126659-struggling-to-make-plat

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Hi everyone,
I'm currently level 45 and have about 2 plat, It's been at that amount for almost 10 levels. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'm pretty sure I should have a lot more by now. As I'm a younger player and this is my first mmo, I don't have much experience to fall back upon. I have tried a few things that I've read about to change things but still no luck. I don't salvage anymore, just sell and I don't repair gear either. I also only buy things like medishots as I need them often. I don't do dungeons (maybe on next character) so that most likely doesn't help, though I do run shiphands often (very fun) but still not making plat at a good rate :( . My goal is when I get to level 50 I'll spend a lot of time making a really great house but that'll cost a lot I think so I'm kind of worried I wont have the money I need to do that.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks so much.	
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			Most of the income comes at lvl 50 from the gold you get from having maxed your elder points(lvl 50 xp) for the week, any xp you get after that point gets converted into gold. You can usually get 30-40g per shiphand run, which can be done in 5-10 min, there is also runes you can get that can sell for a lot and contracts give a decent income at lvl 50 as well	
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Most of the income comes at lvl 50 from the gold you get from having maxed your elder points(lvl 50 xp) for the week, any xp you get after that point gets converted into gold. You can usually get 30-40g per shiphand run, which can be done in 5-10 min, there is also runes you can get that can sell for a lot and contracts give a decent income at lvl 50 as well
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Hi everyone,
I'm currently level 45 and have about 2 plat, It's been at that amount for almost 10 levels. I just can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, I'm pretty sure I should have a lot more by now. As I'm a younger player and this is my first mmo, I don't have much experience to fall back upon. I have tried a few things that I've read about to change things but still no luck. I don't salvage anymore, just sell and I don't repair gear either. I also only buy things like medishots as I need them often. I don't do dungeons (maybe on next character) so that most likely doesn't help, though I do run shiphands often (very fun) but still not making plat at a good rate :( . My goal is when I get to level 50 I'll spend a lot of time making a really great house but that'll cost a lot I think so I'm kind of worried I wont have the money I need to do that.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks so much.
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First off, get to level 50. That opens up the Veteran Shiphands, which are reasonably rewarding and quick to run.
 
Second, when you obtain non-junk items, don't just sell them to an NPC vendor--look to see if they have any value on the auction house or commodity exchange in the capital city. Instead of simply using the "sell now" option you can choose to list an item for sale at a considerably higher price using the "sell order" option. You can also often buy commodities for vastly reduced prices by using the "buy order" option instead of the "buy now" option. They take a little longer for the transaction to happen, but end up being huge money savers.
 
Edit: Getting to level 50 goes much faster if you complete missions that are either:
1-3 levels above your current level, or
world/zone story missions, which give vastly improved experience points in comparison to tasks.
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Hi Yasfan,
I'm really looking forward to the veteran shiphands, I'm sure they will help a lot.
I didn't think of trying to sell junk items on the auction house as I was sure no one would want them, I'll try seeing if that works for me. The thing about the auction house is that I never seem to do well with it. I'm pretty bad with understanding what are good deals and what are not. I'm going to use your advice though and see if I can improve how I can make money with it.
I've been trying to do quests that are a higher level like you suggest but more often than not I end up dead  :( but I'll keep trying.
Thanks for the awesome advice  :)
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Part of the key to the auction house is to understand that the prices you see people trying to sell stuff for are not necessarily competitive. They're just the prices at which people are offering stuff that nobody has been willing to buy at that price yet. ;) They are often wildly inflated fantasies on the part of sellers who think they can charge whatever they want and someone, somewhere will buy it.
 
Another part is to understanding both the auction house and the commodities exchange is that after you list something, someone else will likely come along and offer it at a slightly lower price than you simply so that buyers purchase their stuff instead of your stuff. Then they make plat and you get nothing. Any time you're at the AH/CX, just check your listings against the current prices to make sure that what you're trying to sell hasn't been completely undercut by others. If it has been, relist it to undercut them if you can still turn an acceptable profit off your listings by doing so.
 
On the commodities market, you can choose to sell items now to whoever is offering the most money, or to place a sell order and see if any buyers will pay it. A good way to know if an item is good to sell now or as an order is to compare the sell now price to the sell order price. If you can sell something now for a price close to the sell order price, you might as well just sell it off now. But if the sell order price is a lot higher than the sell now price, usually that means that you can make a lot more plat with a sell order than you can with a sell now option.
 
Finally, nothing beats knowing how much things usually cost. There's a lot of people who manipulate the crap out of the market trying to create temporary shortages that drive up demand for their goods. If you have a general idea of how much something has selling for over the last few weeks, you're much less likely to get caught up in a price spike simply because the prices are very high during a particular day when someone bought up all of the existing supply.
 
