But still you looted that stuff and sold it for enough to buy the stuff you still have, and that has gone up in price also. Plus being able to skill pre-nerf has made you allot more.
Partially true yes but most of it was from profits... I didn't need the drops to buy the items I want I just used what I was given and turned it into something that improves what my profession was.
I am where I am at today cause of hard work.. If I never looted the Mod Dar not much would have changed.. My angel might be mixed with a couple tiger parts would be all..
And I didn't skill as much as you thought.. I never got to autofap.
Like I said I was mostly a miner so by the time I unlocked RDA/combat sense (unsure) is when they nerfed it so I wasn't that high... going from where i am now is dedicated hunting and spending some of my profits on skills.
and like I said below my skill doesn't calculate into that (35,000 profit)
Did you count your total value to come to the total sum of $35k?
No That is just profit not including my equipment *like I said above the 35,000 is Profit it wasn't from inflation, My gear is from depositing and getting the occasional good item.
35,000 is pure profit without equipment value.
I still wonder if you would have started now, and play 5 year you would have got the same, I think not! Your achievements from the past 5 years where made because of those versions and not the current one. Those items you looted back then wont ever drop again.
Yes but new items are dropping today That DIDN'T exist 5 years ago!
Your thinking in the past.. To make a profit in real life or in entropia is to be smart and adjust to the current times..
Sure I could of bought 5 billion Hershey candy bar's 20-30 years ago and sold them today and be a millionaire!
Do I whine that it is unfair I didn't get the chance to buy the 5 billion bars?
Sure probably a mod dar will never drop again.. BUT look at all these unlimited Limits dropping.. theres atleast 1 a week. and they go anywhere from 10k to 100k I didn't have that back then If I looted a good item back then it'd be worth 1-4k MAX with the occasional extremely once in a blue moon item worth 10-100k
Even if you happend to loot an IMK2 5 years ago it was only worth 20k
A T10 UL goes for more than that TODAY!!
So today is just as fair as it was 5 years ago. I garuntee you if I loot like a for example T10 Unlimited It'll probably be a huge profit in 5 years.. but right now its worth what it is. and if I kept it for for 5 years then sold it well gall darn then that'd be inflation profit and someone in 5 years would complain to me saying I started 5 year's ago and T10 UL's don't drop anymore!
Just as your complaining to me right now..
I say - good for those who made it. I feel glad for them.
I say - you can make some $$ in EU (sweating, reselling...) but this is all pocket money. I for example - started with 100$ depo, resold and had some LUCK - i cashed out with 2000$ (whish paid for my central home heating instalation) + I have an avatar worh about 1.5k$ to have fun.
I wouldnt really call that something i can support my family with - but i had some fun and cashed out a bit.
Exactly you had fun playing and made money at it.. If you spent more time trying to make money and having less fun you could have alot more.. not enough to support a family but alot more..
And anyone who has a family knows a game isn't a viable way to support a family.
They never said support a family.. They said go on a hunt and maybe go out and buy a pizza which is entirely true.. all it takes is a 100 ped profit on a hunt to go buy a pizza and a 100ped profit isn't super godly rare.
Comment to Da Dragon:
we are tlaking poor innocent kids - the ones who see EU and say wow... not the ones who looted Mod Anything and sold it for 75k PED to bump start their career. Gratz to your success tho - glad you put it into good use - and not cars and hookers
I have to disagree with you there though.. Its not poor innocent kids..
How many kids do you see reading the wall street journal? or watching the 6 o'clock news?
The article is aimed towards adult's they used me because if a teen can do it anyone can basicly is what it means.
And any teen or adult's (smart ones) know that its not easy money.
Let me ask you this... Did you seriously when you were signing for an account you were thinking wow I can make free easy money.. or were you skeptical and knew that there is no such thing as *Free money*
Money takes time and work in real life and ingame.
I even stated that almost exactly in an interview with a newspaper a year or so ago.. If you wanna look it up.
And for a teen if they can invest the time Like I said above, this year I've been making 3-5k peds a month.. That's plenty for a teen to live off of.
But being realisticly they won't have my gear and such won't make that much at all but I'm investing 4 hours if they invested a 5 day 8 hour a day job at mcdonald's if they put that 8 hours a day into Entropia (twice as much as me) with a bit of patience they could make (close) as if spending 8 hours at mcdonalds. Yet they have the freedom to skip a day and do it on there own schedule.
It might take a bit of investment.
All it'd take is a 50-300$ investment to do some profit making and that'd only be one paycheck at mcdonald's..
I know some who started last year and haven't deposited and there characters are averaging 500-1k~$
now if they had a 300$ headstart do you not think in a year they could of turned it into a 3-5k$? if they can turn 0 into 500-1k$?
and I worked at walmart for a year.. I made 5000$~ roughly after tax
If I invested that 8 hours of time into the game I could of made more than 5000$ I think.
Just my opinion.
ps: and thanks It was hard resisting those hooker's and car's.. But I had to keep telling myself.. College is more important xD
- afaik - every single cent someone profits - someone has to deposit (and lose). Plus MA takes their share. Or do you really think those ores exist in the ground and mobs carry loot they earned flipping burgers in free time you didnt hunt them. 
John Bates is soooo dreamy 
