The Statistics Panel as a Ledger

The income column, and the one line that is not income

The panel splits money earned into named lines rather than one running total. 4 of them name a channel — Gold looted, Gold from quest rewards, Gold from vendors and Gold earned from auctions — and 2 more sum the whole history of the character: Total gold acquired and Average gold earned per day. The wording belongs to the client, not to us, which is what makes it worth quoting: it is the developers writing down the same model the rest of this site uses when it talks about faucets, sinks and transfers.

The first 3 are faucets. That gold did not exist until a mob died, a quest was turned in, or an NPC bought your greens. The 4th is different in kind. Auction proceeds came out of another player's bag, so the world holds exactly as much gold after the sale as before it. Your own line climbs, the economy does not move. Anyone using the auction counter to argue about inflation is reading a transfer as a faucet.

For measuring yourself, that distinction matters less than the split between channels. Two characters can end a week with the same total and a completely different shape: one heavy on Gold from vendors, which means grey loot and quest hand-ins, the other heavy on Gold earned from auctions, which means somebody wanted what was gathered. The second shape survives the point where your levelling zones run out of quests. The first does not.

Average gold earned per day deserves singling out, because it is the number every gold guide on the internet invents and this one is computed by the game. Treat it as a floor rather than a rate: we have not seen it stated whether the divisor counts days played or days since the character was created, and on the second reading a week away from the game drags the figure down without you earning a copper less per session.

What the panel does not do is tell you where a coin came from inside a line. Loot from a dungeon boss and loot from a roadside gnoll land in the same counter, so a clear of a new instance cannot be priced off the panel alone unless it is the only thing you do in that window.

How to measure a week with it

The method is dull and it works, and it exists because the built-in average answers a different question than the one you are asking. Write down the 4 channel lines and the 4 spending lines at the start of a session, and again at the end. The difference on the income side is gross; the difference on the spending side is what it cost you to earn it. Net is the only number worth comparing between two ways of spending an evening, and it is the number nobody quotes.

For a per-day figure, do the division yourself over a window you actually recorded rather than reading the built-in one. Count the days you played rather than the days on the calendar, otherwise a weekend off makes a good route look mediocre. A week is the shortest window that means anything, because a single bind-on-equip drop can carry a whole evening and never repeat.

Two things will corrupt the comparison if you let them. The first is mixing activities: a session that is half gathering and half a dungeon run tells you nothing about either. The second is the world itself. Node respawns are shared by gatherers sharing one world copy, so the same loop at the same hour can pay differently on different evenings, and one sample is not a measurement.

Used this way the panel answers the question most guides dodge: not what a method pays in theory, but what your version of it pays, at your level, with your professions. That is also the input the arithmetic in a staged plan for making gold needs before any of it applies to you.

Questions

Does the statistics panel show how much gold exists in the world?

No. Every counter is about your own character and what passed through its bags. A rising auction income line means another player paid you, not that the world created gold, so nothing in the panel tells you whether the economy is inflating.

Are the counters per character or shared across the account?

We have not confirmed that for Forever, so assume per character until you have checked it in the client yourself. If you are running alts as gatherers, that distinction decides whether your totals add up or have to be added up by hand.

Can I compare farming routes with it?

Yes, as long as you keep the session clean: one activity, a recorded start and end, and the spending lines read at the same 2 moments so you get net rather than gross. Repeat it across several evenings, because node competition varies with how many gatherers share your copy of the world.

Does the game calculate gold per day for me?

It does. Average gold earned per day is one of the wealth counters, which makes it the only per-day income figure about Forever that was not invented by somebody writing a guide. Use it as a floor rather than a rate: it has not been stated whether the divisor counts days played or days since the character was created, and on the second reading a week away from the game drags the number down without your sessions paying any less.

Do beta totals carry over to launch?

No. Beta characters are wiped on 4 November and their counters go with them. What survives is what you learned about which lines exist, how they are labelled, and which of your habits actually paid.