I seem to remember hunting ghosts in gangland being absurdly profitable (as in, made several hundred thousand in a few days of killing them, even with my insistence on dicking around buying planes (which I then crashed
) and other frivolous things). All you need is a decent elemental weapon (I used a modded flame chain), and preferably cold and/or fire soaking armor (I used das gear (leech leather duster and gloves, combat boots and a combat helmet (I also wore a gasmask (and nightvision goggles at night), I think, though more for the whole "I'm walking around in a duster, wearing boots, a helmet, and a gas mask, wielding a chain that sprays napalm!" thing than practicality)) the CEO of the corp I was in at the time randomly handed me when I ran into him). And radq. You can't forget the radq (I got it from the cabinet in the gangland bomb shelter). And the ghost detector. And traps, if you want to really make a killing. Oh, and ghostbait, to actually make the ghosts appear. Red chalk can help too, especially if the gangland npcs pick up the ghostbait or a trap (then you can inscribe a pentagram in the tile you're in, kill them, and possibly get another ghost to kill!
).
And I had a pretty weak character, though I did win all but one fight against other players (the one I lost was some significantly more powerful WHORE member killing me in revenge for killing some other WHORE member (who was evenly matched with me at the time). I did like the time a SLUTS (a scrubcorp formed from the most obnoxious members of WHORE, including Juna, the only player who managed to kill me) member attacked me for hacking their cams. She couldn't deal any damage to me because of my armor soaks, and I took out half her health, and broke a limb, in one blow, then let her run away. I think the "relative strength appraisal" thing pegged me as quite a bit weaker, which made it all the more hilarious. Good times
. Never did get back at Juna for killing me, though. I half wanted to wage a one man war against SLUTS, because I was reasonable certain I could have taken on any of them in one on one combat, especially with my high end gear. But, it's all gone now with the character wipe...
Chalk and ghostbait can also be used to make the orphanage more Fun for newbies, though someone usually comes along and mops up the poltergeists for the bounty. Scattering bits of zombie flesh around the city, or selling it to the burger place, is also rather Fun (well, more funny than Fun, but still), as it can result in zombies wandering town. I'd suggest doing it in the orphanage, but I don't remember if orphans eat flesh they find on the ground or not...