Armorsmith Archive
Thread: Um we kinda NEED armor!
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There is a fine thread in the bottom of page 1 or the start of page 2 called "The buyers assistant" that will tell you what you need to know.
Joker_fX wrote:
WTH is going on with armorsmiths? i can't find any freakin armor on my server and hell no i'm paying 450k for one peace of badly made scout armor!!!
let us buy faction armor from recruiters again or make armor easyer to make... or increase payouts for missons/space loot etc...
this is insane!! i'm not spending weeks trying to make the millons iit's going to cost me to buy something thats going to end up breaking anyways... fix this!
I am gettig sick of making it. Most of it has to be handcrafted which sux. Factory color bugs have made it very rough on us. Also the fact that we can take our Bh out and run missions and make much more money, not have to deal with customers, and not use our resources.
Message Edited by Parnakido on 10-20-2005 07:53 PM
Joker_fX wrote:
WTH is going on with armorsmiths? i can't find any freakin armor on my server and hell no i'm paying 450k for one peace of badly made scout armor!!!
let us buy faction armor from recruiters again or make armor easyer to make... or increase payouts for missons/space loot etc...
this is insane!! i'm not spending weeks trying to make the millons iit's going to cost me to buy something thats going to end up breaking anyways... fix this!
if faction armour was cheap to make im sure AS would sell it cheap theres a reason we dont sell it for 450k thats because it costs more to make than that
also think about faction armour as your sunday best not the suit you grind in
tanajerner wrote:
Joker_fX wrote:
WTH is going on with armorsmiths? i can't find any freakin armor on my server and hell no i'm paying 450k for one peace of badly made scout armor!!!
let us buy faction armor from recruiters again or make armor easyer to make... or increase payouts for missons/space loot etc...
this is insane!! i'm not spending weeks trying to make the millons iit's going to cost me to buy something thats going to end up breaking anyways... fix this!
if faction armour was cheap to make im sure AS would sell it cheap theres a reason we dont sell it for 450k thats because it costs more to make than that
also think about faction armour as your sunday best not the suit you grind in
That is part of the problem with factional armor. When factional armor was announced I was thrilled because it meant I could fight in the GCW with well made armor that didn't cost me an arm and a leg in faction points. I respec'd my Architect into and armorsmith hoping to make factional armor for my guild. Then I found out how much it cost to acquire the limited-use schematics, having to track down all the different required resources for crafting, and the amount of time components would take to craft. So now I can craft limited numbers of Imperial armor which I hardly see in pvp because I have to charge so much for them.
The whole point of making factional armor craftable was seeing Rebels fighting Stormtroopers, just like the movies. A veteran player came back to the game and picked up a suit of scout trooper armor. He was rather upset with the bio-linking costs just to wear it and had to go find a smuggler to buy faction so he could equip the last few pieces. Factional armor hasn't changed, its still the armor you never use because its too valuable to risk.....well done devs.
Sorry for the rant, but as a relatively new armorsmith and one of the few active ones on my server I have gotten frustrated with what has been done to this profession.
Joker_fX wrote:
I think you miss read what i said, scout armor is going for 450k a peace! on my server not a full suit...
To break even on costs I have to charge 1million per suit on 7200 energy resist Scout Trooper armor. I don't want to, but I'll go broke if I don't. Point is this isn't what I had envisioned when I first heard about craftable faction armor. But then what do I know, I actually want to have fun playing apparently we aren't supposed to.
400k seems pricey to me, too, but Imps seem to have it worse when it comes to faction armor. Armorsmiths have to buy the schematics from recruiters using faction points and the schematics are more expensive if the Imps are losing the war on the planet on which the schems are bought. I believe that in many galaxies, the rebels dominate. That's the case on Scylla. I was able to buy 85K rebel faction from a grinder for 25 cpu, a bargain when you consider I'd pay 75 cpu buying it myself as a smuggler. I'd pay even more if I had to buy faction from another smuggler. You're in real trouble if the top Imp smiths on your server are not human or zabrak because the other races pay a steep penalty for faction schematics.
The policies put in place by SOE do seem to discourage the use of faction armor. I wouldn't mind seeing the cost to biolink it eliminated. Put a quest in place, perhaps, that would give you the cert for faction armor as a reward. And make it so your armor doesn't stay on if you go on leave.