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Thread: Buff Pricing (6k or Pay what you want)
Probably after the randomness goes away (I'll be using 930+ packs) I will probaby charge 10-12k a set.
As for prices on enhance packs, I tend to sell them for 74k a set of packs (14k health - 12k each other pack) and these are my not-as-good packs ( I dont sell my best packs to my customers, its hard to get the best resources for selling stuff to people, when you need good stuff as well.) Altho, I will probably auction off a set of crates with 930+ power up to 30 charges in the radiant trade forums soon.
Its decent profit on selling packs (less that actually buffing) but I can pull in about 6mil in a weekend if i just stocked (did that last weekend, vendor is empty again (*sigh*)
As for the post above me about people spending almost a mil in a month. consider this:
- People pay 10k *high price, but just for example*
- They then go do missions for 3 hours!!! (on a good set of buffs)
- If they play smart and dont die before their buffs wear off, that is 3 hours of missions
- highest paying missions are on dathomir, rancor missions, 38k a mission. There are some
professions that can SOLO these missions.
- If they cant do the rancor missions, go to dantooine and do pikets/quenkers, 15k-20k a mission
(most elite professions CAN solo these.
- I would say the avg mission time would probably be about 10 minutes. (this is long, thats about
how long it was going up rifles taking my time with conceal shot)
- 3 x 60 = 180 minutes
- 180 / 10 = 18 missions (at 10 minutes per mission) - doesnt include down time from moun or in
between sets of missions, travel time (so minus about 8 to make sure we dont go overboard on the
totals)
- Doing 10k missions (low rate) means you can do about 10 missions on a set of buffs (if you dont
die)
- 10000 x 10 = 100000 (100k)
- so charging 10k for a buff puts em down to 90k total that they made off of that buff.
DONT be afraid to charge what you think your buffs are worth! People makes plenty of money and LIVE because WE give them that ability. Supply and demand.
I posted before about charging up to 20k to buff people on dathomir and dantooine, and people would look at me like I was crazy. "I'll just go to coronet and get a buff for 6k!"
MORE MATH
ah, so they want to pay 4k for their tickets there and back (more for dathomir I believe) WAIT in a hour long line for the same quality buffs that I can provide them for 10-20k on the planet they were just on?????
So, how much is your time worth? an hour of game play is about 3-4 missions (30-40k) that you missed out on because you didnt want to pay more for buffs on the front line.
ok done ranting....
Dracomarc wrote:
As for the post above me about people spending almost a mil in a month. consider this:
- People pay 10k *high price, but just for example*
- They then go do missions for 3 hours!!! (on a good set of buffs)
- If they play smart and dont die before their buffs wear off, that is 3 hours of missions
- highest paying missions are on dathomir, rancor missions, 38k a mission. There are some
professions that can SOLO these missions.
- If they cant do the rancor missions, go to dantooine and do pikets/quenkers, 15k-20k a mission
BH was my first profession. Sure, a high level BH mission can easily take 45-60 minutes but the thing is you don't need buffs to take down a mark. Stick on some composite armour, keep spice and food readily available in case it goes bad, have enough stims and you're set. Buffs greatly assist in accelerating experience and provide a good combat buffer for general PvE hunting. They aren't required for BH marks so I have no sympathy in that regard. I do sympathise that BH's are underpowered for the skill point expenditure but that's an argument for another board.
DasShadow wrote:
I simply went with my own experience.
You basically did a computation that only a perfect day would bring.
I was a Master BH in a diff server. You ever try an investigation?
Try a BH investigation, and then tell me what you think LOL
I generally charge 7k. My regular customersI don't ask I just start buffing and I usually get 10-14k. However the new changes will limit us to the quality of the materials available on a server. Example; there is no good herb to make a CRDM on my server atm so its about impossible to makeone over 43. My buffs are only in the 800's I've haven't been a Doc long enoughstockpile uber resources (Have only hadMD about two spawns) as many have had time to do.I think with the new system the prices will be based on how good your buffs are. I will most likely figure out a pricebased on the qualiity; probably 1/2-3/4 credit an announce the quality and pricing scheme in my bio before buffing (new customers). Its also going to be based on competition. If the guy over there has 3k buffs and is charging 6k then and mine are 2600 buffs.. I either go somehwere else or charge 4-5k.
