Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: come to the realization that just selling resources is far more profitable than being a DE
Well, hrmmm...
You have to work DE a lot more than resource sales... but you can get fairly rich doing it.
There is a lot more networking, etc, involved. Customer service is a big plus. But if you get a good rep, well, the sky is the limit 
The Droid Owner's Manual that is in my sig is a consequence of explaining droids to a bazillion peeps. I first posted it on my guild's boards, then on my cities, and now here. But that is a big thing - talk to your customers.
I am not as rich as most of the WS and AS I know - but I make enough to support a guild hall and dump a few hundred K a week into our player city. It can be done
One thing that I do - run vendors for others.
For example, I sell armor for a very prominent AS (Le'Roy) on my server. I could get a few more merchant boxes, and really expand that method... there is potential for a lot of money in that too.
Having a good tent, and even better, a row of tents, is a great way to get business.
3 cpu?
you can get 20-100 on anything thats rare. and all rare means is someone didnt bother to mine it when it showed up
yah, when i say 3cpu im talking exp grinding crap that anyone will buy regardless of quality
i realize duraluminum, lidium ext ore, ditanium, dioxis etc will fetch much more.
I busted my ass from the begining (6/27/03)to get to 3 milllion with driod sales from running fed-ex missions to spending all my time in the cloning center because of camped harvestors. I started getting a decent rep and didnt even have to have a vendor or spam starports after awhile i became burnt out. Then one day I get a tell from someone asking if im selling 100k of some fiber i have laying around I say sure why not and the person said I will give you a million for it.
From that day on I threw a few driods on my vendor and switched to resources and now because of the holo grind im off trying new things without worrying about driods that are broke. I think I held out for so long because we kept being giving promises of driods being fixed I remember this promise in Aug lol.
Maybe someday I ll go back, but I love being able to do what ever i want with my skill points and having enough money saved upto not worry about it. I would like to go back to DE someday because I did enjoy crafting and after all I thought it was what Star Wars wassupposed to beabout.
You can sell resources for up to 500 cpu if they are good enough.
Just hunt down the good resources that armor smiths and weapon smiths use. Find out the qualities they need, and harvest away.
Welcome to the club.
I've made most of my profit by selling resources and power. Droid Engineer might account for as much as 1 million in the bank, but I have over 13 million at this point and it's climbing steadily by 500-750k per week. And it's climbing due to resource and power sales, not droid sales.
Don't get me wrong, my Droid sales are sufficient to keep me in the black, but just barely. Granted, I'm maintaining a LOT of buildings right now (many for friends who no longer play), so my maintenance is higher than most people's. But I'm not pulling down a whole lot of mass profit from Droid Engineer.
With just a little bit of spamvertising on your local Trade Forums, you can easily sell just about any resource for 10 CPU. With a decent location, 3 CPU will clear out daily and you won't be able to keep up.