Droid Engineer Archive

There's two ways you can go about it (granted you won't make as much cash as selling resources, but it will get you droid xp while getting you credits, as well as get your name out there as a DE). For both of these to work you need to talk to a master DE. Some are willing to help out, some aren't, you should be able to find someone. Have them make some level 6 modules for you, then put them in your droids to sell. This will cut into your profits, but you'll still come out ahead and you start getting your name out there.

Conversely, you can find a master DE who is willing to buy chassis off you. This saves them the trouble of making them (though you will probably have to sell them pretty cheap) but you get xp (both for creating them and for them using thechassis if you are both online). This can be a big help.

Money? *chuckles* Money? ahaha! WHAT MONEY!?!? *gets carted off with after a last lunitic-style laugh*

Seriously though. You do not do droid for money or utility.

I'm in the same situation.

So far, the best solution I found was :
Get a small combat skill and do faction mission.
That give you money, combat xp and faction point you can use to have a usefull pet.

Beside that, selling ressources work the best.

I got by selling resources on the Bazaar. This was the easiest money maker. Also, I got a lot of sales from GP's and EMM's since I was a MA as well. Lots of MDE's would buy crates and crates from me. I would do a run in my factory, then go to Coronet and /yell to sell them off for 4-5k Crate.

I never counted on making much money as a DE.

Well, I have my harvesters up and running and I'lljust run combat or surveying missions when I'm running low on cash. Hopefully I can make some profit off of the resources I don't use.

Thanks for the advice.

you do it to be poor and have everyone ask for a BLL and laugh when you tell them 80k.

I've actually been getting by selling droids. I don't make huge amounts of money, but I keep alive, even with travel and other expenses.

You mention that you're a master artisan as well. What worked for me was selling vehicles, in the street originally then from a vendor. I've occasionally felt a bit poor but generally this kept me ticking over. I certainly made enough to keep my available lots churning out resources for me to grind with.

I think you could make a pretty good living by selling master artisan components. This would free up DEs to use those skill points on other things, like holo-chasing. (like me!) If I could give up a bunch of artisan points, it would be easier to obtain the other professions. The main thing that keeps me from giving up artisan is that I need to be able to make the master artisan components.