Jobs

[Pelikano]

Will the player owned businesses stay?

I know it's a little offtopic, but I think that's one of the main (legal, not duping, spawning etc.) reasons why the Era economy is how it is now.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by Pelikano

Will the player owned businesses stay?

I know it's a little offtopic, but I think that's one of the main (legal, not duping, spawning etc.) reasons why the Era economy is how it is now.

I hope not, at least not how they are now. As it is right now, they really can't compete with NPC-ran businesses, besides location, which is mostly irrelevant. I'd like to give them some unique thing they do. For example, a shop that would make furniture out of wood that is chopped, or that would make food with fish or so.

[ldhfd]

Originally Posted by cbk1994

I hope not, at least not how they are now. As it is right now, they really can't compete with NPC-ran businesses, besides location, which is mostly irrelevant. I'd like to give them some unique thing they do. For example, a shop that would make furniture out of wood that is chopped, or that would make food with fish or so.

I like this idea. Players could buy or gather their own fish so they can cook it in a player owned store. The would have to give a buff or heal more than just buying cooked fish from the npc store.

Like a sushi store that makes sashimi and things like that.

edit:

D'OH

Just had an idea. Lets put in HUNTING! I WANT TO SHOOT DOWN DUCKS AND WRESTLE BEARS WITH MY BARE HANDS! (no pun intended)

[Kirble]

Originally Posted by MontyPython

Look, Era's not like a safeway union. Yeah, okay, Finneus has been in the Deli Department 10 years longer than you. He's getting more pay (and you'd be fired before him) based on that alone. Yet most of the time, he's sitting in the corner eating half of the lunch meat that he just cut. And when he's not doing that, he's on a smoke break.

I'll let you decide if Finneus deserves that.

Let's just judge whether or not these new job ideas are good and better than flower picking, shall we?

Finneus sounds like a biatch man. I'd suggest reporting him to your manager at safeway.

On a serious note, you raised some good points.

[Dnegel]

My opinion is ;
Things like recycling, which costs nothing for the tool should give a Little Reward.
And shoveling which is a little bit ( Now alot. :U ) Should be a Medium Reward.
And Car Driving should be ALOT more, because a car is very expensive nowa days.

Also im gonna talk about something that got nothing to do with jobs ;

Please, the best way to make Era a little better for noobs is to sell every weapon in shop again, like before. Everything shouldn't be rare, because there will be just Mk23's and other stuff around with the nubz, nothing better. ( Unless they are lucky and do a good trade. )

[ldhfd]

Originally Posted by Dnegel

My opinion is ;
Things like recycling, which costs nothing for the tool should give a Little Reward.
And shoveling which is a little bit ( Now alot. :U ) Should be a Medium Reward.
And Car Driving should be ALOT more, because a car is very expensive nowa days.

Also im gonna talk about something that got nothing to do with jobs ;

Please, the best way to make Era a little better for noobs is to sell every weapon in shop again, like before. Everything shouldn't be rare, because there will be just Mk23's and other stuff around with the nubz, nothing better. ( Unless they are lucky and do a good trade. )

Everyone is capable of climbing up the ladder of progression.

I'm the living example of that. I started with 0$ no items. I started flower picking, got enough for a drill and 3 batteries. Started mining for several days. Got enough money for a m4 and mk23s. Now I have a fighting chance with some of the higher ups with stronger weapons. It took me less than 3 days worth of playtime. If i can do it, even with my job (I'm a R.N) Anyone else can as well.

[Dnegel]

Well, before things were alot cheaper, which means :

The more you work the more you get bored, this game aint mean't to be boring...
Also everyone used Uzi before I remember, ahhh good times. :P


And someone should really open the shops again...

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by ldhfd

Everyone is capable of climbing up the ladder of progression.

I'm the living example of that. I started with 0$ no items. I started flower picking, got enough for a drill and 3 batteries. Started mining for several days. Got enough money for a m4 and mk23s. Now I have a fighting chance with some of the higher ups with stronger weapons. It took me less than 3 days worth of playtime. If i can do it, even with my job (I'm a R.N) Anyone else can as well.

The largest problems with the economy are because of spawning/duping, and more recently, USDing. There is a huge margin between players with little money and players with lots of money. The players with tons of money have nothing to spend it on. We could fix this by raising prices a ton, but that hurts the players with little money. It's just impossible to get the amount of money the upper players have (upwards of $1m) through working/trading under most circumstances.

We could "tax" the rich players, but that also makes very little sense. A reset is really the easiest, and (debatably) best way to deal with this and start people off on a level playing field.

[Dnegel]

Yeah, I dont care if I lose any item I have worked a long time to get. If Era will start over again then I will be happy to start fresh again, like the nub I was and still is.

[Elizabeth]

flower picking is sooooo boring and not worth it

i'm for taxi services & personal services after all, the city is ruled by gangs and guns and stuff. obviously there's hookers

[Pelikano]

long long ago...

I remember people delivering letters to get a drill, mining until they get a car and then doing the taxi to buy guns. It was so fun -> Everyone parking their cars on the street, blocking off people... killing people with money and actually EARNING SOMETHING


I hope the "new Era" will have a lot more PK-Zones, I actually think that the only no-pk zones should be shops, Hospital, and the SMALL PART of unstick me -> like it used to be.

[CharlieM]

I say leave tree chopping in, make more city oriented jobs. The problem with the seperation is the rare ness of guns, theirs no intermediary it jumps from 100k to mils theres a surplus of the cheaper guns keeping them cheap, its like an economy only you can't get near a mil with ahrdwork unless you bot it

[Dnegel]

I remember people delivering letters to get a drill, mining until they get a car and then doing the taxi to buy guns. It was so fun -> Everyone parking their cars on the street, blocking off people... killing people with money and actually EARNING SOMETHING

That sounds like so much fun! :-D

[Eclipse]

you dont need to make all these crazy ass ideas, when the player count was 200+ you could easily see 20-30 people in the mines, why? Because back then guns like the famas M4 and other rifles could be bought for 10-14k and you could earn that just by picking flowers or from mining. try to pick flowers to pay for any of the guns on era.

[LordSquirt]

I liked flower picking, don't take that out.