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in the land of Achaea you will quickly find that you must
obtain material wealth, usually in the form of golden
sovereigns. There are a number of ways to earn this gold,
ranging from simple quests to producing goods that your
fellow Achaeans may find useful, to fulfilling assassination
contracts, and so on.
What follows is a brief list
of some methods of earning a living. Scroll down, or
click on one of the links at the menu to the right to
go to a specific section.
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Questing
There are a multitude of
quests available that will pay gold. This gold may range
from just 20 or 30, up to thousands. For newbies, we
suggest exploring Minia, Lodi, and Gorshire, as there
are many quests there to provide one with money for
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Hunting
As you adventure to the more
dangerous areas of the land and slay creatures big and
small, you may find that some of them possess small or
even rather large stashes of gold. In the case of the
most powerful monsters, such as Yudhishthira, this can
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Fishing
With a fishing pole and some bait, you can while away the hours fishing in the lakes and rivers of Achaea. Catch a wide variety of fresh trout, salmon, sturgeon, and more, and reel them in! Just be careful not to snap your line. Catch yourself a bucket full of fish and take them down to a fish buyer for gold. Compete in the yearly and all-time fishing rankings for who's caught the biggest fish! |
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Merchanthood
If you have something to
sell, you could go about selling it in a number of ways.
The first, and simplest way, is simply to ask the people
you know if they need to buy what you're selling. Clearly
however, this isn't a very efficient way, and you probably
don't know enough people to make a living from.You
have three major options to reach a larger audience:
THE MARKET CHANNEL
This channel exists
for the sole purpose of selling or asking to buy good
or services. It is free to use, but probably the most inefficient way of selling goods. Simply speak on it
like you would any other channel, but be warned that
using it for anything but selling or buying things is
prohibited.
CLASSIFIED ADS
There comes a time
in any adventurer's life when that dusty old sword isn't
really needed anymore and the gold it's worth could
better be spent on otherthings...
Advertisments can be used to
list what you have for sale or what you are
looking to purchase. They are visible to everyone and
exist only to facilitate
communication about a particular product or item, they
are not involved with
the actual purchase of the item (that's left up to the
merchant in you!)
The commands to use the Ad system
are as follows:
ADS
[BY <person>]
[FOR <pattern>]
Lists the ads you can see. Be warned though, there may
be many. Try
limiting your search by using the BY and/or the FOR
clause. These help
by only displaying ads posted by an individual, eg.:
ADS BY AEYR
or that match a certain pattern, eg: ADS FOR *sword*
AD <id>
Display more information about a particular ad, including
the Poster,
the price, and the description of what is for sale/desired.
AD <id>
DESCRIBE <text>
Change the description of the item that is for sale/desired.
Anything
you want potential purchasers to know should go here.
AD <id>
PRICE <price>
Set the price of the item you are selling or how much
you are willing
to spend on a purchase.
AD <id>
DELETE
Remove one of your ads.
AD
NEW <name>
Create a new ad with the specified name. Be warned,
old ads will be
automatically deleted after a while. You may only have
10 ads at any
given time, so choose wisely. (You can always delete
some if you
absolutely NEED to sell that ratty old Rajamala blanket.)
It costs
100 gold to create a new ad.
SHOPS
Buying a shop requires
the most initial investment of these three methods.
There are many player shops scatterd throughout the
cities and Delos. If you wish to buy one, contact the
owner of the shop and make him or her an offer. You
may sometimes see shops that are closed. This is usually
a result of unpaid taxes, resulting in the city closing
down the shop. In these cases, it may be possible to
purchase the shop from the city. The Chancellor and
his aides are responsible for the ships of a city. HELP
SHOPKEEPING will provide more extensive information
about running a shop, once you are in the game.
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Trade
Skills
So what is it you can sell?
The answer may depend quite heavily on your class. Current
trade skills and class requirements are:
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Venoms
Secrete about 30 different venoms into your
fangs and milk them into vials for sale to weapons
users, including yourself. |
Serpent |
Concoctions
Harvest a variety of herbs and roots that
can be eaten, smoked, and mixed together into various
concoctions.
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Druid,
Sentinel, Sylvan |
Forging
Create a selection of armour and weapons, slaving
away at the forge. |
Paladin,
Infernal, Runewarden |
Enchantment
Using magical rituals and the ourobori, create magical
items, or enchant existing ones. |
Magi |
Runelore
Using various coloured inks, inscribe runes onto
weapons or players to augment them. You may also
sell organizations such as cities or Houses totems
to be installed for defensive purposes. |
Shaman,
Runewarden |
Pranks
Allows you to (among other things) create a variety
of bombs that can be sold to other players. You
may also sell firecrackers that you can create,
for festive occasions. |
Jesters |
Tailoring
Using cloth commodities, create your own designs and sell them to other players. Requires a tailoring permit to be purchased for 200 credits. |
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Jewellery
Craft gorgeous jewellery of your own design, from plain silver earrings to the most exquisite ruby and diamond necklaces, pendants, brooches, hairpins, noserings, and more! Requires a jewellery permit to be purchased for 200 credits.
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More tradeskills, both
dependent on class and independent of class will be
implemented in the future.
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Trading
Finally, some have profited
by buying low and selling high later. For instance, one
might decide to amass a large amount of gold, purchase
credits from amother player with that gold, at a discounted
price due to buying in bulk, and then sell the credits
later, in smaller amounts, for more gold.
The other major opportunity
for this exists in commodities. Commodities in Achaea
are things needed by various classes (often trade skills)
to produce other things. For instance, wood, silver,
coal, obsidian, and so on. These are sold in various
NPC-run marketplaces around the land, and the prices
vary somewhat according to supply and demand. It's possible
to purchase all the iron, for instance, and sell it
on to the forgers who need it to make their weapons
and armour, at an inflated price. Think creatively here.
There are endless opportunities.
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