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Thread: How much do you charge for a crate of stimpacks?
I am gathering my resources and should have the cash to pick up my factory this evening. I use speciality resources for the BEC and Liquid Suspension, but I haven't located a source of petro 4 as of yet for the CRDM. My experimentation runs usually put my stim B's at around 270 base heal and my stim C's at around 415 base heal. The base resources used for a crate of stim B's is 4400 and for a crate of stim C's is 4600. My question is this: how much do you charge / would you pay for a crate of stim packs? How much for one stim pack?
Dakani
Scylla Galaxy
Charge based on a number of factors:
How much are similar products going for? If there are no similar products on the bazaar, how much are the inferior/superior products going for? How much time are you willing to spend crafting stuff to sell? How much is it costing you to get your materials?
When I put my stim-B's on the bazaar ( 25 charges, 250 heal value - with no advanced parts), I noticed that there were other stim-B's for sale for the same price with stats like 19/119. That was unacceptable to me and I raised prices. Then I sold out, restocked, sold out, restocked again, sold out again. Basic rule of thumb...if you are selling out faster than you can produce, your price is too low. Eventually if you keep adjusting your price you will arrive at an equilibrium where demand = supply ![]()
I sold my first stim-b's for 300cr each. I now sell my stims (stats above) for 600cr and I still sell out (meaning the price is still probably too low). The only new products I think I'm going to try to sell are stim-b's with advanced components. I made one with just an Adv Liquid Suspension that was 25/318 and sold 6 of them for 900cr each. (price still too low based on demand). If I make one with Adv BEC and Adv Liquid Susp. (stats 32 charges/318 heal) I will sell it for about 1100-1200cr.
I don't want to gouge people, but I also don't want to spend all my game time crafting (which is what I'm doing now). Raising my prices until demand goes down will give me more play-time andgive room in the market for lower stat, lower cost stims. My demand is so high right now that if I didn't raise prices I'd just stop making stims entirely.
I've been selling 215base 24 charge B stims(best I can do with what I have in stock for resources currently) for 500 each and selling out every day. I do a crate at 20k (400each) if someone special orders one.
I look in the bazaar and see 170 or 150 base heal 19charge B stims at 500 as well so I figure I am selling something better and not ripping folks off. I make a good profit at it and am happy with it.
Hmmm. I can't create stim Bs in my factory, only the sub components. Here is what I did, if someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong, please do so:
1. Created crates of the subcomponents. 1 crate of 50 each Adv BEC, CDRM, and Adv Liquid.
2. Pulled 1 quantity out of each create to create my Stim B schematic (49 use0
3. Put Stim B schematic in factory.
4. Put exact 3 crates in that I used to create my schematic (each crate now having 49 components left)
5. Put remaining non-crated (wheat and steel--exactly the same as used in schematic) ingrediants in, in the exact quantities needed to create 49 stimB
6. Fired it up.
A few minutes later I get an email saying my run is complete with 0 items created. Checking my ingredient hopper, it looks as tho it successfully pulled all the resources (crated and non crated) needed to create 1 stim b, EXCEPT from the Adv BIO crate.
Verified adv bio crate was exact same serial number needed. It was.
Gave up and did the rest by hand /sigh.
Factory's are bugged. Take all the subcomponents from the crates and they will work fine. I end up taking 25 from each crate and sticking the crates back in the ingredients spot. I leave the window open so while my factory is churning out stims I add more sub's as they are used up. You can also see by doing this that it will on the rare occasion pull from the crate.
haha I guess I am getting umm jipped I am selling stim Ds for ummm..... Free
I havent been able to find many buyers I guess
I guess I should start selling Bs for a little profit lol
There's almost no market for C-E, because anyone who can use those meds can probablymake their own.
There's a very big market for B-meds because anyone with Novice Medic and no other medical skills at allcan use them.
i have a huge market for C-Ds...you just have to know who to look for...find BHs they usually ahve medic and pharm IV...
offer them Cs or lower Use Ds...i sell crates of them
For 20 charge 220-236 or so effectivness Bs I charge 30k for a full crate of 50. Singles I'll sell for 500 each. I'd probly drop my price a lot if I could reliably pull from crates on factory runs. This price is expensive, but is the rate that is worth my time and the care I put into getting materials. If I couldn't sell them for less, I wouldn't sell them.
For Cs I do 750 for singles and Ds 1000 each. Crates are similarly surcharged. I tend to reserve things made with advanced components for internal PA use.
Crates of components are 5000 for a crate of 50.
That pricing on Radiant lets mesell them at a rate I'm comfortable with having two factories. I realise that other people sell them cheaper. Great, no complaints for them. If you are happy with the money you are bringing in, then you are doing the right thing. To any who think I'm getting rich off of them at this rate, you are mistaken. I have 100k in the bank. With all the harvester and factory costs as well as buying select ingrediants on the market my cash flow is pretty balanced. My goal is to make enough to meet my own needs and supply my trade group.