Resource acquisition
Video game concept
Any and all tags describing how items, equipment and such are acquired.
Alternate names: Equipment acquisition, Item acquisition
Parent group
This is a container group; its children are:
| Bartering | Uses bartering (swapping/trading of goods and services) as a significant economic tool (as opposed to trading mainly with a currency). | 1975 / 2019 | 55 games |
| Base income | Player is provided with a basic income they get regardless of anything else. (too short) | 2007 / 2014 | 24 games |
| Bounty-hunting | Player participates in bounty-hunting: locating, capturing and/or killing individuals. (too short) | 1979 / 2016 | 12 games |
| Fuel siphoning | Player can acquire fuel by siphoning it from other usable vehicles. (too short) | 1994 / 2017 | 6 games |
| Interest income | Player gains income through interest, usually by depositing wealth in a bank, giving out loans, or some such. | 1974 / 2014 | 21 games |
| Loans | Player can take out loans and thus going into debt, or possibly even give them out and gaining additional income via debt interest. | 1982 / 2016 | 27 games |
| Looting | Any and all tags describing how or what items are acquired from other characters, usually after they're dead. | 2004 / 2008 | container group 2 games |
| Manual harvesting | Player themselves needs to pickup resources instead of it happening automatically on its own or by harvesters. | 1984 / 2016 | 13 games |
| Paid killing | Player character gains wealth automatically from killing opponents or destroying their property. (too short) | 1993 / 2020 | 128 games |
| Resource generation | Player is required to generate one or more types of resources. (too short) | 1993 / 2019 | 39 games |
| Resource harvesting | Involves harvesting of one or more types of resources. (too short) | 1982 / 2024 | 466 games |
| Shopping | Includes shops, merchants, traders or item dispensers where the player can purchase new items. (too short) | 1971 / 2024 | 1774 games |
| Stealing | Player can or must steal items or wealth from someone. (too short) | 1983 / 2018 | 138 games |
| Taxes | Includes a government, private or criminal organization that collects a portion of assets supposedly for the benefit of those whom give the funds | 1980 / 2021 | 162 games |