Combat Medic Archive
Thread: How do you afford survey?
Thats why its nice being in a large PA, with lots players in different professions
Zarlor wrote:
you'd be hard pressed to have enough artisan friends who would go out of their way to look up those resources for you when they can survey for Amor/Weaponsmith and Architect resources insted and make a far better profit.
At least with high-level Scouts and Rangers they don't mind nearly as much trying to toss in some extra Herbivore/Avian/Insect Meat while making the most of their money in hides and bone.
CM has some rather unique resources that hardly anyone else uses in great quantity like radioactive and liquid petro?
hard to find a miner to get these for u...as they can make a nice penny mining more desired resources like ore
Elenora wrote:CM has some rather unique resources that hardly anyone else uses in great quantity like radioactive and liquid petro?
hard to find a miner to get these for u...as they can make a nice penny mining more desired resources like ore
Perhaps it is server dependent, but for Chilastra it is absolutely not true. Liquid Petro Chem is availabe at almost any bazaat terminal I have ever seen (in fact I am using it everywhere I can - chemical, inorganics, etc... because it's so cheap and very good quality).
Also it's much easier to make money selling rare resources at 4-5c then say aluminium that is for sale at 2c and everyone is harvesting it.
Here's the solution I have come to - maybe it will help for you.
I've found a few combat heavy friends who had an extra lot or few. I paid someone 1k credits per waypoint to go and find me all the resources I need and mail me waypoints. I then told the friends that I'd pay them 2 or 3 credits per resource unit. With all the resources, I supply poisons and other drugs to anyone who contacts me on Starsider (per a previous almost-flaming on the Starsider board, I don't advertise anymore). I sell for 4-5 credits per resource used, have enough to pay for my factory and a little bit extra to go travelling as I like to. On top of everything, I get enough to support my own medical and combat medic needs as well.
It didn't take long to set everything up, but it did require some work and initial investment. Good luck.
"Its very easy to be able to extracter your own resources without even having artisan.
Step 1: Make Artisan Friends.
Step 2: Ask those said friends if they could survey for things with you.
Step 3: Place harvesters.
Step 4: Be happy."
Roger that. I fretted over taking artisan for surveying when I first hit Combat Medic. Then I realized I had two good artisan buddies I could pimp out to do it for me. I ask them for a good spot, and sure it make take a day as I don't demand they stop whatever they're doing and look, but they have yet to let me down.
There's another trick you can use too. When you run across a big farm of harvesters on the landscape... well,all those harvesters arethere for a reason right?
Usually at least one person names their harvester with a description like "Bob's Copper Mine" or "Bill's Steelworks" which can help. Other times, you can infer what's being harvested - like if you find a huge collection of flora farms near Nym's stronghold... gee, I wonder if it's Lok wheat there Or if there's only one type of radioactive on a planet... a fusion generator is a telltale.
Other people can do a lot of surveying work for you, even if they don't know they're doing it
dont you people dare suggest to me that you can find all this crap on the bazaar. i dont know what servers all you play on since you dont all list it under your avatar (forum options are your friend) but on bugfin NO ONE sells this crap on the bazaar. people sell minerals for weaponsmiths, architects, and armorsmiths. THATS IT. never once have i seen a planetary medical resource up for sale on the bazaar in galaxy view with the exception of tatooinian fiberplast, and I assume I just got lucky there. no one wants to mine things for us since we represent such a small demand in comparison to artisans.
there are only3 possible ways to get the resources we need:
#1 get artisan and suck it up. place harvesters yourself and prevent yourself from being a good combat character with a good weapon.
#2 find the nicest PA known to man and beg on hands and knees for them to take time out of their day to find the resources that you need. cause our list is HUGE and no one wants to do it.
#3 convince your best friend IRL to pickup artisan skills to help you out and hamstring him or herself instead of you with fewer skill points.
again i dont know about what server you guys play on, but no one sells this crap on bugfin. I stopped looking 2 weeks ago though after 5 weeks, so if anyone out there is selling this crap great. I had to solve the problem by finding a PA of over 50 people in which a HANDFUL will help me out with resources... for that i count myself lucky. fact is though that a casual gamer has NO easy way to get this stuff off the bazaar on my server. thanks holo
People sell their resources to whoever is buying... Find someone who put a bunch of the same type of materials on the bazaar. i.e. a half dozen 250 blocks of steel. Send that person an email proposing a surveying/harvesting contract. Hell, if I was a full time surveyor, I think it'd be pretty cool to be able to contract out your work.
I've also noticed alot of artisans are getting into selling resources exclusively. I know on Wanderhome/Naboo, I can think of a few resource player vendors and I haven't been in the game for a few days.
I also do fill resource orders, assuming I have the capability to.
Probably I'll always keep my surveying capability - to the highest level I can afford - unless I get heavily, heavily involved in PvP.