Jobs...Fixing the economy.

water95 · #1 04-14-2011, 07:00 AM

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 · #2 04-14-2011, 07:17 AM

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

Herb_P2P · #3 04-14-2011, 08:03 AM

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 · #4 04-14-2011, 08:05 AM

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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.

Demisis_P2P · #5 04-14-2011, 08:02 AM

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

papajchris · #6 04-14-2011, 06:03 PM

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 · #7 04-14-2011, 06:39 PM

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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.

Herb_P2P · #8 04-16-2011, 03:07 AM

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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 · #9 04-16-2011, 06:03 AM

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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 · #10 04-17-2011, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by water95

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

hahahahaha

Shadow5596321 · #11 04-19-2011, 02:05 AM

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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.

MontyPython · #12 04-19-2011, 01:52 AM

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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.

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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.