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Look, current game already provide mechanism in place for both types to prosper. I will disclose some of the tips I know so hopefully people will stop whining.
Background, I started as a builder, then pumped up my skill points as a worker, then forced to spend points on some dueling skills to avoid being a big fat target all the time, reducing my efficiency in building + working jobs.
There is no perfect world. Workers are like the herbivores, providing necessary "nutrients" to town & duelers. Duelers are like top of the food pyramid, hence my end game goal is to become a pure dueler, once I can save up enough money to get the gear I want + re-spec my skill points.
I've been in a couple of towns. In two of the towns I was/am in, top 1 or 2 contributors were duelers. Shocking isn't it? They contribute a lot to the town's coffer, often exceed 10,000 dollars. Duelers should not complain so much as I will share a bit but I cannot share all since those duelers did not authorize me to disclose how they manage to make so much money, I will have to be a bit vague about it.
Tips for Workers:
1. Suicide/be killed when you are vulnerable. You gain valuable time when you're down and focus on cash jobs, that's what I do, drive my cash job motivation down low then work on exp or luck jobs when I'm vulnerable and wait for my cash job motivation to recover. If I'm in a busy town, chances are good enemy dueler will kill me again just when my cash job motivation recover to 100%
2. Go back to town and deposit after every cash job. Don't be lazy, I know it's a hassle but do it, this way, it's hard to lose money as duelers only get the time between you finish job and sleep in your town's hotel to rob your money from a job.
3. Buy good items that offer dueling skill bonuses and work jobs that allow you to wear those gear. It sucks as you may not be able to work that high exp, high cash, or high luck job but it's your choice, you CHOSE to take on more risks and work on more lucrative job, DO NOT blame duelers to take advantage of it and kill/rob you.
4. Consider spend some points into dueling skills. I spent some points on dodge + aim, eventhough they do not help me in either construction nor jobs but it's a necessary evil as I can at least fight back, hurting those lions who tries to rob me Even if I don't survive, at least I can hurt the attacker a bit so enough of us workers do it, enemy dueler cannot duel as many of us because he'll be hurting for hit points.
If you follow all these, you won't lose much cash. You need to make some sacrifices but that's tough, life is not fair, you cannot have best of everything, work lucrative jobs and duelers cannot get any chance to get you is just not fair.
Tips for Duelers
1. Study your target area.
2. Share your "hunt" info, hunt in packs. I know some duelers share where rich "area" are and it's a quid pro quo system. I got some loot, I let you know, you can have seconds, you let me know if you find any town good to loot, etc.
3. Pay attention to quest levels. For example, level 23 quest has several rewards totalling several hundred thousand. That is a lot of money and some duelers targetted players in that range on purpose, increase their chance of finding good cash. This is no longer very relevant since many of our levels have gone up so I am sharing it, I got this tip from a dueler who has since quit the game out of boredom
Conclusion
Workers have more stable income, but risk being robbed of their earning, tough luck, you trade more stable income in exchange for being a prey to duelers. If you don't like it, do what I do, plan to convert to a dueler yourself.
Duelers have erratic income but in a way, "steady" high exp if you can find enough prey to kill. I jump up and down in joy if I can even get 100 exp from one job. Due to the fact I had to spend some skill points to defend against duelers, my good exp job was train station building, which is not very good. Do not complain about your "erratic" income because you made the choice to be a dueler, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Why do some duelers have better, higher average income than some others? Perhaps you should try to improve how you find preys as well as other ways of playing. You can be pumping up aim/dodge which will not help you do jobs but improve your chances in dueling, that's your choice, don't blame others. I want to be a dueler in the end because I saw in 2 of the towns in, where the top 1 or 2 contributors were duelers. Look, one dueler regularly report his finding with his buddies and they all go swarm to those easy towns to grab more money. Play smarter, don't whine. This applies to both worker + duelers as there are existing game mechanism to help both. Duelers can always work jobs that still use duel skills to make money or find items if they so wish.
