How is the server for a Life/PvEr player?

So, I enjoy the retail and login in it to just relax and do life skill. My problem to the retail tho is the need of afking with PC on to make silver to "continue" the progression and catch up with the evolution of the game.

How is this translated to this private server? Is active life skill worth? Do we still can (don't need tho) have AFK profit?
Is active fishing worth?

TLR- Is the server only for PVPs and high level grind mindset?

 

I'm a guild leader from a PvE/Lifeskill guild, and I can say it's really good, maybe better than grind and defenitly better than retail. If you have mastery you can make a lot of money out of shards in gathering and hunting. Bartering is also profitable, wich is semi-afk, but you need at least an Improved Epheria.

 

As @Jujuba pointed out, it can be a proper income of silver, but it is unfortunately more about having Active players online, rather than AFK players. So while Actively life-skilling, which could be Gathering or Fishing or Bartering, you will have a high income of silver, it will not be as high as Actively Grinding, which is how the game-mechanics have been set up in the game-design from Pearl Abyss.

Basically yes you can earn silver doing other things on GamezBD, but largely you gain the most from actively grinding.

The REALLY good thing on GamezBD is that you CAN catch up with the highly geared players, through active playing, within a month or so, due to the high rates.