DM's Guide For Making $Info

DarkMagician

Now first of all, why would anyone in their right mind go and try to make info in this game....It's pointless.

Now I will be the first to say your wrong. $Info on this game is precious for four reasons.

LvLing up and buying those semi important abilities....

Yes the abilities.....

It takes millions and millions of info to lvl up those abilites to lvl 50.....

Buying those sweet outfits on the market place....

Yes those sweet outfits with those lovely buffs....

Generally speaking due to the fact that most decompile them as soon as they make them...well cloathes spread like wild fire.

The Occasional In Game event requiring info...

Again sounds weird... but it works rather well..

Pandora;s box was the biggest, was funny listening to people who didn't have a million info on their person.

And of course Pills and Shots..

Health, Antibiotic, TB's and health boosters....

They sell for a lot of info on the market and you WILL go through them like wild fire...a stack of 20 doesn't last through ten mins of PvP in Mara C.

So how do you make that Info.

Crafting.....

Farming....

Raiding.....

Special Events.....

Crafting-

Coder is one of the most underutilized diciplines in the game to my opinion. And most people don't even bother ever lvling it. This is a mistake. Until you reach lvl 50 and start lvling up 75% of the trees out there. Lvling coder will make you self-reliant. And an ever popular man with the crowds. Yes....having any form of coder on will get you spam of ./tell XXXXX from the masses for free abilties, cloathing, etc. Especially in Mara C.

Now....the true power behind coder is *drum roll* RED FRAGS. Yes the red frags worth a million each and steadily growing RED frags are pain in the *CENSORED* to get. In order for any ability past lvl 20 to be crafted you will need one of these. *Warning* These are hard to get. They drop off mobs in certain districts, each district dropping one of these and only one kind. You will be farming here if you need them.

Pills, these are generally Marketplace sold items. Even beyond crafting abilties and cloathing, even fewer coders will code weapons and consumables. Consumables are your pills and your boosters. These are desperately needed for any form of PvP especially if your by yourself. Don't bother selling ./shout in mara C just post them on the market. They will sell.......

And as for cloathing. That tends to be a sticky mess. One player will find a extremely powerfull item and A. Keep it to themselves like they should, or B.put it on the market place for a high amount of info. do not be this person.....keep it to yourself....and if you see it on the market....resist the urge to hit buy.....someone else will and then craft the item and sell it for less.....just have patience ((This is not as true in today'sgame as it was back during release)). So if you find an item...keep it TO YOURSELF. I can not stress that enough.

Crafting tends to be the slowest of the info gaining, however it also tends to help you in the long run. I reccomend you use it at least for your own private use. The BIG KEYS

-Do not attempt to sell In MARA C. Even during busy hours most people really don't pay to much attention to whats actually being said.

-Use the market place. There are a lot of items placed on the market for no apparent reason that shouldn't be there. Go through the market and see if you can find any good deals.

-Lvl up ability, cloathing, and consumables. you will become a self sufficient player..

-Stock up on Red Frags....you will need them for crafting and selling...they are where most of the costscomesin

Raiding....

Raiding is going through archives and hide outs with the express purpose of repeatedly defeating the boss in order to get his drop. The boss in the archives are extremely difficult to beat and require teams. The drop rate is rather bad as well, but the items are the best for their lvl with no exceptions....

The bosses in the hideouts drop a item every time but they have three lvls of items with the most powerfull being only a 1% drop rate.... bosses also spawn slowly... keep this in mind....

Archives Boss Drops Routinely sell in the tens of millions if not more.

Hideout Boss drops sell for 500k a pop for tier one increasing to 10 million for the rare drops.

Keep these in mind while your raiding.

-The Archive boss drops will be fought over if you find them, don't be an *CENSORED*.

-The market is flooded with items from hideouts....you will have to sell lower than others to make a profit and constant sales....((unless its tier one then go ahead and charge they will pay for the extra buff))

- A semi constant way to make money from hideouts and a incredible way to make money if you manage it from the bosses but don't expect much.

Farming.....

Farming is a repetive action designed for the sole purpose of gaining info and code to decompile.
A warning before I start. SOE may take some farming actions to be Exploits....because some of them are that cheap.

Farming is Player Dependent. Each player comes up with differn't places to farm and differn't items to farm for.

Come up with your own stratagy. Some strats will rake in 10million info a hour if you know what your doing, and some will gain you the same amount if your combing for subroutines.....keep that in mind as you play.....

