Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: master de, wanting to ask a few questions
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Straker_Atrella
Fri Jun 18, 2004 2:37 pm
#14
Mine sell for 6000 and 11000 a crate.
The reason why your initial post met with some hositlity is this.
Droids don't wear out, so DE's don't make a lot of repeat business. Much repeat business comes from things like BH Droids, Batteries and stims.
Holo Grinders really hurt the BH Droid business. As already stated, you don't need good resources to make them. So what happens often when a Holo Grinder hitsMDE is they do factory runs on a couple of thousand of these.
They don't have the overhead a real DE does, so they often sell for half the current value. They just want quick moneyfor their next grind. They then flood the bazaar withthese. Making it harder for real DE's to sell them.
That is why your initial post got a little hostility.
ButterBandit
Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:18 am
#15
I'm a Master BH, and my alt is a DE, and someone referred to the fact that Bounty Hunters exploit with the seeker droids. That isn't entirely the case. It took me a while to notice it while grinding through BH, but once you hit Investigation 2 or 3, your seeker droids mysteriously stop disappearing when you use them. When you've got an inventory full of Akryd and Seeker droids, its very easy to overlook this bug. I acknowledge that it is a bug, but not an exploit. A bounty hunter actually has to go out of his way to destroy his seeker droids after he uses them, and then buy more. I don't do this since I make my droids with my alt, so it would just cost me money. Maybe it's not a bug at all, perhaps at that level a bounty hunter gets "skilled" enough so that he can reuse the droids infinitely!! (I'm be sarcastic). But this is definitely a bug that needs to be fixed in order to improve droid sales....but the fact that droids don't work for jedi missions currently is another reason they don't sell to well either.
I'm in a situation where I understand both sides of the track, and bounty hunters do have a bit of a responsibility to keep purchasing seeker droids as they use them, but please don't call it an exploit.
I'm in a situation where I understand both sides of the track, and bounty hunters do have a bit of a responsibility to keep purchasing seeker droids as they use them, but please don't call it an exploit.
Some definitions:
Bug: A defect or difficulty, as in a system or design.
Bug: A defect or difficulty, as in a system or design.
Exploit: To make use of selfishly or unethically.
Message Edited by ButterBandit on 06-21-2004 09:19 AM
Veers_Intrepid
Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:52 am
#16
BTW,
BHs do NOT exploid the seeker, just at some exp lvl of BH (think was investigation 3 if i remember right) they dont count down the charges, the BH cannot even influece that.
so not their fault actually
and at start of swg the seekers and arakyts where not craftable they were sold from special BH droid terminals for 200cr per seeker charge and 1k per probe charge (actually they had only every 1 charge 
)
)so i am basing my prices mostly on that kinda
Gavvot
Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:28 am
#17
Quality doesn't matter.
There is no proof that experiment does or doesn't do something in the process to be accurate.
But even if it does, there are no difference shown on the product on wich the customer could decide if your product is good or bad.
As for price, I sell seeker for 4K and probe for 8K per crate of 5.
But I'm cheap (on those).
There is no proof that experiment does or doesn't do something in the process to be accurate.
But even if it does, there are no difference shown on the product on wich the customer could decide if your product is good or bad.
As for price, I sell seeker for 4K and probe for 8K per crate of 5.
But I'm cheap (on those).
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