So, my Good, Bad and Ugly guys keep gradually paving my way to prosperity in the Prospectors online game. I've done a couple of posts about it before (the links are below) and now I want to make a small routine follow-up.

Last week I got a time-certificate for my guys. I expected that with the certificate I would find a free plot with a decent gold reserve, rent it and start my real gold-mining career.

I started to search for such a plot -- and found none... Moreover, I expected that when I got a time-certificate I would see somewhere a magic "Explore" button and would explore the hidden treasures of free plots. However, strangely there was no such button seen anywhere.

Recently I found an article that I consider worth reading. Though the prices and most other figures mentioned there are way outdated now, the article gives a good general feeling of the game.

Upon reading the article I realized that probably I'm simply too late for the party... That is, at the moment all plots (at least on WAX Yukon server) are already explored and all decent gold reserves are already taken. A few free plots with 3.9M gold spots don't worth renting and building a gold mine.

Well, it's hard to be a real gold miner without a gold mine...

However, it's still possible to make some living besides mining gold. I got two wagons, now Mr.Bad and Mr.Ugly cut wood at free spots and sell it at 8 gold/kg. Mr.Good with a cart mines coal, clay, or ore and tries to sell it for not less than 50 gold/kg.

I noticed that the prices and wages are slowly going down. The deflationary economy is so deflationary... Besides, as all the sweet spots are taken, there's no high demand for anything. It makes me wonder how the game economy is going on and to where. However, the dev gods of the game can add more sweet spots anytime they would wish so.