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My artistan has engineering and survey 3, and I am trying to get architect.

But every time I say, go to check on a harvester, I get killed by swoopers, or smugglers, etc.

Even in cities, I go to a shuttle port and there are 4 red thugs there.

Is there a logical way to avoid this? The only thing I can think of is doing enough rebel/imperial deliver's to buy some protection....

Also what is the best way for artistans to make money? I can't sell my stuff for a profit, and deliver missions pay almost nothing.

Next to nothing for deliver missions? A good setup I use is to take two Imperial deliver missions back and forth from Kadaara to Theed. Take ones in the high 700s or low 800s. Two at a time, for about an hour and you will have more than enough money to fund your harvesters for the day.

Personally I do the rebels.

But mainly I don't really want to do deliver missions for an hour....it is a slow proccess.

Average delivery mission-Coronet to Bela Vistal. Pays about 650, x2. I now1300 more credits. Subtract the shuttle fee, and I have 1180. I go back to coronet with same procedure, I have 2360. Subtract 720x3 for three harvesters. I have 200. At this point I am completely bored, and Inever want to do another delivery mission for months. I now have 200 credits towards a house. But if I want to buy something I can't craft, then I have to do more missions.

I am lucky if I can get those missions to pay 650 also.

I understand that it is possible to make good moneyfrom the deliver's, but I find it extremely boring.

This was not ment to be a flame, but a disagreement. If you were offended I am very sorry.

Have you considered getting a PC friend to bodyguard you?

I play an artsian (with a very diverse set of skills at the moment, having each basic profession except brawler). While my guy currently has Expert Pistol, a lot of my early success came from freely trading with some friends whose characters were tougher. For instance, I have a friend who is now a Ranger/Bounty Hunter. We generally work together. He has 8 harvesters up, but gives the proceeds to me (I pay the maintenance). I keep him in food, buffs, medicine, etc. We're pretty successful, and have enough money to own a medium house, 18 harvesters between us, and take trips around the Galaxy. Income is about 10K a day.

Unless the aggro is a Dark Jedi, I don't have much to worry about travelling with him.

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evfields wrote:

Also what is the best way for artistans to make money? I can't sell my stuff for a profit, and deliver missions pay almost nothing.

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I feel your pain, but that's because I'm on Rori. I think the delivery missions might be bugged there, or maybe just forgotten about by the Devs. For instance, fedex missions in the same city pay 50 to 90 credits each, and there are no inter-city delivery missions (even though there are two cities). The only other delivery missions are 300 to 400 cr but they're all to other other planets such as Dathomir and Endor!!! Yeah, right!

I've been scratching out an existence making good quality muzzles and training other artisans once in a long while. 20% of NPC rate seems to be the going amount, at least for now. Still, I have one wind harvester, and can't seem to make enough to keep it running full time. We'll see if the wind power actually sells (I'm selling it cheap, just to get some cash to pay the maintenance).