Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. If you have already read our tips on “How to Use Market to Make Gold” and “How to use Trade Post to Make Money“, you are not yet half-way of the the knowledge in the complex world of Atlantica. There are other more alternative quest and hidden side-quest that will help you save money and be rich in a short period, as well as these quests are very enjoyable and rewarding while accomplishing it. This good to know tips is created by Xhaiden for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Good to know tips” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Xhaiden and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

Table of contents:

*Chapter I: The Grand Father of all Knowledge* (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

*Chapter II: Treasure Hunt* (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

*Chapter 3: Special Rings and Quest Resetting * (lvl 20 -> lvl 120)

********************Introduction********************

With this guide, I’d like to share some tips, that nobody shared with me yet they are essential and could make your AO experience more enjoyable. Ok – “more” is just a small therm, cause honestly “IT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE (Especially for the F2P users)“. Why for F2P users (you might ask)? Cause, if your real life budget is unlimited (hardcore spender), or you stoled your mommy’s Credit Card – then Item Mall is your friend. And basically, you don’t need a guide regarding in game money tips, you just get some stuff from Item Mall and sell it at insane prices (similar to rarest lvl 100+ Drops like Stormbringer or Shotgun). You can even pay somebody to play in your place and take all the glory in the end. Well, there’s an old saying: money makes the world go round – but this guide is not about that. So let’s do this… I mean, I’ll do this and you just sit back and enjoy your reading, I’ll even trow in some Pictures/Screenshots to make it more interesting and easy to understand…

*******Chapter I: The Grand Father of all Knowledge******

AO is a very complex game, but has a nice and well put together “in game tutorial”, so I’ll skip the basics. Normally, you could start your financial evolution at lvl 20, that’s when you have the option to “Go to Rome (teleport)“. And that option is free, cause the rest cost money, especially Teleportation License – so “DON’T WASTE the free samples you get at the beginning of the game“. Might be more useful later in the game, when teleporting from town to town is the only cheap alternative.

<- Click on Image to enlarge and “Follow the finger!”

As mentioned before, you could – but It’s not recommended. At that lvl you should learn more about the game, have some fun with your first quests and don’t waste your money on junk, cause you need money to make money. And with the profit you get from those, you can get better junk and have a lot to spare for making more.

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You’ll understand this later…

When you get to the first 500.000 you should be ready. The next step needs a few hours but, will save you days if not weeks and it’s essential for many things. So you’ll have to do it and it’s better early in the game then later. Basically all you have to do, is – “TRAVEL TO ALL TOWNS“. Whenever you enter a town, it will be added to your Travel Agency: Town list. So, next time you need to get to a place near a town, just “teleport” using Travel Agency.

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I know this is part of the basics, but you need to do it faster and it’s very important for next step. Which is “Goncourt” … Who is Goncourt (you might ask)? Well, he’s the Grand Father of all Knowledge. A NPC that can exchange your 5k worth book, with one that costs 50 millions. It’s true that those are pretty rare (like War Cry [ADV] – a Spartan skill/class B mercenary) and that’s why they’re so expensive, but who knows – the next lucky guy, could be “YOU”.

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=This books are so special, cause they’re MERCENARY SKILL BOOKS=
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You don’t need to set your hopes to high, cause from a limit of 300 -> 400 Boxes/Books per day (the number of boxes you can open and books to exchange is limited but resets every 24 hours), you have a pretty high chance to find some that might worth 100k -> 50 mil. It costs 1k to exchange a book, so that’s why I said you’ll need some money at first. And don’t worry – unless you’re the most unluckiest man alive… so unlucky that can even find 1 million worth books, from all those exchanges (which never happened to me – and I don’t consider myself a lucky guy).

Ok, let’s get back to town teleportation and why do you need it. Well, Goncourt as most NPC’s that can teach you some crafting “IS ALWAYS ON THE MOVE” – as the game puts it. He travels from town to town, but traveling so much gets him pretty tired, so he has to rest in some (10 seconds to 6 hours or something like that). But if his traveling all the time, how do you know in which town you can find him (you might ask)? Well there’s another NPC called Livingstone which can tell you the location of every wondering NPC. And don’t worry, this one is not going anywhere:

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Near Bucharest – just follow the finger! or Go to Bucharest and check Game info -> Livingstone -> Auto -Move!

