Entropia Universe How to Make Money

Entropia Universe How to Make Money

General considerations:

· most of the items listed below are rather theoretical but nevertheless listed to ensure completeness.

· most of the items listed below need a lot of dedication and time

· some of the items listed below need a significant starting capital

Sweating

Sweating or formally "Sweat Gathering" is the process of gathering "Vibrant Sweat" from the various creatures around Entropia Universe. Sweating is a free-to-play activity. Since "Vibrant Sweat" is used for further processing, mainly for creating "Mind Essence", it has a small market value and can be sold to other players. Depending on your strategies and dedication you can gather a couple of 100s of units of sweat per hour. Sweat usually sells best in stacks of 1000 units with the market prize for 1000 units between 1 and 3 PED currently (May 2013).

While sweating you will also get in-game skills that theoretically can be sold to other players. But to get a substantial amount that is possible to sell at all you probably need to sweat for 100s if not 1000s of hours.

Collecting fruits, stones, dung and Broken Elysian Technology

· Various types of fruit, various types of stones, Common Dung are resources that can be found on the ground of planets occasionally

· "Broken Elysian Technology" can only be found on planet Next Island occasionally

All of them can be used for further processing, mainly in Crafting, therefore have a small market value and can be sold to other players. Depending on one's luck the profit can be in about the same range than the profit from sweating but is somewhat boring since it only involves walking around and keep your eyes open for the items on the ground.

Oil Rig and Beer Gardens

Oil rigs and similar are free goods spreading facilities and regularly found in areas with Player-versus-Player combat (PVP) enabled and usually controlled by groups of high-skilled and well-equipped players. The costs to control and defend control over these facilities quite likely eat up all possible profit from collecting the oil.

· The Oil Rig northwest of Ashi on Planet Calypso is regularly producing stacks of Oil which can be picked up from the ground by everyone. 

· The Oil Field near Camp Icarus on Planet Calypso has been disabled and no longer produces oil. 

· On ROCKtropia one can find the Motörhead Stadium Beer Garden where Motörhead Kegs appear on the ground.

· On the ROCKtropia sub-destination Hunt The THING there's another oil producing facility.  

Free Competitions

Free competitions or events are usually run by other players but sometimes also by Planet Partners, ingame or on community websites. Depending on the setup of the event one does not necessarily have to spend PEDs to achieve good results. Often those events offer low value prizes for the winners. Considering the chance to win and the rather low frequency of these kind of competitions this is merely a theoretical way to make money

Skill selling

A small group of skills can be acquired for free. They increase while Sweating or getting hit by creatures. Skills can be extracted to Empty Skills Implanets (ESI) and sold to other players. But due to the relatively high prize of ESIs compared to the relatively low prize of most of these free skills you first need a substantial amount of skills to make selling of these profitable.

Missions

There are a few missions that can be completed without spending any PED and which reward completion with items or skills theoretically worth PED. Since each can only get done once and the value of the rewards sums up to a maybe few PED (<10) this method is actually not worth mentioning.


Mentoring

Entropia Universe has a Mentoring system that allows experienced players to be mentors for new players. New players need to reach specific skills level to "graduate" and if they do the mentor gets awared with a low value ingame item. Considering the time spent to mentor a new player and the low vaule of the rewarded item this is just a theoretical way of earning money.

Battle Simulator

The Entropia Universe Battle Simulator is a competitive time trial solo instance in which all players share the same weapons and skill ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. There's a 4 PED entry fee and on average a fraction of that in loot for completing the instance. But a share of the total entrance fees in a week will be awarded to the best competitors of the week. So being among the best of the best on the long term might ensure a small stream of revenue.

Land deeds

Lands deeds, similar to shares, entitle the deed holder to receive a share of the revenues of the entity represented by deeds.

Currently there are only two types of lands deeds available: Calypso Land Deeds (CLD) receiving a 25% share of Planet Calypso's total revenue and Arkadia Underground Deeds (AUD) receiving 5% tax revenues of the Arkadia Underground estate. Another type, the Battle Arena Deeds are scheduled for release in 2015.