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slyke111
07-01-2009, 07:56 PM
OK, so I know that when I started AO, one of my first thoughts was "Holy crap!, Someone just gave me something worth 300,000!!!" well, later on this doesn't seem like a whole lot, but early on, you can start a process with this gold that can make you millions faster than many other sources of gold, and heres the best part, you are GURANTEED PROFIT! No more gambling the market or wasting money on the arena, no, this is a way for extremely low level players to be making more gold than those 20 levels higher than them.

Basically it starts like this:


1. When you start a character, don't go willy-nilly spending you gift or quest money on fancy equips for your mercs. Heck, don't even spend on your main...yet. Save up from all those gifts. if they're equips, go sell them, bu tKEEP THE MONEY!!! Once you break 200K (200,000) you're ready. Now leave the little magic fairy forest that you start off in. Look under the Game Info section. From here go under NPCs and look up Colombus. Click the Auto-Move button and you will begin to move to him. When you see Madrid, go on in. from here you want to go to the market and spend ALL of your money on Babyoln equipment boxes. they go for around 13K, but don't shy away from spending ALL YOU HAVE GOT on them. Trust me, it'll be worth it. now continue to Colombus, who is located in the Sabbatini Gardens, southwest of Madrid. Now it's time to introduce you to Atlantica Time. Look to the bottom left of your screen and you should see a date, and next to it, an hour value.

EXLAMPLE: "9 hrs"

Colombus is open from 9-18, so wait until it says 9 hrs. While waiting, open all of those boxes you bought. Now you need to learn about Colombus.

1. It costs 10% Will to sell an item to Colombus, so in one "spree" you can sell up to 10 items.

2. Colombus buys equipment for half of the market fixed price. (This may sound like he's ripping you off, but it's not so.)

3. Colombus is a STATIONARY NPC. He doesn't move like a lot of other Npcs in the game.

Now, since Colombus is open from 9-18 and it takes you 100% Will to sell him one characters inventory of items, there is some waiting involved, but don't let that scare you, it's worth it. You might have bought those boxes for 13K, but Colombus buys the items in them for 29K-59K. This means that your profit is always going to be 2-4 times what you spent on boxes! However, you can only sell about 25 boxes worth of items per cycle that Colombus is open. Still, if you sell all 25 boxes, you'll normally walk away with anywhere from 450-650K! and since the cycle repeats every 20 minutes or so, all you have to do is sell, go watch TV or do something else, come back and sell some more and so on until you run out of boxes. Then you can put all your earnings into more boxes and do it again!

NOTES:

Ok, so after you hit level 50 600K doesn't seem like that much, but remember, this method of gold-making works MUCH better when you're really low level.

Also, this method works best with Bran Castle or Babylon boxes. BVran castle actually has a better profit % gain, but the actual amount is lower and you have to sell more boxes, so if you're impatient it isn't the right choice for you.

Basically the only downside to this method is that it is EXTREMELY boring if you're just going to sit there and wait for your will to recharge. That's why i reccomend going and doing something else while waiting. I sat watching TV for one day while checking on Atlantica and ended up with 16 mil by the end of the day. That's a mount, and all I did was watch the Bernie Mac show.


If you have any questions I can be reached In-Game under the name of Leonhaert, or you can E-mail me at slyke111@gmail.com.

I HOPE YOU FIND THIS GUIDE HELPFUL AND HOPE YOU PICK UP ON THIS EXPLOIT SOONER THAN I DID!

Good Luck, And happy hunting!,
Leonhaert
Guild: RaNgErS

Flabble
07-02-2009, 07:50 PM
ah, someone finally spelled this out for me :P

aside the title (which should say "noobs guide to columbus") this is really great. You should have put it in the contest :P

Fantine
07-02-2009, 07:54 PM
This doesn't seem like an exploit. I think it's legit. :P

xenapan
07-03-2009, 07:07 PM
only thing questionable is the amount of bernie mac you watch. :D but yeah.. this is a nice short spelled out guide for newbies.

Mahasiah
07-11-2009, 03:48 PM
OmG, its a waste of time w8 will to sell at columbus? isnt?

Flabble
07-11-2009, 09:08 PM
OmG, its a waste of time w8 will to sell at columbus? isnt?

to impatient people like you and me, yes its a waste of time. But for people who can stand to sit there for like, a day, and sell stuff, you can pull in some decent cash.

Locksley
07-12-2009, 09:22 AM
its a waste of time cuze I make more money in that same time someone sits there and uses columbus, hahaha.

slyke111
07-18-2009, 07:35 PM
Basically this was meant to be a guide for people who have something else they can do while the money piles up. Also, I realize that when you get farther on in the game, more options become available. All in all, it's a good method to use in emergencies or if you have a few minutes to spare before...say...the Bernie Mac Show comes on. :D Thanks to anyone who read this and I hope it was of some use.

-Leonhaert

Flabble
07-18-2009, 09:03 PM
its a waste of time cuze I make more money in that same time someone sits there and uses columbus, hahaha.

the title is "noob's way to make fast cash," not "Super duper high lvl expert's way to make fast cash" ^^

Jonnu
07-25-2009, 07:19 PM
good guide but you can just buy anu items... i saw anu axes going for 5k when the market price was 54k so that can be a quick profit:malehero::malehero:

pdxdubin
07-26-2009, 02:38 AM
i tried to sell divine armor sets, from divine boxes, because i decided that i would make a 1m profit per sale..
but he said he dosent buy 100+ items, and i had to go sell everything in the market..

Atlander
07-26-2009, 03:27 AM
Other way to make some money on start is to make Chinese Cook quest on lvl 15. You have to lvl up food skill, but you can get in total 420x Special Sauce that sells for over 10k (at least on Mycenae). You get ovet 4mil this way! It's alot of money for low lvls, and you get some craft skills too :D

pdxdubin
07-26-2009, 02:19 PM
i made a youtube video on this, if anyone wants to check it out

Nijo
07-27-2009, 02:27 PM
It's a whole lot easier to make money starting from level 3 then sitting at Columbus, I know that if you sit at Columbus while harvesting money from boxes you can make up to 30M a day with boring money grinding, once you hit 30M you have about 100 tricks to make 10-20M a day without spending more then 5-20 minutes at the market.

If you want to be a money making tycoon, it's all about how much you can invest rather then what level you currently are. I'm level 51 right now and I made well over 200-300M and I hardly play 1 day a week. But I do make 40-50M a day.

If you want to know how this work, I advice you to check out the market, there are so many ways to make money on the market that once you found one, you can make money with that trick untill you find a better one.

I'm not going to tell any of them, all I'm doing is telling you to go on the market and have fun. It's a part of Atlantica you have to learn yourself.

Have fun!

Elphatae
08-23-2009, 10:48 AM
A way to make gold fast is to find a kind mentor who is just interested in one kind of book and who send you plenty of books boxes to open to find this book for him. You can keep/sell all the book except the one he wants.

Mahasiah
09-10-2009, 01:14 PM
the title is "noob's way to make fast cash," not "Super duper high lvl expert's way to make fast cash" ^^
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RONAAAAALLLDO, shines a lot in Corinthians. (means to ronaldo nazario, best soccer player in the world of all time).

Kidding, like u said on the title is NOOB.

kyozalid
04-26-2010, 06:22 PM
Ah nice guide thx for the nice tips :)

BeastlyPharoah
08-26-2010, 09:59 PM
great guide