Foreword:-
You dont have to follow this guide, detail to detail. Choose any way you like from below and try to make things the way you are comfortable with them, even mix two ways to earn more money. You are always free to come up with your own way of making money :D To understand my guide you need to know basic stuff of WLO.
You need patience for everything. Even to read this guide and there is no method in which you can earn loads of money really fast without much of harwork
Okay so lets get down to buisness, Literally!! :-
1.Multi-botting(what i call it, noob-friendly)
2.Buy And Sell(needs knowledge about the server's economy)
3.Manufacturing(all sorts)
4.Alchemy(most difficult yet most rewarding)
5.Quest-help(not for noobs)
6.Hunting(not for noobs)
7.I-mall
Remote-ing
This is a method you can resort to when you want to start a new business ex:you need money for alchemy or for buying manufacturing items, etc. its really easy, you make alts and farm for items and set stalls... stuff which your main can be excused of doing. You make a specific alt just to vacuum,an alt to farm,etc.... And also please keep in mind that this is done only when you are AFK(Away from keyboard) for a long span of time(Atleast half-hour)... And you don't need to maintain those alts, just give them some cheap equips, that'll be enough..
Places you can go to are:-
1.Kelan mine:Ores
2.Kelan forest(inside):all types of woods
3.Chicken Farm:Seeds and food
4.South Pole:Wolf teeth
and many more...
Things to keep in mind:-
1.TIME IS MONEY
2.THE MORE THE MERRIER :D
Advantages:-
1.Easy to earn a short sum
2.Noob-friendly
3.Helps gain experience at the early stages of game
Disadvantages
1.Needs a good PC/PCs
Buy and Sell
Okay, this method is for people who have starting money and intellect about their server's economy.(A server's economy is basically, the value of items in your server)
So you have some money and you see this guy selling a shining staff for 200k while the actual price(i.e. the price in your server) is 230k.(This is just an example.) If you have the money you buy it immediately, before anyone else does and sell it on a stall or your tent for the price someone would buy it for. Another convenient thing to do is scout around shops and send the stuff you bought to an Alt who is stalling/selling stuff. You buy stuff from people sellling them for cheaper prices and then sell them for the normal price(not too high nor too low) so that you will gain a benefit. Benefits can be small or big even a 1k benefit is valuable. It is valuable because its easy money!!! :P
you just have to roam around kelan or region outside SB and find people selling things for cheap prices.
Advantages:-
1.Easy money
Disadvantages:-
1.Requires money to start
2.Can be tedious sometimes, since there are times when nobody is selling cheap stuff
3.Sometimes, you can also have losses
Manufacturing
Ok, manufacturing can be anything. Here are a few things you can manufacture to earn money:-
1.Syrups: Syrup making is a nice business. Get alts to farm seeds and sit on a potty to collect organic manure. Make syrups and sell the for foodshelfs on your tent. Syrups are needed for bursting and sell like pancakes!! You need to keep refilling your syrups as they finish. Basic things required here are:-
Fence }
French Window }For increasing the productivity of fruits with lesser seeds)
Parterre }
Turf(for making the materials required for the syrups,Bigfruits and Pineapples)
Blender(used for making the syrups)
FoodShelf(Basically one shelf allows to hold 10 stacks of syrup so its pretty nice and it doesnt take up inventory place, woot!!!! :D)
2.Vehicles: Everyone needs vehicles to travel! Most of that everyone is lazy to make their vehicles or fuel by themselves. That's where we come in!! You make vehicles and sell them. Tiresome to make the vehicles and sometimes takes time for them to sell out too :/ But the fuel, the fuel sells pretty fast.. You need loads and loads of patience and time to manufacture vehicles.
This method requires money to buy the raw materials or if you can get them yourselves, well and good!
3.Tent items:People who have surplus money and dont feel like manufacturing just buy the stuff they need for their tent. So we just buy it from somebody. So you make stuff like carpets or computers etc. and sell them. This method again requires money to buy the mats but if you can gather them on your own, well and good :D
Tip:You shouldn't be greedy and ask for high prices, since there is a lot of competetion in this field and people will not come to your store to buy their goods and foods in the long run..(i.e. in the future) Also if you have a maid robot,computer,mill and items to decrease the time of manufacture that really helps a lot.
Advantages:-
1.Can make a lot of money at a relatively fast pace
Advantages:-
1.A lot of competetion
2.Very tedious
Alchemy
Hm..... Alchemy is the most difficult but rewarding way of earning money. It requires a lot of patience since there is always a chance of failure. I really don't know much about alchemy(except the type of alchemy in FullMetal Alchemist lol) so please check out this Guide it should explain you everything about alchemy that you need to know. And for the compound recipes there is an amazing website called WLODB.com
Advantages:-
1.Very rewarding
Disadvantages:-
1.There is always room for failure, which can indulge in huge losses
2.Very very tedious and risky
3.A lot of competetion here too
Quest Help
Ok, here basically you need to have strong characters and a good experience in questing.... You can offer people to help them with a quest for some gold in exchange. This is a very nice and fun method of earning money, but for this you need a vehicle and fuel for it :/ There is nothing much needed to explain. Give resonable prices and you should be flooding with money :D
Advantages:-
1.Easy money if the quests are easy
2.Fun to do
Disadvantages:-
1.Noobs may start begging for you to do a quest for free
2.Few people can scam
3.Quests can get boring if dont a lot :(
Hunting
Hunting basically means catching pets. People love strong or cute pets. You can catch quest monsters ex:Great Pine Monster or other cute pets like pandas,etc. which are difficult to catch and are people's favorite. Again for this method too you need to have high-leveled and strong characters... Selling pets is also considered to be a great business among few people :D
Advantages:-
1.Again, you earn money but not that quite much of a sum
Disdvantages:-
1.Nobody may buy or it may take longer to get it sold
2.Travel costs...
I-Mall(Item mall)
So many people in this game need or desire things form the Item mall and they can't get it. For this there are few preppy kids or well-earning people who spend money and buy Item Mall for themselves. They also stay very rich by just selling IM items to other players. A huge and great business. You can earn money real quick from this method. So many people want critical weapons or hammers. You can sell Item mall stuff for a lot of money. You can sell IM on a points basis too. Ex:1 Item mall point=1k. When someone wants to buy a critical weapon you can earn over a million!!!
Advantages:-
1.REALLY EASY MONEY
Disadvantages:-
1.Can get scammed
2.Needs real money :/
A few important tips
Ok so here are tips while your making money:-
1.Dont overprice what you are selling
2.If you have a tent, keep it decorative, this is not needed but people love eye candy :)
3.Dont sell stuff for too low also, but cheap prices always help. I will give you an example
4.
How to save money:-
1. Don't be stupid... "Think logically, save magically" :D
2. Don't spend money for fun(This is being stupid)
3. Don't lend money to people(again being stupid)
4. Use the piggy bank... A very useful tool. Keep money in it and don't use
that money unless you want to buy something expensive. Set targets.
5. Don't feel very generous often and drop a lot of Gold on SB... a event
like this is fun but you might regret it.. :X
Thanks to everyone who read and found this guide useful :D
Update June 23,2010:
Complete guide got major update,
advantages and disadvantages added
important tips added
How to save money added
Last edited Wed, 23 Jun 2010, 7:15am by CrimsonV
