Question about node/contribution point investing

Hey sorry for the noobish question, still trying to get my lay of the land here.

From what I can gather, trading isn't a money maker in this server because of problems/bugs within trading itself and grinding is better. With that in mind, I'm thinking that crates are not very viable option for investment, so would you go as far to say that even the material like ore and lumber aren't worth the investment as well?

I can see just doing the cooking nodes for the food buffs and maybe some other nodes for wagon parts and maybe some other the useful crafting buildings can be used; but overall would just investing in storage for towns be better to spread out loot? Even when I think of using contribution points for storage, you can use the free pearls which makes it easy to rack up space if you leave your computer on overnight.

I guess I'm just lost on whats actually worthwhile to spend contribution points on and looking for some suggestions.

Thanks!

 

It is indeed difficult to figure these things out especially because, eventhough there are many game guides (http://forum.gameznetwork.com/forums/game-guides.401/), none of the game guides deal with the fact that this server does not offer the full range of money-making-tools that the "Retail-BDO" server does, which is kinda crazy since they have insisted on just copying almost every other aspect from that model which is just so lousy and bad. What this server needs is a Life-Skill rebalancing where players CAN earn as much money from doing them, as well as crafting and selling their products, BUT as it is now there is only one viable option for AFK life-skill use for money-making which is Horse Training. Active life-skill use is mainly Gathering as you get Hard/Sharp-blackstone Shards from gathering, and of course Farming which also has a Shard-drop chance as well as making materials which you can use for cooking and alchemy. So some still make some money from selling stuff on the market, but mostly these items just end up stockpiling on the market and do not sell in the end as much as they could. About trading in general, it is not really worth the effort or time usage, doing the trade runs with a wagon will bring in a permille (1/1000) of what you can gain with the same amount of time spent actively grinding, and the tradecrates have a limitation on how many can be sold server-wide as well as a maximum amount of silver you are allowed to earn per day on this server. So all in all, this server does NOT cater to players who want the FULL BDO experience at all, and it has only been getting worse in the past 6 months or so, with catering to the players complaining the most as well as the same players who bully and make other players leave the server/community. It is indeed dark times on GamezBD.

 

Appreciate the response!
That's exactly what I was picking up on. The hole node management aspect of the game seems pointless since there's no real benefit to the time commitment and the upkeep that goes along with it. Along with that it seemed like there isn't too much to use contribution points on.

 

Do not dispair though, I myself have invested heavily in having a node empire along with loads of workers, but the income of materials from them is limited, and quickly gets dwarfed by how much your characters can gather in a fraction of the time frame needed by the workers...in general the worker aspect here on GamezBD could REALLY use some reworking as well as the life-skills area (at least the ones not being used at all).

The workers could easily have their working speed boosted to say x10 like this server brags about but rarely lives up to
Also the workers worth, could SERIOUSLY need some boosting as NO-one uses the worker trade since you can maximum get around 5million for an Artisan level 30 worker (maximum level and tier).