Doctor Archive

Well the cost of good avian meat on scylla just went up to about 100cpu. Fortunately I have a customer who wanted me to have the meat because he likes to buff, but doesn't like to craft the buffs. He bought me 6k units for 600k. Now I worked out the math, and that 6k meat will make 45 sets of buffs, and if they sell at an average of 14k per set that is only 630k after selling all those buffs, never mind the cost of all the other resources that have to be put into those buff packs, so tell me where 6k a buff will make you money, when 14k is still a money sink? Granted prices are usually not this high, but unfortunatly now that hunters know some doc's will pay this price, even when the quality of avian goes down we are still going to be stuck with a higher priced resource than before this spawn.

I still stand by the 1cr per increase as the best method of payment, but I am lenient, if some people find it too expensive and politely ask for a special price, I can usually work something out, and if they want to tip me more than the 1cpu as some will pay 1cpu plus 2k for each stat over 2k then, hey it all balances out in the end. I am a doctor after all, I am here to heal.

Personally I charge 10k and refund any buffs under 1500, I rarely hit under 2k and my customers love me, nobody ever complains and usually if I hit one under 1500 they tell me not to worry about it, I also offer to kill and revive them if they don't like the buffs but then its a 10k flat rate.

I don't care to buff because I dont have the time with harvester runs and trying to keep up with the demand of my buisiness selling buff pacs, usually people will come to my shop while I am stocking the vendor or reloading factory's just to get buffs.

It's kind of funny that my name on Valcyn is pretty well known buff pac supplierand most ask if your using Billy's Buff Pacs, if so then they don't care what you charge.

I never thought of the 1:1 rate, that sounds great, I could easily make 15k per person I buff!!

I also wouldn't worry about what other people charge compared to what you charge, nobody can put a price on your time, especially when you only have a limited time to play. I say charge what you think your time is worth, obviously I would hope your pacs can back up the price of your time!

I am not a Doctor and I have no idea of the requirements to make decent buff items but I will say that

8-10k is the average that I see andI personally would never pay over 10k for buffs.

Remember that I don't know what goes into making them, but as a customer, I know that 10k is my ceiling.

Anything higher than that and the customer will either think they are being ripped off or will walk away.

Just from my observations though.

Maybe more than 10k is ok, I dunno.

But how much time to you lose having fun while you kill a boatload of lame birds? There's where the price of my time and efforts come into the price of my buffs, not to mention sitting there and buffing people takes time, only you can determine the price of your time, I figure 1k per stat is fair but I don't make money selling buffs to people, I make money selling buff pacs to people. I hate the bickering involved in buffing someone, especially someone who is clueless about the randomness that it is. For this reason I think publish 7 will be a good thing to know what your getting, but as I stated in another post, I will miss the excitement of rolling the dice to see what kind of buff I get.

amazingly when i first read of the 1:1 ratio i thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread tryed it once lasted about all of about 25 minutes i was harassed and mocked....oh well guess my servers just a bunch of punks i still like that rate but bottom line charge what people will pay cause in the end food wont even scratch what we can do and they wont make it far without a set of buffs...

I charge 20k, people pay it. I find it extremely rude when other Docs come around and start charging5k because they get their resources for free. We need to stick together! I've only been in SWG for 2 months, but I have already learned that people do not respect Doctors and Entertainers for our importance. It starts here people, help make the change!

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DeziTorek wrote:
I charge 20k, people pay it. I find it extremely rude when other Docs come around and start charging5k because they get their resources for free. We need to stick together! I've only been in SWG for 2 months, but I have already learned that people do not respect Doctors and Entertainers for our importance. It starts here people, help make the change!

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Also when your fighting with buffs, no gun or weapon last 2 months, try working your way up through riflman with 1 gun for months hehe. give it 3 days.

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Cailid010 wrote:

And I doubt anyone gets their resources for free. Try checking the price of a heavy harvestor sometime.

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