Droid Engineer Archive

DE is a great profession to make money, just not ungodly amounts in. I usually keep myself between 700k and one million credits. When I dip down low I just head to Coronet and sell my droids via the brochure selling technique for a couple days till I'm up again. In Coronet money is King and as such there's always buyers willing to pay for my on-the-spot droid construction services.

I don't make diddly as a novice Droid Engineer. I refuse to sell droids at a loss so I just build practice, no item for experience. A few of my droids sell, but honestly most droids I see out there for sale are less than 1 credit per resource unit. My resources cost me a little more than that.

So I practice in hopes of one day becoming a Master Droid engineer and whore myself out as a Bulk resource salesman when I get low on funds.

Erom

The typical pricing for Shadowfire back in my day (gasps for air as his rocking chair moves forward) was about 3k to 5k for a crate of seekers. Towards the end, I was selling crates of Seekers for 5k and Probe Droids for 7.5k, on my little house on the hill. At those prices, I would makea run of 200 of each and would typically need to restock 5-7 days later. Then again, my shop is considered to be in a high traffic are, south of Bestine on the road to Anchorhead. Not sure what its like now.

Give Agli a tell in game, he will be able to fill you in a little bit better. It wouldn't hurt to contact him in general, since I know that he has been working on getting a list of the working DE on Shadowfire

For the statistics:

Before I stopped selling in person, I would shout my wares in coronet and make 80k-200k a day for 7 hours of roleplaying in coronet

Now days, I make 1.5-3mil a day selling medical supplies with my 2nd account and probably 10-25% of that would be from droid sells.

Suggestion for you guys with vendors, besides using the planetary advertisement, get together with others to make a mall like shoping center. Folks usually setup PA as malls or a large or medium house. With the higher amount of traffic from those who like the 1 stop shopping, your droids will begin to sell. For me right now, my little shop carries my droids, medical supplies and spices from my friend. It helps a lot since my shop waypoint is printed on all the stim B,C,D,E that I sell on the bazaar =D

Started an attempt to sell by person, but people kept asking for stuff i can't make, or stuff that doesn't exist (one asked for an R2 with sensors... sounds like a cool idea by the way, just don't know what the sensors would be for).

And the disappointment on their face when I tell them the fugitive tracker droid doesnt actually track fugitives. They laugh and feel better once I tell them it's good for molesting leia with. (who else wouldn't want to molest leia with a probe droid).

One guy wanted a probot, I showed him mine (40% light armor), he laughed at it and said his storm trooper can whoop it.

Another wanted a medical droid that heals him. Another wanted to buy a droid vendor (??). One guy wanted a droid that can repair, he left when I told him they can't repair themselves. Man, it's a hard job. Only reasonable ones I had were surgical droids, and I sold like 2.

Yeah, so I think I'll go back to stuffing the bazaar and hope I sell lots.

It always fluctuates,I average 30-40k/day but to be honest I don't really try to sell them. I could probabally make a lot more if I put more effort into selling. Also I only sell via custom orders or from my vendor, I don't sell droids on the Bazaar due to the price constraints.