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Thread: ADV LE Repair Droids
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Denate
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:16 pm
#1
Ok, I am absolutely loving this droid, and wanted to share some of them with a client base, my questions about them, are the following.
1) 4 repair and 1 combat, this obviously makes a tanker droid, but what costs should i be selling them for with 17.5k HAM?
2) Would 3 repair, 1 combat, and 1 l6 storage be more marketable, as giving them an option to just use it as a storage droid if they dont' need it all the time?
3) Are people actually using tanker droids?
4) Regarding droid repair kits, and batteries, should i offer them in a package deal, to boost the sellability? Or should i market them seperately, hoping they come back to me for more supplies.
Any insight in these would be much appreciated, as i am still a new Droid Engineer on Tarquinas, i am trying to find my niche.
Thanks in advance
Denate
Master Teras Kasi
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Merchant 0,0,0,3
Droid Engineer 4,3,4,4 (MDE Tonight).
Straker_Atrella
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:18 pm
#2
LE repair droids can only hold 1 combat cluster, meaning 3 modules. So what you are talking about is not possible.
The best tank combination is 1 combat and 2 auto repair modules.
Denate
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:20 pm
#3
gah, excuse my brain fart, at work, and was thinking of the R2 configuration while typing.
editing post
Denate
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:24 pm
#4
ok, guess you can't just edit the messages....
*edit on 1) 1 combat, 2 auto-repair
*edit on 2) 1 combat, 1 auto-repair, 1 l6 storage
Straker_Atrella
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:38 pm
#5
I quite often get people trying to order funky combinations of Droid, hybrids between crafting and combat.
I always advise them that if they want a crafter droid, buy a crafter droid if you want a combat droid buy one of them. I'm not trying to sell them 2 droids, I'm trying to keep them happy. They will be dissapointed otherwise.
If you dilute a combat droid by adding other stuff to it, to put it bluntly, it sucks. It wont repair as fast, it wont fight as well. Full combat droids can actually fight decent now, but if you don't fill them up with combat or repair modules, they simply don't perform well. Sell storage droids separatly.
An LE can only have 6000 HAM Max, I don't know where you got 17.5k HAM. I wish that was true.
I sell my maxed version for 80,000 credits. Our server has slightly higer prices them many though. They sell fairly well.
Yes people use Tank droids, possibly with the Jedi grind slowing down, the need for them may drop. However, depending on the results of the combat revamp, the need may rise again. I sell about 5-10 TANK droids a week, probably more R3's then LE's though, but they both sell.
Stims and batteries. I sell 4 charge batteries in crates of 25 for 10,000 credits. My Stims I sell for about 100 a charge. So one of my 39 charge 1750 Stims goes for 3900, a crate of 10 is 39000. Both batteries and stims sell well.
My best advice is to keep your vendor stocked. People come to my vendor because they KNOW that Batteries, Stims, and 4 pages of droids will always be there. It does take a lot of work though.
Denate
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:44 pm
#6
thanks for the reply, i was adding the H A M to get the 17.5k HAM, they are 5860 HAM by your scale i suppose. That has a lot to do with my chemicals though, i am harvesting much better right now as we speak.
So the 2 repair, 1 combat is the best way to go, then tell them to pick up a mouser for 7.5k that i have on my vendor. (bought a couple crates of l6item storagemodules so i could actually make some money while getting up the tree).
I am thinking that i will start the prices at 60k, and go from there, if i sell them like mad, then i will raise in 5k increments until i can keep my vendor stocked.
thanks again, any input on this matter is great, as a new player, and a new DE, its a bit frustrating to find out what i should/want to make. I have great members in my PA, but they are all pre-publish 7 DE that have long since dropped it for combat skills.
Straker_Atrella
Fri Jul 16, 2004 1:49 pm
#7
60k seems fair, but that also depends on your Auto Repair rating. Make sure you put in level 6 armor as well. It only has 1 armor slot, so you pretty much need a level 6.
You need 1000 OQ Fibroplast to make the 6000 HAM models.
If you plan on routinely stocking those droids, I reccomend making factory runs of them, that way you don't risk mucking up one.
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