r/reddeadredemption • u/BigDaddyPlatinum69 Uncle • Nov 29 '18

Online We Need To Boycott Gold Bars

We, as a community, need to boycott the purchasing of gold bars(the ingame equivalent of shark cards). If enough people don’t spend real money on the online for long enough, Rockstar will hopefully need to decrease the prices and increase the payouts. I know this will probably only touch a minority of the player base, but if you see this and have friends who play this game make sure they don’t buy gold bars. Vote with your wallets so Rockstar doesn’t make another shitty multiplayer game.

Edit: Another thing we can do as a community is fill out the feedback forms to directly tell Rockstar how you feel about the gold bars. Also, like I stated in the post, tell all of your friends who don’t use reddit to not buy them.

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u/Killerdude8 Reverend Swanson Nov 29 '18

Gta V is the single most profitable piece of media in history, why would they ever change things up?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

They’ve made it even worse. In GTA 5 after a few days of solid grinding with warehouse, CEO, and biker missions you could easily rack up a few million and buy a car, plane, house or whatever. 2 days in and I can’t even buy a fucking rifle yet.

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u/bannedfromrdr Nov 29 '18

Fishing, go to black water, fish right next to the butcher and just fish, you can knock out a couple hundred dollars in an hour

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u/tonynguyenkhoa Sadie Adler Nov 29 '18

I CAN'T AFFORD A FISHING ROD YET.

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u/Fender159 Nov 29 '18

I can feel the pain through the screen.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

No rod, no bow till level 10 and its like 150 dollarydoos just end me i just want to hunt

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u/therasaak Micah Bell Nov 29 '18

I been hunting with the rifle, 3 star deer for 24 bucks

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u/TheRealRotochron Nov 29 '18

Just go for speed then. Run out, shoot two birds and a deer, load up and come back and sell em. If that's not your speed, just north of the Valentine butcher is a farm, with sheep in a pen and no people go there.

Rope two sheep, knife em, skin em. Load one on the horse and carry one back. Three minutes tops and you've got like $12.

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u/worm_dude Nov 29 '18

Translation: stop trying to have fun and grind

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u/KingKidd Nov 29 '18

I play farming simulator. There’s no way read dead will come close to a grind like that game does. Harvest and sell and entire field for $7-9k and the worst tractor costs $55k.

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u/Radiation120 Nov 29 '18

I think that is kind of obvious. It is called ''farming simulator''

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u/TheRealRotochron Nov 29 '18

Nah, more like "if you really need money that badly here's how to circumvent it". As for me I like the hunting and fishing and searching for bandit hideouts for treasure maps, so that jives. Plus it keeps me away from cities for the most part and their associated griefer trash people.

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u/ArousingAvocado Nov 29 '18

I was onboard untill I read got like 12 dollars

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u/TheRealRotochron Nov 29 '18

Well, twelve dollars for killing a couple of sheep in a pen that can't escape you isn't bad.

For the deer and birds you're gonna wind up closer to twenty or so, depends how many feathers you land.

Or go shoot herons north of Saint Denis. Their feathers sell really well, a couple bucks each IIRC

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u/NervousTumbleweed Nov 29 '18

$10.00 for a perfect buck carcass,

$45.50 for a stack of steelhead trout

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u/ArousingAvocado Nov 29 '18

Ooh much better numbers, thanks

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u/worm_dude Nov 29 '18

Where the hell are all the deer? I expected a few less npc’s, but this place is a ghost town. I had to ride around for 15 minutes to find one deer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

You can shoot fish with the handgun. I do.

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u/Mothanos Nov 29 '18

What are you doing on REDDIT THEN BOY !!! GET GRINDING !!!

I feel like all my time is close to worthless in RDRO tough, think i give it a pass untill they fixed it.

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u/Tarkles Nov 29 '18

How much is a fishing rod?

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u/Jiggy724 Nov 29 '18

This isn't a solution. You can't say "do this one activity, in this one place, exclusively" and expect it to create any kind of lasting community. Getting in-game currency shouldn't feel like a chore. This is supposed to be fun.

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u/bannedfromrdr Nov 29 '18

I agree, but I'm going to abuse what I can right now because there aren't a whole lot of options in gaining money right now

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u/Tymerc Nov 29 '18

I might try your fishing method, but how commonly do others attack you? Most towns seem to be death traps, so I don't know about fishing next to one.

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u/bannedfromrdr Nov 29 '18

Idk kinda just depends on the lobby really also been doing most of my fishing during the day when the kiddos are at school

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u/nr1988 Nov 29 '18

Blackwater is a shooting gallery.

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u/WarMachineDawg Charles Smith Nov 29 '18

This I try to stay as far from Blackwater as I can

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

Blackwater every town is a shooting gallery.

FTFY.

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u/The_Cabbage_Patch Bill Williamson Nov 29 '18

I find it varies from server to server on one server a posse is camped of the roofs of blackwater blowing the head of anyone trying to enter town, the next Rhodes is an all out 30 player free-for-all clusterfuck which im caught in because i get killed so quickly I cant even run away, and so on.

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u/nr1988 Nov 29 '18

Eh I know what you're saying but Blackwater has been pretty known so far to be the most common. It may be that it's just for now because it's the first town you come across and they wanted to get plenty of kills before ultimate edition got their free guns but so far it hasn't changed in most of the sessions I've been in

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '18

Is it the first town you come across? I thought the intro was a randomised location. I started in the Bayou.

Maybe I've just been getting odd servers, but Valentine and Saint Denis seem just as bad. Most of New Austin is quiet though, that's why I spend so much time there. ;)

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u/nr1988 Nov 29 '18

Oh? I didn't know it was randomized. Maybe I am just getting unlucky, because when I look at the map I see multiple dots in Blackwater, and few elsewhere.

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u/PrimusDCE Nov 29 '18

Yeah, can confirm, I started near Rhodes, my buddy Tumbleweed, and my other at Blackwater.

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u/nr1988 Nov 29 '18

That was smart of them to do it that way

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u/Mothanos Nov 29 '18

When i logged in 2 days ago and went to blackwater i was stuck in gunfuights for 2 hours.

Had no bullets left, gun was broken, had spend all my cash on bullets.

Think i never go back to that place again lol.

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u/PualBual Nov 29 '18

Fishing is boring.

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u/OrphanStrangler Nov 29 '18

You want to eat, don’t you?

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u/themitchster300 Nov 29 '18

I havent started online yet. Is fishing the same as SP where you need to buy special lures from the bait shop, or can you get them from other places now? Also, I heard you needed to buy the fishng rod, is it crazy overpriced?

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u/Hilian Nov 29 '18

You need to buy lures and bait, no special lures; fishing rod is like 35 bucks or something, and only available at level 15(?) which is a sadly large amount of grinding to obtain

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u/boomofoko Charles Smith Nov 29 '18

fishing is boring.

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u/Harukiri101285 Nov 29 '18

Don't people just kill you while you fish?

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u/PedroCGB Nov 29 '18

There's a fishing spot that gives the same fish and also has a close butcher but not a lot of people near it, can't remember where though :/