Now that I know he’s in Amsterdam, I’ll just get to the nearest city and teleport there with Travel Agency (that’s why you need to travel to all cities as mentioned above). Now let’s go beyond – I’m sure you got the idea by now, so next, I’ll share with you the fastest way to exchange books. But this is recommended for advanced users only. By advanced, I mean you have to know the prices of all books, cause if you don’t, you might exchange a good one (you can learn their prices by checking them, on town Market in same place as Travel Agency). This might take some time at first, but you’ll get used to it no time.

So here is what I do… First i clear the inventory of one mercenary, cause that’s where I’ll be changing my books… Oh… darn… wile I was writing this, Goncourt started his traveling for next town, which is not that far from Amsterdam so I’ll wait him there (just teleported there). Since this happened, I guess it would be nice to advise you, to exchange books only wile his in town, cause that way you can check their prices on the spot. Advanced users, the so called disciples of Goncourt, exchange their books wile traveling. But that takes more time and always get interrupted when his to far from you (cause you STOP wile exchanging but he keeps going like the Bunny from the Duracell commercial).

And I’m on him as I type the next line. So presuming you cleared the space from one mercenary. You’ll need to buy 10 books (5k ones) and put it in that place. Then click on Goncourt and start exchanging from HIS MENU. After exchanging the first book you’ll have a Book Box (i’ll tell you more about that after this). So right click on that box to open it, then wile it starts the random book cycle, click on next books to exchange it. So basically you’ll do two things, almost in the same time (Open -> Exchange -> Open -> Exchange). Presuming you already know their prices, you’ll stop just when you spot a good one.

I did mentioned something about boxes above. Well, Goncourt won’t exchange your Book for another in similar state. It will give you a Book Box, which spawn a random book when opened. And there are 3 types of boxes, in 3 different colors (Blue, Brown and Grey). Each color represents the book/skill lvl as shown in next screenshots:

= lvl 1 -> lvl 20 Random skill [BEG]

= Lvl 21 -> lvl 40 Random skill [INT]

= lvl 41 -> lvl 60 Random skill [ADV]

Of course the most expensive books can be found in the Grey boxes. But that doesn’t mean you should neglect the Blue Boxes, cause even they hold some rare books like War Cry which costs about 8 millions on market. Maybe I should show you one, so you don’t exchange it by accident (it happened to once in my early days..):

- HOLD ON TO THIS ONE CAUSE IT’S A KEEEPPEERRR! (at least until you sell it…) And that’s the [BEG] one, the next([INT]) looks the same, as in similar design but has a heavier look. Even the [ADV] model has a similar design, but it’s so heavy that they had to put a lock on it:

- this one will suck all the luck out of you. So when or if you find it, do the Mambo dance and don’t try anything that’s based on luck that day, cause your luck tank is on empty.

What else can I say about Goncourt… Well, I’m lvl 98 and I still use him as a source of profit, among others available at my lvl. So yeah, he’s that good, both for late and earlier game. You’ll see even top players like 110+ doing Goncourt. When he enters a town, that place gets full in no time, even that should say something. And this is what I got wile making this guide:

- I always sell them at lowest price, so the above cost about 20 millions. All this in 30 minutes and “NO Risk Involved“. It’s not always like this, sometimes I get books that cost only 2 mill (all of them). But for a low level even those help, and maybe next day will be more lucky.

Anyway I hope you got the Idea: “Travel to All towns ->Bucharest/Livingstone -> Find Goncourt -> Travel to that town -> Exchange as described above…”

***************Chapter II: Treasure Hunt**************

“Old McDonald had a farm… Ee i ee i o… – most of you know this song, if you don’t just click on that link. But what you don’t know, is that Old McDonald got tired of his farm, so he sold it and became a pirate. And he was so good, that he manage to keep his identity secret, yet he plundered more treasures then all the pirates put together. Maybe you know him by his alias which is Davy Jones – yep, he was so scary that he became a myth.

