Climbing the Economic/Social Ladder; Kara-style:
I’ve finally decided to share my methods with the rest of you. Below, I’ll teach you how to achieve the casual social status. I’ll include: examples, proof, and step-by-step processes on how to get where you want to be, Kara-style.
If you’ve read the vast majority of posts on this website, you should be familiar with economic/social classes on Eo. Achieving these social classes might require you to perform some unforgiving, tedious, and necessary tasks. Keep this saying in mind, “It ain’t easy gettin’ to the top.”
The three steps to casual social status; Kara-style:
Friends = Power:
“Birds of feather flock together.”
Make a lot of friends. No matter what happens, you HAVE to make yourself known. There are benefits to being known. In some cases you’ll get a sense of respect from other players and the economy itself. Do not forget, respect = power. If you take the time to befriend enough upper-class players it will definitely help you get where you’re trying to be. “Birds of feather flock together.”
Dedication:
“Patience is a virtue.” / “Good things come to those who wait.”
It’s safe to say that you won’t get famous over night. It takes time, and effort. You have to stick to your goal and never, ever give up. Many things are going to happen along the way. You’ll get scammed, cheated, and lied to. This has driven hundreds of players to quit this game. Don’t be one of them. “Good things come to those who wait.”
Opportunities:
“A penny saved, is a penny earned.”
You will have tens upon hundreds of chances to get rich. Most likely, none of these opportunities will make you instantly rich. Sure, you’ve heard of many people “winning events” or “finding ‘Scav bows’ on the ground.” 99% of the time, these people are making up a lie to cover up the fact that they hacked and/or stole that money. Don’t believe everything you hear/see, and don’t be wasteful with your cash. “A penny saved, is a penny earned.”
These are the 3 rules/quotes/whatever you want to call them that got me to where I am today. I may not be rich compared to another player, but I am of the casual class, and I do have a say on what happens in the economy. This social status represents power, and you have to be prepared to do some amazing things to achieve this power. All I can say is that it’s worth it.
Keep in mind, I am not suggesting that you abuse Endless-online so much that you neglect your real life in the process. That’s just ridiculous and you should never consider doing something as foolish as that to yourself. Sometimes, you should just give the game a break, no matter how close you are to leveling (inside joke).
Below, I’ll include a list of rumored (hence, the word gossip, in the title of my website) events that happened when a human abused an MMORPG.
(Forgot which site I got this from, and no I didn’t make these up. Here it is anyway.)
Over the last few years, there’s been an amazing run of deaths and psychotic episodes directly related to gaming, be it from marathon sessions or from people becoming way too involved in their virtual lives. A few examples are shown below:
Date unknown - a South Korean grammar scholar killed his brother with a hammer for interrupting his game.
Date unknown - a 21-year old American college student played EverQuest for 36 hours straight, before having a psychotic break and hallucinating that the characters had stepped out of the screen and were chasing him.
November 2001 - a 21-year old American man shot himself on Thanksgiving morning, and his family blames his addiction to EverQuest, which he was still playing just minutes before killing himself.
May 2002 - a 17-year old Hong Kong gaming center employee died after playing Diablo II all night.
Jan 2003 - a 28-year old Hong Kong gamer died at his screen in an internet cafe, after playing Diablo II all night.
March 2004 - a 31-year old Chinese man died at his screen in an internet cafe, after a 20-hour Saga marathon.
Dec 2004 - a 13-year old Chinese boy jumped from the roof of his 24-story building. His suicide note claims that he has gone to join the heroes of his favorite game, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans.
June 2005 - a chinese gamer was sentenced to life in prison after stabbing a fellow gamer to death. The victim had borrowed a sword from the gamer in the online game Legend of Mir 3, and had then sold it.
August 2005 - a 28-year old South Korean man collapsed after playing Starcraft for 50 hours straight, and died shortly after being taken to hospital.
Well, there you go. Now you have some very descriptive reasons of why you shouldn’t abuse games (no matter what type they may be).
Also, I took the time to ask a few players around Eo if they thought they abused the game. Here’s the results and what two of them said.
19 out of the 20 said yes. (95%)
1 out of the 20 said no. (5%)
One of the 95% said, “In all honesty, I do think I abuse Endless-online. I play this game way too much and I think I’d probably even cry if my account got hacked. I take out my anger and frustration out on this game. Without it, I don’t know what I’d do.”
The 5% said, “Nah, I don’t take this game seriously at all. It means nothing to me. I just have a lot of leisure time, that’s all.”
There you have it; straight from the horse’s mouth.
Note: I’ll include a new Kara-Komic soon. It’ll be a funny three-strip-comic about someone that has abused Endless-online (in case you have forgotten, the Kara-Komics are at the bottom of my site). I’ll also include a poll with this post asking whether or not you think you abuse Endless-online. Don’t forget to vote. My next post will be an update on the prices so stay tuned.
See you soon.
---Karagu
