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Thread: Master Doctor thinking about joining the buff building empire
Stockpiliing is your best friend...if you are starting out again I guess you dont have the diff resources?
To make sellable packs use the best you can get and if what is currently spawning is not good enough ie850 oq+ then dont bother using it..wait for the next shift or the next etc until something worthwhile spawns. Depending on what resources you have right now, and what resources you can lay your hands on it could be up to a month before you can really make something ... patience is a virtue 
what about surveying skills and whatnot? i simply loathe surveying, moving another 40m surveying, moving another 40m surveying ... only to find the highest point is at like 60%
is there an easier way to do this?
Marrow1 wrote:
Here is how I break down the resouces.
1. Avian. Any one making volume buff packs will run out of avain faster than most anything. Why? Because it is a pain to hunt, low quality spawns, low yielding spawns, low paying missions, etc. When there is a good spawn hunt the crap out of it and get everyone you know to hunt it. Pay well to get it (100ish cpu). Avian makes up 2/3 (OQ and PE) of the exp power of the pack. It also makes up 1/2 of the exp duration. As a result it is the most important resouce.
2. Herb. Since you need 2 ACRDM per pack you can go through herb like crazy. The good news is that many people hunt herb since you get more per kill and some of the beasties's missions pay well and give good xp hunters don't mind hunting it. Again, when the spawn is right hunt the dickens out of it. This not the most important resouces there is the issue is just volume. The difference in good and great herb will only change your buff pack by 30ish points.
3. Gas. The OQ of the reactive gas will make up about 1/3 of the power in the buff pack. The DR will make up about 1/2 the power. So it is important to get good stuff. The good news is that many resouces vendors will have it in stock so you can just buy it. Even if you pay 20 cpu it is still a cheap resouces since you only need 22-28 per pack.
4. The other stuff (class 4, dol Iron, lok wheat, etc). At any given time these can be in short supply of good stuff. When they do come in good farm the dickens out of it. Offer a bounty for a good waypoint in your trade forum. Dol Iron and Class 4 are often the most rare of things since the spawns don't happen in good OQ very often.
5. Get to be friends with a good resouce vendor. Help them when you can. When nothing is in season that you need offer them the use of thier lots to farm other things. When a med resouces is in season offer to buy the stuff as they farm it.
Well, these are my tips. Not a great list but something to get you started.
thank you tons... still not sure if i want to do this. sounds a little bit like too much work for the buck... i'd rather kill **edit**
.I agree.
There is good money to be made, but it is anything but easy.
I've got 4 months in and still going.
I run out of herb more than anything though.
I do it with only two accounts...
But yeah, it is anything but easy, and its REALLY time consuming.
I only have 1 account.
I hunt almost all my own meat to keep the cost down. To max my harvest here is what I do.
1. Get a good fight class like TKM.
2. Use your extra points on scout, hunt 1.
3. Get the best harvest droid you can. (over 100).
4. Get the best veghash you can (+30 ish). It will pay for itself. A crate will cost about 100k but if you can get a few extra k of meat then it will pay for itself easily.
5. For get about surveying for yourself. Just find someone to do it for you and pay them. By far the limiters will be avain and herb.
When there is a good spawn then buy as much as you can as well as hunt.
I tend to switch my spare skill pts about between scout and artisan every few days depending on the spawns. Save up for BER13 harvesters this will minimise the lots you use to gather good amounts quickly. check your galaxy forums to check for any good spots after you check the realtime resource. Post a request for some good waypoints to avoid slow surveying, if not you'll be too busy( I hate it when I get too involved crafting and forget) to play the game.
For meat I found a team of scouts on Bria who will harvest to order once youtell them aspawn and the cpu, although it's more expensive doing it yourself, less hassle is what I'm looking for. If anyone on Bria wants to try them send J'anis a tell ingame, he's the only name of the group I have atm but theres a few of them and they work fast. If people on Gorath have the same setup then try them . Avoid going round shops if you can, you'll waste so much time buying the wrong things because you'll get frustrated at the lack of availability