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MMO where instead of PVE or PVP you can focus on Economy?
I want to focus on money making strategies in games rather than grinding for EXP or killing other players. I know that in most games you could just farm certain mobs for their loot over and over to sell or do a dungeon or something with your guild to sell the rare drops.
Is there a game where managing your money can be its own play style instead of worrying about combat all of the time? Something like being able to buy a town and hire NPCs and you get a cut of the profit or something like that.
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Only game i can think of that allows that as a complete playstyle is EvE. You can go into manufacturing. It takes awhile to get efficient at it, and figuring the difference between BPOs and BPCs (and which is better to use in a given situation) can be a bit of a headache, but it is quite different from any other gaming experience. I believe there's also a game set in Egypt that caters to crafters (and this has no combat)... A tale in the desert I think it's called, but I haven't played and don't know much about the game, other than the graphics look dated (but that's only from screenshots).
Like everyone else has said so far...first game that comes to mind is EVE Online.
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Microsoft Excel: The Game - aka EvE.
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
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eve doesnt have any fun or excitement, but rather its all harvest and build economy
FFXIV
You can consider it an mmo, runescape allowed you to focus solely on the economy. They have the grand exchange where you can read price rise/drop graphs over a certain period of time and make predictions on what to invest in and when to dump it to maximize profit. Then when you get a ton of money you can buy one of those neat little rares that they dropped back in 2000.
Project Entropia
http://www.entropiauniverse.com/
EVE
I build nothing. I don't grind mobs. I don't do missions.
All i do is market PVP.
Everything i do is based on trade, markets, and economic game play.
At the moment, im working a 250b Isk scheme, after just completing a 110b Isk set up.
EVE = Economic MMO Game Play
I really wouldn't recommend playing this game, but as a variation to EVE and being F2P: Wonderland Online. It's fully based on crafting to gain money since the monsters don't drop gold.
Problem is, IGG's the publisher (warning signs plastered all over) and all support for it's kinda dropped to an all-time low (according to friends who still play it) these days... so EVE it is.
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EVE Online is great for that kind of gameplay. Massive market, buy and sell orders, contracts, exchange system (items for items instead of item for game currency), historical market data for every item, multiple markets and a host of skills to extend where and how you can buy items.
Here's some links you might want to check out:
- the recent Quarterly Economic Newsletter
- the Market Guide in the EVE Wiki
- and a page of links to wiki and community made sites and tools
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Unchartered Waters has a Merchant Class....give it a try its not horrible.
eve just seems to be a major time sink.. not to be discouraging.. it just should be known prior to playing (its why i stopped)
though i must say all that i can think of is EVE, yes
but remember this game have 8 years of Economic history, and it would be hard to start into the economy right off the bat, but with the right guidance from some large or medium coorporate, you might find it fun
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Folks have already addressed EvE, so I'll skip past that.
Runescape doesn't force you into combat, and you can gather, craft and merchant (i.e., buy low, sell high, etc.) to your heart's delight. There are still 500K-1 Million subscribers, and maybe almost as many free players, so the economy is very robust (their "Auction House", called the "Grand Exchange", is cross server, so your markets are all the players who play the game, not just your server). A bad part is that a lot of people "merchant", a clique of in-game rich players pretty much dictate what happens in the markets, and there are secondary/tertiary markets that exists outside the imperfect Grand Exchange, and to learn how those work takes a lot of time and work.
A Tale in the Desert is supposedly a combat-less game that is entirely run by the players. The bad part, from what I read in the forums, is that the game is entirely run by the players. Most aspects of the game seem to be political and drama-filled. I always read a game's forums before I download the game, and reading that game's forums turned me off right away.
Other than that, I don't think there are any other real market-driven games that don't require combat in one form or another. Good luck in your search.
perpetuum. its only been out for alittle over a week so the economies still building. its an indie game thats basically stEVE on the ground with mechs rather than spaceships
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/
Positive example: EvE
Negative example: FFXIV
Pick your poison, either way...its going to be a hell of a time sink.
A Tale In The Desert is an Economy/Political based game. There is no combat. You work on manufacturing, economy and politics in that you can run for office and actually rule areas, even if it's much more a democracy than you would have found in ancient Egypt.
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There is also the F2P 'Business Tycoon' where one of your first quests is to spend a dollar in the cash shop. I can't decide if that's brilliant or if the greedy weasel syndrome took over the developers' brains.
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Second life perhaps, if you think you can make real money as some people do.
I know MojiKan is a game in development where you can sell your entire portal and net value back for real money and the in game currency is compared against the US dollar... But I dunno if a browser game is what you are looking for.
There are only a few games out there that really push this type of play as THE main draw of the game.
Capitalism 2:
The player creates and controls a business empire. This in-depth strategy game covers almost every aspect of business that could be encountered in the real world; including marketing, manufacturing, purchasing, importing, and retailing.
Sim City 4
Build, control, manage, and micromanage a whole city. All the financial details. All the growth. The taxation. The expansion. This really is an epic game with alot of realism and some comedy.
These two are main examples. Not really your MMO multi-player types but still very important for learning about real managing of money and other assets.
As far are MMOs go you can pick a good many that have economies.
Darkfall:
I liked the challenges of crafting weapons or armor or other means of Non-combat and getting good enuff to start making money.
Ultima Online.
You own your own house and can set up many vendors and set your own prices and everything. Tons to make in that game and lots of players will want it. Would not be a bad choice if you found a server with a big population.
EVE or Darkfall.
Want to be controlling a ship in space or an avatar in dark ages setting?
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You could also try out Perpetuum Online, which is a recent game with a lot of similarities to eve (but with mechs). However, it's new, so less polished, but it also means that there are no superrich people with trillions in assets or old time veterans with years of skills ahead of you.
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/
If you like pirates and stuff, Pirates of the Burning Sea has a freetrader class. Also you can make towns or ports your manufacturing place(s) like making wood to making ships. However you have to kill and do pve until you get the quest to start your manufacturing. I also believe it is the most interesting factor about PotBS because so far the only thing you can do end-game is pvp.
Yours and mine definition of dark ages differs a lot...
UO is really old but one of the few games you can do fine by trading in.
EVE
Project Entropia, but there only the few richest people can really play the game as mecrachant.
A Tale in The Desert has no combat
Wakfu, once it will be released, has very deep crafting, gathering, politics, and ecology simulation.