Jobs...Fixing the economy.

[water95]

Besides merching their is no way to easily make money. The jobs here came in as fun and slowly got boring. These jobs have been here since the beginning and we really could use new ones to allow players to become more interested in manual work. Years back ago I heard that they were going to open up fishing. That idea went in and out just like a lot of them.
We could really use jobs like:
Fishing
Stocking ammo/guns at those NPC Stores
Farming
Etc....

[Fulg0reSama]

the only idea I don't see happening in any chance is farming.

[Demisis_P2P]

Yeah because just adding another way for people to make money is going to somehow make it so there is less money floating around.

[Herb_P2P]

Why don't you take action instead of just posting ideas. Yes, I know you are not staff but you can still gfx things. could be a lot ezier for the lazy staff.

[water95]

Originally Posted by Herb_P2P

Why don't you take action instead of just posting ideas. Yes, I know you are not staff but you can still gfx things. could be a lot ezier for the lazy staff.

I wish I could.
I really don't know how.

[papajchris]

water95 aka zach should NOT take action Herb. When the hotel came out, Zach aka Clyde aka water95 warped into every hotel room and stole items and then dropped/detroyed them. While that was 2 years ago(?), I still remember spending 6-8 hours cleaning up that mess. Unless zach gave away his account, or is sharring, it's the same person. Now if another staff member wants to take action, here are some ideas:

-Fishing
-Boat building for fishing
-Revamp casino so its useful
-Era Newspaper (only been waiting 3 years on this?)
-Add a better purpose to wood cutting
-Digging (have players dig for rare roots or something)

[water95]

Originally Posted by papajchris

water95 aka zach should NOT take action Herb. When the hotel came out, Zach aka Clyde aka water95 warped into every hotel room and stole items and then dropped/detroyed them. While that was 2 years ago(?), I still remember spending 6-8 hours cleaning up that mess. Unless zach gave away his account, or is sharring, it's the same person. Now if another staff member wants to take action, here are some ideas:

-Fishing
-Boat building for fishing
-Revamp casino so its useful
-Era Newspaper (only been waiting 3 years on this?)
-Add a better purpose to wood cutting
-Digging (have players dig for rare roots or something)

Did you just accuse me of hacking into hotel rooms? WTF...This is my only account.

[DustyPorViva]

Just do bail outs. That fixes economies... right?

[DDynasty]

Stop complaining about something that cant be fixed.

[kingcj]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Just do bail outs. That fixes economies... right?

Lmao...

[WillaWonka]

Can i just rob banks, do it the ol' fashion way.

[emoman]

Originally Posted by WillaWonka

Can i just rob banks, do it the ol' fashion way.

In all seriousness, some crime orientated jobs would be fun and fit pretty well.

Originally Posted by DDynasty

Stop complaining about something that cant be fixed.

It can be fixed, but not with negative nelly comments such as this.

[papajchris]

Originally Posted by emoman

In all seriousness, some crime orientated jobs would be fun and fit pretty well.



It can be fixed, but not with negative nelly comments such as this.

I don't see why they couldn't have automated events where the bank turns into a pk zone and whoever make it to to the safe first gets X amount of money. They could do many ideas like this, that are actually fun.

[emoman]

Originally Posted by papajchris

I don't see why they couldn't have automated events where the bank turns into a pk zone and whoever make it to to the safe first gets X amount of money. They could do many ideas like this, that are actually fun.

Yeah, or at least make the half-assed driving missions somewhat more fun and rewarding, have NPC cop cars chase you and road blocks to avoid. Have other players run into NPC shops and run out with a quest item moneybag and the other player/NPC a get-away driver
It could be a fun party quest or something

[Zeross]

Made 8k in past 3 days of PK.
More like 7 hours tho, on-late-night

[bloodykiller]

they should just give u 50-100$ or even more per gang kill to increase playercount

[Herb_P2P]

Originally Posted by papajchris

water95 aka zach should NOT take action Herb. When the hotel came out, Zach aka Clyde aka water95 warped into every hotel room and stole items and then dropped/detroyed them. While that was 2 years ago(?), I still remember spending 6-8 hours cleaning up that mess. Unless zach gave away his account, or is sharring, it's the same person. Now if another staff member wants to take action, here are some ideas:

I'm not saying for him to be a staff member. I'm saying that if he is bringing all these ideas up and just posting them why not he just make gfxs for the ideas he is thinking and send it in or w.e

[water95]

Originally Posted by papajchris

water95 aka zach should NOT take action Herb. When the hotel came out, Zach aka Clyde aka water95 warped into every hotel room and stole items and then dropped/detroyed them. While that was 2 years ago(?), I still remember spending 6-8 hours cleaning up that mess. Unless zach gave away his account, or is sharring, it's the same person. Now if another staff member wants to take action, here are some ideas:

-Fishing
-Boat building for fishing
-Revamp casino so its useful
-Era Newspaper (only been waiting 3 years on this?)
-Add a better purpose to wood cutting
-Digging (have players dig for rare roots or something)

For you all to know. I asked staff and I do not have any such banns or jails on my account.
I believe you have mistaken me for the wrong person.
I am events team right now anyways.
They wouldn't hire me if I had such a record anyways.

[xTcDiabloxTc]

Originally Posted by water95

They wouldn't hire me if I had such a record anyways.

hahahahaha

[ff7chocoboknight]

Can't fix a broken economy by giving people more ways to break it.

