question for the true oldschoolers

[funhorroryes]

i remember way way back in 1999/2000 that there where always these 'get quick plat' guides selling on ebay.. sometimes for $100.. it included a guide that was a 'quick get rich quick' glitch or nerf in the game..

i saw them everywhere and saw lots of different people selling different guides

i'd like to see it.. if it exists and wasn't a scam that is..

does anyone remember any kunark/prekunark era plat making schemes or know the original one they where selling?

[Slycen]

Farm giants?

[funhorroryes]

im talking tradeskill things or buy/sell get rich tricks that made you make a stupuid amount of platinum as oposed to properly farming giants like the game intended you to

[shooteneq1]

i remember a guide that was right as velious came out. All you need was a little bit of plat and to lvl and enchanter to 4. then you ran to thurg and did jewelcrafting. I cant remember what it was but there was a ring you could make that sold back to vendors for alot more than it cost to make. I did it with my main for the hell of it and you could make around 1k an hour. I guess worth it to some but it was very very boring. They eventually nerfed the resell price of the ring but it took months before they did.
I remember another guide that basically told you how to do the named cycle in frontier mountains. But basically without a druid doing that cycle would be the suck.

[shooteneq1]

The absolute best way to make plat back then was to sit in EC all day. There really wasnt a wiki or anything back then that gave you the rough value of items. So you sat in EC and sold stuff and you would ask alot more for it than it was worth and when people yelled out for price checks you would have your friends all give the price you were selling it for. Underhanded but it was alot easier than farming by traditional means.

[Kevlar]

Kunark giants were awesome on live. A lot of drops were 50-80pp not to mention a couple earrings here and there. Drops seem to be severly nerfed on p1999 though. On live high lvl peeps are always farming FM fort or DL fort. Never saw anyone do it here and even when I could quad them fairly easily the loot drops were terrible. They have too many hp to do them just for xp.

[gnomishfirework]

these guides were usually outdated. they either widely exaggerated what you could get, or they relied on bugs that were quickly patched.

[gnomishfirework]

Originally Posted by Kevlar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Kunark giants were awesome on live. A lot of drops were 50-80pp not to mention a couple earrings here and there. Drops seem to be severly nerfed on p1999 though. On live high lvl peeps are always farming FM fort or DL fort. Never saw anyone do it here and even when I could quad them fairly easily the loot drops were terrible. They have too many hp to do them just for xp.

You can't trust your memory. You don't remember all the time you spent getting no drops. You remember novel experiences, like getting good loot.

[batkiller]

They were always pretty crappy, and always quickly patched as the above poster said.

The only I can remember was when newbie characters started with a sword and some cloth crap or whatever, and these were sellable for a few silver or something. So as a brand new player, if you just made a ton of new characters or something, and sold their stuff and handed the coin to a buddy, you could start the game with 10pp or whatever.

But as tempting as it was, I knew these guides would be a waste of time. I doubt they ever could have made you THAT much money, and even if they could I wouldn't have wanted them. Back in the 80's and 90's when I used to play fun old school games that were super hard, you used to be able to enter cheat codes. The few times I tried that, ended up killing all enjoyment in the game about half an hour later, and I could never gain the fun back.

[HarrisonIsStillPosting]

If you get seafuries to yourself it is still faster than nearly any camp out there, and more reliable.