Revise:How To Be A Great Merchant In Online Games

Name: Ben Chang
Instructor: I-Ming Shih
2022, Composition (II)
October 21, 2008
How To Be A Great Merchant In Online Games
Online games are very popular now, and many kinds of online games have been released. They’re all like small societies in common. I love one kind of them very much, that is, Role Playing Game. Everyone plays a role in it, and you can decide on which role you want to play. Some want to be warriors, and some want to be merchants. I belong to the later one. How to be a merchant in a online game?
At first, start the program of the game. Key in your ID number and password, and create a role. You can choose the sex, hair style and color, eye color, clothing, height, weight and career. The most important thing is that you need to give he or she a name. You have to be a warrior first before you become a merchant. Why? Because you don’t have money in the beginning, you need a warrior to earn a little money. It’s a foundation to be a great merchant.
After you have some money, you can change your career now. The money you earn is not enough at all for being a great merchant, so you have to come up with a method to increase your money. Trade is a very good way to increase your money. The tax rate in every city is all different, and it’s very useful for a new merchant. For example, you can buy items in A city, which tax rate is 10%, and sell them in B city, which tax rate is 20%, and you can earn some money in this way. You have to do it frequently, and then your money will increase very fast.
Now you have a lot of money, and you can do another kind of trades: sell some high-class items, weapons and protections, to other players. How do you get them? The most convenient way is buy them from other merchants, but you have to know how much those items cost at first. Try hard to get them under the current price, and you can sell it at a higher price to earn the difference. This is the phase in which you can accumulate your wealth. You can sell them when other players are really in need because weapons and protections are not easy to obtain. Players who really want high-class weapons and protections will not care about the price. Repeat this method, and you can get much more money than before.
Just getting a lot of money is not enough, so you need a way to acquire the latest news about trade. The best way is join a trade union or establish your own union. By communicating with other merchants, you can know the latest prices of commodities, and then adjust the prices of items you want to sell. It is very important because the prices of commodities decide your items can be sold or not, and your wealth increases or decreases. Having good relationships with other merchants can help you go smoothly in trading, and it’s the decisive point of whether you become a “great” merchant or not.
I know a lot of friends by being a great merchant, and their help is really useful to me. In the online game, I know how to be a great merchant, and also know how to promote relationships with other players. Being a merchant in the game helps me understand some principles about trade, so if I become a merchant in the real life, I have guidelines to follow. Being a great merchant in online game really provides some notions about business in real life.