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Corbantis Server - sry

Im a master armorsmith, yet this is the armor I wear, Its less than 100/100/100 Encumb and has 15% Kinetic for me, Its just in case I get attacked while on my bike or something, it drops the damage in half and gives me a longer chance to run away.

The problem is that it isnt really worth it monatarily to you.
At 20k Per set your not going to make hardly any money.

A 500k Kinetic Composite suit doesnt take 25 times as many resources or 25 times as much time to make, and is much easier to sell.

Oh I see what you mean. Resource-to-result is out of whack against Composite relitively speaking so I'd have to charge too much to catch up to profit levels 1/1 on par with Composite.

I am pretty much wasting my time and resources on Armorweave then.

(no wonder its only on the bazaar and 9%)

Thanks B-link

Is it worth it to you though anyway?

On Corbantis, Armani sells mabari (or did anyway, haven't looked in a while) that's a little better and a little pricier than yours which surely means it's not a complete waste (as for example trying to sell factory sets of padded).

There's a lot of people who can't afford even 150k for a composite suit but they can afford your armor. I can remember how thankful I was for Armani selling it when I was a newb because it was so much better than bazaar stuff

So, there IS a market for it, and you can make money. It just won't be the X million in X hours that the big guys get. Unless you have a great vendor location though you'll probably need to sell it on bazaar. Mos Eisley is good for that with all the new players starting there. I sold a bunch of 55% kinetic wookie armor and 58% kinetic chitin there made from throwaway resources

Also, unless you've been collecting the good composite resources we've seen lately it'll be a while before you can compete in the composite area. I've been collecting on Corbantis for the last 4 months or so and I'm only now getting close to the established smiths.

Btw, we had a decent bronzium spawn recently and I mined a lot more than I need. If that's what you need for good mabari send me a /tell when I'm on and I'll give you a bunch of it if you'll make more mabari.

There is a huge market for maberi. I specialized in it for months, until running out of bronzium forced me into the ubese market ( and axidite forced me into comp). Remember, composite is about a factory hogging armor. Maberi can be done completely without a factory ( although I ran my segments in a factory). I had the same profit margin for my maberi, as I did my ubese, and early composite. I charged 25k a set for adv maberi, and 50k a set for my krayt maberi.

20 k seems a fair price to me and will give you a profit of at least5 k per set if you buy your resources (30 cpu for hides/bones, 10 cpu for the rest)and a lot more if you harvest them yourself. Don't let the greedy ones (I think 500 k for any suit of composite is ridiculous)convince you of quitting your good work.

Emily

I have to agree with AegolinAdaron.

On Infinity, I have started a char for 2 month now, playing a little bit, and I am also doing some Mabari armor right now...
20k seems reasonable to me. If you would not have asked this question, I would

I bought my first composite armor a few days ago, after 7 month of playing (with my regular char on Kauri). And I did not use it right now lol.
(and yes, 500k for a comp is way too much I bought a real decent one for 380k...)

I've sold plenty of Mabari. It ran my harvesters for the first couple of months.

21% is a decent set. 20k will largely depend on server economics. I sold mine for around 12-15k..similar resists. 4-5 suits per day.

I think I'm going to take a look to see if it's available currently. The only thing that's kept me from continuing to stock it, is giving novices a chance at the market. I think the only reason mine sold (19-21%), is because the masters weren't providing it.

I had a guild order some custom work and I ran more than requested. Mainly so I wouldn't have to remake it for their future requests. They recently disbanded.I keep the crates in my droid and occasionaly give a set away when I see someone running gort missions.

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No_joy wrote:

Oh I see what you mean. Resource-to-result is out of whack against Composite relitively speaking so I'd have to charge too much to catch up to profit levels 1/1 on par with Composite.

I am pretty much wasting my time and resources on Armorweave then.

(no wonder its only on the bazaar and 9%)

Thanks B-link

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Personally I am not even going to start to compete with the Composite makers on my server. I am working on high-quality 'lesser' armours. I sell Mabari on the bazaar that is up to 20% kinetic for the same prices others are charging at 9%. I sell alot of Chitin on the bazaar in Mos Eisley as well regardless of the quality. And the kinetic resists on that are around 30% as well. I like making deccent versions of cheaper armour, mainly because I wish the armour system wasn't so lop-sided towards Composite.

Tantel, Ubese, and decent Padded do well near Coronet, especilly for newer players that aren't noobs anymore. Not everyone wants to be a Compsite clone. I guess I'm not raking in the bucks like composite merchants are, but I'm also not working with a 500% profit margin either.