Customizing your character doesn't end once they are created, though. In the game, players have access to the Social District. This area is the only place you can be in the game which doesn't use your hours. As the name hints at, there is no combat in this district. Instead, both Enforcers and Criminals use this area to meet peacefully with each other, buy equipment and items, and customize virtually everything they own. Customization is done through terminals that can be found through the district. Clothes, cars, and more can be customized not only in color and appearance, but by adding player created decals/logos to them. Additionally, if players have the necessary talent, they can use a terminal to create their own short musical pieces, which will be played for an opponent when you kill them in the game.
Players can literally spend tens of hours customizing their gear in APB. apb money can be sold to other players through Marketplace terminals, which are also found in the Social District. Trades can be made using either the in-game currency or the premium currency. Thus, this gives players the potential to play the game for free, by selling their items to other players – but, as of now, there doesn't seem to be a large market of buying player-customized items (as ever player has the potential to do it themselves.) In my opinion, if a player wishes to play for free, their best option would be to create popular show tunes and game music for other players. Because, in APB, instead of dancing on another players' corpse, you taunt them with your music.
