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I've just made Novice Ranger on Lowca and I've been asked for herbivore meat recently. Just wondering what you use it for, do you need herbivore meat specifically, and what sort of quality is the minumum you'd use for crafting?

And I suppose I've got to ask... what's a reasonable price from your point of view? (I'm on Lowca, not sure how it fluctuates across the servers, if at all..)

Any answers I get might help me to help out some of you guys whilst I'm going about my daily business.

Thanks.

herb meat is used to make advanced chem release duration mechanisms. Important stats are OQ and PE.

it can also be used as an organic, but its easier and cheaper to harvest flora instead of meat.

i believe it takes 16 units to make one of these. you should probably harvest about 1k at a time so at least 1 crate of 50 can be made.

I would add that Doctors also want Avian Meat with the same stats but adding in that a High DR is also desireable, and again large quantities are preferable.

As for price.... I think that most Docs can probably handle 6cpu. In truth, though, less folks seem to be getting meats and it's possible you could actually get away with closer to 10cpu, but you'll be greatly limiting your market to those few Docs who have the backing of a PA, hawk Buffs in cities or spend a lot of time making Stim Bs and have a booming market there. Not too many Docs make money off of actual healing so, in truth, we aren't always the best market to sell to (at least not compared to what you can probably make from selling hides to artisans.) But we would definitely love to have more Rangers selling to us!

That's some good information guys, many thanks.

I've had one doctor telling me he'll pay between 4 and 6 cpu for the herbivore meat, which seems fair enough. I'm just trying to get a feel for what I should be harvesting to help out some other professions and making a few side credits into the bargain.

I'll be looking out for Avian meat as well from now on, for sure, but I''ve one more question about the quality. Seeing how the figures vary so wildly (as they do on all resources) what's the minimum OQ, PE and DR (for Avian) that you as doctors would find useful. The only previous answer I got to this was that I could sell with figures of 200 because it's better than not crafting, but what I really want to know is at what point do you stop thinking "Ugh, ah well - it's meat. I'll take it" and start thinking "Hey, that's not bad!"? 500 in the main stats should be about average by rights, but I don't know what sort of quality people are used to getting. It'll help me make that decision between "Well, this is 4cr a unit" and "Nice! I'll get 6 for this!". As I say, I'm not out to milk it, but it'd be nice to get a feel for what your preference is (Other than "higher the better").

As one example, I've got about 1500 Herbivore meat on me at the moment with OQ in the 900's but a PE at around 350. My guess would be that the high OQ balances thelow PE to make it of average usefulness, but I'm really not so sure that's how it'd work. It'd be nice to know.

I posted on the tailor forums as well, and said I was going to go and get some sleep - which is probably why that last paragraph makes so little sense!

So I'm going to go do that now. Get some sleep....

Thanks again for the help.

DK

Overall anything in the 800+s on both stats is great stuff. Anything less is... well, just meat. (At least for my standards)

What you have is definitely pretty good. The formula to keep in mind is 66%OQ and 33% PE.

(Don't worry as much about the DR, but technically the formula there is for the Duration of a Buff, so IF avian meats actually have a DR rating then the duration formulat is based on 60%DR, 40%OQ, but that rating is just not nearly as important as the OQ/PE combo for most Docs.)

BTW, Combat Medics also like Insect Meat to some extent. Their needs tend to be smaller because it is used to make DIseases, which CMs don't normally make a lot of. But the the same rating requirements apply for Insect Meat as well.

Excellent.At least now I know what to look for. I tend to take hunting missions (anddo them the slow way!) so it's worth my whilechecking out some meat stats before deciding where to hunt.

I changed my mind about the sleep thingsoI think I'm gonna go hunt some more herbivores instead.

How I love this place...

Once again, many thanks for the information.

DK

On the Corbantis bazaar I sell herbivore and avian meat for 5 per unit with OQ<500, 7 per unit with OQ between 500 and 900, and 10 per unit with OQ>900. It always sells within 24 hours (usually in a matter of hours) if it's put on a busy bazaar like Coronet. This is good for small quantities (stacks of 300-600). I will likely reduce my price whenI can start collecting larger quantities at a time. Right now it takes me a long time to collect 1k. You can always experiment on the bazaar and see what your market will bear. Find that sweet spot that balances price and ability to sell quickly.

Once you start collecting large quantities itmay be better to find a doctor and trade the high OQ meat for enhancedmeds or buffs.

Darrien Northstar - Ranger/CH/Pistoleer/Medic- Corbantis

DrSardonicushas it right. Also, with Avian meat it is more important that it be high quality (I won't buy anything less than 750 OQ + 500 PE + 500 DR). There was some Avian meat last week on my serverwhich was about980 OQ +950 PE + 950 DR whichthis weeksells for 25cred/unit so the top end of Avian is (much) higher. Herbivore meat almost any qualityin largish quantities sells well.

Drake, I'm a doc on lowca, and herbivore and avian meat are 2 big things i can never seeem to get in enough quantity to justify factory runs on.

If you come across a large quantitiy (I hear that the yavin avian meat is really great right now), I may be able to buy a quantity from you. Just toss me a mail, or offer it to my vendor at the FWO guild hall outside of AH.

Ailad'enea

Master Surgeon, Lowca

Hey Drake, another Lowca Doc here.

Ailad'enea had it right. Yavin has some great avian meat at the moment. Every doc will gladly buy it from you. The problem is that not many beasties drop it. Look for chokus and whisper birds

Herb meat: I guess you have the current meat from Corellia. We had better herb in the last shift, but it's still not bad. You should have no problem selling it to the docs.

Dr Reia