But he did have a heart in the end and left his legacy (the location of all his treasures) to his children. But there was a catch, he wanted to be sure that his children won’t become pirates like him… So, to inherit his legacy they had to fallow his old dream, which was his animal farm. So they did… in a way… But as you all know “McDonald’s” they got more wicked then Davy Jones itself and the worst part – they’re not a myth. They turned that farm in a slaughter factory, the biggest one on our planet…

But lets go beyond those wicked minds and back to his treasures. In current time you can see McDonald’s huge line of restaurants on those locations (on the place he buried his treasure) but back then in AO times, there was nothing constructed on those spots. And that brings us to the next part of our story. As mentioned before, his children had to follow his old dream regarding his animal farm, to inherit his legacy. But one of them, a girl named “Anne Bonny”, felled in love with the sea and the pirate life so she fallowed her own dreams. She also had the mind of a fox, so she made copies of all those treasure maps and that brings us back to our guide regarding “Treasure hunt“…

You can find this “Treasure Maps” on “Market” and they come in 3 flavors:

Old Treasure Map – lowest drops but their price is low as well. Teleportation License [MID] is the best you’ll get from those, which costs about 800k, followed by “2x Cultural Box” which can give you an historical item tradeable with a NPC called “Howard“. This one is traveling, just like Goncourt – so you’ll have to find him with “Livingstone” – as explained above. It-s true that this boxes can give you an cultural item that’s worth 20 mil. But there is a catch with this Items – sometimes Howard appraises them as FAKE – which worth nothing. So far, an statue worth 4 mill is best and the only expensive item I found. The thing is I did find other items that should cost millions, but they where all appraised as “Fakes” and that’s why I hate Howard the most. Most you’ll get is 200k – 300k worth items. But beware, this items can be traded only with Howard and they have expiration time of 24 hours.

Ornate Treasure Map – If you’re low level, then this is the one you should get. On Argos they cost about 8k – 10k but the items you find inside worth 50k -> 8 millions. Even here, Teleportation License (for 1 Day) is the best deal, but this license has no lvl limit so even lvl 120 players can use it. So might look very expensive for low levels but for the ones buying them, it’s a insignificant amount. I hear they added even better drops with some of the new patches, but I didn’t try them lately.

Ancient Golden City’s Treasure Map – this ones, might worth with some drops, but most times they don’t. They cost 4 mill and you could get 2 x Freezing Boxes, which come at a similar price, maybe even Divine or Phoenix. But so far I got 2 x Conquer Boxes from most, which cost 2 mil to get from market (both) or 5 x Volcano Valley Equipment Box which cost about 170k (each). So this is not a sure win or an affordable one…

Presuming, you got the maps let’s move to next step, or steps to be more precise. And this brings us back to my earlier advice about traveling to all towns. The things is – only the Old Treasure Map spawns in a nearby location. The others two (Ornate Treasure Map and Ancient Golden City’s Treasure Map) spawn in a RANDOM LOCATION. And there are two more things yo should know:

1 – The time is limited. The box will spawn in 5 minutes and will only stay there for 1 minute.

2- Other people can get your treasure when it spawn. But for them is an lucky strike, cause only you have the knowledge regarding the location and the time it spawns. So take this advice as a warning.

On the other hand if you have traveled to all towns, as advised above, you can teleport to a nearby town and just get to that exact spot and wait for your treasure to spawn. That’s how I do it and nobody stole a treasure from me – NEVER!

I did miss some treasures, but that can only happen in North America. The things is, this is a huge map with only two towns on it, each on the opposite side of the map (Vancouver, New York). Now comes the irony – the treasures sometimes spawn, somewhere in the middle. And it’s a bumpy ride… so yeah, it can happen.

To make things more interesting, I’ll show you the steps with some screenshots I made:

Open your Treasure Map…

Then Open the normal map and select the location displayed in first screenshot. In this case it’s Northeast Asia.

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Now that you opened the location, described in first screenshot, you can see your treasure location. just go to nearest town (in this case – Beijing). From there follow the road to your treasure. Then wait for it to spawn in the exact location as shown with axis (X/Y) in first screenshot.

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And here it is, just attack it as you do with normal mobs.

Attack…

Loot.. and that’s about all there is to it. Simple, right?

We should thank “Anne Bonny” for making this copies. You can do that personally, when you’re 100+. You can recruit her as a Mercenary in your group, but it’s not gonna be easy. Especially since you need daddy’s heart (and his a big Daddy like lvl 110 big) and powerful guild/nation to get it.

