Too general info
To earn money fast - these are the best tips:
- Find quests that tells you to kill at least X number of Y monsters within the hour. (This quest gives 160-ish gold if you kill 10 in an hour, and 5 gold pr kill you do more than 10. You can't deliver the quest before the hour is up.) These questgivers and mobs are usually within a 10 min run, north and south of the starting areas.
This is the ultimate moneygiver in the start. Unless the camps are crowded you will be able to get 10-18 kills in the start. the mobs aren't all that hard - you should survive 1 vs 1. Do your utmost to kill 1 mob. Sprint after it, hack at it wildly, after it's dead, run out of the area, rest up, run in and loot (and skin if you're able), run out and rest - repeat. Food gives faster regen, so try finding edible stuff (can be gotten easily by herb gathering).
ONLY THE ONE WHO GETS THE KILLSHOT GETS THE KILL! So if the camp is crowded, stay out of trouble, when the mob is low on health, try to aim hit or shot so you are the one to deliver the killing blow. In addition, you can 'ninja loot', no matter who kills, everyone can loot, so once you see the tombstone, press F and grab whatever you can!
- Do the starting quests - gives some equipment, and some gold. Doesn't take too long.
You can also harvest resources and sell to players, almost every resource is sellable, but I'll just list some that also gives some cash from NPC merchants.
- Every 'ordinary' resource gives 1g/10 resource at NPC.
- Gemstones (primarily stone mining, secondary ore mining), low chance, but gives some cash.
- Lobster can be fished. Pays 5gp at NPC
- Herbs usually gives quite a nice price from players, if you're lucky to farm steedgrass, that gives about 150-250gp ingame (or a mount!)