Auhal wrote:
The standard price on Starsider seems to be around 8-10k. I have only just hit Master Doc, so have not started buffing people for money yet - debating whether I will or not. I think I will charge around 8k and see how that works out for me.
Auhal, think about your fellow doctors. You say how it works for you. Great. Youhinder the attempts of other doctors trying to get what their buffs are really worth.
If you have 800+ base packs, then charge 12-15k when the static buffs hit. Help your fellow doctors. Believe me, most players on SS can well afford 12-15k a buff. Those who can't, can see a lower level doctror. All doctors can now make money.
beating a dead horse here but come more than 8k is a rip off.
ive been a master doc for a month base 902 duration 11908 27 charges.
i colloect my own resources and use all the uber gear 110 droid +25 clothes +25 bivoli.
i can make 2.7 mil off a crate of 10 buffpacks cost for me to build em about 500k for the 10 crates.
more than 8k is a rip off plain and simple.
well there you have a honest doc telling the masses what it costs to make buffs and what i make off the buffs.
i know ill get flamed but i dont give a rats %&%.
anymore than 8k is greed period.
its not that hard to get reources ask your surveyor freinds what minerals and chems are popping where.
ask the ranger and scouts whats popping where, watch the bazzars for great avian then go harvest it your self. or use the resources search engines on the various websites they are updated daily.
those are my tactics and guess what it works and works very well.
Oune wrote:
I personally am using 900 power packs and atm charge 10k and will do till i get bivoli. Mate you say >8k is a rip off, you have to remember a) it needs to be worth your time and b) 10k is nothing for buffs if you think about it. pure and simple with stats at 3k you can do 10k missions solo without a group to get them. bingo in 1 mission your even.
/agree...when i was leveling up pikeman a long while back you can goto a place like dath and get a 10k mission (without a group) and solo it and you are even. for me i have no problem charging 10k to buff people. why? b/c i am a master doc. i am not doing this for xp. i am capped at 80k medical xp and buffing someone doesnt do anything for me. while i am buffing someone i am losing out on xp i could be getting from killing things AND money that i could get from the mission. the money is no biggie but the xp is what i am after when i am doing missions. now if you could give me 10k xp instead of 10k credits i would be buffing like there was no tomorrow. but as it is leveling up a profession takes a good bit of time. (unless you are doing somethign like ID) at 10k your lines will be just as long as the people charging 8k or 6k b/c there are people who would rather go to the shorter line and be gone faster. i love it when people tell me somenoe else is charging less for buffs elsewhere. i had a group of about 8 people around me and someone said that and i got a nicelaugh from it.
as it is i have no problems with charging the money as well b/c of when i was a masterpikeman (and before i was master) i could go and take missions for tortur lairs on talus and kill the lair and not even kill the critters around it. you can get a good set of kinetic armor and not have to worry at all. so i was killing a 6k mission lair about ever 5min (travel time makes it so long). you can charge what you want but i will charge what i want as well. i can promise you that our lines will be just as long too 
also i know that many people who get the buffs goto the med center and dont tipeither. i have had several people come in and i would heal them up only to receive next to no tip. yes a thnk you is nice to get but come on....they cant spare at least 200 credits? i think that lots of peoplethink that we consume no resources like entertainers. oh well.
and with two accounts i am sure that you have no problem getting all the resources you need. not all of use have two accounts though
They often ask "what do you normally charge" and i say 8k, but this is an oppertunity for the newbies to get a buff. Lowest i get that was i think was once 5k. most of what it comes down to is being kind to your docs. when people help me out i tend to help them out 2 times over how much they helped me
Hay wookiedude...your a moron...
The price is not just for the buff its for MY TIME....My time equals money...period....
I charge 10k per buff...many times im th eonly doc around during the day...but I charge that at all times....Any who complain go on my black list after a warning to pipe down.
Continued critisism of my priceing will result in a /denyservice..so i dont accdently do buisness with the person in the future.
DOCS ARE NOT YOUR NPC's