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17 How can I get peds?
Now we finally come to the important part, how to get peds to hunt, mine, trade and so on.
This environment is based on real cash, so you should watch your funds closely, since you
can as well withdraw your funds.
17.1 Depositing
In most other games it isn't allowed to sell ingame currency for real money, since that would
destroy the balance, but here, it is an essential part of the universe.
You can deposit real money into this game and change it into the game currency, called peds,
1$ is 10 ped.
So if you are bored with the ingame options like sweating, or want faster advancement, a new
item or more peds for trading, depositing may be an option here.
Considering that 10$ are 100 ped and a game in a store would cost you like 30$ and above,
this would give you a quite considerable starting sum here.
Although, when you deposited, think first before you spend your peds, because they may
disappear faster than they should, like in real life.
Also, don't deposit more than you can afford to lose. If things go bad, rather stop for a while,
chill a bit and check later again, instead of depositing and depositing and losing loads of
money.
17.2 "Ingame" options for earning cash
17.2.1
Sweating
Sweating is an easy to learn method to get some start capital.
It tends to be rather boring and quite badly paid, but the ped earned per hour is usually better
than gathering fruit or stones, or trying to get oil at the rig.
During sweating you will be attacked, a lot. This isn't too bad actually, since you will also
gain several defence skills, which are a very important part of sweating, not just the sweat
itself.
So, don't be afraid of being hit or dying, it will happen a lot. You won't lose anything when
you die anyway, no sweat, skills or items.
Rather take the hits and be happy about the chance of cheap but priceless defence skill gains.
So, what is sweat?
Sweat is the life essence of native animals of Calypso.
It is used together with Force Nexus in an energy refiner to refine 1 unit of each of the two
ingredients to 1 unit of Mind Essence, which is the "fuel" for various Mindforce powers (read
more about this in the MF section).
So the bottles you will get can either be sold to other players or refined with force nexus to
mind essence.
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