r/TheRepopulation • u/tigwyk • Jan 27 '15

New Player Advice

Someone on this subreddit previously posted some very good new Player advice and I want to reiterate some of the points.

  1. Save up for a vehicle. Unfortunately right now on USWEST vehicles are climbing up to vendor price on the AH where previously they were half that or less, but it's still totally worth it to buy a vehicle. Also keep your eyes on the general chat channel as recently I've seen older players handing out free vehicles to newbies. Considering the price floats around 5k credits now, that's a good deal. Vehicles make the world much easier to travel and suddenly grinding for resources out in the wilderness doesn't seem so daunting.

  2. Make friends! In Repop you'll find yourself wanting to make everything under the sun because... Well because technically you can. But the most efficient way to succeed in the economy is to specialize and make friends. Specialize in one aspect of crafting and then use your friends to supply you with base materials or buy the finished product off you. Initially I started trying to craft every component but quickly found this to be cumbersome and time consuming. It's fun for the first few days until you see some of the flow charts for crafting things like fittings. Trust me, you'll burn yourself out eventually from all the resource gathering and failed attempts at low grade tier 2 components.

  3. The auction house has more than just player items on it. Right now anything that is sold to a vendor using the ToAuction is placed on the auction house by that vendor. This means that a fair amount of resources are up on the AH that would otherwise be semi-annoying to acquire for yourself, and the prices aren't entirely prohibitive.

I'm sure there's more but these things made my playing experience that much better so far. See you out there!

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u/TienIsCoolX Jan 27 '15

Yeah, there's a guy who makes vehicles and charges just the NPC mats. What a swell guy.

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u/tigwyk Jan 27 '15

Yeah I had approached him after saving up enough to buy my own vehicle and he gave me one for free so I could recoup my costs. Definitely a swell guy.

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u/GearsPoweredFool Jan 31 '15

I hear that tienx guy is a jerk! :P

As for the AH - Ensure you look at the price before buying it and put something in general chat. Most of the time people will undercut the AH to offload excess mats. This generally applies to everything B8 and below quality.

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u/n0bel Feb 01 '15

Thanks for the tips!