Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: How rich is everyone?
Server: Kettemoor
DE Level: 4304
How long you've held this level: Stopped grinding a week ago.
How long have you been working on DE: 1.5 months, approx.
Current Credits: 40k(all from tips as a 2/4/2/1 Doctor)
Most Credits Had: 40k
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? Eh, I don't really run a "business", I only roleplay a mad scientist / inventor type who works on droids as a hobby. I do sell the occasional droid (and sometimes an arakyd or two on the bazaar), but I'm not in this for the $$$ (I get a lot of tips as a Doctor anyway). Am I insane or something? Wait, don't answer that.
Are you happy you went with DE? Yep. I might not be rich or "successful", butdroids arefun (except for adv droid brains 
)andbeing a DEfits my character well. (now if I only stopped getting tellslike "What do binary lifters do?!"... heh heh.)
-- Z. (Rimfiztrik Zovir, Kettemoor)
How long you've held this level: 15 weeks
How long have you been working on DE: Since launch day
Current Credits: 1,900,000
Most Credits Had: 2,700,00
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? i guess, never had a goal to make a lot of money
Are you happy you went with DE? absolutely
Server: Radiant
DE Level: 3/3/0/4
How long you've held this level: About 4 days
How long have you been working on DE: Since Beta 3
Current Credits: 264
Most Credits Had: 30K ( I never Do Missions , If i cant support myself and my maint. then its time to go
a different route )
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? Somewhat
Are you happy you went with DE? This is my only option in this game as it is all i wanted to do so happy or
not i got no choice , but I'm here patiently waiting for our profession to be implemented into the game . not
just thrown in as an afterthought.
Fishy'Dan McGillis
Novice Mt Dew Popcan Maker
Radiant
Server: Ahazi
DE Level: Master (also Master Artisan)
How long you've held this level: about a month
How long have you been working on DE: about 2 months
Current Credits: about 1 million
Most Credits Had: about 1 million
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? No. It costs me roughly 15k per day just to maintain my shop, factory, and harvesters. I've been doing that for a little over 2 months now, so I've spent roughly 1 million credits just to keep playing the game. Add in the million credits that I currently have in the bank, and that's roughly 2 million credits earned in my career. Of that, 600,000 came in a single resource sale, 200,000 came from a Bounty Hunter who made a rather large order of Seekers and Araykds, another 100,000 came from selling misc droids, and the remainder - roughly 1,100,000 - has come from running missions (mostly Artisan Missions). Unless you define "success" as "able to earn 30% of what's necessary to keep the business running", then no I'm not successful.
Are you happy you went with DE? Oddly enough, yes. I didn't join the profession to make money, I joined it to make Droids because I thought it would be fun to do. I have other skills (Rifleman, some Scout) that allow me to treat Droid Engineer as just one aspect of my character - and those other skills are what allow me to (essentially) waste time and money building droids. I have a lot of fun with Droid Engineer, though, particularly when I can build a custom droid for someone who wants something a little different, so I'll probably never change. I need a better location, though... I'm currently NW of Keren on Naboo by about 1.5k which means that I don't really get any foot traffic.
I look forward to the day that the Droid Engineer profession is done with beta testing, though, so that we can actually do everything we're supposed to be able to do and be a fully functioning part of the SWG universe.
SERVER: Wanderhome
DE LEVEL: Master DE
HOW LONG HELD: 3.5 Months at MDE.
HOW LONG WORKING: Since Release.
CURRENT CREDITS: 7.2 Million
MAX CREDITS: 7.2 Million
DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF SUCCESSFUL?: Yes. 90% of myincome has come from Droid sales.
ARE YOU HAPPY YOU WENT AS DE?: Yes. I wanted to be a DE since I heard that there would be the class in the released game. I have not regretted a day of it.
-Vixyn Renault, Wanderhome @ Theed.
Master DE, Master Artisan, Merchant and Pistoleer.
Server: Scylla
Level: Master
How long: About a month
How long working at DE: Since Release
Current Credits: 3.2 Million
Most credits: 3.4 million
Do you sonsider yourself successful? Yes, I have a broad customer base, and getting orders daily.
Are you happy you went DE? Yes, bugs and all..
Server: Starsider
DE Level: MDE
How long you've held this level: 1 1/2 Months
How long have you been working on DE: My 5th Profession mastered
Current Credits: +-400k
Most Credits Had: 1.4mil
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? Very. Location, Advertisement, Attitude & Quality keeps my shop constantly busy & my droids flying off my vendor.
Are you happy you went with DE? Completely. I've hated any crafting profession in any game til this. Making droids is just plain cool. I wouldn't drop this profession for a holocron.
Server: Naritus
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Do you consider yourself successful in your business?
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Doh! Try again...
Server: Naritus
DE Level: 4/3/4/4
How long you've held this level: About 3 days
How long have you been working on DE: 2-3 months
Current Credits: 500k
Most Credits Had: 500k
Do you consider yourself successful in your business? Yes. Business was slow but steady for the first month and a half, but started soaring once I could make Adv Probots, General Module Socket Clusters, and Protocol Chassis.
Are you happy you went with DE? Yes. Despite its problems, business is brisk. Plus its fun to make droids.
server: lowca
de lvl: master
how long being at this lvl: 1 month
been working on de: 2 months(that's how long i've played this game)
current credits: 166883
most credits had: 300k or so
do you consider urself successful with ur bussiness: somewhat, i get by
are you happy you went de: at the current stage of the game where des are getting nothing but jacked up the azz with the biggest probe you can possibly find, no. i made that "most credits had" hunting with a bh/ch on dathomir before they nerfed the pay out while i was novice de. so you can basically say that i made more money hunting than being master de which is some sad shiz.