About Making Money in Entropia Universe

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How to make money in Entropia Universe is a question regularly asked. This guide will give you an overview and discusses what is possible and what is not possible.

Real Cash Economy

In Entropia Universe 'making money' is possible at all because the game features a "Real Cash Economy", meaning you can deposit real-world money into the game and also the other way round withdraw money from the game to your real-world bank account. The ingame currency Project Entropia Dollars (PED) has a fixed exchange rate of 10/1 to the US Dollar.

Entropia Universe and the real money

to do: what the EULA says

Entropia Universe is a business

In general MindArk PE AB, the company developing and operating the Entropia Universe platform, as well as the Planet Partner companies creating content for Entropia Universe are for-profit private businesses. Entropia Universe and its planets are supposed to generate income for them coming from the players playing the game.

Development and operation of games like Entropia Universe costs a lot of money, usually Millions of USD per year. When in Entropia Universe players profit from playing the game these are from the developers perspective a part of the running costs too. The total of costs has to be defrayed by charging players depending on the business model of the game, for example one time payments for regular 'offline' games, monthly subscriptiuon fees for MMOG, item shop models, etc etc etc. In Entropia Universe players are charged based on their ingame activities, for example consuming ammunition when hunting creatues in game, fees for auctioning ingame items, deterioation of equipment used in game and many more.

Possible ways to make money in Entropia Universe

• most of the items listed below are rather theoretical but nevertheless listed to ensure completeness.
• most of the items listed below need a lot of dedication and time
• some of the items listed belelow need a significant starting capital

Sweating

Sweating or formally "Sweat Gathering" is the process of gathering "Vibrant Sweat" from the various creatures around Entropia Universe. Sweating is a free-to-play activity. Since "Vibrant Sweat" is used for further processing, mainly for creating "Mind Essence", it has a small market value and can be sold to other players. Depending on your strategies and dedication you can gather a couple of 100s of units of sweat per hour. Sweat usually sells best in stacks of 1000 units with the market prize for 1000 units between 1 and 3 PED currently (May 2013).

While sweating you will also get in-game skills that theoretically can be sold to other players. But to get a substantial amount that is possible to sell at all you probably need to sweat for 100s if not 1000s of hours.

Collecting fruits, stones, dung and Broken Elysian Technology

• Various types of fruit, various types of stones, Common Dung are resources that can be found on the ground of planets occasionally
• "Broken Elysian Technology" can only be found on planet Next Island occasionally

All of them can be used for further processing, mainly in Crafting, therefore have a small market value and can be sold to other players. Depending on one's luck the profit can be in about the same range than the profit from sweating but is somewhat boring since it only involves walking around and keep your eyes open for the items on the ground.

Oil Rig and Beer Gardens

• The Oil Rig on Planet Calypso is regularly producing stacks of Oil which can be picked up from the ground by everyone.
• On ROCKtropia one can find the Motörhead Stadium Beer Garden where Motörhead Kegs appear on the ground.

These free goods spreading facilities are regularly found in areas with Player-versus-Player combat (PVP) enabled and usually controlled by groups of high-skilled and well-equipped players. The costs to control and defend control over these facilities quite likely eat up all possible profit from collecting the oil.

Free Competitions

Free competitions or events are usually run by other players but sometimes also by Planet Partners, ingame or on community websites. Depending on the setup of the event one does not necessarily have to spend PEDs to achieve good results. Often those events offer low value prizes for the winners. Considering the chance to win and the rather low frequency of these kind of competitions this is merely a theoretical way to make money.

Skill selling

A small group of skills can be acquired for free. They increase while Sweating or getting hit by creatures. Skills can be extracted to Empty Skills Implanets (ESI) and sold to other players. But due to the relatively high prize of ESIs compared to the relatively low prize of most of these free skills you need first need an substantial amount of skills to make selling of these profitable.

Missions

There are a few missions that can be completed without spending any PED and which reward completion with items or skills theoretically worth PED. Since each can only get done once and the value of the rewards sums up to a maybe few PED (<10) this method is actually not worth mentioning.

Mentoring

Entropia Universe has a Mentoring system that allows experienced players to be mentors for new players. New players need to reach specific skills level to "graduate" and if they do the mentor gets awared with a low value ingame item. Considering the time spent to mentor a new player and the low vaule of the rewarded item this is just a theoretival way of earning money.

