Can you make real money in entropia

How to make money in Entropia Universe is a question regularly asked. This up-to-date guide discusses possibilities, compares different methods, exemplifies one possible way to earn money, and directs to more detailed information. If you are only interested in one possible how-to check out the final section of the guide: From rags to riches - a short guide. In Entropia Universe 'making money' is possible at all because the game features a "Real Cash Economy", meaning you can deposit real-world money into the game and also the other way round withdraw money from the game to your real-world bank account.

It should be noted that by the Entropia Universe EULA and ToU there is no real-world money inside Entropia Universe. Also there is no virtual property whitin the legal meaning of the term "property". Everything in game incl. However, it is a unique feature in Entropia Universe that players are able to convert in-game money to real-world money by "withdrawing" it to their bank accounts.

The terms in this paragraph 7 do not apply to Your participation within the Entropia Universe Starting Area. The deposited funds are converted by MindArk to PED that may be used by You as virtual currency in the Entropia Universe.

If You choose to deposit or withdraw funds to or from the Entropia Universe You hereby agree to any costs and fees involved in all fund transfers. These retained rights include, without limitation, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other proprietary rights throughout the world. In general MindArk PE AB, the company developing and operating the Entropia Universe platform, as well as the Planet Partner companies creating content for Entropia Universe are for-profit private businesses.

Entropia Universe and its planets are supposed to generate income for them coming from the players playing the game. Development and operation of games like Entropia Universe costs a lot of money, usually Millions of USD per year.

The total of costs has to be defrayed by charging players depending on the business model of the game, for example one time payments for regular 'offline' games, monthly subscription fees for MMOGs , microtransaction models utilitzing "item shops", etc etc etc. When in Entropia Universe players profit from playing the game these are from the developers perspective a part of the running costs too.

To defray costs and generate profit in Entropia Universe players are charged based on their ingame activities, for example consuming ammunition when hunting creatues in game, fees for auctioning ingame items, deterioation of equipment used in game and many more.

Consequently the majority respectively the average of players has to spend money to enable a minority of players to earn money in Entropia Universe or simply use the service for free. Usually most activities in Entropia Universe cost money. If you want to make money you should avoid or restrict these activities, unless they serve the original purpose.

The use of almost all items lead to decay of the items, meaning they lose value. This occurs when actively performing actions with the items, for example: Scanning with a scanner, healing with heal tool, attacking with weapons, etc etc. But items can also decay in a rather passive way, for example: With weapons the attachments on weapons such as amplifiers and sights decay too, also Enhancers put on items have a small chance to break each time the item is used or in case of armor enhancers when the armor part is getting hit.

Many items also need consumables that get consumed when using the items, for example laser weapons consume Weapon Cells, mining finders consume probes, Mindfore chip consume Mind Essence, specific repair tools consume Welding Wire, and vehicles consume Oil.

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 s of units of sweat per hour. Sweat usually sells best in stacks of units with the market prize for units between 1 and 3 PED currently May 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 s if not s of hours. 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.

Collecting resources from the ground. 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. 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. 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. There are a few missions that can be completed without spending any PED and which reward completion with items or skills theoretically worth PED.

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.

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. 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: Another type, the Battle Arena Deeds are scheduled for release in Further information, opinions and the option to discuss land deeds and their revenues are available in this thread: ROI Market Price Calypso Land Deeds vs Arkadia Underground Deeds ROI is based on the market price for both CLD and AUD!

Each of these deeds entitles its "owner" to get a share of Planet Calypso revenues on a weekly basis. Arkadia Underground Deeds AUD are Lands deeds similar to Calypso Land Deeds but instead of receiving a share of the revenues of a whole planet they receive the regular taxes of the Arkadia Underground Land Area. The market price of AUDs is still considerably lower than CLDs, which could be an advantage compared to the significantly higher price of CLDs, but it seems the revenues are also significantly lower compared to CLD as of June Battle Arena Deeds are not available yet and attached to the web-based Battle Arena scheduled for release in early Trading is one of the more promising ways to profit in Entropia Universe but requires a start-up capital depending on the scale of trading.

