Doctor Archive
Thread: Why do we charge 15k for buffs?
Sweere wrote:
On one side of the house, as a Master Fencer running Mokk/Janta Missions I can generate about 1.5 - 2 mil in a buff session, but that is dependant on terminal loads and how close the missions actually are.
Now on the other side of the house, I imagine a person could make a rather large sum buffing people in starports, seeing that it only takes a little over a minute to buff another. With a mass supply of packs, (the ability to continue to buff people for the entire duration of one of your buffs) I would think you could make well more than any combat profession. But ah, I'm not willing to attempt that idea.
Not likely. 16 secs minimum between buffs, 6 buffs per set = 96secs. Assuming that you do not break to take bivoli, recharge your droid, greet your customer, check if the tip came in, answer the inevitable flood of tells and questions and all your customers pay on time and withoutany questions (that will be the day), you can buff at most 37.5 people in one hour. At 10k per, that's 375k/hr and 1.125m/3 hrs. Even if you factor in havla, there is only so little that you can take before you hit a full stomach and get the rest whining at you about the lack of bivoli in your buffs. I'd like to see anyone try that regularly without losing their sanity. LOL. The more realistic amount would be anything between 100-250k/hr, results varying.
Now as a master fencer and using an actual example, 1mil in 3 hours running solo Janta/Mokk missions is easy enough. 1.5mil is if I work efficiently without slacking, and 2 mil requires many of the BBQ pits to be located close together.So no, docs can't earn more than ANY combat profession. Fencer alone is already more profitable with lower costs, effortandnerve damage than buffmonkeying. Now if buffs were 20k/ set.... haha, I won't go there.
How many of the same buffmonkeys do you see on your servers turning up day after day, month after month, just to buff the public? Few, if any at all, will last more than a month. Most are simplyblinded by the constant spam of "XXXX buffs Xhrs XXmin - 10k!". They see only the revenue coming in but never the costs. They'll learn after a while. If it was really that great a way to earn credits, I wouldn't be getting constant tells from the buff-hungrywho can't find a buffmonkey.
Charge what you what to charge, if people want it, they'll pay, if not, they won't. People who constantly complain about "greedy" docs are alsousually the ones who go "but I don't buff the public anymore". Ifit bothers you so much that there are too many "greedy" docs out there, grab your droid and put your time, effort, moneyand sanity where your mouth is. The masses will thank you for it and so willDocs like me who like to wear our tags without getting a "Stats and price?" tell every other minute.
Let docs charge what they think their time, effort and resources are worth to them, that's their input and their choice. Buffs arenot a necessity. If you choose to play your game in such a way that makes you feel that buffs are a necessity, then that's your choice. This is a game, you won't suffer a heart attack without a buff and the docs are not real docs either, just players who want to have a good time and earn credits like other professions.
Anyone who tells me that IHAVE to charge more or less for MY time, effort and resource can kiss me where the sun don't shine. 
(this and 3.5 hour buffs...)
SlowNStoopid wrote:
Oh, and on Tempest, even the current spawn of not-so-fantastic avian meat is going for 150cpu. Premium avian meat goes for anything up to 450cpu. Before the current spawn of Class 4 Liq Petro, auctions for the one good spawn in the history of Tempest started at 50cpu. There was even someone offering 800+OQ Talusian water for 200cpu, which hesaid was what his friends told him to price it at. Anything related to docs will usually be inflated by the same people who complain about the cost of a buff. And sometimes it's caused by docs themselves, the few big-time producers who drive the price up to get what they want and because they can. Keyword: Player-run economy.
And the market price for abuff is still only 10k, plus or minus 2k. So like most docs, "but I don't buff the public anymore". LOL.
Agreed.. i just paid 500 CPU for 10K of the best avian ever on Tarq.. needless to say, those packs I then made, dont sell for cheap.
A'ier Crestingstorm
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