[NightmareNight]

icarus 4 manager

[bloodykiller]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

Can't fix a broken economy by giving people more ways to break it.

what? that duznt make any sense, if tomorrow they decide to make gun prices 10x more expensive 1mil today would be worth 10mil the day after
so if everyone has more money or can easily obtain it then the economy wouldnt be "broken" but era money would simply be worth less

[hunterhunk]

Originally Posted by bloodykiller

what? that duznt make any sense, if tomorrow they decide to make gun prices 10x more expensive 1mil today would be worth 10mil the day after
so if everyone has more money or can easily obtain it then the economy wouldnt be "broken" but era money would simply be worth less

The economy would be broken actually, since people always put a pricetag on items in terms of money.

Making money easier to get like it was after the reset caused problems. Money is the regulator in the economy for the most part.

So I don't know what you're even talking about.

[bloodykiller]

ur obviously not smart enough to understand economics

[emoman]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

Can't fix a broken economy by giving people more ways to break it.

I fail to see how giving players a chance to make money more efficiently to keep up with these ridiculous prices and fun for all content is breaking the economy. If anything if this was implemented correctly it would help Era..although again, it would have to be well thought out and put in right so that we don't repeat the past with Era's economy.
The only people that do not want this change are people who are already very wealthy in the game or people that just don't want Era moving forward at all.

[ff7chocoboknight]

The problem is that there is too much money with the players. Jobs give them more money appearing from thin air. There needs to be circulation not a continual addition of money onto the server.

[MontyPython]

Originally Posted by papajchris

Now if another staff member wants to take action, here are some ideas:

-Fishing
-Boat building for fishing
-Revamp casino so its useful
-Era Newspaper (only been waiting 3 years on this?)
-Add a better purpose to wood cutting
-Digging (have players dig for rare roots or something)

More jobs with a complete disconnect to the server's purpose is a terrible idea.

Everyone's been suggesting/begging for fishing for forever, but why? What's the point? It'll be pizza-making or mining with a different button mini-game. Digging already = sea shells. Digging up "rare roots" barely would pass on a fantasy RPG server, much less on Era. Boat building? Gross. Go play Kingdoms and see how fun that is. The casino is fine as-is, define what a "useful" casino is? One where you can expect to win on a regular basis? No. It's supposed to be a high-risk, low reward fun diversion. Not a central element to core gameplay.

Integrating core-gameplay into the job system would be a better idea. Certain locations that could be periodically raided by gangs (instant cliche idea would be a financial institution such as a bank) for decent cash payouts (automatically split among the raiders) would be fun. It might also add some more purpose to gang raids by allowing them to fight over specific areas on the map for more reason than simply "the sake of raiding".

Finding a way to allow the gangsters to quit their hardcore day-jobs as pizza cooks, lumberjacks, ditch diggers, and aspiring botanists would be the best way to spend staff time on changing the job market rather than adding in more useless ways to remove players further from the server's core gameplay.

Originally Posted by water95

I am events team right now anyways.
They wouldn't hire me if I had such a record anyways.

They don't let just anyone manipulate time and space via the event warper. Such power even in the hands of a fool could be devastating.

[Shadow5596321]

Originally Posted by water95

For you all to know. I asked staff and I do not have any such banns or jails on my account.
I believe you have mistaken me for the wrong person.
I am events team right now anyways.
They wouldn't hire me if I had such a record anyways.

Isn't Era's ETA Name? If so, that'll explain why you have the job.

[cheesemanfred]

Originally Posted by ff7chocoboknight

The problem is that there is too much money with the players. Jobs give them more money appearing from thin air. There needs to be circulation not a continual addition of money onto the server.

Do you play Era?

[ff7chocoboknight]

Was on once when Classic was at war with Era.You don't need to play to realize that there is a problem and the solutions given will not work. Just reading the forums can give you an idea of the problems Era is facing.

[NightmareNight]

just increase the payout of current jobs by 3-5x, new players will be able to get money easier and rich players will continue merching to get rich

[Demisis_P2P]

Yeah because hyperinflation really worked for Zimbabwe.

[Geno]

the paper the 5 dollar Zimbabwe bill is on has to hold more value than it's worth

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Geno

the paper the 5 dollar Zimbabwe bill is on has to hold more value than it's worth

Just the ink used to print it cost 200$... don't get me started on the paper, or the machines used to do it.

[fowlplay4]

Originally Posted by Supaman771

don't get me started on the paper, or the machines used to do it.

How much did they cost?

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Supaman771

Just the ink used to print it cost 200$... don't get me started on the paper, or the machines used to do it.

****ing machines, how do they work?

[Knux]

Originally Posted by water95

Besides merching their is no way to easily make money. The jobs here came in as fun and slowly got boring. These jobs have been here since the beginning and we really could use new ones to allow players to become more interested in manual work. Years back ago I heard that they were going to open up fishing. That idea went in and out just like a lot of them.
We could really use jobs like:
Fishing
Stocking ammo/guns at those NPC Stores
Farming
Etc....

If you stay on mining you can make a buttload of money.

[bloodykiller]

i hope era staff is smarter than a zimbawian, which isnt hard lol

[DDynasty]

Originally Posted by bloodykiller

i hope era staff is smarter than a zimbawian, which isnt hard lol

Ha.