AfterWorld Survival Forum

Its me again .. so after becoming a "citizen" I thought " Now the real game begins!!!". Far from it .. I just got my 75th P-note and still not able to make the most basic tool .. the steel pick. Now there is the possibility that I'm to stupid to grasp the concept of the game. So could someone please tell me that there is more to the game than me making " Donations" to buy picks. I bought so far for about 20$ picks and it starts to suck. Its not about the money ( if I can make them I have to pay too ) but the feeling of not getting anywhere. I do like the game but something isn't right here.
Sorry if I appear like a nagging noob.

All the main page tells me is that I need cd's to make a pick. "Sometimes" offered as a reward. All I got so far is for me useless ccd's for armor. Useless because they require blank cd's to activate .. which of course I have no way to get. So I have no way of making a pick.

Thank you Jane for the info. Not what I wanted to hear but kinda expected to hear. Guess I play till all the awd are gone and than forget about it. Sucks.

Thank you jarod .. but that's not why I was posting my question .. I have no problems to pay for stuff I want ( armor and weapons I bought over the market) and know that I need awd for making the picks as well.. its just right now I don't feel any accomplishment in the game .. the ore, metals and minerals are stacking up in storage and nothing I can do with .. on the other hand the game promises a lot .. even for a solo player like me .. if you can get to it .. I think with a little tweek of the game it could be very enjoyable.

Thank you jarod .. but that's not why I was posting my question .. I have no problems to pay for stuff I want ( armor and weapons I bought over the market) and know that I need awd for making the picks as well.. its just right now I don't feel any accomplishment in the game .. the ore, metals and minerals are stacking up in storage and nothing I can do with .. on the other hand the game promises a lot .. even for a solo player like me .. if you can get to it .. I think with a little tweek of the game it could be very enjoyable.

What sort of accomplishments are you looking for? There isn't any kind of achievement system or anything like that (so far), so everyone who's played extensively up to now has had to create their own achievement goals.

For most people, being the most-skilled at one or more of the professions is the goal they sought. With enough money this becomes very easy to do as long as there are other players willing to sell skills.
For other people, being able to kill off any other player they found in PvP is the goal, which is really just another form of the previous goal.
For still others, there is some other internal goal that they've worked towards, such as using the best gun, crafting the highest armor, or similar, which also hooks back to the first goal. But like PvP, it takes other players running around to know who's "the best" at any given thing.

Are you hoping for something that the game itself would provide instead?

After reading the the OP's first post again I have a slightly different answer, though it also connects with my previous post.

If all you're doing is picking rocks to get P Notes, then yes you're going to get pretty bored pretty quick. You'll have a wide variety of resources that can be used for crafting a variety of items too, but until you start crafting, hunting, and/or mining they'll just seem useless.

So my recommendation is to start crafting things. It's quite cheap to craft the low-end stuff - which is all you'll be able to craft right now anyway - and it'll give you a feel for the system. Craft a steel pick, a steel axe, an A1-FL HK, a sieger and some ammo, a dagger pugio, and some low-end armor if you have the AWD and the desire to use each of them. If you can't or don't want to craft certain things, try to buy them on the market - and open a new thread in the Market Network here on the forums if you can't find what you want to buy. Then go out and use them up on the mobs in and around NU to see what you like, if you don't already have an idea.


The only way to know which direction to go right now is to try things out. Chances are good that you've already played some other MMOs or games where you've found the kinds of things that you like to do, so apply those ideas here as best you can. If you aren't sure about anything at all, just post here or start another thread. That's what this whole forum section is for, after all. ;-)

Ugh, I forgot about the AWD minimum. I'm still in the mindset where we used to have a fairly good chance of getting a CD with every craft that used a CD!

I did some crafting recently - about 16 separate items - and didn't get any CDs at all, but each item was less than 10 AWD each. I'll try crafting something more expensive and see if I get any, but the last time I crafted a whole bunch of picks all at once - costing at least 15 AWD, and probably a fair amount more - I don't recall getting any CDs, though this was several months ago.

I tried as suggested here .. 1600 charges for the mining drill = 16 awd .. only got 2 survival points .. have a cd for mfd-1 boxes .. max amount I can make is 75 = 2 awd .. got nothing for that other than 3% in mining tools .. anything else I could try ?