The story of Salaryman

[VZ_Xanit K'ven]

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

Yeah, i mainly put the Lodi farmers (salaryman, etc) and old ragefire farmers like Tamtam etc in the RMT column

Ist literally the first time Uruk says something worthwhile hehe

Salaryman, Tamtam they were really hogging those spots. But then again, if it is valuable rmt wise, its also valuable in-game wise. So if Bergurgle MQ is good bang for the buck in plats too.

[Uuruk]

Kind of the same with the people who hoard the rogue/monk/cleric MQs on blue before nerf

[Phaezed-Reality]

man i just read this forum, lotta people thinking there isnt huge rmt rackets that are putting thousands of dollars in peoples pockets a week are retarded, the fungi camp in particular.

That camp alone shared by 3 people camped regularly, logging in every 28 minutes you can score 3 fungis a day easy, and on good days you can get 5-6 sometimes even more, thats depending on the market 150-300 each per day for logging in once every 28 minutes and playing for 2 minutes. thats not so bad when your at another job that allows you do that. it's also not so bad if you life with you're parents and have no bills. it beats working mcdonnalds.

now thats just the fungi camp. with velious out a ton of new RMT farm spots are opened up.

Me and my brother farm for our plat so we know all the other farmers, very few farmers are actually farming items for plat to gear other characters, its very clear which ones are farming for RMT and not. and also, on the flip side since the people who farm the hot spots all know eachother. we in turn also know when someone like sektors comes outa nowhere spending 750k that we know he purchased that plat since he isn't part of the farm clique.

im not just singling out sektors, you can tell it just by looking at certain people like rogues that have no other character on the server and they are BIS droppables. etc and stuff like that. so clearly rmt'd everything.

like i have said many times there are two types of people who play here, the people who dont have time to grind items, and the people who do.

[VZ_Xanit K'ven]

The only thing that seems unbelievable is that you try to make it sound like ist a time / Money trade off...

-- the market size question is still not adressed --


3 fungis per day easy, you say? Lets say you only grind weekdays, thats still 60 a month ? With a if you assume a Server Population volatility of double its size in its better days of 300. You would have oversaturated that market in lets then 2 month.

Let alone driven down the prize for a tunic.

[VZ_Xanit K'ven]

Always wondered if red99 was secretly split into sell-side, buy-side and casuals.

If nothing Comes to light my assesment is the following: its just occasional, opportunistic activity. Where there are buyers, there will be sellers. Sektors is classic example.

[Phaezed-Reality]

Originally Posted by VZ_Xanit K'ven [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Always wondered if red99 was secretly split into sell-side, buy-side and casuals.

If nothing Comes to light my assesment is the following: its just occasional, opportunistic activity. Where there are buyers, there will be sellers. Sektors is classic example.

as someone who was banned for RMT and part of RMT for quite some time i can tell you there was always def someone to sell to.

also, the smart traders they just farm hold onto everything and wait for a server event like for instance TMO coming over, or for instance when empire joined the server, or for example a bunch of retired people coming back for velious that dont want to do heavy lifting.

the above is what i did when i was involved. i would say though, now that the server has dropped 100 players, there is a stale server, prices do go down, and i been out of the game for a while so i don't know what its like anymore, i havn't done anything in a little less than a year and a half.

[Phaezed-Reality]

the particular interesting thing about this server, specifically red is that even with a lower player base, a small timer like myself was able to make 10 grand a month buying low and selling high. But that was back when velious was announced. don't know what it's like now. probably horrid. the people who still farm red99 for paychecks are probably all junkies or disabled.

[Chronoburn]

10K a month. Sounds realistic on a 300 pop server ....

[hatelore]

Yeah, I was making 14 grand a month here until it got boring. Then I just started selling off the local neighborhood girls to the highest bidders I could find. Now I make 17 grand a month. Thinking about setting up a system where the girls farm fungis on red 99 in their off time while they are resting up in between shifts. Could prolly push it to 20k a month then...

[Knuckle]

RMTers trump up their selling stats to justify the ungodly amount of time wasted in game, to try and create a cool mystique. It's profit because there are no bills living in moms basement with no car.