Chapter 3: Special Rings and Quest Resetting

In AO we have 2 types of special rings (so far). What’s so special about them? Well, they can only be use by your main character and have the best stats compared to the rest.

The first one is available at lvl 50, By now you should be aware by the basic functions of this game, like finding NPC’s (Game info -> NPCs). So, use that function and look for Shah Jahan. From him you can get that special quest, with a special prize. And here’s what you need for this quest:

-30 Multi-Hued Crystal Shards
-10 friends in your list
-a party (cause this are not normal mobs)
-Answer: Taj Mahal

As for the rings, that box acts as Asura’s Equipment Box which means you can pick a ring at your choice from 7 rings. My recommendations go with:

For second one, you need to be lvl 80. Same as before, use NPC search function and find Menelaus. His requirements are even cheaper:

-5 Multi-Hued Jewel Shard
-10 friends in your list
-a party (cause this are not normal mobs)
Answer: Obelisk

Yet the items or even better, but guess that was expected since it’s higher lvl. But this time you might have two options:

Everyone’s favorite…

An alternative for Range – or you could combine it with the Spearmaster’s Ring. And that brings us to the next part: Quest Reset.

You can do that with Licenses, that or normally crafted by different users and can be found on Market -> License (unless you raised your License Crafting level high enough to craft them yourself). And this is what it looks like:

– The thing is, it can be opened as a normal book. To activate it, you’ll have to look for NPC Hui Chao. And since his a traveling NPC, only Livingstone can show his location (or a friend is he saw him by accident ). Since I need to do it my self, I’ll show you:

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There, by resetting that quest now you can do it again and wear two powerful rings as the ones above. Quest Resetting, is also a good way to raise your income. Especially with the second ring (the lvl 80 ones) which has a price of 16 mil + wile you only spend 2.5 – 3.2 mils on 5 Multi-Hued Jewel Shard and Secret of times: Necropolis (License). And trust me, they sell… especially by hardcore Item Mal spenders, who just got 1 billion from a mount they sold and feel like spending some. Then we have 110+ level users, which can make 20 mil real easy in a dungeon and don’t like to bother with a quest like Necropolis which takes more time, that they could spend better on other things.

Quest Resetting has two purposes:

-Raise Income
-Raise Experience/lvl

Either that, or you can buy some item mall cheats like Scroll of Judgment. But doesn’t come cheap and you can only raise the experience of one individual. Usually used on Monks/Oracle and Archers – cause they can’t grow as fast as others, the normal way.

Beyond lvl 98 ID (Individual Dungeons) and Guilds Dungeons are the way to go. But I’m now getting ahead of myself…

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in Atlantica Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from buy and sell of boxes, undercut pricing alternative, effective enchanting, and advance shaping the market. This comprehensive guide is created by Renderer for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Renderer and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

A Practical and personal Guide to making serious gold.

I have a main that is around mid-80s level and an alt that is lower. I am a casual player and work full time, meaning I do not have countless hours to play each day. All together in my month and a half of playing I have made more than 7 billion (if not more). This guide will explain how I did it, and how you can replicate my success in fairly short time.

I am still low level because I am a casual player and do not care to race to the top in levels. I enjoy FL and going through all the quests solo. If you do race upwards fairly fast, this guide is not for you as it is very easy to make money at the high levels by just selling the loot.

To start with – I dislike the usual buy low and sell high explanations and “guides”. A lot of that involves huge amounts of time scouring the market for the deals, and dying of boredom in the meantime. That is not to say that I do not do that but that’s just a simple gift that is given to us and does not require much thought.

Alright, so, when I first started, I looked at the Market to see the most obvious ways to make money and equip my mercs in the best stuff for their level.

I – Boxes

It is quite clear from a cursory examination that many of the items from boxes sell for more than the cost of the box. I saved up some money (by selling loot) and bought a bunch of insect boxes at few k per. I saw that some of the items went for above 10k and resold those. Then I examined the next few tiers of boxes (bran, dark night, babylon) and by looking at the market prices found the tier that was profitable and one that wasn’t. Those box profitabilities change somewhat from time to time but bran and babylon were just fine to use.

After a week or so I graduated to the higher level boxes and examined Pyramid, Osiris, and Shogun. At that time Shogun was great but I was not making money all that fast until I hit on Volcano Valley. Think about it – I was buying those VV boxes for an average of 270k and over 75% of the items from them sold for higher, with a few items going for as high as a million. At this point my profit started hitting the multi-million mark.

