The Most Profitable/Quickest AFK Method to Make Money

[Abbot]

Quite simply, I enjoy figuring out what I could be doing that would be more profitable in UO. I don't really care for any illegal AFK methods, so I'd ask that for my thread that that stays out of it.

This is the best that I came up with, and it's pretty simple. I challenge anyone to beat it. I bet there's better ways, but you'd be hard pressed to find one that is entirely legal. The requirement is you must be legally allowed to not be at the computer while you macro your method.

1. You need money to make money. 181,440GP starting cost.
2. With that gold you'll buy up SA, SS and blank scrolls. I have no idea how long this will take. You need 24,192 of each material.

Now, begin your inscription macro.

3. In one week (168 hours) you can make about 18,144* Flamestrike Scrolls.
4. Sell each Flamestrike Scroll for 36gp to NPCs with a macro, either via recalling or otherwise.
6. That gives you 22.667gp in profit per Flamestrike Scroll. In one week, you just made 411,270.048 gp in PURE PROFIT, and you made back all your money invested, at a total of 653,184GP.
7. This can be done on three accounts. That means 1,233,810.144 per week doing nothing at all.

*With failures included into the price, each Flamestrike Scroll costs 13.333. It takes 33.333 seconds on average to make a Flamestrike Scroll, though I think it might be slightly less than that. Failures will slow you down 3.333 seconds out of every 10 scrolls, and I'm not sure how to account for that with meditation. I'm sure if I could, you'd be making more money per hour. Without failures, however, a FS scroll would take 30 seconds to make with active meditation included.

Alternatively you could make a tamer and farm at your computer and make what, 80k an hour? If you were a badass and were able to play a week straight, you'd make 13,440,000 a week.

[applejack]

I tell people all the time, with the amount of characters at your disposal everyone should have a scribe especially new-ish players. Not only is it convenient, but you actually make a profit while training it. Plus methods like the one list here is a really easy way to make some cash.

[Malaikat]

Inscription is fantastic, but the amount of prep required is far more laborious than "buy up all the regs". And that was before a bunch of newbies read this thread...

Good luck finding the resources to actually turn this profit in a week, but inscriptions pwns regardless.

[Abbot]

I think with time and some knowledge, buying the reagents wouldn't be that bad if you had a macro to do it for you. I could see it taking a while, though. I think even at player vendor rates, you'd make a decent enough profit to justify running a macro overnight to make scrolls. I think that selling scrolls back to vendors would be the most time consuming, since you'd want to sell them only at full value, and it'd cost reagents to recall around or it'd be a lot of leg work. You could still afk sell them without recalling.

Alternatively, you could make ebolt, invisibility, explosion and reveal scrolls along with your flamestrike scrolls, and you could sell them quicker, and still make about the same profit. It might even be more profitable time-wise to do just one of those level sixers, considering meditation and mana usage, but I think flamestrike would still be the most profitable long run. I'm not 100% on that, though.

But, I digress, the point of the thread is to challenge people in coming up with a faster method than this one. Curious if anyone else has any ideas.

[Mikel123]

Don't vendors reduce their buy price if you sell them too many scrolls? (or outright refuse to buy them?)

I know this happens with some other items; I just assumed it did with scrolls too.

Btw, best way to earn gold relative to time spent in front of monitor is to have a sheep farm. I made about a million gold in a month from perhaps 15 minutes a day of active work plus macros to spin and cut into bandages. By my math that's about 133k per hour, which beats even dragon turreting with no losses.

[Abbot]

Yes, I think you could sell maybe 20 before it dropped price by 1 gp per 5. The selling process would be slow as shit if you wanted full, but not too bad if you did the level six scrolls along with it, too. You could sell scrolls as you bought more reagents for the next batch, as well.

That's pretty good cash flow with the sheeps. I didn't consider that. Definitely the least time involved method of making money I can fathom. I guess it relies a bit on people wanting to buy an ass load of bandages though, and it caps out at a certain point, so it makes it kind of hard to figure out how much it really pays on average.

[Mikel123]

Hardest part is just keeping your sheep from dying to the rampant earthquakes happening across Brittania (that always seem to have their epicenters located at one's sheep tower).

[Tiwstacain]

Inscription is an epic way to make money, u pretty much cannot sell lvl 6 scrolls due to everyone else selling them. You can sell 30 scrolls before they r reduced. I made allot of my money doing this, but it takes allot of time to get scrolls/regs especially with the ppl running around buying all the regs afk style



TC

[Robbbb]

Inscription is an epic way to make money, u pretty much cannot sell lvl 6 scrolls due to everyone else selling them. You can sell 30 scrolls before they r reduced. I made allot of my money doing this, but it takes allot of time to get scrolls/regs especially with the ppl running around buying all the regs afk style



TC

You can just purchase cheap BULK regs and scrolls from Ivy here - viewtopic.php?f=75&t=33791

[exarkun]

You need to take into account the morning reboot of the server. That would remove some of the time from each day/week.

[Abbot]

thanks, I meant to but I forgot.
so subtract 31780.54gp from the total

[Robbbb]

I have 1570 FS scrolls for sale at 23 gp = 36k ...PM me

[Stromverbrauch]

Is there any explanation on why unattended macroing is allowed on this server ?

Seeing as how everyone here is always talking about era accuracy, unattended macroing seems pretty far off from that, as that would bring you into jail on OSI servers at that time. Atleast that was the case on "Europe".

[Robbbb]

Is there any explanation on why unattended macroing is allowed on this server ?

Seeing as how everyone here is always talking about era accuracy, unattended macroing seems pretty far off from that, as that would bring you into jail on OSI servers at that time. Atleast that was the case on "Europe".

The staff dont have time to constantly monitor players. As long as you are not afk resource gathering then you really arent hurting anyone or anything by afk macroing.

[WiseOne]

Boring...