Futurama
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- Mar 11, 2006
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- mike Futurama anderson
Greetings Entropians wanted to share some of the many, many profit opportunities that have been around during all these years. I started out in 2004, so it has been some time. I always have been a noob and also lazy, so I haven't been able (or didn't care that much) to use those opportunities to the fullest.
My activities that gave me a nice boost
I'll skip my start a bit, since there isn't anything good really (jester d-1 times).
Firstly there was the "opalo era". It lasted for quite a few years. I started out on small mobs - caudatergus and courndacaudas. I was breaking even without much problems, later on when i got a decent amplifier I moved up to argonauts which was on of the top hunted mobs by the regular folk. Iron was way more expensive than it is nowadays (probably because there was no foma and no mining amps) and with the new SIB opalo even the tt returns were very good.
But with this a big problem surfaced - double avatars. I don't know how extensively this was going on, but I remember a certain player (I won't name him/her, because I don't want to give bad rep to someone) who had hundreds of graduated disciples (if I remember his mentoring skills was somewhere between 150 and 200?). Ofc there were many real disciples, he was a good mentor to many. But he also was making many, many double avatars to graduate with opalo on argos in hopes of great ME prizes. The best he got was at least 1 foxtrot ME and FF RAR. But the opalo was so good and the skill prices (old system with 0.99 ped implant) were high, you could profit around 1k peds from 1 disciple (took around a week or so to finish).
Anyway back on topic with very limited funds I was able to skill up earn some and eventually sell a full rifle skill implant which was worth a few times more than it is today.
This leads to my second big thing - enmater mining. Amethera was quite new, lots of spaces to mine freely. I usually mined around Wolverine hope. Magerian had very good prices (200-300% i think, it climbed up to 500-600% at some point later on). This gave me decent profit runs, I even had a typo tower south from TI which I sold for 150% or so at the time.
Introduction of L items. At the time the new L items were far superior to old weapons. You could break even with Korss h400 (L) at 200% on a run basis. Later on I bought Imp korss and did an allophyl marathon which resulted with a 1-2k ped hof, ep41 drop and a nice profit in total. But ofc the best example that I have seen was one of the original adapted montgomery (L) crafted only in very limited limited numbers from an (L) bp. Even with the insane markup they had (anyone have a pic or something, can't remember the prices anymore) they were still very profitable.
Moving on to some more hunting. Feffoids were a very popular mob because of h400 drop, but since a lot of people were hunting them you could not get korss drop that often. In the meantime I tried killing bristlehogs (OA-stalkers, there was a nice LG area for them) which also dropped korss - by my surprise I could get a h400 drop on almost every (!!) global i had, together with some gremlin foots and harnesses in the middle. I figured since no one was really hunting bristles, I was the only one getting the drops from them?
Back to mining - It was a time of new materials, new areas. I was mining S/SE from oshiri - pearl sand was very good, lyta and typo were good. Later on solis became very popular, I used to mine it quite a lot on that desert plateau.
More hunting - One my favourite, but also extremely annoying mob was Ocolus. Its something similar as with bristles - atrox/argos dropped cb24s rarely, but Ocolus dropped them on practically every global, but very few people hunted them. @ 130-140% I coudn't complain, but it was a hard mob (no L thunderbird at that time) and a lot of fapping costs, teleports... I was really hoping for that cb24 UL discovery, but fluske beat me to it. I heard that they dropped quite a few bear shins, but weirdly with all the hunting I didn't get any.
Hunting, hunting, hunting - my alltime favourite mob - formidon. My EL profile it still says as my favourite mob, as it should be. I think many people can relate to this, that formidons were quite decent mobs - 1k hp and lr59 drops made it profitable. Sadly the spawns weren't the best. But with thick spawn, lr prices probably would have been lower. However this changed, when MA decided to greatly increase the minimal value at which an item drops (a percentage from max tt). I did hunt them before and also after VU 10, had a hof once too.
After VU 10 I did a lot of mining - solis OLA was very nice, together with other great materials it was profitable - even with 5%, even with 103-104s amps (depending on the prices ofc). Nowadays those materials are close to tt, sadly...
Weirdly I can fit Next Island here too. NI was the new home for medical compress, which crashed the market for it very hard after some time. You could get more blood moss than in pvp4 with no risk.
More recently - RT mining. A big thanks to Divinity and Bling for showing the energized cells/niksarium location, pyrite only pvp area. Afterwords both areas were nerfed - cells area now had a RT tt material and more oil/lyst than usual. While the lootable PVP area with pyrite was destroyed all together. Anyway, I still did some hell mining for durulium, some niks only mining and alternative/narc mining, and it has given me nice profits.
Also shinook area with redulite has been nice and profitable for me from time to time (depending on the prices, as usual).
Lastly but with a lot of gain - CLDs, I have greatly increased my value and my ped card with CLDs (many bought at 1000 and at the second MA sale as well).
Things I did not do (or did very little), but that existed
Repedge 1x0 axes had amazing eco (which was later realized and nerfed), high tt returns guaranteed. I did some hunting with them, but not much really.
IMK2 hunting - who could forget IMK2 hunting on longus on beenee's land which escalated even to the infamous hunting bots and banned avatars.
CND mining - when CND was quite new, the materials had decent markups it was profitable to mine there. At some point it even had unusually high tt returns.
Fungoid hunting - I think it was right after boar armor was introduced, when everyone suddenly started to hunt fungoids - loads and loads of boar parts were dropped.
EDIT:
Drones and gazz. Eco drone hunting.
There probably are a lot of things that I have forgotten here or didn't even know about. The conclusion from all of this - there are always opportunities around, you just have to find them.
My activities that gave me a nice boost
I'll skip my start a bit, since there isn't anything good really (jester d-1 times).
