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Thread: resource selling
I'm trying to get into resource selling business. Any tips and strategies would be very helpful.
Like how to get them, and sell them.
Simple Method: Buy mineral harvesters, plop them down anywhere and never move them. There are enough mineral types you will almost always be able to find a high percentage of something. It may only be grind material but that still sells for good credits. And you only have to check the harvesters perisodicall and do not need Artisian since you can sell on the bazaar.
Medium: Same as above but have Artisian so you can survey and possible have a vendor. Survey as you travel looking for a high concentration. Does not really matter what since worse case you find a 90+% location of grind material and the can make a tidy profit.
Complex: Surf swgcraft.com to find the best materials that have spawned, spend hours finding a high percent spot and move harvesters, be willing to do this sometime 2-3 times per week.
Leana_Txorana wrote:
Simple Method: Buy mineral harvesters, plop them down anywhere and never move them. There are enough mineral types you will almost always be able to find a high percentage of something. It may only be grind material but that still sells for good credits. And you only have to check the harvesters perisodicall and do not need Artisian since you can sell on the bazaar.
Medium: Same as above but have Artisian so you can survey and possible have a vendor. Survey as you travel looking for a high concentration. Does not really matter what since worse case you find a 90+% location of grind material and the can make a tidy profit.
Complex: Surf swgcraft.com to find the best materials that have spawned, spend hours finding a high percent spot and move harvesters, be willing to do this sometime 2-3 times per week.
Does high percentage increases the amount harvested by hour?
Kalamar1984 wrote:
Leana_Txorana wrote:
Simple Method: Buy mineral harvesters, plop them down anywhere and never move them. There are enough mineral types you will almost always be able to find a high percentage of something. It may only be grind material but that still sells for good credits. And you only have to check the harvesters perisodicall and do not need Artisian since you can sell on the bazaar.
Medium: Same as above but have Artisian so you can survey and possible have a vendor. Survey as you travel looking for a high concentration. Does not really matter what since worse case you find a 90+% location of grind material and the can make a tidy profit.
Complex: Surf swgcraft.com to find the best materials that have spawned, spend hours finding a high percent spot and move harvesters, be willing to do this sometime 2-3 times per week.
Does high percentage increases the amount harvested by hour?
yes the figure comes out like this:
percentage x BER = amount of harvested materials per min
so if u place a harvester of BER13 to a 80% place u get
0.8 x 13 = 10.4
multiply it by 60 and u have how many units u will harvest per hour
If you have a new character, buy a wind power harvester or two (only about 8k each most servers) and harvest and sell wind on the bazaar for 2 cpu.I usually sell from Coronet's Bazaar but if you don't find sales brisk there sell from Theed. Yes, people can travel quickly anywhere but they are lazy and won't if they don't need to.You can go into the fusion powerbusiness but those harvesters cost about 140k or so and the availability of fusion shifts from planet to planet while wind is almost always around. (Never hand sample fusion as it will fry you into a smoked little morsel).Once you have a tidy income from that you can buy a heavy mineral harvester which will cost anywhere from 60k to 140k or more. I recommended specializing in minerals because so many crafting professions use them and the resource stats needed vary widely by profession. The most saleable mineral if you want to narrow it down is steel, the better the stats the more saleable. Check www.swgcraft.com for the current resource spawns on your server. Look for the minerals that have 4 stats over 900 (they will have four ****). You can also specialize in providing resources for a particular profession for some variety- talk with a weaponsmith, armorsmith or shipwright to see what they need and mine those resources as they spawn.
Good luck!