Any point playing this game as Free non paying player ? (that is crafting fan too)

Lobotomist

I didnt manage to play a lot because of the queues. But what I gathered so far is the pretty standard MMO gameplay with quests and bit old fashion combat system.

Now people say that the game opens up to sandbox elements after lvl 30. With lot of house building crafting trading and area control.

But I see that in order to own housing plot or farm you need to be subscriber, right ?

And in order to craft you need to buy labor potions (or grind heavily)

 

So non paying customer is pretty much out of "sandbox" elements?

 

What is than left for free player ?

Standard questing themepark stuff ? To be honest , some other games do that part better.

 

 

So what say you ?

 

 

 

Herzy

Have you seen this?

 

Benefits of F2P Gaming:

• Life is simple and the game is free.
• No need to worry about land and farming.
• Can focus completely on quests, dungeons, and PVP.

"How do I make money as a F2P player?"

Good:

• Do all your quests! You get weapons, armors, and gilda stars from quests. You'll also have lots of money by the time you hit level 50.
• Do dungeons as many times as you can. The drops sell for quite a lot. However, you'll need a Patron friend to help you sell the drops so make lots of Patron friends! Or you can purchase an AH license from other people, the AH, or the Cash Shop. It's very cheap and you only need to do this once and it's applied to all your characters!
• Offer protection to people doing trade runs. Lots of Patrons are horrible at PVP and need protection when travelling with their expensive trade packs. Trade packs can get pretty expensive and time consuming to make so people are always looking for protection.
• Explore the sea and find valuable treasures in ship wrecks and treasure chests underwater!

Evil:

• Explore! Look for players' secret tree farms and steal their resources. Use the resources to craft valuable goods. Sell the goods.
• Kill people doing trade runs and steal their trade packs. Turn in trade packs to get either gold, resources, or gilda stars.

"How do I gear up as a F2P player?"

• Do quests! Quests will gear you up all the way to level 50. Here's a list of quests that will give you end game gear: http://www.reddit.com/r/archeage/comments/2d9x6g/starter_gear_for_a_level_50/[1]

• Do dungeons! Dungeons can give you weapon, armor, and accessories!

• Craft weapons, armors, and accessories! As a F2P player, you'll have to be sneaky with where you plant your plants for the materials.

General Tips:

• Don't join the heavily populated servers like Kyrios and Ollo unless you're okay with 1-2 hour queues for the next couple of days/weeks.
• Join a guild!
• Get really good at PVP.

Feel free to ask questions about anything and I'll do my best to answer them!

[Edit]

More tips:

• In order to sell in the Auction House as a F2P player, you'll need to buy an Auction License from other players, from the AH, or from the Cash Shop. You only need to buy it once and it's fairly cheap so it's not a big problem at all!

• Patrons who didn't get land as well as F2P players will have to do secret farming in order to get resources on their own which means there will always be secret farms to discover and steal!

• Just because you don't own land doesn't mean you can't farm! If you can find a spot that's very hidden you can start your own secret farm by simply planting your plants in the ground. Other people can steal it though so make sure it's very hidden! I would suggest planting crops that have a short harvest time so it's not out in the open for very long.

• Always use Evenstones (from General Merchant) on gear that you don't need anymore! It'll save you in cost once you start crafting your gear!

• F2P user have access to public farms and ranches, which can be used to grow limited amounts of either crops, trees and livestock. I think the limit is 10 crops, 5 trees, 5 livestock and you have to find the appropriate public farm. There is also limited space on them, but generally you will be able to fit your maximum quantity.

Sauce:

http://nl.reddit.com/r/archeage/comments/2gkukc/beginners_guide_to_f2p_gaming_in_archeage/

negativf4kk

As a F2P you got PvP, dungeon runs and gethering rare rendom spawn resources.

You won`t have enough LP to craft or do trade runs, sufficient to genarate an income.

immodium

Originally posted by Herzy

 

Benefits of F2P Gaming:

• No need to worry about land and farming.

That mad me chuckle, making it sound like it's a mundane chore.

negativf4kk

Originally posted by immodium

Originally posted by Herzy

 

Benefits of F2P Gaming:

• No need to worry about land and farming.

That mad me chuckle, making it sound like it's a mundane chore.

it is in a way. thats why lots of farm land, i would say about 60-70% will change hands after first 3 month.

fivoroth

If i were a f2p player, I would probably not like the game. You can't own a house or a farm, you can't meaningfully craft due to labour regen being so low. So yeah you are pretty much left with the boring questing. 

As a subscriber, labour regen works really well. You get loads of labour points and you can literally avoid questing all together if you wanted. As a f2p, you will always not have enough labour. 

Long story short, if you are a f2p player, I would find something else to play. There are way better f2p games.

Jabas

F2P players can allways work in team with others (guilds) and theres allways patrons to give a hand so some objectives that require LP can be reach it sooner, like take the donkey and build a boat, then you can make trade runs for profit and buy the patron status on AH, is extremely cheap atm.

 

Edit: If you are a craftign fan, be a crafter as a patron is allready a chalenge, cant imagine someone trying to be a crafter as a f2p.

VorpalChicken28

While there is stuff to do as F2P, the game is really P2W, personally I'd steer clear of F2P other than using it to see if you like the game enough to pay.

maji

Well, as a crafting fan I doubt that you will enjoy ArcheAge that much without spending any sort of money whatsoever.

 

The two F2P MMORPGs I'd recommend for people who like to craft are Rift and Fallen Earth.

The Rift crafting system offers the usual: butchering, foraging and mining as gathering professions, apothecary, armorsmith, weaponsmith,  artificer, outfitter, runecrafter and weaponsmith as actual crafting professions, and fishing and survival as additional ones. I don't think you're restricted in crafting if you play f2p.

Fallen Earth offers: armorcraft, ballistics, construction, cooking, geology, medicine, mutagenics, nature, scavenging, science and weaponry. You can learn any and all crafting skills at once, it's just a matter of how dedicated you are, and nearly all items in the game are crafted. I think the F2P restriction is that you can craft only three items at once. You can craft while being offline and questing.