2012-11-13, 07:14 PM
YennoX Wrote:I've been playing this game for 6-7 years on a model of self-sustenance. That is, I don't have the time to throw hours into the game to merchant. I pick up my mesos, I'll dump anything that could be useful in the future on a mule, or sell a thing or two that could be worth something when I'm in serious need of cash. I spend NX on occasion (perhaps $10-20 a year?) for permanent pets/equips. I've probably bought <20 cubes of any sort.
So, after playing around 6-7 years without investing much NX directly into equipment/improving my range, what are my results?
Current total meso reserves: 150 mill.
Current total assets (excluding mesos): <2 bill.
Since I can't afford anything nowadays, I normally just spend hours farming equips at monster park and then fusing/crafting with my fingers crossed that I'll get something usable. My best weapon is a 132att dragon kanzir (and even that is probably worth less than 200mill nowadays), which I self-scrolled over the years of collecting scrolls of all sorts. Am I going to be fighting HT anytime soon? Probably not. Not with my 30k range (at lv16x), with probably less than 30% PDR, and only 10% boss damage from my DS. Will I ever get to fight HT? Maybe.
Any new boss that will be released in the future has nothing to do with me. While the rich players are soloing Hard Magnus under 5 minutes and getting a few bills in drops per run, I'm be here making barely 100k a day over a couple of years trying to defeat HT.
TL;DR. It took me 6-7 years to get a 30k range on one of my characters using the 'other methods' of making money that some people have been suggesting in this thread.
EDIT: So yes, other methods do exist, but are so painfully slow most would just give up. I think you need to actually experience what it's like playing the game NXless before you truly understand how terrible Maple has become.
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