Being a Merchant — How it works
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a business owner? Putting your mind to work and build something so that you can later enjoy the fruits of your labor? Maybe so, but like many of us, you don’t want to deal with all the hassle and bureaucracy of doing so.
Well, thanks to Gold Fever and our comprehensive concept of an in-game digital economy based on $NGL and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), you’ll be able to put your entrepreneurial chops to the test without having to take out a loan and while enjoying the exciting world of the Papua New Guinea jungle
Today, we will be talking about the life of a Merchant. By becoming one, you will be able to test your business skills by acquiring and managing several different businesses.
Survival of the fittest
Gold Fever is not your typical survival RPG game, but it still has many of the traditional mechanics of that genre. Items will be scarce. As so, players will have to wander into the wilderness and face great perils to obtain them.
Carefully managing your inventory will be essential and, in many cases, will be the difference between dying or living to fight another day.
The life of a merchant
Since items will be hard to find, the opportunities to create wealth within Gold Fever will come to those who work for them. But where can players start?
First of all, to become a merchant, you’ll have to purchase infrastructure. Similar to every item in the game, infrastructures will be represented by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Players can rest easy knowing that every infrastructure will have an intrinsic monetary value that can be exchanged or even borrowed on an open market.
Not all businesses are created equal
Infrastructures serve as an early form of digital real estate and players will choose between purchasing shops, airfields, or stables.
Airfields contain a set number of airplanes that can be sold or rented to other players. It is also possible to repair other players’ planes. The stables work in a somewhat similar manner, but with animals such as horses and donkeys which are used as vehicles or companions that carry items for you, should you acquire the necessary saddles.
Shops, on the other hand, sell a great variety of items. But regardless of the business you own, you’ll be able to define the price of goods and services. The businesses also manage themselves automatically, refilling stocks periodically so you won’t need to worry about going out of items to sell.
Money never sleeps
Regardless of the chosen businesses, all of them will allow players to generate income even when they are offline. There will be a non-playable character (NPC) merchant taking care of the business for you, interacting and transacting with other players on your behalf, so rest easy and let your trusted employees do the hard work. You’ve earned it!
In the future, it will be possible to bring in friends as business partners and divide the ownership of the NFT infrastructure. Thanks to multi-signature smart contracts, businesses can be owned by several players within a well-defined hierarchical structure. Thus, it is possible to define which utilization rights a specific player has over the business.
Finally, another exciting mechanic pioneered by Gold Fever is the renting/leasing feature. Players can profit by lending or leasing their items or tokens to other players in exchange for regular payments or certain privileges. Thanks to blockchain technology and smart contracts, players know that their goods are safe, as the borrower won’t have full access to the item/token and thus won’t be able to sell it.
About Gold Fever
Gold Fever is a challenging free-to-play RPG that leverages the power of the blockchain with the creation of a decentralized economy.
Gold Fever, in its essence, is a thrilling and addictive online multiplayer video game, mirroring the physical world into the digital one and allowing players to take actual ownership of scarce in-game items through Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
The Gold Fever economy is a junction of many moving parts that are dynamically adjusted. in Gold Fever, all participants have a seat at the table. Being able to vote and to dictate the future of the game through the governance token. Used for proposals on how to improve/evolve this digital world economy.
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