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Here's my question.

I just started artisan, on my way to Armorsmith, and I want to know, what's the best way to get materials. I know you should set up a harvesting unit, for any of the kinds you need, but I don't have any, and don't have the materials to make one.

I also don't have the money to buy the materials, or the energy to put in them, once I have one. Or the cash to pay maintenance on like 5 harvesters, which is what I'm guessing it's going to take to get all the grinding materials out of the way....

I dunno, but even though I have some decent combat skills, doing missions to gain money seems like it takes too darned long, just so I can afford to have the piddle little personal harvester that MAYBE nets me like 1k in whatever materialsper night... Some help, please? What am I doing wrong?

Medin Holliday

Valcyn

Mos Vegas Alliance

Fencer 1111

Artisan 2101

Master Brawler

You're a master brawler, go run some missions. Start off small with a couple of small harvesters. Sell some to make some money, grind some for xp.

Geez, mon, we all had to start somewhere!

I took everything I learned on Starsider and started a crafter on Kauri just to see...

Day 1: Did crafting missions then bought some personal harvesters on the Bazaar. Bought some power, set them out. Started AFK macro for sampling.

Day 2: Collected Harvested stuff and sold it on the bazaar at 3-4 cpu. Collected power from Day 1's wind generators and bought more harvesters. Continued AFK macro sampling.

Day 3: Repeat. Now at Survey 4. Now at over 250k credits, owning a vehicle. Never even been incapped in combat yet. Still using piddly little personal harvesters and only half my lots.


Granted, this is after 3 months of clawing my way to Master Artisan and DE. After reading this, you should be way ahead of me when I started crafting. Still, I left out some details. I don't want too much competition =).