What is a legitimate plat business I could start

[hagglebaby]

What is a legit, in-game, business like dial a port or bob's escrow back in the day that I could start? I love the idea of that kind of stuff but am lacking in good ideas.

[isoka]

You can sell icecreams in oasis. Weather there is pretty good and I'm sure you would find buyers in no time.

[Jimjam]

Currency exchange; swapping gold, silver and copper for platinum. Swapping plat for gem stacks. Dial a 'dot.

Nutrition is important for recovery from combat fatigue and to gather mana from the surroundings. Not easy to find food in the field. Food & Drink delivery; Dial a Pork.

Being harassed by another player? Need someone to stand up for you? Dial a Retort.

Swarm kiting but need someone to check corpses for valuable loot? Dial a Hawk.

[shuklak]

Foot rubs for weary adventurers returning from battle.

[Lhancelot]

Create a RP guild of ERPers. Fees would be whatever you determined!

You could begin by offering ERP in the alley's of FP, starting out as a fledgling pimp. Once you got more members, you then could start setting up your brothel in Freeport.

Once you establish yourself as the King Pimp of Freeport you could begin to branch out and set up "shop" in Neriak, with a string of dark elven beauties.

Next, Qeynos and Felwithe, where you could showcase the wood elf and high elf lovelies.

Although this might make these otherwise non-populated zones populated again, it might be easier to just have one Brothel set up, and require that your guild members relocate from their original cities of birth and work in Freeport to keep things simple for your guild members and the customers who want to enjoy RPing/ERPing all in one spot.

[Swish]

Trading people's currency in for plat coins was a legit thing back in classic on the live servers. I bound at the South Karana treants and would regularly drop in and offer people a trade...their gp/sp/cp or anything else heavy for pp.

Some didn't want to leave their camps to sell. Also I always carried extra water, sell that to people who are low for a profit lol

[skorge]

The devs removed all of these things away from the game due to a few bad seeds...no more account trading/selling/buying, no more casinos, etc....tbh these 2 were the best ways to make bank....i made millions back in the day here on p99 from just account trading......

The only other way to make plat here is to flip items (buy under market price and sell for market price)....you can really only make bank when you wheel and deal higher end items so you make more plat....you could start low and work your way to higher end stuff....this requires you to sit in EC all day though.

One other way I made an INSANE amount of plat for very little time back in the day was Red > Blue trading...I would sell items on red that would only be worth 500 plat on blue for 5,000 plat on blue - they would give me 5,000 plat on blue, i would then log in my red character and give them the item they just payed me for on blue...the ratio was insane like 10-20:1...so an item worth 1,000 plat on blue, you could get 15,000 plat for....so i would farm these type of items on Red and sell them for blue currency....this didn't last too long though, maybe only a year or so after Red opened.

Account buying/selling/trading was the best way by far though...i would buy accounts, let them sit for 1-2 weeks (do nothing to them) and resell them for 25% higher than what I paid...when you consider most accounts sold for 100,000 plat, this is a huge amount of profit, i made over a million plat after just 1-2 months..this was back in the day when only a very few had over a million plat on the server

[Cambiant]

Server is lacking a good old fashioned powerleveling guild.

[dude]

You would need to invest some time researching what stuff sells for and when you see peeps selling on the cheep buy it and resell it. Lots of casual gamer's don't like to sit in the tunnel more that an hour or so buying or selling.

[Raavak]

Instead of dial-a-port how about Dial-a-Bank? Currency exchange anywhere, anytime, on call 24-7!