Citizenship program

In November 2011 MindArk announced a citizenship program and started to sell Calypso Land Deeds for 1000 PED (=100 USD) each. Each of these deeds entitles its "owner" to get a share of Planet Calypso revenues on a weekly basis. Considering an investment of 1000 PED/Deed the ROI is around 25% p.a., condidering the current (as of May 2013) market value of Calypso Land Deeds of about 1350 PED/Deed the ROI is around 18%.

Trading

Trading is one of the more promising ways to profit in Entropia Universe but requires a beginning balance depending on the scale of trading. The capital can come from depositing monry into the game and/or building it up by the other methods.

Offering services

Most of those activities require a significant amount of starting capital and profitability is not at all to be expected.

Customizing

Many items like clothes, vehicles, furniture can be customized by applying textures and colors to them. The ability to do so is largely depending on ingame skills in the area which enables higher skilled players to offer customization services to lower skilled players.

Making PED outside Entropia Universe

Entropia Universe Emisary Program

The Entropia Emissary Program is a Facebook app that allows players to share promotional material via Facebook and receive points for these activities which can be turned into low value ingame items. Considering the limited content to share and low value of the rewarded items this is just a theoretival way to earn money.

Sometrics

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Questbomb

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Free Competitions

Free competitions or events are usually run by other players but sometimes also by Planet Partners, ingame or on community websites. Depending on the setup of the event one does not necessarily have to spend PEDs to achieve good results. Often those events offer low value prizes for the winners. Considering the chance to win and the rather low frequency of these kind of competitions this is merely a theoretical way to make money.

Entropia Partners

Entropia Partners (http://www.entropiapartners.com/) is crowdsourcing website that rewards small amounts of PED for performing more or less simple tasks. Tasks include things such as flagging inappropriate content in photographs and taking marketing surveys. Simple tasks that take around 30 or so seconds to complete pay 8 to 16 PEC. There are also surveys for marketing purposes available which reward up to 20 PED and take about 10 or so minutes.

When having gathered e few PED you can request a withdrawal session with a representative of Entropia Partners in game. The request is done on the Entropia Parnters website and the ingame meeting is negotiated in a chat window on the Entopia Partners website. On the website lets there is only an display of who of the representatives is currently online.

Entropia Partners also features a referral systems that allows users to place referral links on the internet. Before posting referral links anywhere please make sure that this is allowed on the website in advance.

Comparison of money making methods

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Method	Sweating	Collecting fruits & co.	Rigs & similar	Free competitions	Skill selling	Mentoring	Missions	Calypso Land Deeds	Trading	Services	Playing for profit	Sometrics	Entropia Emissary Program	Questbomb	EntropiaPartners
Short description
Official/Non-official	Official	Official	Official	Both	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Official	Non-official
Provider	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe, Planet Parnters, Community	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	Entropia Universe	NEVERDIE Studios	Entropia Partners ("3rd party")
In-game/off-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	In-game, off-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	In-game	Off-game	Off-game	Off-game	Off-game
Locations	All planets	All planets, Elysian Tech. exclusivey on Next Island	Planet Calypso, ROCKtropia, Hunt The THING	In-game events, off-game on websites	All planets	All planets	All planets	All planets	All planets	All planets	All planets	Website	Facebook	Website	Website
Requirements	None	None	None	None	ESI	Specific skill levels	None	Investment of at least ~1350 PED (as of May 2013)	Investment, amount depending on scale of trading	Investment, largely differs between various servies	Significant investment, probably USD 10k+	None	None but Facebook account	None	None
Profit potential	max a few PED/hour	max a few PED/hour	max a few PED/hour	depends on available competitions, usually tiny	max a few PED for many ours of skilling	usually max a few PED per graduated disciple	limited, probably between 10 and 100 PED in total for all free missions	~ 18% ROI (considering the market value of ~1350 PED/Deed as of May 2013)	depdends on scale of trading	largely depends on the service	unpredictable	limited, max a few PED/task	limited, max a couple of 100 PED in total for achieving all levels	10 PED/review	a couple of PEC to max a couple of PED/task
Fun factor	little	very little	little	depends, can be high	little	individually	high	not really applicable	individually	individually	high	very little	little	individually	very little
Further information	Sweating guide		Oil rigs and similar facilities		Skilling guide	Mentoring guide	Missions guide	Calypso Land Deeds	Trading guide			Sometrics	Entropia Emissary Program	Questbomb	Entropia Partners

Links, references, contributors, categories

• Parts of this guide have been copied from the guide Successful Non-Depositing on the wiki of the Soaring Eagles society, unfortunately not available anymore
• my-entropia-universe-life.blogspot.de: Concerning Making PED In-Game

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