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Disclaimer: I know that this thread will offend some people and I want to apologize from the start; it is definitely not a trolling attempt or anything like that, but what I consider to be a very legit question.
In all games I ever player (true, not RCE ones) there was one common principle - to progress you had to invest money, time or a combination between the two and the more time you was willing to put in, the lesser your money investment had to be. Now I do understand that this can't be true in a RCE game like EU, since (across the board) money going out will always be less than the money going in, which means that is almost impossible (maybe except the people with uber gear) to "beat the house" (as in have positive TT returns) and, if you are to make profit, said profit must come from other players. And yeah, while the most common way to make profit from other players is represented by smart hunting/mining/crafting (aiming for the markup) and selling with enough markup to compensate for your TT loses, personally I find that unreliable - I don't have the guts, I don't have the skills, I don't have the knowledge and, probably, I don't even have the brain to figure out how to do it properly.
That leaves me with a single general option for making money (because, yeah, I do admit, I am here to make money out of EU) - providing a service that people will need. Now my honest question is what kind of such services there are around here which would allow me to "sell my time" in exchange of other people's money.
There is of course sweating, which allows you to make up to 1 PED ($0.10) per hour. There is also fruit walking, which while rather volatile and not giving out any skills, allows yo to make up to 1.5 PED ($0.15) per hour. There is also the oil rig (or their RT/Cyrene/Toulan alternatives), where I honestly have no idea how much you can make per hour and how reliable they are since I never really tried them.
Then there's of course some classic services like healing, support damage, cosmetics, but from what I've seen the market is saturated with people working only for skills, so there's not really room for making money out of them. There's also the taxi service, but that basically means taking money from people who are even more poor than you are (and couldn't afford a flying vehicle), and that's against my principles - as said, I'd rather take money from people that have plenty of them and just want to save some time, then from people who are in a ever worse situation than mine. There's also trading of course, but again, I don't have neither the guts, the heart, the mout or the brain of a trader... being able to predict market trends, being able to negoiate with people and talk them into buying or selling, taking advantage of a persons missfortune - all these are things I just can't do.
So... again... any idea of any other low-level (unqualified) job where I can only invest my time (and not also requiring expensive money investments or top knowledge or analysis abilities) and manage to make more PEDs / money per hour than in the case of sweating (1 PED / hour), fruit walking (~1.5 PED / hour) or oil rigging?
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated; please refrain for any trolling or "go get a RL job" references; thank you in advance!
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Added later, as replay to Manique's post; added it here too since it better clarifies what I meant to ask:
Sweating (to a higher degree, because of higher consistency) or fruit walking (to a lower degree, because of lower consistency) are both OK; I do them at the moment and I even kinda enjoy them.
Pretty much I'm looking for something similar (eventually paid a bit better) - low level, boring job that anyone could do, but that most others just don't feel doing because they are just that... boring. So, really, not looking for any secrets or for ways of making tons of money, but more like just for options that are "common knowledge" to say so, but which most people just can't be arsed to be bothered with, because they value their time at higher than one dollar for 4-5 hours of "work", though leaving an open niche for someone like me, who wouldn't mind to do some boring "job" for $0.20 - $0.25 per hour.
If nothing else will come out, I'll continue doing what I do now (sweating mostly) and that's it; but thought that it wouldn't hurt asking if there may not be something else that I'm just missing. Yeah, I want EU to pay for my next computer and I'm willing to put 2k, 4k, 6k, 8k or 10k hours into it if that's what it takes, but yeah, obviously, if it's possible to do it with 8k hours instead of 10k hours, I'd rather prefer that.
In all games I ever player (true, not RCE ones) there was one common principle - to progress you had to invest money, time or a combination between the two and the more time you was willing to put in, the lesser your money investment had to be. Now I do understand that this can't be true in a RCE game like EU, since (across the board) money going out will always be less than the money going in, which means that is almost impossible (maybe except the people with uber gear) to "beat the house" (as in have positive TT returns) and, if you are to make profit, said profit must come from other players. And yeah, while the most common way to make profit from other players is represented by smart hunting/mining/crafting (aiming for the markup) and selling with enough markup to compensate for your TT loses, personally I find that unreliable - I don't have the guts, I don't have the skills, I don't have the knowledge and, probably, I don't even have the brain to figure out how to do it properly.
That leaves me with a single general option for making money (because, yeah, I do admit, I am here to make money out of EU) - providing a service that people will need. Now my honest question is what kind of such services there are around here which would allow me to "sell my time" in exchange of other people's money.
There is of course sweating, which allows you to make up to 1 PED ($0.10) per hour. There is also fruit walking, which while rather volatile and not giving out any skills, allows yo to make up to 1.5 PED ($0.15) per hour. There is also the oil rig (or their RT/Cyrene/Toulan alternatives), where I honestly have no idea how much you can make per hour and how reliable they are since I never really tried them.
Then there's of course some classic services like healing, support damage, cosmetics, but from what I've seen the market is saturated with people working only for skills, so there's not really room for making money out of them. There's also the taxi service, but that basically means taking money from people who are even more poor than you are (and couldn't afford a flying vehicle), and that's against my principles - as said, I'd rather take money from people that have plenty of them and just want to save some time, then from people who are in a ever worse situation than mine. There's also trading of course, but again, I don't have neither the guts, the heart, the mout or the brain of a trader... being able to predict market trends, being able to negoiate with people and talk them into buying or selling, taking advantage of a persons missfortune - all these are things I just can't do.
So... again... any idea of any other low-level (unqualified) job where I can only invest my time (and not also requiring expensive money investments or top knowledge or analysis abilities) and manage to make more PEDs / money per hour than in the case of sweating (1 PED / hour), fruit walking (~1.5 PED / hour) or oil rigging?
Any suggestion will be highly appreciated; please refrain for any trolling or "go get a RL job" references; thank you in advance!
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Added later, as replay to Manique's post; added it here too since it better clarifies what I meant to ask:
Sweating (to a higher degree, because of higher consistency) or fruit walking (to a lower degree, because of lower consistency) are both OK; I do them at the moment and I even kinda enjoy them.
Pretty much I'm looking for something similar (eventually paid a bit better) - low level, boring job that anyone could do, but that most others just don't feel doing because they are just that... boring. So, really, not looking for any secrets or for ways of making tons of money, but more like just for options that are "common knowledge" to say so, but which most people just can't be arsed to be bothered with, because they value their time at higher than one dollar for 4-5 hours of "work", though leaving an open niche for someone like me, who wouldn't mind to do some boring "job" for $0.20 - $0.25 per hour.
If nothing else will come out, I'll continue doing what I do now (sweating mostly) and that's it; but thought that it wouldn't hurt asking if there may not be something else that I'm just missing. Yeah, I want EU to pay for my next computer and I'm willing to put 2k, 4k, 6k, 8k or 10k hours into it if that's what it takes, but yeah, obviously, if it's possible to do it with 8k hours instead of 10k hours, I'd rather prefer that.
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