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Exploding binary load lifters would be fun hahahaa

Did the math in my head but I believe the most you are going to get in a factory run is 124 R3's chassises.

1000 EGP
1000 EMM

equals

249 Adv Droid Brains

2 ADB's per droid

equals

124 chassis

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Dyna_Jones wrote:

Did the math in my head but I believe the most you are going to get in a factory run is 124 R3's chassises.

1000 EGP
1000 EMM

equals

249 Adv Droid Brains

2 ADB's per droid

equals

124 chassis

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This is correct. However, it's only the brains that give you the problem- I usually make 500 (well, 498) brains at a time this way (enough for 245 R3's when all is said and done):

• Make 2 loads each of EMM's and EGP's (for 4K parts)


• Turn these intotwo sets of Advanced Droid Brains


• Run off all the other parts in quantities of 250


• Load it all up into one factory with a schematic using the first set of ADB's


• When that's done, use the same parts and make another schematic with the second set of ADB's.

It sounds more complicated than it is - and it's really ever so worth it. Some people tend to look down upon industrial work, but I can't tell you how good it feels when you get a ton of chassis done and you can actually enjoy making droids. Even if you are a relatively low-volume DE who only does special orders even running off 50-100 chassis can be very liberating. You can then spend all your time in configuration and customer serrvice. How much nicer would it be for someone to see you at a Starport, special order a droid, and you could just pop a frame out of a crate (no crit fails!) and build the desired modules - the reduced stress levels are incredible.

AO

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AudioOrgana wrote:

You can then spend all your time in configuration and customer serrvice. How much nicer would it be for someone to see you at a Starport, special order a droid, and you could just pop a frame out of a crate (no crit fails!) and build the desired modules - the reduced stress levels are incredible.

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But it never ends....because then you have to mass run your modules so you can mass run your combat clusters so you can mass run your r3s so you can start the whole cycle over....

There really is nothing like seeing crated chassis....

Until you need more crated chassis and you have to start at the top of your production list....

And i always seem to have an odd crate of brains or sensors or this and that, and i spend more work trying to figure out what to do with them.

<S> I actually ran a production line of 35 R3 boomers.... what a waste of a perfectly good droid.

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DaunteDelfuego wrote:

With the exception of probots (for combat), is there any reason to make anything except an advanced R3 since it can hold the highest number of modules (6)?

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The binary load lifter with the Merchant Barker has been hot the last 2 days

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Sunfire1 wrote:

ADV R3

ADV R2

Probot

LE repair

In that order, that's the request I get for droid models. Now why people want more probots than LE's I can't quite figure out, but yes R3s are the best sellers.

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I guess it all depends on the end user and what the droid is required for. I did a run of the LE's which are selling nicely for ranged classes as tanks, but for my own personally use these are almost useless as I have no combat skills and rarely fight. I need a droid to guard me on harvester runs and for that I need the maximum damage, so a combat advanced probot is what I opted for.

R3s, LE's and Probots are my big sellers. I have all the droid chassis in crates except the r4's (only ever sold two) and all the modules are crated, so I can make most droids in 2-3 combines. much nicer.

My custom orders are mostly R3's, some Probots and LE's. I keep crates of chassis on hand for this.

Up until pub8 I used to do good business selling DZ70's on the bazaar with 100 medical and minimal armor, but now the DZ70 is too powerful to sell for 6k, so I have switched to WED Treadwells. They don't sell as well, maybe 1 or 2 a day.

Blatz