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Thread: Selling DNA samples

Frogmorton76
Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:35 am
#1

I was going through my various inventories this past week and I realized I have way too much junk. Especially DNA, lately I seem to be acquiring way more DNA then I can conceivably use.


So, I was wondering if there's a market out there of BE's looking for DNA samples? Like Merek Harvester, I have almost 50 samples of AA, HQ, and VHQ of that alone. Voritor Dasher, Prowling Gurreks, Mereks Death Head, Young Malkloc Plainswalker,etc etc etc (No Rancor DNAyet though). I personally do a lot of hunting, and if I see some interesting creature walk by I'll stop what Im doing and grab a bunch of samples, regardless if I need them or not, lol.


Any feedback would be appreciated...also wondering if only the VHQ samples would be of interest to sell or the AA and HQ ones too. Thanks folks,


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CptAdder
Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:40 am
#2

Half the fun of BE is the fact that we don't need to wait for uber spawn X before we can make good pets


...yeah I kinda have a factory and a half full of DNA too



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ArthurDentOnBria
Thu Oct 07, 2004 10:44 am
#3

There's been a lot of threads on this, and every time this comes up there are some BE's who say they would purchase dna samples if given the opportunity, but I guess the problem is how do you market them?


In terms of DNA quality, for the most part it's completely unimportant except when the dna is what I'd call a "specials donor" or a "ranged donor" in which case it's very important. But when you're talking about something like Merek Harvester dna, generally that is used to make tanks, so what's important there is the "health" and that varies a *lot* from sample to sample. Some MH samples have as much as 750 health, which some have under 700, and that is mostlyindependent of the quality of the sample (it has more to do with the creature you took it from).





Frogmorton76 wrote:

I was going through my various inventories this past week and I realized I have way too much junk. Especially DNA, lately I seem to be acquiring way more DNA then I can conceivably use.


So, I was wondering if there's a market out there of BE's looking for DNA samples? Like Merek Harvester, I have almost 50 samples of AA, HQ, and VHQ of that alone. Voritor Dasher, Prowling Gurreks, Mereks Death Head, Young Malkloc Plainswalker,etc etc etc (No Rancor DNAyet though). I personally do a lot of hunting, and if I see some interesting creature walk by I'll stop what Im doing and grab a bunch of samples, regardless if I need them or not, lol.


Any feedback would be appreciated...also wondering if only the VHQ samples would be of interest to sell or the AA and HQ ones too. Thanks folks,


Frogmorton D'Argent

Master Bio-Engineer

Kettemoor, Bestine, Tatooine -643, -4247










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CapricornONE
Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:16 am
#4

hey frog...


I dabbled in this about 5 months ago (the samples sold before the pets I made with them did).. the hardest part is figuring out a pricing strategy.... but if you can figure out something that makes it worth the time, I think that a good DNA vendor would do well on our server.



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Bynder
Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:44 am
#5

I'd think it could definitely work for the harder to get (Mutant Rancor) rare to find (Mire Maurader, that Insane Mantigrue thing), but for more standard samples I'm not sure that it'd be worth it. It's similar to the CH tamed pet enconomy, plenty of MCHs will buy the rare pets for good credits, but most anything else the general trend is to just go tame your own.



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