Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Fair price for detonating droids
Straker_Atrella
Tue Jul 13, 2004 4:30 am
#27
For a while I was only making 37 power MSE bombs, and 51 power R3's, I was sellnig the MSE's for 6k and the R3's for 75k. Sales were ok.
Then I aquired some very nice Tolium, that is very rare on our server. At first I was selling my 39 power MSE's for 80, that seemed fair, yet after being totally cleaned out 3 days in a row, I am now raising my prices on them to 10k each. Before when you figure the CPU on Tolium, I was barely making a profit, now I will make a little more. I suspect they will still sell well. My 57 power R3's sell decent for 85k.
Ackdel
Tue Jul 13, 2004 3:56 pm
#28
I just did my first run of them. 35 power ADV MSE droids, sold them for 7500 each or a crate of 10 for 50k. Sold them out before I even started the run. I'll have to bump the price up a bit next time. 
PoeticRex
Tue Jul 13, 2004 9:31 pm
#29
10k for 1 ADV MSE Power 37
75k for 1 Adv R3 power 59
Tolium is a very rare Thing on my server and the BH's are going ape for them.
Khromic
Tue Jul 13, 2004 10:30 pm
#30
I thought these little buggers would be a great addition to my colection of droids I sell on Gorath. I spent a fortune getting the best reactive gas. Made 39 power advanced MSC droids, 1000 to be exact. Put them on the vendor at 50K a crate of ten. Two months later after them falling off twice, I dropped the price to 25K. They are still there. I was losing money at 50K considering what I paid for the gas. I will never make another.
piezo
Wed Jul 14, 2004 12:46 am
#31
I found a shop on eclipse with crates of 10 39 pow mice for 10k....and bought a few cases.
Now that i think about it, i should go back and buy out all his stock. That price is awesome!
I havent seen a single r3 boom droid on vendors. I had to get all mine custom made, 60k a pop for 58 pow ones. Since they nerfed jedi mission pay 150k to 15k however, i cant afford to use em :/
Wirebiter
Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:41 am
#32
I'll give it the ole' DE try, but I just don't think my server is a heavy BH/Jedi server. My shop is fairly known throughout the Galaxy, so I don't think thats the problem. I'll just have to wait and see.
Erillion wrote:
Market it (ADV R3 with 6 det modules) as a Jedi Take-Down tool ... and you WILL get sales. Cause price is not an issue for those.
Jedi cant defend against those blasts and BH use it as a surprise to start a battle. And BH hunting groups use multiple droids so Jedi go down right at the beginning of the fight.
Have fun
Novarider
OckVofad
Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:31 am
#33
Sometimes you have to wait if you want them to move at a fair price. I will go through spurts where they sit on the shelf and I have to reload them to selling like hotcakes.
There no way i'd sell below 10k per droid regardless of power level.
Straker_Atrella
Wed Jul 14, 2004 4:42 am
#34
PoeticRex wrote:
10k for 1 ADV MSE Power 37
75k for 1 Adv R3 power 59
Tolium is a very rare Thing on my server and the BH's are going ape for them.
Ok, I need to ask, how did you do this? I make 39 power mse's with Detonation power 9 modules. Yet by putting those in an R3, I can only get 57 power R3's.
How are you getting 59 power R3's with power 7 modules? Or are those 2 different module runs?
On our server good Tolium sells for anywhere between 20-40 cpu, maybe higher. So people understand.
Expect sales on these guys to increase.
Ackdel
Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:56 am
#35
Wow....someone just asked me to make schematics for MSE Advanced bomb droids for him from his resources. Wow...
OckVofad
Wed Jul 14, 2004 7:35 am
#36
Well now you know what to charge him for the schematic!
10-12k x 1000 = 10,000,000 - 12,000,000 potential credits
Straker_Atrella
Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:02 pm
#37
Well make sure he know that he will actually need 2 sets of schemnatics, well maybe 4.
1. Detonation module.
2. Droid Motive System.
3. Droid Sensor Array.
4. Advanced MSE droid.
He can get away with not getting 2 and 3, but then he needs to buy those parts from you.
Ackdel
Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:07 pm
#38
Actually, I told him, in slightly gentler language, to screw himself.
Straker_Atrella
Wed Jul 14, 2004 2:13 pm
#39
Lol, I would probably actually do it, but he wouldn't like my price very much. Would probably be like 5k per droid. I sell my good ones for 10k, so he would be saving 50%, but then I would be saving my resources. I don't have much of my good Tolium.
For something like that, your almost forced to charge a lot, simply so that they don't turn around and sell them.