From remarks I have read there are several guilds who have members who don’t give coins to help in the running of the guild. Perhaps some do as I do, provide other services. I do cooking a while back I made over 700 foods for the guild, from the porridges to the pies.
As for portals, my son and I put up a portal for all the members to us. We take care of the costs from the ortstones we get when we are out and I get enough to cover the cost from the dormant meteorites, the ones I can take on alone and the road runners I kill.
I have shops, two were at N. L. Market and I made a fair amount of money, not on the level of big shops and some would see it as nothing, but my needs are few and from 1k to 2k a day was more than enough for my needs. When the Market closed I, like others, lost out. I have two shops at a new area, Sky Express where I sell plants and boulders at Nature’s Greatness, and one where I sell forging ingredients (memory is off, can’t remember the name), but right now there are few shops so I not only get few sales but very little footfall. G. Mall, well, I’m considering changes to what I sell as it has stopped selling anything, but it seems I’m not the only one, may of the shops have nothing on their stands to sell.
My time I have plenty with being disabled and homebound. I have no trouble getting most of what I need in gathering of items such as seeds, sweet beans, milk glands and some mats I have trouble getting I can trade with from a couple of other players. The only items I can’t collect on my own are the bitter beans and the trophies, which my son helps me do a harvesting day for those. Gold, silver and titanium I buy when I find it on sale cheap, which isn’t often. I traded a couple days ago teaching pies, teaching loaves, energizing and invigorating pies and some titanium tools and a gold fist for gems and some gold and silver.
Promoting a shop, hard to do when it has shut down and I have promoted my shop, Making of Greatness, but part is location, part is no ones wants to buy the ingredients anymore, there are so many shops that sell food and as I stated, location, there is very little traffic there when you are a distance from the main street where most shop and don’t go further.
I am going to soon start to make forged items, most will be for me, but I may sell some that come out good, time will tell on that as I am gather mats and learning what to do.
As stated I am part of a guild, but to be honest, I don’t know what buffs we have or how many, it doesn’t matter as where I go I don’t need a lot of protection except when I go to level 5 and 6 planets and that is only when my son is with me; he is my bodyguard. lol
I feel like a broken record, I Am Not Talking About ME, but About Others,
Technically I am not a solo player as I have a son who occasionally joins me in the game. I am a member of a active guild that isn’t struggling, there are members who are committed and provide coins to keep it open. I provide by gathering items that I can when needed and cooking food for them. A couple days ago the forger member of the guild took a couple gold fists I made and forged it for me. I gave the guild at least double what he needed so leftovers could stay in the guild’s supply of forging items. My contribution to the guild.
This is not about me, it is about those who are solo players and have No Guild. I had stated that I am somewhat a solo player in that when I go out I am not with others, I know what it is like to take on a meteorite and die from a goat knocking me over a cliff, from being knocked out of the area and lose the meteorite. Which does not happen in groups.
I wish everyone would quit focusing on me and instead of what I stated, solo players who have no guild, no one to assist them and maybe can’t afford a lot of items because of their level or lack of experience due to the stage they are at. They are the ones I want the devs to consider, they should be considered and not brushed aside like they are of no value.