Chef Archive
Thread: Small, Med, Casks, or Barrels
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Fderrr
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:34 am
#1
What do you use for non-BE food, I think everyone uses Casks for BE food because the profit from the BE component more than makes the extra cost of casks worth it. But for non-BE food, is it worth the extra 90 Gems to make the med glassses.
I'm a master tailor and master chef, so the the caskes are not a real problem. but just curious what the rest of you think.
PS any news on the Barrels, are they fixed or any news on a patch.
Ceritos
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:43 am
#2
i use large glass for non BE drinks, and cask for BE drinks.
Right now, barrel are bugged, and I'm not sure how many uses barrel will yield when it is fixed, but judging from the ingrdients needed, unless the there are at least 30 uses, i don'tthink it'll worth the effort to make barrel
sciguyCO
Tue Mar 09, 2004 11:45 am
#3
For me it depends on the base quantity of the drink, and the potential benefit the large glass provides. For drinks that are in the 6-9 range with small glasses like Brandy or Accaragm, a large glass starts you at 9 or 10. That seems like a decent boost to me. For something like Breath of Heaven (small glass gives 1 or 2 doses before experimentation), it's a bit of a toss-up since you have to experiment up to the 2-dose point to show an improvement. I'll generally use whatever I've got made up.
And last I heard, barrels are still bugged on TC.
Numen
Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:43 pm
#4
I would much rather price my food a little lower so they buy 2 crates instead of 1 that harvest more gemstone than flora for any of my food. I just don't see a huge bonus to the consumer to have a 9 use item over a 6 use item. 18 vs 6 I agree is a big difference but considering I have to use more than double the resources to get less than double the effect I just don't see it being worthwhile.
I use small glasses for everything normal and casks for BE. I may switch to barrels for BE when they fix it. I would have to switch around a few skill points though so not quite sure what will happen.
Saitek
Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:21 pm
#5
At this point I only use casks. I have a very dedicated friend who is a Tailor, who has dedicated 2 factories which make 1000 runs of Trim continously. So for me, it costs the same amount of resources to make a large glass as it does a cask.
Cleopas
Tue Mar 09, 2004 3:43 pm
#6
large glasses take too many resources vs small glass. I might get 10 uses from a large glass and 7 from a small; however, with a small I used 90 less gemstone.
I only do small glasses or casks period
Owesko
Tue Mar 09, 2004 4:28 pm
#7
I strictly use only cask till barrels are fixed.I also only make BE foods being the fact that i dont have any customers i just make the stuff to give to friends and sometimes trade brandy for other thing like buffs and such.My brandy is 21 use 50 fill 425 power 34.5 min duration.How good or bad is this compared to other peoples?
sciguyCO
Wed Mar 10, 2004 1:42 am
#8
Well, I look at it this way, although I may be wrong in some of my assumptions:
Most customers look at prices at a cost/charge level. A 6 dose drink at 2400 credits is 400 credits per charge (numbers chosen strictly for the easy math). The extra 90 gemstone I have to include costs me 270 credits, since resource vendors on my server are starting to carry grind-quality gems at 3cpu (some are even charging 2cpu). This would allow me to put up a 9 dose drink for 3600 credits, the customer gets the same credit/charge, and I profit an addiitonal 3600 - 2400 - 270 = 930 credits. Plus I use up 66% the amount of non-gem resources, allowing me to make more drinks with a limitedsupply of high-quality resources.
I think the "10 times the resources for 1.5 times the quantity" isa bit misleading. You're adding 90 resources for 1.5 times the uses, and if the extra 50% allows you to charge enough cover more than the cost of the 90 units of gems you have a larger profit. Casks don't quite work under the same analysis, because you also have to get the crates of trim, which brings the PITA factor into the equation.
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