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What do people want more? Power, charges or balance of the two?Here are a couple examples...

Stim Bs (these are approximate, cant login to check for sure right now)

1. 450 with 33 charges
2. 410 with 40 charges

Enhance Ds

1. 880 with 20 charges
2. 845 with 25 charges

I am about to make 1000 Adv BECs and just wondering how I should divide the power/charges. I spoke with a couple guildmates and they said power = good, charges = bleh. Just want to check what some experts(you) think. Thanks for your input.

With stims that I sell. I usually go for a balance of the two. The way I figure is the majority of people who by stim Bs are Novice Medics and haven't actually advanced in the tree. Therefore they cannot get as big a heal out of them as someone who has advanced in First Aid would. As for enhances, I don't know what to tell you. I only make them for myself and go for power. Both my stim Bs and enhances turn out almost exact to yours.

I pick power over charges. In the field, you want those stims to work, and you want them to work RIGHT NOW.

If I'm selling stims, I want my customers to use the stims faster, not slower. I don't give them too much for their money.

Dr. Vema Gara

I would recommend charges personally for stims and power for enhance. If you can't split them up however, then I'd go for a balance. If you take the numbers you had, you get almost 2000 more ham healed with the better charges vs better power. Everyone seems to want better power with enhancing though, at least with what I've seen. Good luck.

Saemon Pyre

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Intrepid

I go for Max power always. I sell pretty expensive stims to harcore PvP'ers who will pay extra for that big heal when they are dueling their arch-rival, or taking down a Krayt. Powergamers will pay big for big heals, and they arent short of credits

The most bang for your experimentation points is with maxing charges on ABECs. It gives a lot more charges. If you max power, you can get something like 22 power (for a +11 differential to my standard 22 charges 11 power ABEC) which isn't much compared to the 160 or so you can get from advanced LS and approximately 60 you can from ACRD.

This is your best bet for selling on the bazaar, and in general to most players for whom 50k or whatever you charge for a crate is a non-trivial investment. The "uber" player market is a tougher nut to crack, unless u have these customers already (in which case you would know what u were doing), I recommend you go for charges.

For me, I prefer charges. We all know that the healing ability of the stims is an average...could be more, could be less. But, most of the times that I heal my pet (a Graul Mauler) using non-pet stim b's, I'm in a camp. Therefore, healing RIGHT NOW doesn't matter at all to me. As long as it's over about 350/350, then I would MUCH prefer to get more heals out of each stim than more heal per usage...simply because you're never guaranteed to what you will get (at least for Novice Medics).

Anian

Mine is simple.. I experiment POWER on everything EXCEPT my Biological effect controlers. on BEC's and Adv. BEC's I always experiment Charges to max first. 10 extra charges is worth more then 10 power.

Think about the difference in a 40 use, 408 Stim-B and a 33 Use, 415 Stim-B. When you hover around the 40-400 mark, it's a lot better selling item to have both those numbers starting with a 4.

PS...

You are showing your difference to be ..

1. 450 with 33 charges
2. 410 with 40 charges

You can't get that much power from an Adv. BEC. It's more of a 1-1 trade off with the Adv. BEC. If you are talking your experimentation on the final combine, then yes you'll get a lot more power per experimentation point then charges. On the BEC, it's more of a 1-1 ratio. That's why I always experiment charges on the Adv. BEC sub components.

For ABECs experiment on charges first. Everything else experiment all the way on power.

I don't do a whole lot of stim sales outside of my PA, but when I do, if I don'thave a good balance I generally tend to lean toward more uses. The only problem I've run in to is that, in my experience, the folks buying these stims seem to gravitate towards the higher heal. For instance, I was recently selling some crates of 41/441 Stim-Bs and actually having a hard time finding any takers. Someone else was selling crates of 34/447 and selling out almost instanty, even though he was charging more than me. In fact, the other doc tried telling me I should lower my prices even further because ofmy low base heal.

Now I might be biased, but I personally wouldbuy the stims with seven more uses as opposed to the stims that have six more base points to a heal that's totally random anyway. To actually get to the point though, I've noticed that a high heal is like a flashing neon sign to the novice medic folks buyingadvanced Bs. If that heal is high enough, most don't seem to take uses into consideration. If these are thefolks you're selling to, I'd go for the heal. Like someone else mentioned,you might as well keep those heals high and uses low, and keep their moneycoming in. Or something like that...

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xpenigma wrote:

What do people want more? Power, charges or balance of the two?Here are a couple examples...

Stim Bs (these are approximate, cant login to check for sure right now)

1. 450 with 33 charges
2. 410 with 40 charges

Enhance Ds

1. 880 with 20 charges
2. 845 with 25 charges

I am about to make 1000 Adv BECs and just wondering how I should divide the power/charges. I spoke with a couple guildmates and they said power = good, charges = bleh. Just want to check what some experts(you) think. Thanks for your input.

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using that example, i'll go against the grain on this. knowing what i know about the randomness of what is going to happen when i use any med, the 40 differential is measly in my opinion. i'll take the 7 extra charges in that case. but i know i am in a very small minority on that.

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BastardsLastStand wrote:

I don't do a whole lot of stim sales outside of my PA, but when I do, if I don'thave a good balance I generally tend to lean toward more uses. The only problem I've run in to is that, in my experience, the folks buying these stims seem to gravitate towards the higher heal. For instance, I was recently selling some crates of 41/441 Stim-Bs and actually having a hard time finding any takers. Someone else was selling crates of 34/447 and selling out almost instanty, even though he was charging more than me.

Stick to your guns. Your stims are much better (17.64% more uses). The base heals are in practical terms equal and you got 7 more uses. Overa crate that's 350 extra uses, the equivalent of you having 60 stims in your crate instead of 50. You should charge more than him, not less. There was probably another reason why they were buying from him, perhaps they were his repeat customers or friends.