Firstly there was the "opalo era". It lasted for quite a few years. I started out on small mobs - caudatergus and courndacaudas. I was breaking even without much problems, later on when i got a decent amplifier I moved up to argonauts which was on of the top hunted mobs by the regular folk. Iron was way more expensive than it is nowadays (probably because there was no foma and no mining amps) and with the new SIB opalo even the tt returns were very good.
But with this a big problem surfaced - double avatars. I don't know how extensively this was going on, but I remember a certain player (I won't name him/her, because I don't want to give bad rep to someone) who had hundreds of graduated disciples (if I remember his mentoring skills was somewhere between 150 and 200?). Ofc there were many real disciples, he was a good mentor to many. But he also was making many, many double avatars to graduate with opalo on argos in hopes of great ME prizes. The best he got was at least 1 foxtrot ME and FF RAR. But the opalo was so good and the skill prices (old system with 0.99 ped implant) were high, you could profit around 1k peds from 1 disciple (took around a week or so to finish).
Anyway back on topic with very limited funds I was able to skill up earn some and eventually sell a full rifle skill implant which was worth a few times more than it is today.
This leads to my second big thing - enmater mining. Amethera was quite new, lots of spaces to mine freely. I usually mined around Wolverine hope. Magerian had very good prices (200-300% i think, it climbed up to 500-600% at some point later on). This gave me decent profit runs, I even had a typo tower south from TI which I sold for 150% or so at the time.
Introduction of L items. At the time the new L items were far superior to old weapons. You could break even with Korss h400 (L) at 200% on a run basis. Later on I bought Imp korss and did an allophyl marathon which resulted with a 1-2k ped hof, ep41 drop and a nice profit in total. But ofc the best example that I have seen was one of the original adapted montgomery (L) crafted only in very limited limited numbers from an (L) bp. Even with the insane markup they had (anyone have a pic or something, can't remember the prices anymore) they were still very profitable.
Moving on to some more hunting. Feffoids were a very popular mob because of h400 drop, but since a lot of people were hunting them you could not get korss drop that often. In the meantime I tried killing bristlehogs (OA-stalkers, there was a nice LG area for them) which also dropped korss - by my surprise I could get a h400 drop on almost every (!!) global i had, together with some gremlin foots and harnesses in the middle. I figured since no one was really hunting bristles, I was the only one getting the drops from them?
Back to mining - It was a time of new materials, new areas. I was mining S/SE from oshiri - pearl sand was very good, lyta and typo were good. Later on solis became very popular, I used to mine it quite a lot on that desert plateau.
More hunting - One my favourite, but also extremely annoying mob was Ocolus. Its something similar as with bristles - atrox/argos dropped cb24s rarely, but Ocolus dropped them on practically every global, but very few people hunted them. @ 130-140% I coudn't complain, but it was a hard mob (no L thunderbird at that time) and a lot of fapping costs, teleports... I was really hoping for that cb24 UL discovery, but fluske beat me to it. I heard that they dropped quite a few bear shins, but weirdly with all the hunting I didn't get any.
Hunting, hunting, hunting - my alltime favourite mob - formidon. My EL profile it still says as my favourite mob, as it should be. I think many people can relate to this, that formidons were quite decent mobs - 1k hp and lr59 drops made it profitable. Sadly the spawns weren't the best. But with thick spawn, lr prices probably would have been lower. However this changed, when MA decided to greatly increase the minimal value at which an item drops (a percentage from max tt). I did hunt them before and also after VU 10, had a hof once too.
After VU 10 I did a lot of mining - solis OLA was very nice, together with other great materials it was profitable - even with 5%, even with 103-104s amps (depending on the prices ofc). Nowadays those materials are close to tt, sadly...
Weirdly I can fit Next Island here too. NI was the new home for medical compress, which crashed the market for it very hard after some time. You could get more blood moss than in pvp4 with no risk.
More recently - RT mining. A big thanks to Divinity and Bling for showing the energized cells/niksarium location, pyrite only pvp area. Afterwords both areas were nerfed - cells area now had a RT tt material and more oil/lyst than usual. While the lootable PVP area with pyrite was destroyed all together. Anyway, I still did some hell mining for durulium, some niks only mining and alternative/narc mining, and it has given me nice profits.
Also shinook area with redulite has been nice and profitable for me from time to time (depending on the prices, as usual).
Lastly but with a lot of gain - CLDs, I have greatly increased my value and my ped card with CLDs (many bought at 1000 and at the second MA sale as well).
Things I did not do (or did very little), but that existed
Repedge 1x0 axes had amazing eco (which was later realized and nerfed), high tt returns guaranteed. I did some hunting with them, but not much really.
IMK2 hunting - who could forget IMK2 hunting on longus on beenee's land which escalated even to the infamous hunting bots and banned avatars.
CND mining - when CND was quite new, the materials had decent markups it was profitable to mine there. At some point it even had unusually high tt returns.
Fungoid hunting - I think it was right after boar armor was introduced, when everyone suddenly started to hunt fungoids - loads and loads of boar parts were dropped.
EDIT:
Drones and gazz. Eco drone hunting.
There probably are a lot of things that I have forgotten here or didn't even know about. The conclusion from all of this - there are always opportunities around, you just have to find them.
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However this got a lot more popular later on so the spawn got too crowded and the gazz prices too low. Especially since MA decided to make them extremely acessible by placing them right next to the TP in VU10+ ... what a stupid game design change. lool So as a result of that mistake they then even removed gazz from the drones... sigh but yeah for me there definitely was a drone era
). And that is also very boring but can keep you playing and a sudden 6ped loot for a 5pec kill feels like a global 
... anyhoo paid the mu on my next two L guns with it hehe
