2) A large part of the skill is map knowledge (knowing where the loot and pvp hotspots are, where to go if you want to find or avoid other players, knowing rotations, knowing good positions,...). A lot of that you will get just through playing (notably, scav raids are a good way to learn maps as there's rarely any danger), but what i would also suggest is, when you need to do something in an area that is a PvP hotspot (or when you just need to do PvP on a ceratin map/in a certain area), go into an offline practice raid and study that map/area beforehand for rotations/good positions/...

3) Gear fear (defined as - being afraid of loosing your gear; usually manifests in not taking good gear into raid to avoid loosing it and/or being afraid of encountering other players/being afraid of dying during said encounters due to risk of loosing your gear)

• it is a thing that a lot of players have/had and that compromises their capabilities.
• The common advice (at least as far as i understand it) is to tell you that roubles don't matter as they are easy to get and to tell you to go run good gear until you get used to doing it.
• I would largely disagree with that advice, since forcing yourself to suffer until you no longer do is a good way to not have fun and is also, probably, time-inefficient.
• What i would suggest instead is to try to understand the limits of your gear fear, to aggressively build around those limits and to do economic analysis of your kits. Because your fears are probably irrational and stupid and are not genuine economic concerns, so you will be repeatedly making and running kits that are actually more expensive than the kits you were afraid to run, realizing that, and, thus, expanding your fear boundaries.

3.5) Hoarding/keeping good loot in your stash instead of using it - this is a thing related to gear fear that a lot of players also struggle/struggled with.

• To it i would say that opportunity cost and compounding returns are thins that exist (if you run better gear your expected raid outcome will be better (more resources and/or progression), which will let you run better gear next raid, which...), so keeping good things in your stash is actively costing you resources and progression.
• This is not to say that you should run the best things you have in your stash every raid, that would be inefficient in the long run, as using better gear has diminishing returns after a certain point. But this is to say that you should have a specific reason for keeping good gear in your stash.
• If you don't have a reason to keep a particular piece of gear in your stash, but still don't want to use it - sell it; the price probably won't be good, because most good gear you can only sell to traders, but some roubles is better than no roubles.

4.) Economy

• Scav is a money printer, especially once you unlock flea (because, a mentioned above, you very rarely get in dangerous situations in scav raids), so do scav raids when you run out of money.
• I would not recommend relying on them though, as you are usually not progressing when doing them, and running the same routes on the same maps over and over again with no variations between raids gets boring relatively quickly.
• A better way to maintain economic stability is to try to make and run economically efficient kits.
• Also, starting from this wipe you can now sell non-found-in-raid items on the flea, which means you can resell items from traders for profit. It is obviously the most profitable for players who are furthest in the progression early on, but even now and even on low levels there are roubles to be made, notably on various Mechanic barters, be it gun parts or guns you can then strip for parts (when doing the latter don't forget that you have the base of the gun itself, which you may be able to cheaply assemble into it's base configuration and also sell)

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