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teknotel

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teknotel

teknotel

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Just come back to playing on Asylum after a long time out. Having a great time, its just some of the trades currently available feel, well, totally pointless.

I tried a high yield mining run and it was absolutely pointless. In 40 min I made about 12-15k using a box truck. I was surprised that the price of diamond was hardly anything more than Iron. It really seems like the majority of the trades are kind of useless as there does not seem to be enough difference in the risk/reward of different trades.

I can see everything is much cheaper from when I used to play which is great and makes up for the low money income for sure, but it really is more to do with other gameplay aspects I feel this could be improved a little. The way it seems now where everything is so similar there seems to be no real progression, apples>salt>iron>diamond>meth etc.

In all honesty, every trade I have tried is as disappointing as the other in terms of reward. I havent tried alcohol or weapon making yet which will be my next step. I hear they are a lot more profitable its just I am not in a position to try the more dangerous ways of earning money yet,

The other thing, is maybe having either less trades but with more of a defined progression path would encourage a lot more excitement imo. I have played on other life servers where diamonds were valuable as hell. So people high jacked them, which in my opinion great and the interactions that would take place because of this were a great addition to the game. Similarly with less trades or at least a more defined trade progression path you are more likely to run into players along routes , which again is what makes the game really.

Right now as a starter player I feel if I actually want to make any money I am really left with only two worthwhile options. Fishing or excavating. Virtually risk free, nothing can really go wrong and I can afk for most of it and watch TV. The money is also better per 15 min or per hour then almost any other of the basic trades I have tried. Again how can this be more valuable then mining diamonds?

This said having a great time and looking forward to progressing and trying all  the new features that have been added since my last stay here.

Maybe I am doing something wrong or missing something and someone can help me out, otherwise thoughts please.

 

 

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George

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27 minutes ago, teknotel said:

Just come back to playing on Asylum after a long time out. Having a great time, its just some of the trades currently available feel, well, totally pointless.

I tried a high yield mining run and it was absolutely pointless. In 40 min I made about 12-15k using a box truck. I was surprised that the price of diamond was hardly anything more than Iron. It really seems like the majority of the trades are kind of useless as there does not seem to be enough difference in the risk/reward of different trades.

I can see everything is much cheaper from when I used to play which is great and makes up for the low money income for sure, but it really is more to do with other gameplay aspects I feel this could be improved a little. The way it seems now where everything is so similar there seems to be no real progression, apples>salt>iron>diamond>meth etc.

In all honesty, every trade I have tried is as disappointing as the other in terms of reward. I havent tried alcohol or weapon making yet which will be my next step. I hear they are a lot more profitable its just I am not in a position to try the more dangerous ways of earning money yet,

The other thing, is maybe having either less trades but with more of a defined progression path would encourage a lot more excitement imo. I have played on other life servers where diamonds were valuable as hell. So people high jacked them, which in my opinion great and the interactions that would take place because of this were a great addition to the game. Similarly with less trades or at least a more defined trade progression path you are more likely to run into players along routes , which again is what makes the game really.

Right now as a starter player I feel if I actually want to make any money I am really left with only two worthwhile options. Fishing or excavating. Virtually risk free, nothing can really go wrong and I can afk for most of it and watch TV. The money is also better per 15 min or per hour then almost any other of the basic trades I have tried. Again how can this be more valuable then mining diamonds?

This said having a great time and looking forward to progressing and trying all  the new features that have been added since my last stay here.

Maybe I am doing something wrong or missing something and someone can help me out, otherwise thoughts please.

 

 

I can give you a house with some aging barrels, what's your main server?

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teknotel

teknotel

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Woah thanks for all the offers of help guys! I think I would like to work my way up myself but I am not really asking for help here more just seeing what people think about there only being only one or two ways of making money for newish players that are actually relevant (imo).

What I am saying is basically I don't see any real point in doing a lot of the activities that are available in the game. Turtles, mineral, and most of drugs except heroin (short run) and meth  (obvious most valuable and most difficult to complete). They don't seem relevant to me when I can just fish or excavate more money for doing virtually nothing. 

I think with some tweaking of licence prices and also the returns you get for certain goods all of the ways to make money could be relevant. Was just seeing what people thought about it. Thanks again for responses and offers of help though guys.

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HeavyArms

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Hey OP you got a valid point i had a feeling the pay out could be tweaked abit.

It bothers me that i make more money safely excavating then the overly more dangerous pure diamond Zamak transport(600 weight) run.

Excavating: 2HOUR 15MIN avg: 90K (only oil, ruby, pearl and perfect diamond)

Zamak transport diamond only run: 45min avg: 28k

 

The odds lie in heavy favor for excavating cause it's so save, can be performed anytime of the day and can afk more. I must be really high on weed to attempt a diamond run when the server is busy, kiss your zamak goodbye bro.

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Dork

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16 hours ago, teknotel said:

Woah thanks for all the offers of help guys! I think I would like to work my way up myself but I am not really asking for help here more just seeing what people think about there only being only one or two ways of making money for newish players that are actually relevant (imo).

What I am saying is basically I don't see any real point in doing a lot of the activities that are available in the game. Turtles, mineral, and most of drugs except heroin (short run) and meth  (obvious most valuable and most difficult to complete). They don't seem relevant to me when I can just fish or excavate more money for doing virtually nothing. 

I think with some tweaking of licence prices and also the returns you get for certain goods all of the ways to make money could be relevant. Was just seeing what people thought about it. Thanks again for responses and offers of help though guys.

sit in kavala with lockpicks and take people's cars to the chop shop lmao. 

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Le Ligma

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On 2/29/2016 at 0:12 PM, explicit said:

I've been finding vermin runs a good way to make money recently. 100-150k per HEMTT transport in 30-40mins.

Did one full load With  HEMTT, only profited enough to cover the HEMTT(51k) + 20k. 100k is just too good to be true. 150k is just a dream.

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JonSnow

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4 minutes ago, Ludius said:

Did one full load With  HEMTT, only profited enough to cover the HEMTT(51k) + 20k. 100k is just too good to be true. 150k is just a dream.

You can make 21 or 22 guns in a HEMMT box I did 21 the other day. You will make 88k off the 21 vermins.

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The Monopoly Man

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6 minutes ago, Jarvo said:

Honestly the sad thing is the best way to make money is cop. Thus why you get so many robocops most are just there for the pay.

Cop revenue is split between all active officers that are currently online. Example, if there are 15 cops online and they arrest someone with a 30k bounty, each cop will get about 2 k each, give or take. I lose more money than I make on cop with my Mk1 loadouts lawl. You just have to be on cop at the right time when they make that 8 man gang arrest. Currently the most profitable way to make $$$ is alcohol. 

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Dork

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12 minutes ago, The Monopoly Man said:

Cop revenue is split between all active officers that are currently online. Example, if there are 15 cops online and they arrest someone with a 30k bounty, each cop will get about 2 k each, give or take. I lose more money than I make on cop with my Mk1 loadouts lawl. You just have to be on cop at the right time when they make that 8 man gang arrest. Currently the most profitable way to make $$$ is alcohol. 

cop at 3 A.M. server 5 lethal everyone :P

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