go easy and make small profits and buy and sell an item like a daewoo.

[Frankie]

get connections.

buy that AK. get good with it. join a gang and prove yourself worthy. eventually you'll be given other weapons to use. despite how small it may be it helps.

[Crono]

I liked Era 2006.

[Rave_J]

really if era had a reset it would help a bit but honestly the business should be tax and have bills to pay for and the gun value should be where the trade system is rescript where say a axe 150k to 200k right well u can put no more then 200k in the trade system and have each gun a var. for its worth and reads it if u go over that var. then it wont let u trade or something so say u have 50k and a p90 which var is like 80k to 100k it will let u do that but if u try to add Desert eagles in it wont let u trade i think that will help so the guns cant be profit more then what they are

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Rave_J

really if era had a reset it would help a bit but honestly the business should be tax and have bills to pay for and the gun value should be where the trade system is rescript where say a axe 150k to 200k right well u can put no more then 200k in the trade system and have each gun a var. for its worth and reads it if u go over that var. then it wont let u trade or something so say u have 50k and a p90 which var is like 80k to 100k it will let u do that but if u try to add Desert eagles in it wont let u trade i think that will help so the guns cant be profit more then what they are

Limiting the item trade system won't solve the problem, it'll just force people to drop trade or send money, which leads to scamming.

[Rave_J]

hmm didnt think about drop trade if everybody using the item trade then make it where u cant drop no more really alot of people wont care
just change it where u cant drop high value guns

[CharlieM]

Wtf work. I have 2 rare guns and I had to work my way up to where I am; and I did it in a few months don't set your sites on über rare guns, because there are cheaper ones that do the same job, helps to merchent to new/poor players also, you can turn a tidy profit buying 1 then another for duals helps also as you can get more for duals then what you spent on both

[salesman]

Making money honestly isn't that hard. You can't expect to be the richest person in just a few days. Looking at your stats, you've hardly worked at all.

In my opinion, mining is the worst job. I'd rather have a change of scenery and pick flowers or dig shells. Once you get a decent amount from working, your best bet is to merchant items...it takes some time to figure out what's worth what, but once you do, it's easy to find good deals and make some profit.

[WaDaFack]

Guns should be able to break, and the cost of fixing it relies on the Guns economic price >.>.