Ok, so I logged back in today for about 2 hours and I had got the hand of sweating. Being able to find animals, sweat them, let them attack me and gain both experience in skills and gather sweat. I managed to retrieve 247 bottles of sweat, which for 2 hours work I was very pleased with. It's worth just under 2PEDs which means that I have made $0.20 in 2 hours! A huge improvement on yesterdays work. Nothing to be dancing naked about, but progress is progress.
I went to the market place again with my newly acquired sweat, and found a player I had been talking to yesterday. He gave lots of information and told me what he did etc. In Entropia, what I find is really good, is the fact that players can have mentors and disciples, like in life you could be an apprentice plumber, for example. The player I was talking to became my mentor today, and basically he gets to teach me everything he knows about EU! He has been playing for a few months and started by depositing money into the game ($40) i believe, which enabled him to setup a little in-game trade as a newbie, thus skipping out the boredom brought by sweating.
There are 3 major professions in the game:
- Hunting
- Mining
- Trading
Hunting is pretty much either melee combat or ranged combat, using a range of axes to swords and rifles to cannons. The money from hunting comes in from killing large foes and looting them, from which you sell on the loot for the profit. Sounds good, however the cost of weapons, armour and ammo is quite high, and unless you have enough experience, often you will find that the cost of the hunting trip/session outweighs the profit that will be earnt, thus making it a loss on your half.
Mining is something I haven't looked at really, but I believe that the equipment is expensive, as you're buying explosives etc. It is hard to find places which have expensive material worth mining, and when you do, once it's all been mined, it moves location around the universe. So, it's one big treasure hunt.
Trading is pretty much what you think it is. Buying/selling materials, items, weapons, armour, clothes, real estate etc etc. This is something that has been of interest since hearing about the game. Thankfully, my mentor is involved in this, which is why we're suited so well.
From this post onward, I will be setting goals for the future for me to aim at. My end-of-week goal (ending Sunday) will be to have a profit in-game (material and coin) of 10PEDs. My end-of-month goal (ending 31st December) will be to be able to make 10PEDs a day easily.
Cx
Thursday 30 November 2006
My first day..
I arrived in a new world named Calypso wearing what looked like orange prison uniform - the type you would receive if you were in British youth offenders' institute. I had spent a decent amount of time, during the 4 hours of download, looking on forums across the interweb for information that may help me in the game.
I found out that the only real way to make any money (without begging or generally being an ass) was to do some Sweating. Sweating? Apparently sweating is a good skill to learn and all you don't need any equipment to do it. Pretty much, you target a monster, and select the option to 'Sweat'. Then you do something with your mind and use your 'mindforce' to attempt to acquire some sweat from the being. If you are successful, you're awarded with bottles of sweat (the more bottles for the more experience you have in the 'Sweat' skill).
These bottles of sweat can be traded with other players around the universe for other items or sold for PEC (the Project Entropian Cents). I thought this seemed like an easy way to get money. However, the success rate of successfully acquiring sweat varies and can sometimes take a long time. Additionally, if an animal gets bored or annoyed or you sweating it, then it attacks you. As you're a newbie, you naturally have no means of self-defence, and you can either run away and risk being chased and killed or you can stand proud and try and gather sweat whilst it's attacking you. The latter is the better option, as you do still stand a good chance of gaining sweat from the creature.
Also, whilst you're being attacked you gain experience in other skills such as 'Evade' or 'Courage'. These skills decrease the chance of the animal hitting you or decrease the damage inflicted by the animal. So, in the long run, you're better off being attacked and gathering sweat as you are likely to get more experience in different skills this way, thus 'climbing up the career ladder quicker'.
After I had gathered what I thought was a lot of sweat through some hours of failure I headed off to the market place of the city with the hope of selling it to afford a decent weapon. I had 46 bottles of sweat and tried selling it for what I thought was good. I was told that the price per bottle is around 0.8 PEC... That means it's worth $0.00008 in real life... Lol! Not really an ideal way to make money. Anyway, I got read of it for 0.37PEC cos I was a noob and was scammed without realising :)
Rather annoyed with the discovery of such ludricous prices, I logged off for the day.
