Round two..

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.

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