Business And Economy Archive
Thread: Mommy.....Where does money come from?
samijx wrote:
Hey guys,
We all know that this game has money sources and money sinks (holes). The biggest money source is obviously the mission terminals. The money sinks are everywhere, maintenance on houses, shuttle fees, cloning fees, insurance fees, vehicle repair fees, stormtrooper fines, etc.
My question is about the high end player. They always buy the best armor, best weapons, ADK's, etc. TheyPvP all the time (Which only earns money if you're a BH huntinga Jedi). So how do the high end PvP'ers get money to buy their gear? I doubt they run $9,000 missions all day long to afford such wonderful stuff.
Methinks you may be in for a life of abject poverty. ;-) Its not as hard as you think.
There is no uber secret to havinga lot of money in SWG, all it takes to have a large amount of $$$ is to be in the right place at the right time,,and pick up a valuable peice of loot and offer it for sale. (that and not spending everything you make)
My first large sum of cash came from obtaining a jetpack base while hunting Black Sun on Yavin. Later I made large sums of cash harvesting resources for a local shipwright, and currently I am rolling in millions from the harvesting of goods for Bio-Engineers.
I made my millions by building up my abilities, combat and otherwise, and I dont stalk uber creatures or NPCs either, just had to take a lil time, build up my money making infrstructure. Now I am off on a new venture, building a DE/Shipwright business, a large harvest farm, and set of merchants. (Investing the millions I have thus made to turn that into multi-mililons)
Kinshi wrote:
Methinks you may be in for a life of abject poverty. ;-) Its not as hard as you think.
There is no uber secret to havinga lot of money in SWG, all it takes to have a large amount of $$$ is to be in the right place at the right time,,and pick up a valuable peice of loot and offer it for sale. (that and not spending everything you make)
My first large sum of cash came from obtaining a jetpack base while hunting Black Sun on Yavin. Later I made large sums of cash harvesting resources for a local shipwright, and currently I am rolling in millions from the harvesting of goods for Bio-Engineers.
I made my millions by building up my abilities, combat and otherwise, and I dont stalk uber creatures or NPCs either, just had to take a lil time, build up my money making infrstructure. Now I am off on a new venture, building a DE/Shipwright business, a large harvest farm, and set of merchants. (Investing the millions I have thus made to turn that into multi-mililons)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not crying about not having money. I have about 20 million credits, but most of mine come from crafting. I'm just curious how the high end players get the money to spend 15 million on ADK's and 10 million on +25 AA's. Ever since the high paying solo group was eliminated, I would like top know how these guys get so much money. Sounds like they just sell Krayt tissue and gorax shards, etc. sell to crafters, crafters turn into high end weaponry, then sell it back to them....simply the same $$$ cycling around. If this is the case, then amount of "New money" is probably a lotless than it used to be. If that's the case, what economic effects are we to expect in the future? Continued inflation, stability, or deflation?
Message Edited by samijx on 06-15-2005 11:15 AM
The original question had to do with how money enters the game economy.
Crafting mainly does not bring any money into the game economy, it just creates stuff to help spread it around in the economy.
Loot items do not bring money into the economy, they just provide more ways to spread it around.
Loot sales to junk dealers, looted credits,and mission payouts bring money into the economy. They are the only ways a player gets credits from a non-player source. Are there any others that I have not thought of?
Saego, Wanderhome
samijx wrote:
Hey guys,
We all know that this game has money sources and money sinks (holes). The biggest money source is obviously the mission terminals. The money sinks are everywhere, maintenance on houses, shuttle fees, cloning fees, insurance fees, vehicle repair fees, stormtrooper fines, etc.
My question is about the high end player. They always buy the best armor, best weapons, ADK's, etc. TheyPvP all the time (Which only earns money if you're a BH huntinga Jedi). So how do the high end PvP'ers get money to buy their gear? I doubt they run $9,000 missions all day long to afford such wonderful stuff.
second accounts that are merchant /crafters simple really
superfreak22 wrote:Us high class folks or city slickers earn our money from loan sharking. If you want to make money in this game watch the god father and do what they do in it to make money.
Says a person with 2 forum posts and just registered.
mattos90 wrote:
superfreak22 wrote:
Us high class folks or city slickers earn our money from loan sharking. If you want to make money in this game watch the god father and do what they do in it to make money.
Says a person with 2 forum posts and just registered.
Forum registration has nothing to do with veterancy in game if thats what your talking about
Message Edited by Seij on 06-26-2005 12:35 AM
For every 1 credit that leaves the economy (credit sink) 10 credits enter the economy (loot/missions)
So you have an economy where there are hundreds of billions of credits floating around, and it is growing more and more every day.
So to get the big bucks you just get on the high end-loot bandwagon and become part of theexchange process.