Droid Engineer Archive

Change to Seekers----
They now have 10 "Charges"
What exactly does this mean? Is it like traps? 10 Uses?
I am charging 1500cr on the bazaar, but i see people charging 800-1000cr for the older "1 charge" models.

Also, Anyone here on Wanderhome have and Siliclastic Ore? I cant seem to find this anywhere and i need ot for the Droid Brains. Im just starting out as a DE and only up to BP2, so i appreciate any help with this.

-Bump-
Hoping to get an answer about the seekers.

heya brack. I'm one of the guys you're seeing selling them for 900 in keren and tyrena. I thought I'd let you know that I put them up there a few days ago, prior to the patch. MY prices will definitely go up a bit once I get the parts to build some more.

Thanks for the reply.
Im trying to sell them at a reasonable price, but i have never been a BH and dont know what the average payout is for a mission. I dont want to sell em too high that they dont want to buy them.

How high do you think you are gonna go with your prices? I dont want to undercut you too badly that you never sell any.

If you ramp up the older price of 1500 by a factor of 10 because of the charges I doubt you will sell very many.

Charges (or uses) on Seeker droids were added because somewhere along the line the payout for Bounty Hunters and the price on Seeker droids got completely messed up. BHs use to buy seeker droids from a special vendor for 200cr a piece and complained that they barely made any money on their missions. Unfortunately for them it takes over 150 unit of resources to make a seeker, so none of the engineers could really sell them for that price once the special vendors were removed.

That said, BHs should be able to be profitable at upwards of 2000cr per new Seeker (which is going to be very close to the current price for one shot seekers). Since the material cost didn't change a droid engineer can turn a profit at anything above 500cr (though down there the profit would be practically nothing).

I personally am planning on selling them in crates of 5 (I wish the factory would make larger crates since they tend to be rather tiny droids) for 5000cr a crate. That improves the profit margin for the BHs who purchase my droids and while it does not make me a large amount of profit they are also rather low overhead and help to get people into my shop.

Thanks for the excellent info Icarus

good idea with the crates... I wish I could do that, but alas, I have no consistent supply of the electronics parts.... hehe anyway, I'm looking at bumping my prices a little over the 1000 mark.... 10 uses is a lot for these things, and paying just over 200 credits per use shouldn't be a big problem for the BHs