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Tips for Novice Droid engineers with at least blue prints3 and droid production 1:

Lesson 1: How to be self sufficient

1) sell extra power and extra resources on the bazaar. Never less value than 3000cr per 1000 units. It breaks down like this:
a) power -> 1000 cr per 1000 units
b) common resources -> 1500 cr per 1000 units
c) less common resources -> 3000 cr per 1000 units
Following that logic will keep you in cr for running your operation.

2) make a macro either advertising the location of your shop (if you have one) or the droids you are selling (some suggestions below) or both:
a) bounty hunter seeker droids ... these sell quite well -> 1700 cr per droid with 10 charges.
b) Arakyd seeker droids (bounty hunter) ... these also sell pretty well -> 3000 cr per droid with 5 charges.
c) R5 crafting unit droids (no need to make a more complex droid than R5 unit ... unless customer wants)
d) probots probots probots.
e) surgical droids. (or medical capable R5 units)
as for the macro - just make a macro /shouting the above as available droids, and your shop location. add this to the bottom of the macro: /ui action toolbarSlot00 <- change the 00 to the number of the slot that your macro is in. Be sure and put a /pause 120; or similar in between each command (or they will scroll by really fast Executing the toolbarSlotxx will cause the macro to run continuously ... so you'll be advertising wherever you go. if you want the macro to stop ... just move it to a different tool bar slot. Once it has stopped running because it couldnt be executed again, you can put it back in that slot.

Enjoy!

Folks - if you have any other lessons/tips for our fellow new droid engineers... post em

Cut and pasted to my desktop.. Making that macro when I login next.

Thanks!

Folks - if you have any other lessons/tips for our fellow new droid engineers... post em

Yup: First find out what the economy on your server is doing. Those prices are really low for Bria. Also, I've seen other servers running prices far higher than those.

Sell all your extra power, but keep the steel and fiberplast for grinding, you won't have extra

There's already a name for the shouting macro - it's called Spam.

My suggestions for advertisement are patrolling droids with your ad or putting ads on the bazaar by naming an item with your ad text.

I'm curious about something. I see a lot of people recommend using droids for advertising. How do you do this? You can't use numbers in your droids name so you can't put in your store coords. You can't us antyhing but letters really. So how do you "advertise" your store? Just having your droid be your store name isn't much help without the coords.

Acutally you put something in the name so people can tell/email ya in game so you can give a WP to your vendor

My suggestions for advertisement are....

Get enough merchant xp to be on the planetary map (this has worked the best for me). Advertise on the bazaar (works okay). Use a patroling droid billboard (I have a BLL walking around my settlement).

Bona Joros

I also dont reccommend the SPAM Technique. Although it may hit more people, you will find that people tend to get angry at you for spamming all day. I throw mine out a couple time while in town but not every 20 seconds.

Also, keep a droid out at all times, this helps too!