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Squygxicus

Wed May 26, 2004 8:02 am

Ok, Im not a MBE, Im only 0 22 1 but I figured Id try to see what makes money on the server Im on. So while Im grinding my tissues I wait till I get an amazing result and switch it off practice and make one and if not amazing just grind practice. I then took the results and plopped them on the bazaar for 100 creds. Not one of them sold, they all fell off the bazaar. I figured some chef out there (if they saw them) would at least try them out. I know I would.

I then had a backpack full of dna so I started making critters. Im also a CH so the low level ones I just trained and released. But as you move up in the DNA sampling tree you get better samples and some of the critters I was making were looking halfway decent. The bazaar had a few uber pets on there for 6000, so I grabbed a couple and put them on the bazaar for 1000 to 2500 credits. They all sell in the same day I put them up!

I picked BE mainly to make pets for me to train as a CH. But I figured with the current craze on BE foods the tissues would sell. If you check the CH boards they all say how dead their profession is.

Is this a standard across all server kind of experience? Or is it server specific or for that matter planet and town specific?

Kevm

Wed May 26, 2004 8:05 am

#2

Squygxicus wrote:

Ok, Im not a MBE, Im only 0 22 1 but I figured Id try to see what makes money on the server Im on. So while Im grinding my tissues I wait till I get an amazing result and switch it off practice and make one and if not amazing just grind practice. I then took the results and plopped them on the bazaar for 100 creds. Not one of them sold, they all fell off the bazaar. I figured some chef out there (if they saw them) would at least try them out. I know I would.

You'll probably never sell individual tissues on the bazaar. They're practically worthless since Chefs and Tailors need crates of identical BE components to do their factory runs.

Kreegan Lirpa
MBE - Cairdeas City - Wanderhome

Kreegan's BE Pets and Tissues - Cairdeas City, Naboo (7378 -6482)
Kreegan's Pet Meds - Right outside Coronet on the Map!

Squygxicus

Wed May 26, 2004 8:11 am

#3

yeah that makes sense. I guess I figured there'd be at least one chef out there grinding that could see it and see what it did to his own personal food supply.

Bulk it would make sense to do that.

ArthurDentOnBria

Wed May 26, 2004 10:14 am

#4

Squygxicus,

Hmm, sorry to hear that your tissues aren't selling (join the crowd actually, lol). But I'm a little surprised that you aren't having any luck on the bazaar. Back when I was a novice artisan (noob) and also back when I had a friend who was a novice chef last fall we sold a lot of individually, hand crafted, food on the baazar. Even food that was very very weak by today's standards sold very well. It was a major money maker for us and it certainly would have been attractive to buy multinutrient supplements for 100cr and greatly enhance the power of our food. The other thing I see an awful lot on Bria is people selling clothing on the bazaar that have +1 - +3 bonuses, which tells me that there would seem to be a market for those tissues. Those are actually a nuisance to me, because I'm competing against those items with no bonuses (I reserve my bio clothing for my vendor).

Sanity check: what bazaar are you using? Hopefully Bestine, Theed, or preferably Coronet. Which supplements are you making? It would seem to me that the ones that would potentially have the widest appeal would be micronutrient supplements since novice artisans and chefs alike could use them. They can literally go into any food item.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 05-26-2004 10:15 AM

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Ganger

Wed May 26, 2004 10:50 am

#5

Im a Master bio-engineer and have been for some time now. Most tailors and chefs want tissues in creates but i find that most BEs have contracts all ready with chefs and tailors, so finding a buyer is hard unless you own a shop.

About making money - like I said, I own a shop selling pets, petmeds and tissues and my tissues sell really well and I have a good custumor base now.

P.S How do you released a creature back into the Wild?

Khensu

Wed May 26, 2004 5:10 pm

#6

Actually on my Server 'Flurry' I'm trying to find a master BE to buy Crates of Nutrients in Bulk. Almost every single Master Be on my server has said they won't make tissues or they don't have the meat resource etc etc. I'm having to drop master Merchant on my Master Chef guy to train up to Master BE.

And yes, I've posted to the trade boards and the Flurry boards asking for a master BE. People don't want creds i guess

Niblets
Master Chef of the CrimsonSky Empire

Pawlin

Wed May 26, 2004 5:38 pm

#7

I think part of it is that people just aren't used to looking for components on the bazaar. Its one of those weird categories that people just don't usually think to check. Also its probably mostly true that people want the crates instead of the individual parts.

However, if you find a novice chef that is also grinding up then you might be able to sell them your tissues directly because he can then use them to grind his foods individually and get better stats on the foods. You may also setup a business relationship that will live on until your a master and you could be selling that same chef crates in the future.

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Pawlin

Wed May 26, 2004 5:41 pm

#8

Khensu wrote:

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And yes, I've posted to the trade boards and the Flurry boards asking for a master BE. People don't want creds i guess

OR ... demand exceeds supply.

Pawlin Construction of Kettemoor.
Harvesters and Crafting stations - Triad Coronet Mall just outside Coronet (-177 -5490)
Architect, House, Furniture, Harvester FAQ
Oprolan the Wookiee of Sunrunner. Cheap resources W. Daeric Talus (-639 -3058)
"Worst FF ever *thumbsdown*" -- Pawlin fan club
"I am not going to win Miss Congeniality again this year in the Senate." -- John McCain

** Please refer to Elyssa's answer

NancyJ

Thu May 27, 2004 12:22 am

#9

psst... thats the fluffy message you get when you delete a pet

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SkinnerOne

Sun May 30, 2004 5:35 am

#10

I am lucky. I have a good guild that helps me out emensly. Many memnbers will join in a hunt for specific meats if I organize it... and I can rack up some large quantities of meat rather quickly. I just wish the darned Racnor meats would roll strong again... I either buy the meats from the hunters or I do other favors for them like providing them with Per Stimpacks or Vitality POacks (If I ever get them to work).

I also have two chefs in my guild (Arco Corporation on Valcyn). They are keeping me hard at work making all the food addatatives I can make! I sell everything for a straight 20K per case to guild members.

I'm not in this to get game rich. My Alternate (Skinner) does a lot of resource mining and he has done well enough to support us both. I enjoy the crafting and gathering resources to make the tissues. I do wished the dozens of critters I have made would sell but that is a tougher market that is totally saturated now. With pets that last for ever it is going to stay that way too. What we need is a limited lifetime to a pet. No game has ever done that and I think it is the most necessary step in making a Creature Handler work for their profession. It might have even helped control the strength of the characters instead of all these nerfs that have all but killed the profession!

Skinner - The restless Wookiee, Master Rifleman, Almost Master CH
Pawnee - Master Bio-engineer, New Acropolis, Naboo

Squygxicus

Mon May 31, 2004 8:10 am

#11

Oops sorry for not following up sooner. I figured thats all the hits I'd get on this at around post three.

Im still selling Kaadus from level 8 to 18 on the bazaar. They are flying off the shelves. The nutrients I was selling were just the basic ones for food. Cant remember the name right now, and yes I was selling them on Bestine and Coronet.

Yes I know its most desireable (sp) to get crates of it, but I figured maybe there was a chef out there that was new and just wanted to make sure his/her own won won supply had a little boost to it, for example.

The bazaar and vendor listings are very strange. I wish they were a little bit better for searchability. Its quite possible that "micro nutrient supplement" was hard to find under misc or wherever the game places it. Plus Im not even sure if a novice chef would even realize that thats what he needs for a food additive.

I guess I better advertise for a chef, its not like Im trying to make money off this, I just wanted to see what they did!

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