Chef Archive
Thread: solo gorups have been nerfed. what do you guys think will happen?
I don't know about other chefs, but my prices are generally only a 25-50% markup over resource + tissue + manufacturing costs. If resource prices go down (a hopeful adjustment from overall prices going down), then I'll drop the prices of my product. Meat prices, especially, could use an adjustment, and probably will. If scouts/rangers can make an equivalent amount of money hunting creatures as doing missions (or doing both by taking creature missions instead of taking ones vs. NPCs), doctors, BEs, and chefs may not have to offer 50-100 cpu just to get anything.
Besides, a crate of brandy still lasts for something like 170 hours of in-game buff time. A player can still use that to make a lot of credits, even if they're "only" making 10-15k per mission killing lairs on Endor, Yavin, or Dath instead of 30k Mokk missions (or whatever the big money one on Dant was).
Also, there may not be quite the huge reduction on money flow people are predicting. Along with the nerf of "solo groups" (a stupid oxymoron if I've ever heard one), the devs added more money faucets in JTL. Looted ship components sell to the chassis vendor for 1-9k (10k, if they ever get the level 10 stuff fixed). The new space station missions pay between 10-35k, for basically the same work as duty missions from ground-based pilot trainers. In the past week, I've made 5-10x as much money flying my ship than selling food (although I'm definitely not a big-name chef on my server). OK, not everyone has JTL, but the pilots will stillbe pumping credits into the ground economy.
Personally, I think the "little crafters" will probably adjust better than the big ones. Players who admin fields of harvesters still have the same amount of maintenance owed to the system and are less able to pull up those harvesters to cut costs. Crafters who had a big bankroll and spent loads of credits on stockpiles of "premium" resourcesmay seeprices drop and have to end up taking a loss on items made from those resources.
If demand decreases, scale back production. If customers have less money to spend, drop prices and/or (if they've got some hunting skills) offer to trade for meat/bone/hide/milk. Eight digit bank balances are probably not going to be easy to get (and it really shouldn't be).
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