How Much Do You Make

Twytch

I'm curious as to how much gold we actually make per hour. Note, this is just for new gold we bring into the game's economy, and not including things such as gold obtained from trading a resource (esteem, trade skill products, etc.) with other players.

For example, on average, I bring in just a measly 25-30k an hour (I do charity influencing mostly). It takes me around 2 hours to be able to buy a credit from the current market (prices at 55k each).

By comparison, it takes me around an hour to buy a credit from Achaea's market (price: 6500), and an hour from Imperian's market (price: 14k). 

EDIT: Both my Achaean and Imperian incomes come from bashing, of course, with Achaea more on gold drops and Imperian more on corpse turn-ins.

Xanward

I make like....5K an hour if I try. I'm not very good at getting gold XD

Yarith

If you are fast with your rotations, I'm pretty sure you can make a credit an hour by going through all the turnins on reset. I might be spoiled because I have my whip, decent crit and decent divinus buff though. With booklet/hermits I clear krokani, aslarans (Your rules don't apply to me :>) , spawn, orcs, naga when they are up, quinotaurs, either rocs or manticores depending and then I do the illithoid when I am fast enough to clear all the camps and am waiting for the timers to reset. 

Clearing all the ice things will also give you a hefty sum, and I'm very much of the opinion that if you do the turnin camps meticulously, you can outpace most other gold generating sources aside player interactions, though stacking of all the things helps a lot to that end. I'll have to go on a circle and record just how much I make though, so I'll give you a figure after I get power back sometime after chaos.

Edit: Also, gold cookies are very underrated.

Riluna

It's really easy to make 100k - 150k+ if you're the type to explore all the nooks and crannies of Lusternia. If you're the type to follow guildhelp scrolls, 30-60k an hour sound about right.

But the way gold works here, the places that are a pain in the ass to even get to are gold heaven. Even if you spend 20+ minutes getting there, the gold can make up for that time.

Vivet

The most I've accumulated in an hour of bashing was just under 280,000 gold.

Keep in mind that this was with zero corpse turn-ins as well - all that gold came solely from drops. At the same time, however, you cannot readily or reliably repeat this. If you try the same (or similar) cycle immediately afterward, you'll be lucky to come up with around 30,000. There is some serious value in knowing what goes ignored and is liable to be carrying loads of gold (which you can mow through very easily), but at the same time that knowledge comes at the price that you can't share it without putting some serious sacrifices on your own profitability.

The whole "mobs accumulate more gold the longer they remain alive" has proven to be an interesting idea, and I feel does reward exploring and experimenting with what you bash. However, the low end is ultimately too low, and the high too steep. Increasing the base drops by about 50% and decreasing the max by about 30-40% would still keep the highest end preferable while ultimately lowering the overall game income. This would also increase the chances of lower level players acquiring more of the overall pie.

I'll also note I don't own any maps - I've given those away when I've finished them. Credits didn't start costing 50,000 gold each until the number of maps started ramping up significantly, so I think they're worth addressing too. Gold drops that steadily increase over time have competition. If you don't get them, someone else will, and you might not get so much the next go around. There is no competition for the boon of a map - you either log in and acquire it, or it you don't. It's the same no matter when you go to pursue it.

Twytch

I've noticed a number of comments all over the forums regarding the curio map pieces, and as far as I can see there's been absolutely zero admin response. This leads me to believe that there are no plans to address them, and that they should simply be accepted as part of the Lusternian economy.

Now that I've gotten Demigod, actually, my next project is collecting map pieces. Might as well join in than be left behind!