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Thread: Doh! *Shakes fist at SOE*

R0ZM4N
Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:33 am
#1

Oh this is sooo frustrating!


On my server (chimaera) I noticed almost none of the docs use med droids so, being the good sales girlie that I am I built a big run of droids, using most of my resources and cash.


Advanced Surgical droids with 110 med units, a chem crafting station and a lvl6 storage module.


Then I put together this big happy post saying why all medics should buy one, that the 110% module is 10% higher than a hospital and the storage is useful and so is the crafting unit.


Now I find out storage units in Surgical droids are bugged and don't work (must pay more attention to stickied bug list) & people are telling me that a hospital is 110 anyway. Is this true? Have I basically spent all my resources; time and cash making droids that don't work and then told all these nicepeople a big pack of lies??? I can't believe SOE is making me a liar!!!! Gah!


*very very cross girl*


Can anyone clarify the following for me so that I can go and aplogise to my customers:


1) Does the lvl6 medical module give a healing bonus IN hospitals?

2) Do we have an ETA for a bug fix for storage modules in Surgical droids?

3) Are working lvl6 storage modules still 10 items or has that changed?




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CaixCatab
Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:44 am
#2

1) Does the lvl6 medical module give a healing bonus IN hospitals?


AFAIK, pre-patch when someone ran into a hospital with droid with say 50 medical rating, it would overwrite the rating of the hospital (which of course annoyed doc's and healée's to no end). Post-ptach, my little brother who plays a medic, tells me a medical droid won't work in a building (may of course have been that waypre-patch aswell, as he just got the droid and I havn't touched medic beyond novice healing myself). So no.


2) Do we have an ETA for a bug fix for storage modules in Surgical droids?


It's been bugged since launch.


... that kinda tella everything....


3) Are working lvl6 storage modules still 10 items or has that changed?


My crafter droid with a lvl 6 is still 10. But I havn't activated any droid units with storage mods post-patch, so don't beat me up if I'm wrong.



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Kevie
Sun Mar 21, 2004 9:45 am
#3

they're still useful, now especially with the camp restrictions removed

i have a medical droid i use all the time /shrug




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R0ZM4N
Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:02 am
#4

Well thnx for the reply Caix, honestly though, I spent quite a while figuring out the best droid to make some money on. After all, combat droids are pretty useless and crafting droids are, well lets face it, there aren't that many crafters out there and very few of us make a lot of money. Between the low number of high paying customers and having to step around a million bugs to get out a finished product it's a wonder anybody finds this a viable profession.


Here's another question then:


Post the basics of the droids you sell that, well sell You know, what kind of chassis and what modules. That way, mabye next timeI do a run, I won't be shooting myself in the foot.


Go on! Show us yours !


luv


Cass





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Sedona1
Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:08 pm
#5

Cass,


Here is a list of droids that I sell. I sell 2 or 3 of each everyday.


MSE med 1, MSE storage 1, DZ70 Combat Droid, Arakyd, Seeker, R5 data, R5 storage, R5 medical, R4 data, R4 storage, R4 medical


R2 Weapons craft, R2 Food Craft, R2 Cloth Craft, R2 Structure craft, R2 Med, data, storage, LE Combat Droid, LE Repair Droid


Treadwell storage, Treadwell med, Probot armor 4, Probot amor 5, Probot armor 6, all droid Chasis, Power Droid, Protocol, Droid,


R2 Astromech (adv repair, med, storage, combat data)


I have found by keeping large volumes on my vendors people tend to by more, I also make sure I keep plenty of storage compartments, batteries and now repair tools. People will travel far to buy things from you as long as you never have an empty vendor.



Hope this helps



Kenton





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Mightion
Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:16 pm
#6

My best seller has been a little droid I call the MedMax6 R2.


He's got level 6 data/medical/storage, food/chemical crafting module, droid repair module, and level 6 armor. (I paid for those composite segments, might as well use them)


When I got hawking them, I throw in five free batteries and a paint job, plus a kit. All for 35k.






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Lowenblade
Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:49 pm
#7






Kevie wrote:

they're still useful, now especially with the camp restrictions removed

i have a medical droid i use all the time /shrug






How does yourreply address the original poster's concerns in any meaningful way? /shakes head
CaixCatab
Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:45 am
#8

Well, the only way people find my shop is from the map (but it's outside Tyrena, so that doesn't always help ), or my thank you's (which are off, until my factories gets my stock up to speed. had too many subs made in too similar quantities and ran out of too much stuff at the same time -_-) or by the one post I made on the Chimaera forum, means I don't sell much (I got an income, but I'm not pulling ina million a week ).


Still, the best selling little bugger I make is an MSE with 110 medical rating (two 4's in an advanced) which I spread out on bazaars in the cities I visit on my harv runs (unless I'm on advanced planet). The largest limitation those sales has right now is that I only drop them off on harv runs (and they get infrequent). That, coupled with the Corolag bazaar dying on me during weekends, means there's a lot of potential I'm not exploiting. These are at the moment the only kinds of droids I do factory runs off, since I can easily (depending on how far my neglect has stretched) be forced to replace up to 3 a day.


As an interesting sidenote, the cities currently affected by my scheme is Coronet (always will be, since I usually end up there anyway. And it sells faster than anywhere else), Tyrena, Kadaara, Restuss and Dearic (though I think I got my last harv of Talus yesterday, so that division is shutting down...). When I had harvs outside Mos Espa, they sold well there too. I'mthinking I could probably start spreading item storage droids to the bazaars aswell and they'd sell either just as well or better.


Other than bazaar models,a surgicial with an FC + 110 med still makes a good shop sale and people seem amused enough to pick up an R3-Asassin Droid aswell.



(... and now I'm wondering why I'm telling all this to a potential competetior....)



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R0ZM4N
Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:03 am
#9


Mny thnx to Kenton, Mightion & Caix (again honey!


I think it maybe time for some private messages…




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