UO Second Age

Light Shade wrote:The best advice I can give anyone wanting to make money by business is to never scam someone on a business deal on any of your characters. It just takes one time to ruin your reputation. I've seen so many people do this. The thing is, if you have a decent price, you'll still get people to do business with you, but a lot of people will never do business with you again if they know you've scammed anyone at all. This removes a lot of the "demand" for your goods, in a sense. In the long run, you lose more than you'll ever gain and you'll find yourself doing other things to make money to supplement the income you lost from Nefarious business dealings.

Wonko the Sane wrote:In addition to IDOCs I have to confess that I have found an unlocked door with unlocked stuff every time I've set out into the wilderness to find one. I looted everything that wasn't nailed down in someone's L-shape last week, and just a few days after that I found a keep that had only 1 secure container (one front door locked, one not, so everyone, please remember to secure your homes properly!). Free regs, boats (1 in the L-shape, 2 in the keep), treasure maps, and most importantly whole bunch of magic weapons of power (silver even) and vanquishing and armour of hardening and up. Also in each place I found resources like ingots, cloth and leather. Actually, the keep I looted last week, I also looted the keep next door to that a few months ago and got ten or so metal chests (worth what, 10k each?) and a ton of weapons and armour again, along with a bunch of shipwreck bones. I mean a ton. Oh and on top of that resources. In another house one time I found a boat key and on that boat a ton of ore. Had to be smelted, but that's what I have a gm miner for.

If it sounds like I looted your keep... uh... it must have been someone else.

Pirul wrote:

Light Shade wrote:The best advice I can give anyone wanting to make money by business is to never scam someone on a business deal on any of your characters. It just takes one time to ruin your reputation. I've seen so many people do this. The thing is, if you have a decent price, you'll still get people to do business with you, but a lot of people will never do business with you again if they know you've scammed anyone at all. This removes a lot of the "demand" for your goods, in a sense. In the long run, you lose more than you'll ever gain and you'll find yourself doing other things to make money to supplement the income you lost from Nefarious business dealings.

I couldn't agree more.

Telamon wrote:I've made my fortune via IDOC's and player run vendors. TO work IDOC's though you need a crew of 4-8 trustworthy people with a similar level of dedication or you risk putting in a ton of work only to watch as a ghost as people loot the place.

Long story short, if you are nice to people, make friends and generaly try to avoid being an ass you can succeed at this game without being some ancient vet.

I've been here 15 months, never set foot in a dungeon and I've amassed a decent fortune.

I owe it all to the quality of the people I befriended and the loyalty that we have shown each other.

Yep, those are stacks of 60k on the ground. Courtesy of an ACE keep.


Doing events works, but camping the event hoarders houses. Courtesy of another ACE patio.


While everyone is at a pvp tourney, leaving a massive decay to only a few of us.


Courtesy of another ace house.


BeatingU's contribution to the house decay loot.