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Making money is Entropia Universe 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. | Making money is Entropia Universe 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 money== | ==A note regarding Entropia Universe and the money== | ||
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 it's 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. | 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. | ||
==Activities that usually cost money== | ==Activities that usually cost money== | ||
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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
Making money is Entropia Universe 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.
A note regarding Entropia Universe and the money
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 it's 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.
Activities that usually cost money
Possible Ways to make money
Sweating
This is the process of gathering vibrant sweat from the various creatures around EU. It can be done for free and also can provide you with some defensive skills. It is possible to graduate by doing this, but be prepared to be doing this for a very long time in order to get the skills needed to graduate. For this to work you go out and gather sweat and then when you have enough to sell you go and look for someone to buy it. The minimum recommended amount one should get before selling is 1,000 bottles (1k). Sweat prices can fluctuate with the market, so it is hard to say how much it will be worth to most people.
Gathering fruits, stones and dung
This method involves walking, not running randomly through EU and being very watchful on the ground to find fruit and stones. You can also find dung, however this is less valuable and will weigh you down quite a bit. Once you have walked around and found enough fruit/stones you can go and try to sell it to other players, just like you sell your sweat.
Trading
This profession will not make you popular and is difficult to start without PED. In order to do this you will have to use the other methods first to get some PED, then you can start in this, the process simply being buy low, sell high. Your mentor can give you a better idea of how this works, ask them if you desire to give this a try.
Missions
There are a few missions one can finish 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.
Oil Rig
The Oil Rig on Planet Calypso is regularly producing stacks of Oil which can be collected from the ground. The area around the Oil Rig is a PVP Zone and usually controlled by groups of high-skilled well-equipped players. The costs to control and defend control over the Oil Rig quite likely eat up the possible profit from collecting the oil.
Free Competitions
Free competitions or events are usually run by other participants but sometimes also by Planet Partners and allow participations without any fees. 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.
Citizenship
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 in a weekly payout.
Offering services
Most of those activities require a significant amount of starting capital. Profitability is not at all to be expected.
Piloting
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.
Beauty
Event Management
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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