i am a noob to, started last saturday spent the first few hours reading tutorial on the main site the tutorials forum here, wonder why none of them seem to jive with what i was reading about the options menu and sweating and such until i wandered onto the general forum that mentioned about sweating and other skills and stuff being disabled. *facepalm*
So by that time i had died a bit while out trying to get the right click options to work and trying to setup my ui and find the buttons and junk, meanwhile i read that dying in EU was good helped raise skills, which is good cause mobs will chase you forever, so you will be dying.
So having my initial plans destroyed of sweating a bit getting some cash up then depositing some funds to start off, i went to a nice secluded place and proceeded to commit suicide, resurrect, tab out read the forums about weapons, hunting trying to figure out when i did put money in what i needed to buy and what best to spend my funds on, tab back in go out die again, go read some more.
After spending a good chunk of my first day suiciding over i had my evasion to an uber 20 and the skill up was getting slower on the noobie mobs, so i went jogging east across the continent, found a new outpost and when i tried to keep going east well them nasty dinosaurs and stuffs kept killing me but my evasion and other skills were leveling nicely, so i stayed there a bit leveld up some defensive skills more, then i followed the road south from there and went jogging all the way down to the se spaceport town, after dying and ending up there and one or two other outposts along the way.
Took me so long to run out that way i was just happy to have a handy teleporter back to noob land, going east more seemed to be an exercise in futility with the nasty mobs 2 hitting me and aggroing at long range and scores of them to try and get around.
either way i had a TP location i was read up enough my defensive skills were not too shabby to go neked hunting in noobie land so i went back to the port after reading about swamp camp for noob sweating seemed like a good general area to check out, dropped in a minimum deposit, bought me a trader sword and opal and got me some ammo.
i will not lie hunting was not going so well i was not dying much even naked but loot drops were not keeping up with the costs to repair my sword and buy ammo, tho i was going heavily sword, cause well i like swords i own a sword in rl soo even after all the advice on the forums to avoid swords because of the costs to keep them up i still had to try.
So after my funds dried up i found a new place had my handy healy ball thing so my defensive death farming was going faster at lest, until my healy ball finally ran out of durability. but lest got my defense up to into the 60s and had gained new levels in a bunch of skills.
So i put another min deposit in was going to do a bit more but the cap was reached so lest i could repair my stuff and this time around i did not have to outright buy stuff so i was a tad bit ahead, drops were going a bit better, gunnery skills were getting up so i could kill the easier mobs with that and use sword to finish off the harder mobs.
So look at it this way i spent 5 more than a sub for your typical mmo, on top of that your typical mmo your going to spend 50 bucks on get a free month of play for your 50, and even guild wars if you bought the expansions new they were all 50 bucks so all 4 GW expansions you were looking at about 200 bucks. you can do the math for wow + expansions plus subscription fees and there are no discounts for the wow expansions.
Yea this game takes some investment, yea if you going to try and make it as a hunter you need to get lucky with drops you can make money with a good drop or you can lose out big, tho from the other professions they seem kind of the same.
But the difference between this and other mmos, if you do stick with it, if you do read up etc and do get a bit lucky now and again, eventually you can buy uber l33t stuff or you can horde your moneys and withdraw your deposits, sell your skills (when they fix that) so concieveably you can make money on this game by doing stuff and you do not have to sell your character you just convert your peds into $ and if you get things down continue to make more peds to flip to $.
SO we are a bit boned atm without the freebie stuff to do if we do have a bad run or runs, but they will be back eventually. i cant wait to try swunting to see if it makes me break even more or even makes me a bit extra. so maybe by next month i can try that out. in the mean time i am going to see how far my peds last me how long i can keep hunting, and level skills up so when i can sweat i can evade and kill stuff while i do it.