More on trading can be found in the example further below: From rags to riches - 2. Most of those activities require a significant amount of starting capital and profitability is not at all to be expected.

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Many items like clothes, vehicles, furniture can be customized by applying textures and colors to them. The ability to do so is largely depending on ingame skills in the area which enables higher skilled players to offer customization services to lower skilled players. Item Customization Coloring, Texturizing. There is no " Professional gaming " in Entropia Universe in the common meaning of playing competively in tournaments or leagues. Playing for profit is not a true feature of the game but rather MindArk allowing for a few success stories to support the marketing concept of 'getting paid for playing a game'.

In Entropia Universe playing for profit mainly relates to having a huge amount of in-game skills allowing you to efficiently use high-end ingame equipment performing regular activities such as hunting, mining and crafting. The according equipment is rare allowing only a small cirlce of players to profit regularly.

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Consequently both, acquiring the skills and even more the necessary equipment are fairly expensive, at least costing 's of dollars if not ten-thousands of dollars. And then, merely having the skills and equipment are not sufficient to profit on the long run, it also involves deep knowledge of the game mechanics.

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EntropiaPartners is crowdsourcing website that rewards small amounts of PED for performing more or less simple tasks. Tasks include things such as flagging inappropriate content in photographs and taking marketing surveys.

How To Make Money In Entropia Universe

Simple tasks that take around 30 or so seconds to complete pay 8 to 16 PEC. There are also surveys for marketing purposes available which reward up to 20 PED and take about 10 or so minutes. When having gathered a few PED you can request a withdrawal session with a representative of EntropiaPartners in game.

The request is done on the EntropiaPartners website and the ingame meeting is negotiated in a chat window on the Entopia Partners website. On the website lets there is only an display of who of the representatives is currently online. Entropia Partners also features a referral systems that allows users to place referral links on the internet.

Before posting referral links anywhere please make sure that this is allowed on the website in advance. Referral links look like this: Users of EntropiaFriends get an affiliate link to distribute which is tracked by EntropiaFriends and redirected to the Entropia Universe sign up for new accounts via EntropiaFriends affiliate link with MA.

Invite links to EntropiaFriends affiliate program look like this: PEDtoClick is similar to Entropia Partners and Sometrics. It is relying on 3rd party crowdsourcing and ad disctibution services and pays tiny rewards for performing task and watching or clicking ads. Stuffpoint is a site where you can get points for actively participating in so-called "fan clubs", doing tasks, completing offers, etc.

Stuffpoint also features a referral systems that allows users to place referral links on the internet. The Entropia Emissary Program was a Facebook app that allowed players to share promotional material via Facebook and receive points for these activities which and exchange them for low value ingame items.

Considering the limited content to share and low value of the rewarded items this was just a theoretical way to earn money. Sometrics is a service provider MindArk partnered with in to enable Entropia Universe players to add Project Entropia Dollars to their ingame accounts. This could be done by accepting offers provided via the Sometrics platform. The offers appeared at the depositing page on EntropiaUniverse.

The offers depended on the account holder's country and other parameters. The content of the offers could vary largely, most likely one had to buy something to be granted a prize of a couple of PED. Also the availability of offers was rather scarce. Questbomb was an official website by ROCKtropia developer NEVERDIE Studios for reviewing ROCKtropia content like missions and instances. NEVERDIE Studios were paying 10 PED per appropriate review. An overview and comparison of methods, those not available anymore are not displayed in this table.

Often you can document. For example Euro Paysafecards sometimes sell for Euro which means a discount of PED. So when you plan to deposit you might want to check whether there are Paysafecards or Ukash vouchers for sale. But please be careful and make sure to avoid fraudulent sellers! This section exemplifies one of many possible ways to start from scratch with 0 PED and end up with a regular income.

From the free-to-play activities that earn you money Sweating still is the most promising. A more detailed description of the whole sweating process can be found in the Sweating guide. First you have to find a good sweating spot on your planet of choice. When getting hit you regularly receive skills that increase your ability to evade the attacks as well as slowly increasing your max health points, both of which make the sweating process a little bit easier over time.