Destroyer/Howitzer builds are a must for any farmer due to constant area dam, decentIS use.

Also now with CR2 its possible to inflict area damage over a far greater area than before ((THIS IS A BIG HINT ABOUT ONE OF MY FARMING METHODS))

-Farming can be the quickest way to Make INFO

Ideas for farming

-Pandora's Box Missions. Difficult missions that grant access to some of the better items in the game. ((Seraphim Shose anyone)) This is for info and code purposes only. The boxes are a pain in the *CENSORED* to do as well..

-Downtown. General Area. Use loadouts and just generlly spend time aimlesly wandering. Kill for subs and the occasional drop.

-Archives. See RAIDING. Also for the ocassional drop.

-Grinding. Doing repitive missions... worst method.

Now for the big money kicker.... SPECIAL EVENTS
Special Events happen every few months from the pandora boxes to the blue frags.....

Blue Frags were being bought out for a million a frag up to 3 million a frag. If you can get on top of those buyers and sellers you will be rich like you wouldn't believe.

Special Event Items arepriceless.

The Assassin's Mask no longer exists on the syntax servor due to the owners not playing mxo.

That alone could have made 500 million info.

Special Events....are exactly that special events, they requrie patience time and a bit of luck.

That's it for a basic guide on making info for fun and profit if you have any add ons feel free to post them

Interlock

Interesting guide but I find this to be detrimental to the purpose of the guide:

So if you find an item...keep it TO YOURSELF. I can not stress that enough.

Keeping an item to yourself isn't going to help you make money. And it certainly isn't helping the player base. Instead, decompile the item and code three or four copies perhaps more. Place one or two on the market place for a little over the suggested price it will give you.

Once you sell those two, place the others on for the same price. Sure, you won't make a lot of info, but if you keep listing an item for a little over the suggested price while others list the same item for several million, you will sell your items more often than they will sell theirs. Thus in the long run, you make more money while also helping the player base by making those items available.

Also, make a list of all the items you can code so you can reference it at a moments notice. Work out your own price list that is competetive while not being extortionate and use your server's Market Place forums to advertise your stock.

For those high level players who don't mind them, running missions is a very good way of making info. Run them on easy if you are under 50 - same info payout as hard missions but less XP so you make more info before leveling and needing to spend it. For level 50s, run them at whatever difficulty you want but bear in mind that the mob info drops (from 3 cheveron NPCs) will be the same no matter what difficulty. A level 49 has the same chance of dropping over 200,000 info as a level 51 one does.

Thus, running Assassination missions will allow you to make at least a couple of million (from mission payouts and mob info drops) in an hour of easy going missions. If you want to "grind" it, you can make more. Running Assassination missions in an area like Richland and searching all rooms (picking up all loot) will allow you to make even more info. You can sell the items at a vendor and make more money from them. If you get Enhanced weapon drops, those sell for a large amount of info. Enchanced clothing doesn't sell for much so if you're a coder, decomp all clothing. If not, place it on the market place for a reasonable sum. Someone will buy it. From those drops, you can usually make an extra half a million info easily.

If you don't care for loot drops from searching rooms, then run Infiltration missions in International. They are faster and drop less loot due to the building types. But if you are running Infiltration missions you probably won't want to waste the time killing the NPCs so you'll only get the info payout at the end. But as each mission should take no more than 6 minutes each, you'll still make a lot of info if you "grind" it.

Missions are good for "farming" info as you can always be certain that no one else is going to be "farming" the same mobs as you and you can always be sure that you'll get a certain amount of info with the least agro from others who get upset if they think you're "stealing" their kills. And conversely, you won't have to worry about others trying to "steal" your kills either.

Message Edited by Interlock on 04-12-2006 03:27 AM
Message edited by Interlock on 04/12/2006 02:27:44.

**Fractor**

You missed missioning and data mining but maybe you did that because missioning is obvious and data mining isn't worth it.

DarkMagician

didn't really put in missions and data mining due to the fact that farming tends to get you same amount of info and items...

and the items...

welll

THRE HOURS LATER......

WHY ARE THERE 40 copies of this item i just posted at 1/4 the price

phaydren

oh yeah and whats this about the assasins mask not being on the syntax server cos im pretty sure i saw someone running around wearing it.

if you believe a player is truly intending to leave the game with that item in their inventory then you are wrong they would have passed it on or sold it. (more than likley they wouls have passed it on)

Militis

So which bosses are good to farm for info and where are they ?