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I know I never bought a container, I am gifted with a good PA and good neighbors (our city have a city chat, that help a lot create a good "neighborhood" feeling)

I never sell them either, I gave to a novice smuggler not long ago the containers I had remeaning and the crate of grinding knives I still had in my bank. I added two crates of WUK and mol clamps for good measure. Ok, I don't always donate tools ,but I was in good mood and he was nice.

I could make cash selling tools on my vendors, but I would feel weird doing that. Helping a nice Novice is one thing, massively supplying in tools a bunch of my future competitors is another. "wink" Also, I get my tools free from a deal with a WS, and I guess I would feel a tad...dishonest, having him make me more tools only to put them on sale. Ok, so maybe "unsmugglerish" of me. lol

Message Edited by LaughingWolf on 12-12-2004 08:37 PM

Can't afford an alt rflmao and not gonna get Padawan for my free slot, sooo I make do with 1 char.

i just finished the slicing tree a few days ago and i did buy some containers, but only if they were listed for under 1k. you can find them, but its not easy.
i made sure to slice everything that came out of them too, and sold the cdef on the bazaar for usually 100cr.

the last 4 or 5 days before i got it finished, i would buy all the weapons that were less than 50cr off the bazarr in whatever city i happened to go to. made it pretty easy to finish. i spammed a bit and got a bit of business waiting for shuttles and healing in the cantina or med center.

this should probably be in the chuckle thread, but about half way through slicing 2, i was still spamming for containers and had a person say he had quite a few, would i open them all for some architect items.
so i said sure, and off we went to his vendor where he was selling them for 3k i believe.
anyway, turned out he had 87 of them.
at first i thought, great!! lots of xp. then after i did about 10 of them i was not really looking forward to finishing the job. it took about an hour but i finished them all. found about 5 more inside to make the total 92 containers for him.
he offered me 100k worth of his architect stuff, so i was pretty happy with that. he had left to go make harv runs while i finished the last 30 or so and when i finished i started to look through his vendors to see what he had. i planned on getting some harvs so i could start mining stuff to make spice. i figured a medium flora, mineral, and maybe a chem, some furniture or a small house, since i didnt have one yet.
i had an order in with an architect already for all the harvs i needed and figured id sell the ones on order when i got them, if i didnt still need them, so no loss there.

as i start looking, his prices seem average, 35k-ish for mediums, 100k for some heavies, then i actually look at the stats, heavy mineral - 100k - ber 8, medium mineral - 35k - ber 6.
now im thinking, oh great, im screwed, ill never be able to sell any of this stuff.
i ended up getting a couple of small houses and an equipment factory for my trouble, i live in one of the houses now and make my smuggler tools with the factory, and i sold the other house for 6k on the bazaar. not the best profit ive ever made but i still got a bunch of xp.

side note, maybe just a bug, but when i qualified for slicing 2, it capped at the box level of 10k instead of double.
i figured i would just wait to train till i sliced everything, give my guildmates a chance for ap.
i just had an odd feeling and checked my xp, i had stopped gaining. there was a trainer in the mall where i was slicing, so it wasnt a big deal really, just the 8k or whatever it was to train, but if i hadnt checked, i would have lost a bunch of xp, about 12-15k worth. i never had a problem like that at any of the other boxes, just level 2.

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DragonSnack wrote:

Last I looked I got 100 xp for slicing a container.

When I started my toon (goal to be -and I made it- a Master Ranger) last year I used to sell the containers on the bazaar for 6k. The containers usuallydidn't stay there for long.

The I realized that I was ripping off new players bycharging for them. I decided to save them for novice smugglers. I was also at alevel that I didn't fiond that many. I gave about 40or so to a new novice smuggler in my guild.

When I started theslicing tree grind I refused to buy containers.

My reasoning was why pay thousands of credits for a container that gave mea measly 100 XP when I could slice a weapon and get 250 XP. I found that there was enough CDEF and other weapons on sale on the bazaar for 1 credit to complete the tree.

If you have containers donate them to a novice. Yoiu might just make a friend.

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Message Edited by CTRL_ALT on 12-13-2004 03:04 PM

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DrevenStrobe wrote:

Selling containers for thousands of credits is nothing short of extortion.

Smugglers are the only profession gated by the loot table in this fashion. (Other than Jedi, and I could care less if the drop rate on crystals went through the floor...less glowy sticks would be a good thing.)

Would you pay 3000 creds for 250 XP?

I didn't think so.

You got the container for free. Help out a Novice Smuggler and donate containers for free. Or if you want to sell them on a vendor, at least mark them for 1 credit.

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I agree that it's extortion, but that's a free-market economy for you. Every time someone clicks 'buy', they set the value.
Jedi get extorted between 100x and 1000x worse, depending on the galaxy. Regardless of how you feel about the class, when a profession is gated by a loot drop, it's lousy. I guess it's the military version of crappy resource spawns, but it still sucks.

ok i need someone to please tell me where i can get alot of locked containers lol i have asked till im sick im on the Eclipse server and i need to get them please mail me if u know where i can get some.

/tell vamer
/mail vamer


Thx!