Bio Engineer Archive

Tissues are our 'big earner' per se, but on some servers there seems to be a distinct lack of them and some servers there is an overabundance of them. The latter will spell bad news for you as sales and prices will be low. If you want to make money take up AS or WS, BE really isn't that much of a money maker unless you can gurantee regular customers.

With galaxy wide search on TC, expect tissue prices to plummet........unless you are the only active BE on your server.....

Good news... Pets are so specalized galaxy wide search may not effect them as much.

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miodac wrote:

creatures, marginal.

chef additives, sure.

tailor components, marginal.

pet stims. marginal

just my 2c worth.

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I don't understand why people say pets are marginal. I have a vendor in a well trafficed mall and my animals leap off my vendor. I sell CL10's off that vendor primarily. I do very well selling animals.

Pet stims are my number one seller. They are by no means marginal for me. You just have to be willing to fish and have friends that will go fishing with you. I have a guild that is pretty goof (we're Hobo's) and we go on fishing trips every once in a while. It can be fun if you have teamspeak.

Chef additives? They are a money maker but they take 3.5 days to craft and your profit will be 500K more or less. In that time I can make more money off selling animals and pet stims and have a lot more fun doing it. I make chef additives when I have the resources. If I don't have the resources I don't make them.

I sell more tailor tissues than chef tissues because tailors don't need mass quantities of them. It is easier to get the resources required to accomodate tailors than it is to accomodate chefs. For myself, it comes down to the fact I hate feeling tied to a factory.

As one of the other posters commented, if you're playing the game for credits, BE is probably not the profession you're looking for. You should take up armorsmith or weaponsmith or chef. If you want to play a crafting profession that is fun and takes more than "click resource into slot A and combine" then you'll like BE.

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Badgewick wrote:

I've been trying to settle into an advanced profession for some time. I went Ranger for awhile but there wasn't any profit in it and my money darn near went away.

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Those two recent wooly spawns really didn't need anyone asking for them too often.

No profit in Ranger? Wow. Things must have changed. After launch, I chose the then gimped TKM and Ranger combo. I wanted ranger originally to find the hermit lol. But, I think I made my first 10mil being Ranger. At many points those days, there were multiple sources of organics that had really nice stats. So I hunted for leathery, wooly, and various other meats. I would stockpile the stuff. When hunting got boring for me, I simply sold the good stuff on the bazaar for 20cpu and did quests (pre-badge/speeder/mount days here) or faction missions.

Of course, these were the days before buffs were common and 80% comp was unheard of. I used traps most of the time to aid in my hunting.

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ArthurDentOnBria wrote:

One thing I've noticed regarding the profitability of hunting recently, is how few requests on the trade forums there seem to be these days since the veteran rewards were instituted. Before that, you could pretty much guarantee that there would be multiple posts about docs wanting avian, armorsmiths wanting wooly and so forth, and so on. Last night I searched 5 pages into the Bria Trade Forum without finding a single person asking for hunters to hunt for anything, and this is actually a time when there are some really nice spawns.

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I've noticed on the Farstar trade forum, is that there are more hunters advertising the meat they harvested rather than people requesting it.