Here is the problem that unfortunately stops many people from continuing. As we all know, the stuff coming from the boxes is random. What happens when you spend your hard earned 3 million gold on 12 Volcano Valley boxes and you get 5 spears, 4 cannons, and 3 swords all of which could at any particular time go for 200k or less? A lot of people throw their hands in the air and say – this crap is gambling and it’s not worth it – I give up.

DO NOT spend YOUR LAST MONEY on a few boxes. Yes 12 is still a few. To have decent odds at making profit your safety is in numbers. And make sure you leave some cash just in case. And also make sure you can afford some momentary setbacks without breaking down. Be patient. I do not consider myself lucky in any way whatsoever, but by buying 20-30-50 boxes at a time I made loads of money in a few days.

II – Selling

You might ask – how did you manage to sell all those items quick enough to get rid of all the boxes and progress to the next tier? The answer is I undercut others. Simple enough? Yes but not really. There is a way to undercut that works and that’s not going 1 or 10 gold under someone else. Perhaps it does work to some degree, but it pisses off enough people (since it happens to most of us) that many just buy the item of the person that is being undercut by that 1 or 10 gold. Don’t be cheap. Drop a decent amount. Maybe that is 2% for the high end items and 5-10% for the lower end. 1-10-100 gold undercutting is cheap and people get pissed off. I bought items that were being undercut by that amount myself and I can’t be the only one.

At the same time, do not undercut too much. It is stupid on multiple levels. First you are losing that much more potential profit, but second you are potentially devaluing the item for other people, and many others might further undercut you without realizing that the item is already low. When this happens, the item category becomes ripe for a takeover (See section V) and I might swoop in and just buy your stuff to resell for a tidy profit.

Some might say – by undercutting you are missing out on higher profit. That every time you take your item off the market to undercut someone who undercut you, you are wasting money. Also some might say that if you leave the item on the market long enough it will sell in a vast majority of cases (either through natural attrition of the price or through people needing large quantities of said item). That is true. But I will submit to you that time is a very important component of making profit.

The faster you can get rid of all your items for somewhat smaller profit (but not ridiculously low profit or loss, unless the item just sucks and then it is a justifiable loss), the faster you can put a new batch of items to sell for that same somewhat smaller profit. The sum of those slightly smaller profits will dwarf your larger time consuming profits.

III – Using Alts

By the time I got to Volcano boxes, I realized that the few item spots we get on the market are just too few and sell too slow no matter how much you undercut. Some weekdays especially. I created 2 alts, leveled them up to level 3, popped them into a Japanese city with a 1% market/bank rate (very important – don’t waste too much money on those fees), and sent 50 Volcano boxes to each of them. I then opened them all up and put them for sale.

Obviously you do not want to waste time constantly logging on to them to check on the items and undercut others, but once or twice a day check and reset can be plenty to add loads of extra income. If you have the time and are not too bored doing that, utilize your other character slots

IV – Enchanting

I will not get into enhancing in this guide. I don’t do it. Well maybe, but on a very small scale on equipment for my alt, when it is financially feasible and worthwhile to gamble on low level equipment. Instead I want to focus on enchanting as a great way of making money.

By the time I got to Conqueror’s and Frozen boxes, I realized that +2/+3 items are quite valued for FL purposes, sell quickly (much quicker than higher +), and maximize both your time and profit. We are talking about [Adv] enchanting. I do not recommend it for the [Int] stage for the Market – might be a waste of time.

Enchanting always works and there is a slight chance of actually getting a higher + enchant than the sum of the parts.

When you enchant items at the [Adv] level, they are quite often sold for the straight out multiplier of the cost of the parts. So if a Conqueror’s Heavy Armor is currently going for 2mil, then +2 Heavy Armor (composed of 4 +0 armors) often goes for 8mil. Why waste time selling these armors 1 by 1 when you can just enchant (200k cost or so) – and sell it quicker. Remember that somewhat smaller profit is better than the slow higher profit.

You would not believe the amount of +2/+3 Conqueror’s and Freezing armors and weapons that I’ve sold. Yes, I lost money on some of them, but on a majority the profit was in the millions. Especially the freezing/conq stuff like Boots, Gauntlets, Heavy Armors, Orbs, Swords, Shields, Axes, Staffs, and Helms.

