When I was playing dying light with friend we discovered that every timw you go to sleep and wake up air drop will appear, if you don’t know air drops are pretty rare and if you collext them and deliver to one guy you will recieve lots of xp, we used that multiple times to unlock grapling hook very early. Air drops also gave lots of medicine which was hard to get in early game and that very helped us
UO and early WoW were social experiments on how videogame economy was more real life like than any game designer wished, they had to make lots of adjustments to mimick inflation and supply and demand behavior