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I'm a ways away from being MBE, with way too much crafting exp to go. I can make some additives and tissues but most of my experience with food and clothing has been at the extremes. No BE mods or very high. Is there a market for lower end additives? For example, light additives in the mid to high 40s? Mediums in the low 80s? Naturally, I wouldn't expect to get the same price for a crate of 82s that someone could command for 87s but with less than the maximum number of experimentation points and no desire to spend the time/effort fighting docs and chefs for top end meat, I don't see the high end stuff happening at all. Is there abeginning_chef_without_a_BE_alt market for these?

Sorry to breakthis to you, but I've never sold a single BSN lower than +84.

There isnt much you can sell as your going up BE crafting. best bet is to try make some non-ch pets. you can make some pretty decent ones with about DNA 2/3, a few experiment points (4-5ish) and enough of the clone tree for the skins you want.

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I asked this on the BE boards since I'm building one but figured I'd get the opinion ofthe targetted profession as well.

I'm a ways away from being MBE, with way too much crafting exp to go. I can make some additives and tissues, and havemost of the experimentation points I'll be getting,but most of my experience with food and clothing has been at the extremes. No BE mods or very high. Is there a market for lower end additives? For example, light additives in the mid to high 40s? Mediums in the low 80s? Naturally, I wouldn't expect to get the same price for a crate of 82s that someone could command for 87s but with less than the maximum number of experimentation points and no desire to spend the time/effort fighting docs and chefs for top end meat, I don't see the high end stuff happening at all. Is there abeginning_chef_without_a_BE_alt market for these?

Yes, there is a market for lower end additives. For example, Havla doesn't benefit from anything greater than +100, so an 82 should be more than fine to hit that mark.There are marquee food items like brandy, canape, and ahrisa that people expect/demand a certain level that can only be achieved by +87 for the most part. But for some of the other less common foods, an 82 at a nice price may give a chef the incentive to try something off the beaten path, players don't have a preset expectation as to whether its "uber" or not, which in turn may get a player to try something new, which can start a whole new business line perhaps.

Priced correctly they can sell just fine.

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There have been a lot of threads about this, and I don't think there is much consensus. I've heard some chefs say "I wouldn't touch anything lower than 57/87/117" and others say "I can get competitive quality using only 53/83/113 so why pay for higher priced additives?". From my own experience, when I was kind of an "additive noob" I made a bunch of 113 intelligent nanos which I then put on my vendor. Those timed out several times before they sold, but they did finally sell.

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Account cancelled 7/8/05 due to game breaking bugs in these professions that have been neglected for FAR too long. Last day July 27 2005
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I actually made a few +83 BSNs, and still have the schematic ... I sold them fairly cheaply as a "play around with lower-end components before you try a full run" item. I didn't make many, though, no real reason ... but I think I could make them with at least half of all Dath Carnivore spawns.

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So many I put it in the FAQ

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