And it’s very nice to once in a while to get that +2/+3 out of 2 +0 items. Others will envy you

V – Shaping the Market (advanced)

So you got loads of money by following my advice and are thinking of ways of making money even quicker. In the course of following the guide and selling all those items you will often be frustrated at frequent devaluation of the non-Heavy Melee items. For example you created a Light Freezing Armor +2 after buying the boxes at 2.2m, with enchant stones costing you about 9m, and after seeing most +0 LFMs going currently at 3m, you put your +2 Armor on the market for 12m. Nice and tidy potential profit of 3m. Ten hours later you glance at the market and notice that there are a bunch of +0 LFMs now on the market for 2m and a few +2s for 8m… They have severely undercut you and put your item into the loss category.

I am only using Light Freezing Armor as an example and not as an advice to do the following on, as item dynamics vary and various approaches work better depending on various variables – including not doing anything and just taking the loss in MOST CASES. You will make money on other items so don’t worry.

However, you notice that there are just 5 +0 LFMs on the market with costs ranging from 2m to 3.2m, then there are 2 +1 LFMs at 4.5m, and 2 +2 LFMs at 8m with your pathetic +2 LFM sitting out there at 12m, not looking likely to be sold. Doesn’t it just frustrate you? But you got a few 100mil in the banks and a profit-minded attitude

What can you do? Well, buy everything up and set your own prices! Control that market. There might be a few other +3 LFMs hanging out there with low prices – you can buy them too. Or if they are priced well, leave them there. Buy all the +0, +1, and +2s – the ones that are very undervalued. Take your own crap off the market. Enchant the +0s and +1s, put your +2 back on the market for 14-15m (not too crazy, some other items like Swords, Shields, Gauntlets, Boots can go for 20 at times), put one or two +0s on the market for 4m to justify the +2 price, save 1 or 2 +2 for when your item sells, and if you have too many of those, create 1 or 2 +3/+4 and put it up at a nice profit as well.

Now the entire category is controlled by you. I’ve bought out a 200+mil worth category of Freezing Heavy Armors and made 50-100mil after my +4/+6 and a few +2s sold at higher prices that I set.

Sometimes you won’t make much money with some tactics. And sometimes you might even lose a bit and it might take a while to sell (still use that undercutting even with the million gold costs). But those are high value items, and the majority of the time you will make a profit especially since you do the market shapping when those items are already almost at the BOTTOM. Which means that even if they don’t sell until they drop to the bottom, you will not lose much money at all.

ONLY USE THIS TACTIC after familiarizing yourself with the Server Market dynamics for those particular items. Don’t just buy out random categories Those categories might be overpriced or sell especially slowly.

In my experience Melee items sell faster than Ranged and Magic.

Well that’s it for now. These strategies have worked for me, and if you read through, you can see that they are very simplistic. So why isn’t everyone else rich? Many people do not have the patience to follow through. But if you do, you will not lack for money at lower levels again even if you don’t have that much time to spend on the game. Good luck!

Renderer [Macedon]

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in Atlantica Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from how to utilize the marketplace, box opening management , and quest rewards that are worth your time and effort. This comprehensive guide is created by Renderer for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Renderer and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

Making A Comfortable Living In Atlantica Online

Part One – Levels 1 – 20

Preface

Atlantica Online offers many opportunities to make money, but sadly, more opportunities spend it. This guide will not make you rich, but you’ll easily be able to afford the basics and some of the luxuries. Much of you money making efforts later will be based of skills you develop early on, such as understanding the markets, box opening management, and knowledge of what quest rewards are most worth getting.

1. Levels 1 – 20

At this level, you don’t need money for equipment, but you need to start developing your capital as leverage to increase your earning power. There are two methods that you can use to do so.

Method 1 – Growth Vials

During your first several levels, you’ll notice that you’re picking up an item called Commodity Box [low]

These boxes have useful skill books inside, but much more importantly they also have Growth Vials.

While it may seem random whether you get Skill Books or Growth Vials, it isn’t. If you have your skills maxed out and at least 1 bonus point left on 1 character, you will only get growth vials… So how does that help us? It doesn’t, but when we look in the market we find something interesting:

The quick thinkers among you just rubbed their greedy little hands together and went and bought a bunch of Commodity Boxes, opened them, and dropped the vials on the market for 8999 Gold per vial, but let’s slow down and introduce the other concept before we totally destroy the markets for Growth Vials.

