Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Complete market collapse
Schweaty
Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:19 am
#14
I've noticed sales go down a bit as well. I was selling 80 suit runs in less than two weeks. Now my vendors have been re-stocked for nearly a week now and they're not moving like they were. The credit nerf has definately put a hurt on sales, and I'm sure its not just armor either. Not to mention the fact that alot more smiths on my server have dropped prices very low. They, however, aren't 12 point smiths and didn't have to sink a small fortune into getting that +20 either.
Jediknight2k1
Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:52 am
#15
Tapes were always overprices considering they were looted free usually.
Ive not seen any +20 suits go for cheap on Farstar but its about about the price of tapes did fall.
As for the resources its a good thing also.
VemaGara
Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:30 am
#16
I've seen prices going down on the collectables. I spent myself down to 400k over the weekend. I'm already back to 800k. Space is very, very lucrative. Since space is so lucrative, I believe that the solo group nerf has been overstated.
Given that every forum has slowed down and all auctions are down, I suspect that migration is the better part of valor.
Skwall
Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:24 pm
#17
Well just recently started my 2nd slot (Ithorian) and have noticed several things. This pretty much sums up the actual SWG market (no external influences) "games" etc.
Due to Ithorian armor being bugged, and very hard to find (this 11.5 patch better hit tomorrow, got tore up by stun batons today...) I've come to see how unecessaringly dependant I was on armor. On my main character,i wouldn't think of running missions w/out at least ubese on, basically, you could just afk it for the 3 min. it took to kill the lair and forget about it. Cash flow was constant and decent composite started selling at 200k a suit.
Due to the level of difficulty of mission payouts, (rather how easy it is) you can run missions np. I'm loaded w/ cash (been playing since launch) yet I choose to hold off on spendingbecause I don't know the severity this nerf will have on the economy. But basically, put:
- Getentertainer mindbuffs 5k-10k (or free if you like not tipping the entertainers).
- Get doctor buffs, 2.3k for 15k-20k
- Have a decent defense/offensive template.
- and that's it
Don't waste money on food, armor etc...all that just comes in for high-end mobsor pvp. You don't even need medic skills if you have a really good template. So basically put, I feel that the demand for armor will continue to decrease until the revamp comes along and fixes this new inequality.
Well, it won't decrease drastically. The majority of the public would buy armor because they could, but since the majority of SWG players aren't loaded w/ cash, They'll find areas to cut back in. Of course these are generalizations (I believe to be true) some will disregard what i'm saying.
But this is what I feel that is beginning to happen, or will start eventually. People are cutting down cost in areas in order to try to maximize their profits.
Terv
Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:26 pm
#18
-solo money dead
-3/4 of the people are all new as of JTL
-unknown future of CU coming up
-"really boring" is all I hear from anyone who plays now.
Add all these up and what do you get, a lot of low sales, grumpy gamers, and not much fun.
in the past month I've seen maybe 32 out of my 426 friends log in,we've lost people left and right from our guild and although we get new recruits, I really don't like having to say goodbye to that many people.
Someone freakin do something, It's sad enough I say goodbye to my friends in realife for stupid reasons, but a game where we are seposed to escape and have fun, why would I pay money to get reminded of RL every second I'm logged in?
Thank god Knights of the Old Republic 2 has come out, atleast I have some SW escape
Xlot
Tue Dec 14, 2004 6:49 pm
#19
VemaGara wrote:
Please remember that two big named games opened up this month. We are just seeing the usual draw-off of these games.
I agree. I also expect business to pick up around March when Episode 3 is released, and there's a flurry of "starwarsiness" in the media, drawing new and old players back to the game
I just hope they can get the Combat Upgrade out enough before then that it's stable in preparaation for the new influx.
Xlot.
Starpilots
Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:38 pm
#20
Havent notidced that big drop yet just sell the best armor of our server ad the moment always got stockt vendors and sales are steady around 40-50mil a week for the last few months, lot of AS have quited smithing last month so maiby that closes the drop of sales on Eclips but I hear a lot of disturbing news from the other crafters maiby there affected more then I do
Meplorium
Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:57 pm
#21
WoW and EQ2 hit SWG hard as did the solo groups. But don't forget JTL. The people still playing are buying ship armor, not character armor. At this point I am not sure if this game has any legs under it.
mikedoinda420
Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:23 pm
#22
Noob question inc:
What are +20 suits? and y do they go for 20mil?
What are +20 suits? and y do they go for 20mil?
mikalar
Thu Dec 16, 2004 12:55 pm
#23
Haven't sold squat in weeks - I'm blaming WoW, EQ2, and JTL. Probably gonna seek semi-retirement over Christmas break.
UmmonPrime
Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:51 pm
#24
mikedoinda420 wrote:
Noob question inc:
What are +20 suits? and y do they go for 20mil?
+20 suit gives 2 more experimentation points. 20 mil is cheap for this. Actually, it's like buying a steak for a $1.
FeegekChimaera
Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:28 pm
#25
I have retired my AS, sold my resources and my suits going as well. I ended up slicing my prices to 150k for 80/79/78/65 Comp which isn't that far from my costs. a 4 piece suit is only 80k!!!
I remember that a single piece of armor cost that in march when I started playing!!!!
AndJusticeForAll
Fri Dec 17, 2004 3:31 pm
#26
Ya dowei I'm branching out on tat, dant, and naboo on naritus too.... all will be priced based upon local market conditions.... IE my comp vendor in the scmall (busiest mall on naritus forthe rest of you)has stuff pricedabout 30% more than what I'm selling on tat and what I will be selling on Naboo. Im going to specialize in FS grind comp on dantooine (kinetic+blast composite) to try and tap the rich SOBs grinding out jedi. (hehe) Convenience in a crate!