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Fellow grinders,

I saw many people drooling over by the fine fs exp you can make in a very short time with grenades, even guides for how to do it. Nobody ever said anything more except than that "it is expensive" about the real costs. And after someone in game asked me if I could give him some crates for free because he is so short before Jedi I decided to publish a little calculation.

First what I use with what skills:
I use imperial and thermal ones for grinding, I have TKM, Commando 4000, Novice Medic and a little Scout.

Now the calculation:
With a nice group I need 4 lairs for capping my combat exp
I need 6-8 grenades per lair
That means I need around 1 crate of 25 grenades for capping.
It needs 1 million and 225k fs exp for completing a full tree.
That means I need to cap around 13 times, so we have around 13 crates for 1 full tree of fs exp.

1 crate of imperials costs around 225k, this would lead to 2925k credits for 1 tree
1 crate of thermals costs around 170k, this would lead to 2210k credits for 1 tree
I use both around even, so my costs are around 2.5 millions for 1 tree.

All 6 trees therefor cost around 15 million credits, and additionally you need to grind the novice boxes.


I hope this helps you deciding if you would like to grind with grenades or not.

Note: prices are those on FarStar, if you play on a different Server you may have higher or lower costs.

Hehe, seems FarStar is not that cheap as I thought ... but it is even less cheap, I forgot the powerups in my calculation (maybe because I produce them myself, at least a minor thing to reduce costs a little bit)

Wow, 225k for a crate of Imp Dets? I've found them on Valycn for between 60k-120k...but not 225k! Ouch!

Thats why i'd find my own resources for them.

Add up the time it would take to cap a tree with weapons XP (1 cap per buff).
Take away the time it takes to cap combat XP with nades (one fifth of a buff)
I'd venture that you could make back more money in this extra time by looting or doing missions that you are paying for nades.

/coughsplutterchoke where the hell are you getting grenades from?

I make them by the hundreds of crates every week!
Thermals 50k,
Imp Dets 50k
Protons 75k (Peronally I think the protons are still too expensive, but they sell ok, I could go to 60k and still make a bundle)

You're getting gouged by your Weapon Smiths, no question about it. It only takes 1 rogue Smith to drop prices over a whole server, ask me, I'm him.

12 dedicated equipment factories running 24/7

Move to Ahazi, I'll look after you.

(pricing is based on several large harvester farms)

MT

Message Edited by khargash on 02-10-2005 04:49 AM

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XiegeAst wrote:

found therms , good stats for 91k a crate of 25 and imp dets 125k a crate of 25

on farstar

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Aww, too late for me then ... after checking the 3 main planets and finding a lot of weaponsmiths all selling them for around the same price I simply shrugged and went for it. Good that I have something left in bank from my architecture shop

But still, just insert your grenade crate cost in my calculation and you know what you will end up with in your pocket when going this way. That was all I wanted.

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Praeses wrote:
Wow and I thought inflation was bad on other servers, isnt farstar one of the erm, newer servers? One of the euros right? OUCH.

At most imps cost 75k a crate and thermals at 50k a crate though from what I hear imps either take less to make or are easier to make so I dont understand the difference in price.

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ya its a euro server so its not in credit its in euro-credit :-D

Message Edited by pyromonkey89 on 02-10-2005 07:26 AM