Method 2 – Market Manipulation

Ok, we bought some boxes and let’s say we got 200 of them. Now if we drop them on the market for 8,999 gold each, somebody else will just put theirs on for less. What we want to avoid is having our product sit on the shelves because we are less expensive.

How? Well, we buy anything lower than a set price and add it to our stock. Notice those 299 Growth vials for 9,999? Chances are high that someone bought all the Growth Vials for less than 9,999 gold and relisted them all for 9.999 gold. This way, that person gets the maximum profit from his own growth vials, and a few gold for each vials he bought below that price and resold. But most importantly, he cornered the market and ensured that if people need vials, they buy from him.

Now, I can hear you saying “Then how do I get in on this if that jerk is already working vials?” My answer is this, look for times when the market doesn’t have a glut of Growth Vials to do this, and when it IS over-stocked, look for other items which you can buy low and sell high. I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but what stops most people is figuring out WHAT to buy lo and sell high… It’s basically a process of figuring out what people want.

For instance:

Gilgamesh does not come from a box…

People like to craft thing which offer excellent stats and are rare…

Gilgamesh offers excellent stats for its level and since it doesn’t come in a box… it’s rare!!!

(Don’t buy Gilgamesh, that’s not the point) DO buy things needed to make Gilgamesh that IS the point

Here’s what’s needed to make Gilgamesh armor:

Let’s look at the market and see what we might be able to corner

Hmmm… this looks promising. You can’t see it but the fixed price for Silver ingots is 1,500 gold. So if we buy everything up to 1,499and relist it all for 1,499, we can make a tidy little profit.

That is, if two things are true:

1. Do people buy it regularly?

1. Do we have the gold to maintain dominance in this market?

The first question is answered easily, by watching the market. Do you regularly see fluctuations in quantity and prices? Do you regularly see the items which can be made from it on the market? Is it used to make several items which you think people might want or need?

If so, this is a good candidate for asking the next question. Can I afford to corner this item? To corner the item you don’t just buy up a bunch and then relist it, you have to keep going back and making sure nobody is undercutting your price, and if they are you need to purchase their product to avoid your product just sitting on the shelf. This means that to comfortably corner a market you ought to have at least 4 times the amount of gold you expect the initial purchase to cost you. In this case, the majority of the money will go to one seller, about 4.5 million, and if you estimate what the rest will cost you then you come up with about 5.5 million total initial outlays. So that times 4 comes to just about 20-22 million to comfortably corner this market.

Keep in mind that every dime for this money is at risk, so you should so some things to increase your safety. First, never use more than 50% of your money to manipulate the market, you need liquid funds for items in game. Second, instead of manipulating on high cost product, find several low cost products to work with. Third, research the product thoroughly! Fourth, look for products with a 30% – 50% total profit margin, less than that and you end up inefficient, more than that and you take too much risk, Fifth, look for products with a lot of small quantities going slowly up in price at rates which look like someone chose them, products with weird rates are often sitting on the market for awhile and the game lowers the price automatically.

Final tips:

Growth Vials are constantly being sold, even if a lot of people know the trick I told you, you can still make money and save money on buying them.

Don’t try to corner the market just before the weekend, prices virtually always drop on the weekend.

If you can’t check your product one an hour, you don’t have the time to corner a market effectively.

Work your way up. You won’t handle products which require tens of millions at first, but you can work with products which can make you hundreds of thousands early on.

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Atlantica Online MMORPG: How to use Trade Post to Make Money

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 · Filed Under atlantica buy gold, atlantica guide, atlantica online, atlantica online gold, atlantica review, atlantica setup, atlantika online, trade post guide · Comment

Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in

Atlantica Trade Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from how to utilize the trade permission, whereabout of the products, manipulate the stock prices

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Atlantica Online will right away make you immerse in the witty gameplay and exploring real world scenaries mixed with mythological and fantasy elements. Just like in real life, money makes the world go round in Atlantica Trade Market. Here’s a quick guide to easy gold from how to utilize the trade permission, whereabout of the products, manipulate the stock prices. This comprehensive guide is created by Trinhypie for My Atlantica Online Forums. Read on the “The Trade Post & You” article after the jump.

