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Starting out, about the guide and hints to play without or just a
small (monthly) deposit
When you start in this game you have, unlikely other games, basically nothing except some
basic clothes and shoes which aren't even repaired. If you take them off you can't take them
on anymore before repairing them at least a bit, a full repair will bring them to a bright orange
with a black stripe.
To get going, you will need the in game currency PEDs, which can be easiest obtained by just
depositing some real money into the game which exchanged at a 1$=10 ped rate. This also
works the other way around, so unlike other games you are able to sell acquired items and
even skills later on for peds and withdraw the money again. May be (much) less than you
totally deposited, but can also be more. In either case it is an interesting fact that if you want
to quit you can get some money back at least.
My main focus is usually to preserve the money of my disciples, so this guide also tries to
point towards a more economical way of doing things.
But to preserve money, you first have to get it.
As already mentioned, the fastest and likely even best way to get some peds to start with,
especially considering the time needed for the other options, is depositing real money.
The warning here again, don't deposit what you can't afford to lose. In the best case you
don't lose it at all or very slowly, but rather expect to lose and just deposit 10$ instead of
hoping to become rich and lose 100$.
Another way would be to gather sweat and sell the acquired bottles to other players, a rather
time consuming and badly paid method, but at the moment the best one to start without
depositng. Sweating and the other options how to get "free" peds fairly regularly are
described later in the guide in an own section.
The problem is, even once you have peds to hunt for example, the payback will be on average
below the cost you invested. So say you go out and use 100 ped, your loot may just be 80.
However, most of the things you looted will have a mark up, which other players would pay
for it. This mark up can turn a loss run to profit, so generally, you should always try to go for
mark up items, the better mark up the better.
Try to avoid selling items to the trade terminal when you can and try to sell at mark up,
maybe keep them a bit longer until you have a useful amount to put into auction, to make the
fee worth it, may sometimes just be a ped profit or 2, but if you started as sweater, you likely
know that 1 ped can be a treasure already.
You can also try to start trading, buying the stuff other players would sell to the trade terminal
else for a bit higher mark up and sell it again for higher.
Either will stretch your peds. If you are a hunter, you may sweat the mob until it attacks and
get some sweat bottles maybe, which will count to your payback.
Another warning, don't push it. If you lose and lose on your runs and think "I bet the next
loot will be huge", this may be, but maybe not either. It can be rather risky to play with that
attitude. In my experience, loot evens out more or less after a while, usually below the cost
you spend on getting it though.
To help the start confusion a bit, here a first buy and don't buy list.
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