Cutting down trees or mining.

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Okay, how do people make money? They farm.

People are going to want more money

And this happens: people gather round the trees and mines, rinse repeating for more cash.

People don't do much contra as before, except for when they do aggrp. Secondly, that's illegal on law so people don't do it as much

Tree cutting won't be illegal,
And so people will be constantly rinse repeat rinse repeat grinding for money

This will make contraband outdated, and yes you can argue people will

I'll also note people prefer so on the second server due to desolate.

This means people will be there, chopping down treees for money and not much else, ON thenmainn server, compared to contra

All that needs to be done is alter the payout.
So say your truck can only carry 8 logs and each log will sell for $100, this will give you $800 per trip. This makes contra the better way of getting money, but runs the risk of doing something illegal and being busted for it.

Also cutting trees and transporting logs also runs the risk of being carjacked, this way the carjacker could take the logs you just got and sell them themselves.

The issue with contra is that people tend to stay in their home protecting their contra, which in turn gives less interactions on the server.
Whereas with mining and tree cutting there would be more interactions as people would be out and about.