Chapter 77: Quest Line
Unlike towns, players weren’t allowed to casually set up stalls here. If you wanted to sell, you needed a proper shop this time around and not just a fee. But shops didn’t come cheap. The cost was out of reach for most players, and even then, only those with enough reputation could buy one. Higher status meant better shop locations, closer to foot traffic.
Still, that didn’t mean players had no way to sell items.
The first option was the Auction House. Golden Card’s auction system is connected to seven smaller cities in the region, making it a trade hotspot. But it came with a price. Listing fees were based on the item’s price and how long you wanted it up. And once it sold, the Auction House took another 7% cut. In total, you’d lose about 14% of the item’s value just in fees. For cheap items, it wasn’t even worth it.
The second option was the player market. Once every three days, the plaza hosted a public bazaar. For a small fee, anyone could rent a stall and sell whatever they wanted. It was a perfect setup for solo players or small teams. The only drawback? The market ran only once every three days—and only at night, lasting ten hours.
For players who weren’t into grinding or adventuring but still wanted to progress in Ecplise Online, owning a shop in the city was a game-changer.
Shops let players run businesses around the clock, literally 48 hours a day in-game time. As the world of Ecplise Online expanded, the income from running a shop in Golden Card City could rival what someone might earn from a real-world business.
In Yone’s last life, plenty of players skipped combat entirely. They poured everything into acquiring a shop instead. Even if their stores were tucked away in quiet corners of the city, they still brought in enough profit to cover real-life expenses, and even had some to spare as well.
Shops in cities were simply that lucrative.
Walking for about five minutes, Yone reached the red point on his map, which is what the guard pointed him to go and went into the store.
’Here we go, let’s hope this isn’t a crazy quest and I won’t have to abandon it,’ Yone prayed as he went inside the store after knocking thrice on the outside door like he was instructed.