Chef Archive
Thread: THE BIG QUESTION!
I dont think I ever made as many credits as my WS husband or my AS friend but I ran a close third. It seems once I got rolling, it became easier for me to run my business than either of them.
broombug wrote:
It took me about 50million credits to get started and almost 20mil of that was my +2 suit. I dont think my sales really became steady for a few weeks after that.
VJ500 wrote:
broombug wrote:
It took me about 50million credits to get started and almost 20mil of that was my +2 suit. I dont think my sales really became steady for a few weeks after that.
Is the 12pt exp really necessaryto make food that sells?
Absolutely not. But you do have to cut prices a bit since your final items are going to be lower quality compared to 12 point chefs. I was a 10 point chef for the majority of my career, and was able to keep myself afloat pretty easily. Although I was also pretty picky about resource quality, so that helped keep my food stats up.
The key is really wise money management: look for good deals on resources (or harvest your own), anddon't grow your infrastructure (vendors, factories, harvesters) beyond your sales. It's also a good idea to try to get your name out through forum advertising or even just putting some single stacks on the bazaar of a well-traveled NPC city with vendor waypoints in the description.
It'll depend on your particular server, but you may be able to find experimentation tapes for a bit cheaper now than pre-CU. There are a lot of players either leaving the game or respecing away from chef, so there are more tapes on the market. I picked up a +3 food experimentation tape a few weeks ago for only 1.5 million.
Absolutely not. But you do have to cut prices a bit since your final items are going to be lower quality compared to 12 point chefs. I was a 10 point chef for the majority of my career, and was able to keep myself afloat pretty easily. Although I was also pretty picky about resource quality, so that helped keep my food stats up.
The key is really wise money management: look for good deals on resources (or harvest your own), anddon't grow your infrastructure (vendors, factories, harvesters) beyond your sales. It's also a good idea to try to get your name out through forum advertising or even just putting some single stacks on the bazaar of a well-traveled NPC city with vendor waypoints in the description.
It'll depend on your particular server, but you may be able to find experimentation tapes for a bit cheaper now than pre-CU. There are a lot of players either leaving the game or respecing away from chef, so there are more tapes on the market. I picked up a +3 food experimentation tape a few weeks ago for only 1.5 million.
Very nice exept i have only 1.5mil ATM and as a fighter i see no way of getting good money to start Chef well unless i spend hour, after hour of mindless loot hunt for which i don't have the time or patience for.
If i manage to make it as a good chef from scratch ill def Inform you all on my success, thanks for the help guys
Keep the helpfull info flowing in
jadeew wrote:
I started with a credit and a dream. Now I have 386 kadrillion credits and no dream. It was worth the trade though. Dreams are over-rated
LOL - i'd trade the dream any day
jadeew wrote:
I started with a credit and a dream. Now I have 386 kadrillion credits and no dream. It was worth the trade though. Dreams are over-rated
Ya and you know who tipped him that 1 credit?
MaliaMing wrote:
You need to spend money to make money though. When I first became a chef, I easily spent 80 million just to get started, and that was only the beginning. If you're expecting to jump in and start making money right away, you'll be sorely disappointed, unless you already have a stash of nice resources that are chef-specific. There isn't a single crafting profession that you can just pick up and start raking in cash with right away without having money to dump into resources. Building a real profit-turning business requires a lot of work and dedication, but if you have the time to devote to it, you'll be able to make a nice amount. I have to say, though, that it always makes me a little sad when I see people pick up chef as a get rich quick scheme. We all started for different reasons, but I'd like to think that most of us that are still around are here because we really love the profession, regardless of the money it does or does not bring.