Cx
I found out that the only real way to make any money (without begging or generally being an ass) was to do some Sweating. Sweating? Apparently sweating is a good skill to learn and all you don't need any equipment to do it. Pretty much, you target a monster, and select the option to 'Sweat'. Then you do something with your mind and use your 'mindforce' to attempt to acquire some sweat from the being. If you are successful, you're awarded with bottles of sweat (the more bottles for the more experience you have in the 'Sweat' skill).
These bottles of sweat can be traded with other players around the universe for other items or sold for PEC (the Project Entropian Cents). I thought this seemed like an easy way to get money. However, the success rate of successfully acquiring sweat varies and can sometimes take a long time. Additionally, if an animal gets bored or annoyed or you sweating it, then it attacks you. As you're a newbie, you naturally have no means of self-defence, and you can either run away and risk being chased and killed or you can stand proud and try and gather sweat whilst it's attacking you. The latter is the better option, as you do still stand a good chance of gaining sweat from the creature.
Also, whilst you're being attacked you gain experience in other skills such as 'Evade' or 'Courage'. These skills decrease the chance of the animal hitting you or decrease the damage inflicted by the animal. So, in the long run, you're better off being attacked and gathering sweat as you are likely to get more experience in different skills this way, thus 'climbing up the career ladder quicker'.
After I had gathered what I thought was a lot of sweat through some hours of failure I headed off to the market place of the city with the hope of selling it to afford a decent weapon. I had 46 bottles of sweat and tried selling it for what I thought was good. I was told that the price per bottle is around 0.8 PEC... That means it's worth $0.00008 in real life... Lol! Not really an ideal way to make money. Anyway, I got read of it for 0.37PEC cos I was a noob and was scammed without realising :)
Rather annoyed with the discovery of such ludricous prices, I logged off for the day.
Cx
Tuesday 28 November 2006
In the beginning..
I will use this blog to log my daily information which I have received throughout playing different games. The games in which I am primarily interested in are of those with an REC (a Real Cash Economy). By this, I mean that there are games in the world with which you can earn money through them.
There are only two games, as of yet, which have appealed to me. These include both Entropia Universe (http://www.entropiauniverse.com) and Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com). Both games are free to play, and all that you're required to do is to register an account and to download the game.
Entropia Universe (referred to as EU) is a large game, consisting of some 3gb which took me 4 hours to download over a wireless 1mb connection. Second Life (referred to as SL) however, is much much smaller consisting of about 10mb.
I decided to start with EU for some reason, and after downloading it, I started playing. My main goal through the game is to be able to earn some decent money from it, without investing any money, or depositing as it's called, into the game beforehand. The REC enables you to both deposit money into your in-game account, and withdraw money from you in-game account into your real life account. The in-game currency is PED (Project Entropian Dollars) and there are 100 PEC (Project Entropian Cents) in a PED. The equivalent of 10 PED = $1 (US Dollar).
My goal then, was to start out as a newbie and work my way up the ladder, with the attempt of earning money as I would in real life, and finding profit where I can, with the hope of reaching a stage, eventually, where I can withdraw a substantial amount of money from the game.
That is enough for today.
Cx
There are only two games, as of yet, which have appealed to me. These include both Entropia Universe (http://www.entropiauniverse.com) and Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com). Both games are free to play, and all that you're required to do is to register an account and to download the game.
Entropia Universe (referred to as EU) is a large game, consisting of some 3gb which took me 4 hours to download over a wireless 1mb connection. Second Life (referred to as SL) however, is much much smaller consisting of about 10mb.
I decided to start with EU for some reason, and after downloading it, I started playing. My main goal through the game is to be able to earn some decent money from it, without investing any money, or depositing as it's called, into the game beforehand. The REC enables you to both deposit money into your in-game account, and withdraw money from you in-game account into your real life account. The in-game currency is PED (Project Entropian Dollars) and there are 100 PEC (Project Entropian Cents) in a PED. The equivalent of 10 PED = $1 (US Dollar).
My goal then, was to start out as a newbie and work my way up the ladder, with the attempt of earning money as I would in real life, and finding profit where I can, with the hope of reaching a stage, eventually, where I can withdraw a substantial amount of money from the game.
That is enough for today.
Cx
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