Doctor Archive

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Happymob wrote:

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Jittaba wrote:

Stims B came out as 423 and 31 Uses wich is pretty nice, and I can save my herb.

Stims B come out as 466 and 31 Uses, and obviously these 43 Points ARE NOT EVEN worth the Herbivore!

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As a seller, I would caution you against this thinking. Yes, in my mind, the extra 43 power is not worth the use of herbivore meat. However, some people will think it's worthwhile. So the best thing to do as a seller is to offer both, but to make sure you mark up the power Stim-Bs enough to justify the use of herbivore meat. For example, if you value theherbivore meat at 50 cpu, add in 100 cpu (1600 per pack). So if you would normally sell the veggie stim for 2500 credits continue to offer that and also the power stim at 4100 credits. Both will sell to different audiences.

Also, experiment your ABECs for charges. 411/41 Stim Bs will sell better than 423/31. At the ABEC level, you are trading 1 charge for every 1.2 power. That's a bad trade-off in every case except the most extreme PvPers who want every ounce of power regardless of the charge hit.

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Craster wrote:

While I certainly agree in principle, it can sometimes be impracticle to follow your reasoning, The last lot of herb on our server was going for 400cpu.

By your maths, using the same markup, you'd be looking at 2500 + (400+50)*16 = 9700cr per pack. People just aren't going to pay that.

So it really depends on the availability of resources.

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That is true. But what the heck were people doing paying 400 cpu for herbivore meat? I understand avian meat (since 100OQ/100DR/100PE makes a huge difference in final product).

The difference between a 950/650 herbivore meat and a 850/550 herbivore meat is exactly 3.25 power on the ACDRM. And you could probably buy the 850/550 stuff (particularly if it spawned on a herbivore friendly planet like Lok, Dantooine, or Endor) for 50 cpu.

Now maybe you don't want to lose 3.25 power on your enhance D (though 5600 credits in cost per pack for 3.25 power or about 10 points on the actual buff seems a bit insane). But we're talking stimpacks here. Use your 50 cpu herbivore meat on the stims. In fact, use your second or third best class 4 liquid on the stims as well and save the good stuff for buffs. The point is, you can still sell a cheaper veggie product and a more expensive powered product and make out like a bandit, doubling the value of your (less expensive) herbivore meat in the process.

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Ojes wrote:

Another hint is to check the bazaar for 'value-priced' herbivore meat to use in your stims. I have built up a good list of people who are happy to sell their herbivore meat of less-than-buffpack quality for next to nothing (5cpu). In one case, I managed to get about 150k of a particularly bad herbivore meat from Dant at 5cpu. I can still make aCRDMs in the low 40s with that meat and my cost is nearly the same as if I had used non-advanced CRDMs.

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