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Hello, I am Miroslav, master architec/artisan/merchant. I run a shop "Miroslav's Harvester Shop"

-1100, -3520 (coronet) (Corbantis server)

Many of you know me or have probably purchased a harvester at my shop.
I have been playing this game a long time and know that architects need LOTS of resource. (Duh).
Atm architects need Steel with good UT, HR,SR and decent ore with those stats to make BER 10/13 harvs.
The rest of the resources that architects use can be crap and any quality. However architects are limited to 10 lots. Most have more than 1 account. But still more resource is needed to meet the demands.

This is my advice for ALL architects out there on how to get more resource with benefitting yourself and other players. Specifically artisans.

Look for a newbie artisan, offer him a job of mining resource for you. Give him free harvesters, small ones in the beggining with BER 4 preferably. Tell him what resource you need (ex: Ore, aluminum, copper, etc.) The artisan goes, surveys for it and puts the harvs down. A day or two later, the artisan collects the resource and sells all of it to you for 2 - 3 cpu (fair price). When artisan mines more resource, give him 1 or 2 medium harvesters, he mines more, give him another free medium, etc.. until he has all mediums. If the artisan wants to keep working for you, provide him with heavies over time.

This way you will get more resource at a fair price without having to survey for the resouce and placing harvs. This is MUCH better than renting lots, because you have to do all the work yourself. Hiring artisans will save you time!

Here are some ways you can upgrade your artisan to larger harvesters....

1) give them for free over time
2) make him harvest some free resource for youand in return he gets a free harvester (ex: 20k ore for 1 med mineral).
3) Artisan can buy a harvester from you with the money he made by selling you resource.

I am sure you architects can think of ther more effective ways.


Example: You hire newbie artisan who has 10 lots. You give you 8 small mineral harvs and2 wind gens.
You tell him you need copper, he goes out finds a 80% spot, puts down his harvs mines it.

math:8 harvs x 4BER = 32 kg/h capacity
32kg/h x 60 x 24 hours x 0.8 (%) = 36846 units of resource.
36846 x 2cpu = 73728 credits.

You get almost 40k of copper per day and the artisan gets 70k of credits per day! Its very difficult for newbies to make that amount!.

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Currently I have 7 people working for me, most have medium harvesters. Two of them are millionaires, the rest will become millionaires in a week or two.

This is what I charge them for resource;

Metal = 2cpu
Ore = 2.5 cpu
Gas = 3cpu (dont need too much of it)

I receive 100k's of resource daily from my employes!
Many of my previous employees stopped working for me once they had all mediums to start their own shop, etc... but then I replace them with another novice artisan.

Please give this a shot, It will benefit you and others greatly!

Excellent Miroslav, not only helps out the newbies, but gives them a firm base in our economy! I'm going to start this today!

HOw do they get resources? IF they want to go up artisan also, would you say, you can keep up to ## percentof what you mine a day?

How do you advertise your business??? do you just stand in the starport screaming?????/

I have been doing this for a while now. My one suggestion, be prepared for them to lose a few harvesters to inexperience, count it as part of their learning process. Also dont recall if you covered this, but they will need startup money and power till their harvesters produce for them.

You forgot about how those newbies are going to afford maintence on those ten harvesters - it's only 6000 power and 7200 credits per *day*. Not many newbies can afford that for more than one or two days before going dead broke.

A few ammendmants:

Give them a house, first, and a few credits so your player city has another citizen, and your newbie artisan is always close by.

Then, start off by giving them 1 or 2 wind harvs and a wind survey tool. Tell them a 50% conc is great, so they don't spend 10 summers looking for what doesn't exist. They need to run those for a while, selling half of what they harvest back to you for2 cpu, keeping the rest for themselves.

Now they have a running supply of credits for maint and power. You give them 4 personal miners, and you tell them you want them set on copper or aluminum (since quality doesn't matter much, and concs are pretty high on those 2). When they come back, you buy what they offer for 2.5 cpu.

While they are waiting for all of this harvesting to happen, let them know you need hides for furniture, and you'll pay 5 cpu for harvested hides, in qty's greater than 250. Now they have something fun to do, besides just grinding out wind harvs ;-)

Anyway, those are just some random thoughts...I've never done anything like this...

If they are dilligent they can take care of it, I was given 5 mediums when I first started, and i ran missions to may for the maintence on my harvesters. Money was tight, sure, but no pain no gain

Rusto Cino Lowca

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dantaglo wrote:

How do you advertise your business??? do you just stand in the starport screaming?????/

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HAHAHAH that's so funny. I can't stand "spam in front of starport advertising."