Hints, Tips, and General Knowledge about Making Gold

[Sheer_Immortal]

Sheer's Hints, Tips, and General Knowledge about Making Gold on Gaia Online

This thread is dedicated to informing members of Gaia, guildies in particular, about how to maximize their gold earnings on Gaia Online. I will be working to verify/disprove rumors about how to get gold. There is also a list of myths and why they're false.

In addition to these tips, I will compile a list of good resources on topics related to the Gaian economy. Be sure to check these out ^.^

If you have a tip, rumor, myth, or guide that you'd like to see added to this thread, please PM me and I'll give it a look. 3nodding

 

[Sheer_Immortal]

How to Get Gold

Posting

~The gold you get from posting decreases as time passes. For example, I get 50g for my first post of the day, but after posting for a while, I only get about 3g per post.

~However, once the gold-per-post decreases to, say, 2g/post, you can take a break from posting for a while, and the system will reset itself a little bit. For example, let's say my gold-per-post is 50-23-19-15-10-5-3-2-1-2-2-1 (or something like that), if I take breaks between posting, it's more like 50-23-19-15-10-5-2...19-15-10-5-2 and so on.

~The flood control on Gaia's main forums doesn't count in-guild posts, and vice versa. This means that you can post a message on the main forums and immediately post a message in the guilds without being delayed by the flood control.

~You can also get gold (including the bonus) for making a post in your Gaian Journal. This decreases much faster than the other actions (posting, polling, etc), though.

Polling

~Like posting, the gold you get from polling decreases. This seems to be linked to how quickly you poll and your post count. A higher post count means that you can take more polls in a row while still earning good amounts of gold. For example, when I first started Gaia, only the first five polls or so gave me 10g; the rest didn't give me gold. Now, I can take more polls for the higher gold total per day.

~Spreading out your polls helps. For example, if I take, say, 10 polls in a minute, I would only get gold for every other one. If I wait a little while (say, a minute) between polls, I get gold for every poll until I hit my daily limit.

Games

~Word Bump and Jigsaw both grant gold and items, just for playing! With Word Bump, gold increases as you get to higher levels; with Jigsaw, gold gain depends on difficulty level and rate of completion (the more puzzles you do in a day, the less gold you get).

~Word Bump gives out items for your avatar once you reach a certain level. Presumably, these items will get better as you reach higher and higher levels.

~Jigsaw also grants items, for both your house and avatar. Additionally, Jigsaw gives special portraits for your house - the portrait is the same picture as the puzzle you do! ^.^

~Towns gives gold, too! Just shake the trees, shrubs, and rocks, and there's a chance that you can get a handful of gold.

~Gaia has now introduced Pinball, which gives gold and power-up items which you can sell.

~Tickets from the Casino games, credits from Word Bump, trash and bugs from Towns, and items from Word Bump/Jigsaw can be sold on the Marketplace or through the Exchange forum for gold.

Other

~Second bonuses (for posting, polling, and commenting) occur when you've gone 12 hours without doing an action.

~Lurking (going from page to page without really doing anything) will get you a bit of gold every minute or so; some say that it's every 10 seconds. On slower computers, you get gold per page, as long as you're cruising around Gaia or refreshing every now and then.

~Commenting on profiles or in the arenas also grants gold. Like with the polls and posting, the first comment of the day grants a "bonus" amount of gold.

~With Gaia Cash, you can pay real money for Cash-exclusive items and then sell them on the Marketplace. You can also use Cash to buy Monthly Collectibles and store items.

~If you're questing or otherwise saving up gold, your post count seems to grow more quickly if you don't pay attention to it ^.^

~Another way to make gold is to sell off game items. Tickets, bugs, trash, flowers, Pinball power-ups, and fish can all be sold on the Marketplace or in the Exchange forum.

~You can also get items (or gold if you sell them) from random events. The notification system for random events was been down for a while, but seems to be back. However, the admins seem to have not accounted for events lost while it was down. The good news is, you can recover your events by going to and doing as it says. These are event recovery links, and they will give you any random event items that you missed while the notification system was down. If you hadn't earned a random event during that time, however, the links will give no items.

~Some people use the "buy low, sell high" method on the Marketplace or Exchange. This involves quite a bit of time, effort, and general knowledge of the Gaian economy - or sometimes just some luck. The admins are currently beta-testing the new Marketplace 3.0. Part of the new MP is a 2% fee or tax on the selling price of an item. So, if you're using the new MP instead of the Exchange forum, don't forget to take that into consideration.

~You can sometimes find commons (store items) on the Marketplace that are listed for less than what the sell-back price is. Buy those up and sell them back to the store, and you can make a profit.  

[Sheer_Immortal]

Rumors - May or May Not Be True
Feel free to PM me any rumors you've heard, and our Rumor Patrol will get right on it ^.^


Posting

Polling

Games
~I heard that people have been losing gold in Towns and Pinball. I have not had this happen to me yet at all, and I suspect it is a result of them either being hacked/scammed out of gold (coincidentally while they were playing the game), or that they misinterpreted either a glitch (which lists your gold in-game as -3; it's an error message which means that your account info didn't load up correctly) or Rufus' shop in Pinball (like if they thought that Rufus' power-ups cost them actual gold, rather than "gold" built up in the game). However, I shall continue testing it until I am satisfied, one way or another, about the veracity of this rumor.

Other

 

[Sheer_Immortal]

Myths - Things That Are NOT True
Debunked rumors. Feel free to PM me any myths you've heard about ^.^

Posting

~Longer posts get you more gold.

~The more gold you have stored, the more gold you get from posts.

~Post actions, such as rolling dice or random number generation, get you more gold.

~Formatted text gets you more gold.

~The flood control doesn't work between guilds. Besides being a separate flood control for both the main forum and the guild networks, there are separate flood controls for each guild.

~Posting images gives more gold.

Polling

~Which option you pick in a poll (first, second, etc.) matters.

Games

Other

~The position of your avatar matters.

~The items on your avatar matters.

~More people on your Friends List means more gold.  

[Sheer_Immortal]

Resources - Things Which You Should Look At
Gaian-Tested. Sheer-Approved.

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Guide and Resource Forum - A forum dedicated solely to guides. If you can't find what you're looking for within my thread, try this forum ^.^

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How to Make Your First 100k Without Begging or Bumping by Francis Drake - A good guide on how vend (use the Marketplace to get gold by buying low and selling high).