This guide is based on the experiences of Trinhypie and you have to respect whatever suggestion or opinion he has. You have a freedom to follow the step by step guide or create your own trade implementation. The choice is yours! If you find anything offensive or mistake in his guide, you can contact him directly via this link.

- Table of Contents -
a. Intro
b. General Overview
c. Process
d. Trade Post Products
e. Extra Info

Hehe, Hello there. Welcome to my Trading Post Guide!
We all know that sometimes, it’s difficult to make some gold in Atlantica.
However, thanks to the Trading Post, players above level 96 can make at least 5-10 mil a day.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? There’s no catch, all you need to do is do some research and spare about 10 minutes of your time!
So read on heros, it’s time to make some gold. ;D

What exactly is the Trading Post? It’s a function in the towns of Atlantica where you buy products and re-sell them for a higher price!
However, it does take a bit of starting gold, but I can guarantee that you will end up with more once your done.
Remember, though, your main character must be level 96 to utilize this function!
Now, let’s begin.

Step 1. Make sure you are level 96.
Why? There is a special item you will need to start trading, and it requires a minimum level of 96 to use.

Step 2. Go to any town of your choosing and open Bank.
I recommend that you have at least 10 mil to take out to hold with you. (This means available to use right then and there.)

Step 3. Open the Market and go to buy. Seach for a Trade Permission.
Sold for a fixed price of 1 mil. This is absolutely necessary!

Step 4. Use the Trade Permission and Open Trading Post.

This is the window that will now pop up.

You have 100 trades for 20 hours. Meaning you can make 50 buys and 50 sell backs for a total of 100 trades to the Trading post.
The products are listed in the window as well.

The first 2-3 products are the products made in that city, meaning that is where they will be cheapest to buy.
The rest of the products is what you will be selling to that city.

Now this is where you make money. The general idea here is to buy low sell high. Products bought in their home town are cheaper than being bought at another other town.
So buy where the item was originated and sell to a different town.

Simple, right?

BUT, before you make ANY trades, be sure to do your research!
Visit towns and check the prices of the items you are going to buy and sell.
Always aim for the ones with the best difference, meaning, towns/items that will give you more profit.

How will you know how much an item is being bought for?
Generally, the item will be bought for 90% of the selling price of that town.
So for example, Product A is being sold at this town for 1mil.
They will buy that product for 900k.

A tip: Those items that are ‘low’ in stock, will be paid more for. So buy items that are in abundance, and sell to towns who have a shortage. (From my experience, Less than 5000 is shortage, Greater than 5800-6000 is abundance).

Now you may be asking.. How in the world will I know where to sell the items to?
Luckily for you, I’ve compiled a nice list of the products, where they originated from and where they can be sold to.

Click here for that list …
voila now you know where to check the prices for the products you decide to sell!

Note: Values are estimates, those that are marked 2 mil range from 1.7mil – 2mil. Those stated at 1.5mil are between 1.3-1.7; 1mil is ranged between 700k-1.3mil; and 500k is ranged 300k-700k.

Sorted by value then each column is alphabetically ordered.

Trade Post can only be done once every 20 hours.
Meaning once you activate the Trade Permission, you need to wait 20 hours before doing another 100 trades.

You ONLY have 100 trades. If you buy too many items you’ll need to wait until the next day to sell the left over items.

Depending on items, generally, those items worth more (1.5+ range) will turn in more profit.
However, always research your items and find the maximum profit.
Many players may trade around so many 2 mil products that the 1.5mil products will give you more gold.

NEVER take out more than 20-30mil. The tax of putting that money back into the bank will take a large toll on your profits.

Don’t engage any mobs while holding your money. Especially ones that might kill you! Losing money is never fun. :’(

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So, thank you very much for looking through this guide!
Any questions, comments, or mistakes please let me know!
Notes : All info from mistakes of my own being made in the trading post xD
I’m REALLY sorry for any mistakes/types in the spreadsheet @_@ There was a lot of info >_<
All product information taken from the game database. (Yes, I visited every town wrote them all down and put them into this list xD)
Please do not copy! It took a lot of hard work and time, if you’d like to use, please link back here, to it’s original home =)

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