While sweating keep your eyes open for players buying sweat, as soon as someone does you should try to sell to him if the offered price is reasonable. Alternatively you can actively try to sell your sweat at the planet's trading hubs. The market prize varies slightly over time, currently June this can be considered a rule of thumb: There are mentors who offer good deals to their disciples as well people offering good deals to other society mates.

The process of continous sweating and trying to sell sweat can be boring. For a change you might want to consider other free-of-charge activities like free missions, lining up at the oil fields, gathering Teleporters, participating in free events, Alternativly you could also "swunt" instead of sweat from time to time.

But as a rule of thumb you might want to consider not engaging in activities that usually cost your hard earned PED like:. Once you have a few PED you can already start trading on a very small scale.

The more you have the easier it should be. With such little trading capital there also little you can do.

Auction doesn't make much sense because the auction fees at least 0. However, if you are taking the sweating approach above discussed in the section above you could keep your eyes and ears open for other players who want to get rid of their sweat quickly and offer it slightly below market price.

You can buy it and later sell it for a higher price - maybe together with your own. The trading approach discussed in the section just above has limits, for example market saturation or your limited time to engage in trading. So at latest when you have accumulated more capital then are able to use in trading you should consider investing a part of it, but it should be noted that low level investing requires not much more capital than low level trading.

Depending on your available capital and personal preferences there are several potential options for investing starting with Land Deeds and ultimately with becoming a planet partner yourself. Most of the options can be combined and also work in combination with the trading approach.

Diversification is almost always a good idea but also require to split capital and assign it to multiple different options. So the capital needed to start investing would be 50 PED but would have to be deducted from your trading capital if you take the trading approach above. The big total number of Land deeds respectively the corresponding total market value of up to 10 Million USD probably ensures that this investment option doesn't become too tiny for your personal capabilities.

Land area level When you have the capital needed for buying a Land area or similar estate yourself you probably have progressed enough in game to know what Land Area management is all about. Small remote estates can be available for as little as 10k USD while more valuable and popular ones can easily reach 50k USD or more. Unlike Land deeds individual Land Areas require active management, for example regularly supplying resources to ensure creatures spawn as intended, organizing events and promoting the Land Area and events.

Consequently the commercial success of Land Areas doesn't only depend on paying an appropriate price but also on sustainable and appropriate management. In addition unforeseeable developments can influence the value and revenue of a Land Area in a positive or negative way, for example: Premium estate level The premium estate level requires higher investments than really high profile Land Areas.

The Asteroid Space Resort fka Club NEVERDIE, aka F. In case of premium resorts there are two basic types:. Planet level It is currently not known whether the Planet Partner program is continued at all the last planet partner has been announced in or whether MindArk discontinued it in favor of marketing partnerships similar to the Monria one. There are 2 former Entropia Universe players who became Planet Partners: Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs with ROCKtropia and Dave Dobson with Planet Arkadia.

Being accepted as a Planet Partner requires an elaborated concept not directly competing with existing planets and enough capital to successfully launch and run a planet, which is supposed to be between 2 Million and 6 Million USD. If you don't have 10 thousands of dollars for a high risk investment you probably can earn more in almost any 'regular' job in most parts of the world. Also the total possible revenues players can make from Entropia Universe are limited, and the more people compete for them the harder it is for the individual, in that sense it is somewhat of a self-regulating system.

Entropia Universe can be approached from many other perspectives than just the commercial one, for example you can consider it entertainment, the common ground for a social group, a casino type of thing with an MMO interface and much more.

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This page was last modified on 15 March , at This page has been accessed , times. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. Privacy policy About EntropiaPlanets Wiki Disclaimers. Contents 1 Real Cash Economy 2 Entropia Universe, virtual property and real money 3 Entropia Universe is a business 4 Activities usually cost money 4.

Sweating, rigging, etc 9. Investing 10 Conclusion 11 Links, references, contributors, categories. Oil rigs and similar facilities.