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Since the chef revamp, I have shifted to nearly 100% BE Food on my vendors. And to be honest, it's a shame. I pride myself of keeping a wide variety of foods, but almsot all are Bio-Enhanced. Just shortly after revamp, I used to try to stock non-be canape and a few others to satisfy the masses. But the non-be did not move very well. Has anyone had any luck selling any of the non-bio enhanced stuff? If so what kind? IMO, it just seems that many servers are spoiled to have so many great chefs making BE foods. And it with such a large supply of it, it almost makes making non-be foods pointless. However, I am prepared to jump back in and test the waters once again to see if in fact, I can spark an interest amongst my loyal customer base. Perhaps that +300 canape is a decent alternative to no canape when the BE Canape is sold out. Dunno, we'll see.

I'm about to test the market with some of the following non-be foods:

Brandy
Canape

Vercupti

Aircake

Thatkillo

Burnout Sauce

Sythsteak

and a few others

My hope is to price these low enough to catch the eye of the lower level and cash-tight/new players. Not everyone can afford the BE priced foods. And the rich folks typically buy up the better foods faster than the lower end in my experiences.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Ikoo

simply ikoo

I sell some non BE food, but the vast majority of what I sell is BE. Maybe 10-15% is non BE crates. Pretty much all those that you mentioned are the ones.

I think the biggest problem is the prices. I realize BE food isn't exactly cheap, but food overall isn't that cheap. 400k worth of food will usually run out faster than a 400k set of armor unless all your fighting is SBDs.

Stat foods I think are the ones lacking with non BE versions. Take brandy. a +400 boost isn't horrible, but it almost is useless to many people. Most customers seem to want something on the same level of doc buffs. Regular food falls very short in that. I'm not saying it is worthless, but BE food lets most people spam specials all day long. Regular food doesn't allow for that, so in some cases there is no difference to the user between no food and regular food.

I am dissapointed by this as well. 90% of the food I sell, requires the biggest dependency in the game. I totally expected BE food to become the norm just because of how wealthy the majority of players are. 100k for a crate is nothing when you see people spending 500k+ on a set of armor every few weeks or millions on krayt weapons.