As far as quests go, if you're finding it impossibly difficult to beat content just one or two levels above you, you may want to look at some of the guides on the forums in the Classes section to see if the build you're using could be improved. It won't necessarily be easy to do quests above your level, but it probably shouldn't be killing you very often if you have a robust build you're working with.
 
Good luck!  :)
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No, the coin drops from kills overall aren't anything to write home about. Even rewards for the harder mobs. If you get killed once or twice your repair bill will also eat whatever you gained.
 
To make money, especially on your first character, the best is to get to 50 and run the dailies. Once you max out your elder gems for the week, the gold from quests and XP is pretty good. Grinding vet shiphands is also pretty good.
 
I find the AH very meh to make gold due to people undercutting without regard to cost of items or ingredients. I have some luck still selling blue and purple drops from the defile's rares, as these are INSANELY good (Really, CRB?! It's cool to get nice items easily, but if they invalidate anything you can get before raid drops it's a bit of a headscratcher. LOL), but otherwise it's very easy to get good gear through other channels.
 
While <50, you can try to harvest mats to sell those. Especially on your first toon I'd advise against crafting. Too expensive and the results aren't worthwhile.	
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			You do get enough plat to maintain your gear at level 50 (repair etc coloring costume etc)...i have around 12 plat..and I have had that pretty close to level 50....I mostly only play vet dungeons..cause I have boycotted the other content due to its booring for me. And as principle I will not run daily..unless its a daily vet dung..(casue i run those anyways). But there are certainly ways to earn plat in WS.	
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			The kills from mobs used to be good (r12) especially if they dropped signs but with the inclusion of shiphands, they are just better.  When you become a fresh 50, you can do a shiphand in 10 minutes and the big ones in say 20 minutes.  There are also the adventures and dungeons that can net a good amount, especially if your in a good group.  Plat plus upgrading gear is a +.  There's some professions that can make money but not as big as it used to be.  But if you can memorize all the shiphands and what works best for the run and you (think spec and what to interupt such as big hit vs little hit), and get them down to a good time, doing say 5 an hour, your looking at 2plat an hour which is good.  With shiphands farming and just everything else, contracts/dailies for rep so you can get amp points.  You soon will have plenty of money.  	
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			fyi, I find the vet Infestion shiphand to be the fastest one to spam for that purpose.	
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			This thread makes me happy.  You guys are awesome.	
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This thread makes me happy.  You guys are awesome.
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fyi, I find the vet Infestion shiphand to be the fastest one to spam for that purpose.
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Infestation is fast if you're in a group, but it's hard to get gold medal on it if you're running it solo because you have so little time to seal up bulkheads and fight off aliens in the same area. And gold medals give you considerably more reward at the end of the mission, including PPPs that you can sell or use to play gamblebox RNG hell.
 
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There's been a couple of times in Infestation that I got a silver medal despite me doing everything perfectly. Presumably I failed at something, but I'm never sure why: I finish with about 10 minutes left, with all the cargo tagged, all shiphands treated and I'm reasonably sure I always save the shiphands that are getting sucked out of the ship. 
 
So, yeah, it's not very reliable at all.	
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			One of the "hidden" things in infestation is that you can close the hull breaches even while being attacked. Lots of things with a cast time interrupt when you get hit, but not this one.	
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There's been a couple of times in Infestation that I got a silver medal despite me doing everything perfectly. Presumably I failed at something, but I'm never sure why: I finish with about 10 minutes left, with all the cargo tagged, all shiphands treated and I'm reasonably sure I always save the shiphands that are getting sucked out of the ship. 
 
So, yeah, it's not very reliable at all.
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Look on the mini map, zoom in if you have to, but shows the holes as an "event".  There should be plenty of time to close, if you have to, clear the room while one of the guys is being sucked in on one of hte long ones.  There are short ones to be sucked in but there are long ones too.  
 
Going to say after reading this....thats what she said.
			
				
	Edited May 27, 2015 by Orrestes	
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Dear bittersnap,
 
friendly chua knows advice. :)
 
How Ethunyiel makes money:
 
- farm Eldan creatures in the new area (in combination with contracts). They drop epic eldan stuff which can be sold in the CE
- make random battlegrounds and shiphands (you get 10 gold on each run)
- dailies
 
So don't worry. Once you get Level 50, everything gets shiny.
 
(btw. you can also just buy C.R.E.D.D. and sell it for 25plat or so..)
 
Greetings,
 
Ethunyiel	
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(btw. you can also just buy C.R.E.D.D. and sell it for 25plat or so..)
 
Greetings,
 
Ethunyiel
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wow, that has jumped up since last week when it was at 16.5p
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its 26p20g BO - ON JABBIT.
 
*cupcake*ing muricans, think they the only people in this world.
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U need to close the hull breaches before the crew members(one pr. breach) are sucked out,
its kinda hard to see em, if u dont know they are there.
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