Background, I started as a builder, then pumped up my skill points as a worker, then forced to spend points on some dueling skills to avoid being a big fat target all the time, reducing my efficiency in building + working jobs.
There is no perfect world. Workers are like the herbivores, providing necessary "nutrients" to town & duelers. Duelers are like top of the food pyramid, hence my end game goal is to become a pure dueler, once I can save up enough money to get the gear I want + re-spec my skill points.
I've been in a couple of towns. In two of the towns I was/am in, top 1 or 2 contributors were duelers. Shocking isn't it? They contribute a lot to the town's coffer, often exceed 10,000 dollars. Duelers should not complain so much as I will share a bit but I cannot share all since those duelers did not authorize me to disclose how they manage to make so much money, I will have to be a bit vague about it.
Tips for Workers:
1. Suicide/be killed when you are vulnerable. You gain valuable time when you're down and focus on cash jobs, that's what I do, drive my cash job motivation down low then work on exp or luck jobs when I'm vulnerable and wait for my cash job motivation to recover. If I'm in a busy town, chances are good enemy dueler will kill me again just when my cash job motivation recover to 100%
2. Go back to town and deposit after every cash job. Don't be lazy, I know it's a hassle but do it, this way, it's hard to lose money as duelers only get the time between you finish job and sleep in your town's hotel to rob your money from a job.
3. Buy good items that offer dueling skill bonuses and work jobs that allow you to wear those gear. It sucks as you may not be able to work that high exp, high cash, or high luck job but it's your choice, you CHOSE to take on more risks and work on more lucrative job, DO NOT blame duelers to take advantage of it and kill/rob you.
4. Consider spend some points into dueling skills. I spent some points on dodge + aim, eventhough they do not help me in either construction nor jobs but it's a necessary evil as I can at least fight back, hurting those lions who tries to rob me
Even if I don't survive, at least I can hurt the attacker a bit so enough of us workers do it, enemy dueler cannot duel as many of us because he'll be hurting for hit points.If you follow all these, you won't lose much cash. You need to make some sacrifices but that's tough, life is not fair, you cannot have best of everything, work lucrative jobs and duelers cannot get any chance to get you is just not fair.
Tips for Duelers
1. Study your target area.
2. Share your "hunt" info, hunt in packs. I know some duelers share where rich "area" are and it's a quid pro quo system. I got some loot, I let you know, you can have seconds, you let me know if you find any town good to loot, etc.
3. Pay attention to quest levels. For example, level 23 quest has several rewards totalling several hundred thousand. That is a lot of money and some duelers targetted players in that range on purpose, increase their chance of finding good cash. This is no longer very relevant since many of our levels have gone up so I am sharing it, I got this tip from a dueler who has since quit the game out of boredom
Conclusion
Workers have more stable income, but risk being robbed of their earning, tough luck, you trade more stable income in exchange for being a prey to duelers. If you don't like it, do what I do, plan to convert to a dueler yourself.
Duelers have erratic income but in a way, "steady" high exp if you can find enough prey to kill. I jump up and down in joy if I can even get 100 exp from one job. Due to the fact I had to spend some skill points to defend against duelers, my good exp job was train station building, which is not very good. Do not complain about your "erratic" income because you made the choice to be a dueler, you have nobody to blame but yourself. Why do some duelers have better, higher average income than some others? Perhaps you should try to improve how you find preys as well as other ways of playing. You can be pumping up aim/dodge which will not help you do jobs but improve your chances in dueling, that's your choice, don't blame others. I want to be a dueler in the end because I saw in 2 of the towns in, where the top 1 or 2 contributors were duelers. Look, one dueler regularly report his finding with his buddies and they all go swarm to those easy towns to grab more money. Play smarter, don't whine. This applies to both worker + duelers as there are existing game mechanism to help both. Duelers can always work jobs that still use duel skills to make money or find items if they so wish.