TopGun
May 26, 2005, 07:00 PM
This thread was started in order to compile tips which will allow us to increase out bankroll.
Granted, the first rule of the fight club is to not talk about the fight club, but if anyone has any good money-making ideas which could help the community, that would be great.
I'll start!
You can play the commerce game if you're good at it. Districts are the best thing that ever happened to the financial aspect of an MMO-type game: Advertise your product for 5min per district, and run around Ascalon in each active district trying to purchase materials cheap. Some players are stupid enough to sell them to you cheaper than a trader will buy 'em.
Overprice your wares to start. When someone says "Wow, you're a dumbass, no thanks," lower the price for them to something more reasonable. But the fact of the matter is that a lot of very wealthy players will run around the game dishing out oodles of cash for even blue items.
Kill shit. If you hate grinding, then tough luck.
Learn to sell stuff the right way. DO NOT USE "WTS, WTB, PST," EVER. A lot of players understand your lingo, granted, but you sound a lot more mature when you type out "Looking to sell off a Longsword, priced at 500 Gold, send me a whisper if you're interested; I'm by the Merchant." There are two advantages to doing this: Firstly, you sound like you're older then ten, and secondly, you use more words, thus making your block of text in the chat window larger. This makes it more probable for someone to actually read your message, as its BIG, and thus will get more attention.
DON'T TYPE IN CAPITALS.
Use correct grammar, you should.
/\/0 1337!!!
Use exclamation points! Its a subtle way for your words to sound exciting! A good reader will make a sentence sound better with exclamation points at the end! Do not over-use exclamation points! This will annoy people!
Don't ramble on JUST for length. Say what you have to say and no more. We don't need to hear about your girlfriend's boobs or the fact that your mommy hates you. Quite frankly, the general populace doesn't give a ****. So don't bother telling your life story.
Don't flame people. If someone says something you don't like, ignore it, go to another district, advertise elsewhere. Flaming will only reduce the number of your potential customers.
Use whatever color everyone ISN'T using. Its okay to advertise a product on "ALL" chat, its okay to advertise a product on "SALE" chat. If people are talking on ALL, use SALE, if people are selling a lot of stuff on SALE, use ALL so your words stand out in the differnet colored font.
Know your audience. It can be a tactic to WHISPER your target players when selling your items- but it can also be annoying. If you're selling a sword, whisper an appropriately leveled warrior with your offer. This tactic often doesn't work in Guild Wars because whispers look too much like party chat, and the point of this is to be able to stand out in the chat window, so you may want to use this tip sparringly because many players find it quite annoying.
When in a crowd of players, /JUMP! ...okay, so this isn't of that much worth, but if you need to draw attention to yourself, it tends to work better than /dance.
HOCK IT. Ask teammates for their vendor trash (crud items worth 3gp that only vendors will take) and they may give it to you, as it may free up their inventory space. You can then hock it at a vendor.
If you're pre-searing, keep killing grawls for their armor and salvaging it. You can accumulate massive amounts of materials post-searing this way.
Granted, the first rule of the fight club is to not talk about the fight club, but if anyone has any good money-making ideas which could help the community, that would be great.
I'll start!
You can play the commerce game if you're good at it. Districts are the best thing that ever happened to the financial aspect of an MMO-type game: Advertise your product for 5min per district, and run around Ascalon in each active district trying to purchase materials cheap. Some players are stupid enough to sell them to you cheaper than a trader will buy 'em.
Overprice your wares to start. When someone says "Wow, you're a dumbass, no thanks," lower the price for them to something more reasonable. But the fact of the matter is that a lot of very wealthy players will run around the game dishing out oodles of cash for even blue items.
Kill shit. If you hate grinding, then tough luck.
Learn to sell stuff the right way. DO NOT USE "WTS, WTB, PST," EVER. A lot of players understand your lingo, granted, but you sound a lot more mature when you type out "Looking to sell off a Longsword, priced at 500 Gold, send me a whisper if you're interested; I'm by the Merchant." There are two advantages to doing this: Firstly, you sound like you're older then ten, and secondly, you use more words, thus making your block of text in the chat window larger. This makes it more probable for someone to actually read your message, as its BIG, and thus will get more attention.
DON'T TYPE IN CAPITALS.
Use correct grammar, you should.
/\/0 1337!!!
Use exclamation points! Its a subtle way for your words to sound exciting! A good reader will make a sentence sound better with exclamation points at the end! Do not over-use exclamation points! This will annoy people!
Don't ramble on JUST for length. Say what you have to say and no more. We don't need to hear about your girlfriend's boobs or the fact that your mommy hates you. Quite frankly, the general populace doesn't give a ****. So don't bother telling your life story.
Don't flame people. If someone says something you don't like, ignore it, go to another district, advertise elsewhere. Flaming will only reduce the number of your potential customers.
Use whatever color everyone ISN'T using. Its okay to advertise a product on "ALL" chat, its okay to advertise a product on "SALE" chat. If people are talking on ALL, use SALE, if people are selling a lot of stuff on SALE, use ALL so your words stand out in the differnet colored font.
Know your audience. It can be a tactic to WHISPER your target players when selling your items- but it can also be annoying. If you're selling a sword, whisper an appropriately leveled warrior with your offer. This tactic often doesn't work in Guild Wars because whispers look too much like party chat, and the point of this is to be able to stand out in the chat window, so you may want to use this tip sparringly because many players find it quite annoying.
When in a crowd of players, /JUMP! ...okay, so this isn't of that much worth, but if you need to draw attention to yourself, it tends to work better than /dance.
HOCK IT. Ask teammates for their vendor trash (crud items worth 3gp that only vendors will take) and they may give it to you, as it may free up their inventory space. You can then hock it at a vendor.
If you're pre-searing, keep killing grawls for their armor and salvaging it. You can accumulate massive amounts of materials post-searing this way.