Droid Engineer Archive

Before last patch I sold my arakyds and seekers in crates of 5 for 12K and enjoyed fairly decent sales. Nothing spectacular but not too shabby either (about 6 or 7 sales a day of each)

When the patch hit live I had ~300 crates total of Arakyds and seekers across 3 vendors. 2 Vendors were nearly completely emptied within the first day and I had to dip into the emergency stock of Arakyds (I was totally out of seekers across all vendors and had no emergency stock due to the old bug ...)

By Saturday night I was looking at maybe 50 crates of Arakyds across the 3 vendors and waiting on EMM's and EGP's to finish. These were all still the old crates of 5 (but upgraded charges when removed from crate) that I was still selling at 12K a pop.

Anyone else have trouble keeping up with the exponentialy increased demand since the patch? (I have 12 factories currently running making massive amounts to try and keep them stocked now)

I used to dislike making BH droids because they took up too much space on my vendor. But now that they crate up to 25/piece, I don't mind as much. And they supplement my standard droid sales nicely. Lately, sales have been really nice on everything. JTL droids, flight computers, bomb droids, combat droids...everything seems to be selling. Heck, even special orders have picked up.

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Atan wrote:
I read about it in the patch notes and prepared for it

I have currenty 9 Factories running and i already made more then 2M Credits since the patch (according to Merchants Friend, could be that i already deleted some of the mails)

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I thought I was prepared for it too. I mean 300 crates in total, that should be enough shouldn't it? Well apparently I underestimeted 1 of 2 things.

• My popularity for being a DE with stocked vendors


• The amount of people who were going to run these new missions

My other droid sales have increased about2 fold as well righ tnow (not that I really have other droids to sell on the vendor that work...) Combat droids are very popular right now that help said BH beat up those hard Double Elite marks as well as droid stims to help heal their droid during battle.

This morning when I left there was 4 factories running final assembly on full runs of Seekers and Arakyds (2 factory runs of seekers and 2 of Arakyds). I forget the factory time on them, but I should have a nice bit of stock when I get home in 4 hours.

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Shian_Tavkin wrote:

Cool

I just wanted to put my POV, and as usual I did. I remain convinced it encourages JediWars..but each to their own view of that, and indeed whether JediWars is a good or a bad thing for the game.

By all means make your credits while you can..for myself I can't be bothered to even make BH Droids but again it's a matter of personal choice.

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I agree that it encourages it, but hey, what are we gonna do about it anyway? The system is as its been designed, like it or not. And at the moment, BH droids, Astromechs, and a probot or two every so often is about all we have that sells any more.

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jefmes wrote:

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Shian_Tavkin wrote:

Cool

I just wanted to put my POV, and as usual I did. I remain convinced it encourages JediWars..but each to their own view of that, and indeed whether JediWars is a good or a bad thing for the game.

By all means make your credits while you can..for myself I can't be bothered to even make BH Droids but again it's a matter of personal choice.

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I agree that it encourages it, but hey, what are we gonna do about it anyway? The system is as its been designed, like it or not. And at the moment, BH droids, Astromechs, and a probot or two every so often is about all we have that sells any more.

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Or works .... apart from us few lucky ones ..

I am extremely thankful for the demand. Its a small recompense for how long we've been in bug valley.

I have 10 factories cranking out BH droids around the clock. Since the publish went thru, i have made 15 million credits. I still sell them in crates of 5, but i charge more and have no problems with it, since the loot these BH's will make will be worth millions.

I read about it in the patch notes and prepared for it

I have currenty 9 Factories running and i already made more then 2M Credits since the patch (according to Merchants Friend, could be that i already deleted some of the mails)

Okay, please dont think I am bragging... I hate when people do that, but I am honestly amazed at my sales the past FOUR days. I sold (at 40k a crate seekers and 45k a crate arakyd) 560k in arakyds, and1.3 millionin seekers. Four days. That blows away my old record, set in the respec madness. I might have to up the price a bit more to slow sales down so I can keep up. Even making runs of 999 droids a batch it will be hard to keep up.

So let me get this straight guys

There's a fire consuming SWG in the form of every man and his dog having a glowstick very soon

There's a massive amount of BH out there making said Glowstick Players lives more fun and enjoyable, thus encouraging more and more the Glowstick 'culture'

And you guys are deciding to pump more gasoline??

Well that will sure fix it --not

Yeah I know...you are merely taking advantage of an economic opportunity!?!!??

Well..that makes it alright then..doesn't it /sigh

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Shian_Tavkin wrote:

So let me get this straight guys

There's a fire consuming SWG in the form of every man and his dog having a glowstick very soon

There's a massive amount of BH out there making said Glowstick Players lives more fun and enjoyable, thus encouraging more and more the Glowstick 'culture'

And you guys are deciding to pump more gasoline??

Well that will sure fix it --not

Yeah I know...you are merely taking advantage of an economic opportunity!?!!??

Well..that makes it alright then..doesn't it /sigh

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Nope - I think you'll find the sales going through the roof are due to the fact that BH (myself included) are now going after the sometimes-lovely NPC loot that is dropping from the new boss marks.

Yes its taking advantage of an economic oppo, but not to try and stem the unyielding tide of Jerdeye - droid engineers are not King Canute. Lets face it, atm we NEED something to make money from - do you know how expensive it is to look as good as me?

Theres a huge demand atm for BH droids. Reason: They are doing NPC missions that are getting the all the +15 jedi tapes. They then turn around and sell those tapes for millions. Some of the +15 tapes go for 30 million plus.

So if you want to bump your prices to fit the demand I think you should do so.

Cool

I just wanted to put my POV, and as usual I did. I remain convinced it encourages JediWars..but each to their own view of that, and indeed whether JediWars is a good or a bad thing for the game.

By all means make your credits while you can..for myself I can't be bothered to even make BH Droids but again it's a matter of personal choice.