Hustle
Thats right.

I'm taking a lot of what I say here from part of the ATM's in the Mix topic, it was getting off topic and I'm bringing what I have to say over here.

I agree that people should be out hustling there asses off.  When I say hustling, I don't mean running crates all day and night.  I mean going out and making money the hard way, because running crates is a part time job that is over paid because otherwise all the newbies would bitch that they can't make any money.

It's understandable, they don't know the streets, they don't know how to hustle but it's time they learned.  I'm honestly tired of being one of the only Mixer players that ever offers any IC jobs.  Hell, most of you don't even ACCEPT the fucking jobs.  I've got four or five jobs publicly availble ICly (Not just on the Grid) that people could be doing, maybe they don't pay 20k a week, but are YOU the controller working for the money or are you working for the RP?

The best road to power is to get people working for you.  Spread your money around, even if you don't have much.  Why?  Because then people will think you are a big shot, and if people think you're a big shot, then you fucking ARE a big shot.

I mean, take some risks!  Sure, you might die, but thats what clones are for.  I get so mad when people bitch about losing stuff when they clone.. I mean, my character dies -all- the time, and he doesn't have any more money than the rest of you.  What makes it worse is that you all have pretty nice gear, big guns, or armor, or other such things, and it just sits in your fucking cubes or lockers or apartments, or you have the chyen to BUY things like that, and the chyen just sits in the bank or in a briefcase..

So really you aren't even losing shit aside from some clothes and a few points of UE.. The game is not going to be fun unless you make it fun, and idling all day and standing around waiting for your 'boss' or some other established player to come along and hand you RP is not helping make the game any more fun for anyone aside from you, and probably, it isn't even that fun for YOU.  

Go exploring, steal, rob, loot, kill, maim, scheme, plot, rape, pillage, fuck all, just do SOMETHING so that when you do encounter another player, your not just standing there not talking to each other until one of you fucking idles off.

Don't forget to lie and distort information whenever possible. :deal:

We are looking into re-evaluating the delivery system, reducing the ammount they pay greatly. Currently certain players are making about 2-5k a day, which is more than a corpie earns. We'll fix that soon enough.

You are all soft. When I started playing here I earned about 450c a day and had to sit in bloody Shinohara for hours to do it. I met gobs of other players who had to do the same thing. I made friends, I made enemies, I roleplayed while stacking the crates in the back.

It was fun. I had barely enough money to pay my rent, and didn't care, and in a few months had a network of fellows that was big enough to do mover and shaker stuff with.

So, like, anyhow, I bet we half or quarter what these runs are paying. In theory you should BARELY make money taking something to GREEN, maybe 50c - 150c profit for half an hour.

Honestly, I've said it before I'll say it again: Automated jobs are donkey balls. Find something to do where you can interact with players or contribute to the game. Maybe even both! Some of us are out there with enough chy to share, you just gotta find a way to get it. Lie, cheat, steal, be treacherous little bastards. Keep your ear low to the ground. Trade your momma's hovertub for your next fix. There may be a war on the streets, but most of you are fodder...its the bloody telephone game and between the good guys and the bad guys there's you. There's alot to be gained from not being famous or infamous. Take advantage of it before you're forced to pick sides. Nobody suspects the chummer with no rep. :ninja:

If at one point in time there was a shortage of those things, wouldnt it be true that delivery boys help to make the world spin? Therefore making them a necessary piece to the corporation? They may be slimy little street urchins, but wihtout them nothing gets delivered, nothing gets sold, and everyone loses. Wouldnt that motivate shop owners to pay the delivery boy, because if they didnt soon the runners would just stop going and then everyone loses money. This also kind of ties in to what Damon said on another topic, if you order a COD and then give them a dollar, there is no chance he is going to give you the package.