Nosaj Oimisa's Diary

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I’ve been playing for about a month now. I’ve put 30 USD into the game and now have 50 PEDs and a handful of half quality Jester D-1s.

I’ve been giving the whole concept of this game some serious thought.

The whole gimmick of the game is that you can make real money by working in the game like you would in real life. So my guess is that most people are playing to try and make a buck. Is this really possible. When I was a kid, I used to find all kinds of ways to get rich. My mother would always tell me “If that works, why doesn’t everybody lick envelopes for a living?” True.

So here is the question. Is it possible for everyone to make money? Or are we in a competition where someone eventually gets screwed.

In the real world, the bottom rung of the ladder is the people who collect natural resources. Those resources are refined and turned into products which is sold to yuppie scum all over the world.

Same situation in PE. Miners gather minerals, hunters gather wool, noobs gather sweat. So it should work.

The only thing that begins to concern me is that the resources on earth are here because God put them here. God has no financial needs. The God of PE is named MindArk, and unfortunately the entropian diety is out to make a buck.

So if MindArk ever gets into a situation where they can’t keep paying out, they can do stuff. Mineral shortages, crafting machines break, animal extinctions, all of these can control the PE economy.

MindArk gets to keep 3% of the money you send them via credit card. They also keep the PEDs you use to buy anything from the TT. Also, they cash in on the auctions too. Then they get $10 if you try to get your money out of the game, and they get to keep the money of anyone who gives up on the game before they have enough to cash out.

In the end, I think anyone who wants to make money is going to have to prey on the people who are going to give up.

just a thought

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4/27

Captains log stardate 05042004

More crafting today. Are there any rich crafters? It seems like they’re all just a bunch of beggars selling Jesters and Manns for a ped. It seems like the miners are making all the money here.

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4/30

Started a society called “Noob Aid.” While my crafting skills are low, all the items that I make are currently crap. So nobody who is actually putting money into this game is willing to buy, and I don’t think I can compete with the TT + .01 prices at PA.

So what Noob Aid does is provide escorts to Camp Pheonix so the noob can gather sweat with the rest of the noobs. When he has gathered sweat, he has a person he is familiar with who also has a small arsenal on them who is willing to trade for their sweat.

We’ll see.

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expanded my crafting repitoire to Bodyguard Armguards.
Anybody buying?

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Been thinking more. My head hurts.

You know what the problem is with the economy in this game? There is no Death. There is no sickness.

I’m sure MindArk would lose a lot of business if your avatar could be permanently killed, but think of what would happen if death caused your avatar to revive after no less than 1 hour. (Unless revived by someone else)

  • more business for people who can heal others
  • more business for people who can revive others
  • higher prices on goods. (noobs can’t just use each other as live bait for sweat which would raise the price , hunters would charge more for skins and whatnot since the penalty for dying is more severe)

Also, there is no penalty for being homeless, as I’m sure most avatars are. Imagine what would happen if avatars had lower stats for not having a place to sleep at night. There could be a whole ‘motel’ business booming.

and another thing! Clothes! I hate the fact that clothes are completely optional in this game. The tailoring industry only seems to serve the veteran players who want to look cool right now. What happens if you make it so you get lowered stats for walking around in your chonies all day.

The downside of all this is that not as many people would play since it would be nearly impossible to get started for less than $100.

rant rant rant
grumble grumble

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praise the Lord for my crap video card.

Since the computer I play on is basically a turd with an internet connection, it usually takes a while for the enviornment in PE to load. So when I logged in at the Jason Center today, there was a basic servo BP floating in midair. A few seconds later, the TP appeared so the BP was hidden. I would have never found that.

Its gonna take a lot more of these posts before I have enough EFD for an arcade pass, huh?

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I don’t think that I have sworn this much in years.

Whenever I try to access my inventory, PE crashes. Whenever I try to access storage, PE crashes. Whenever I stop looking at the ground, everything vanishes except for the clouds. All I can do right now is gather sweat, then I can’t even sell it because whenever I try to trade someone, PE crashes.

How the heck am I supposed to procrastinate now?

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I’m trying my hand at trading since crafting doesn’t seem to agree with me. When you think about it, trading is the only sure thing on PE. I can’t fail a trade and lose all my materials. It all depends on your real life trading skills. Unfortunately, the comp crashes about half the time I try to trade.

I’ve also thought about trying to produce mind essence, since most of the time I sell my goods for sweat. I need to know two things though.

Where do I find force nexus?
It seems like a lot of people are looking, but no one is selling.

Where do I sell mind essence?
Where are all the uber mindforce users? I don’t see many people using it, but there’s always someone buying sweat, which means theres always someone making ME, which means theres always someone using ME.

???

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I’ve only had about three hours of sleep, but I can’t stop giggling like a little girl.

Since this is a MMORPG forum, I assume that a great amount of you are geeks, and were doing the exact same thing last night.

STAR WARS!!!

I was in a parking lot jammed with people waiting for hours (the people saving our spots had been there 8 hours) waiting for 12:01 to be in the first show.

Gotta say though, it really broke my heart.

Too much time was spent trying to get more and more content into the movie and not enough time spent developing characters (I still think that Grevious is Darth Maul). But its all worth it just to see R2-D2 bust out his mad combat skills.

Anyway, PE stuff.

More skilling with Basic Servos. I found a couple more BPs while skilling. This got me thinking. I now have the BPs for a servo, a pump, and a structure. I’ve seen BPs for hoods, engines, and other vehicle parts. It seems like MA has intentions of adding vehicles, but when? Is is possible that vehicles have already been added, but no one has ever put all the pieces together?

Hmm, I’ll post that in the crafting section, see what people think.

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It Finally happened.
I built a new computer.
1 Gig of RAM, 128 MB ATI RADEON Video Card, and 2.8 Ghz of sheer terror.

Finally, I don’t have to worry about my computer crashing if I try to access my inventory. My avatar is a lot uglier with my nice video card though. :dunce:

I think this calls for a dancing banana.

:banana:

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thoughts on vehicles

There has been very much talk of vehicles for upcoming VUs. This has me thinking. It seems like vehicles would be very expensive. Would 'Mechanic" be a new skill? It also seems like it would be very hard to skill in that area.

So… here are my thoughts.

Make a low level vehicle that is relatively inexpensive (100 peds?) and seats 2 people. Then, the gods of Mindark should saturate the path between Port Atlantis and Camp Pheonix with mobs, making it extremely difficult to get to camp pheonix on foot. Now, there is a dillema. Noobs need to get to Camp Pheonix to gather sweat, but can’t get there on their own. They would have the choice of trying finding someone with a little dune buggy to take them or finding a group of hunters to escort them there. Hey look! A vehicle market!