Merchant Archive

I've had several chassis sales. I dont' have any components up yet because I blew most of my resouce stacks on mastering and the rest is going to outfit the guild. But tonight and tomrrow I should start getitng more items on the vendor.

My looted component vendor is going up today. The guild needs an outlet for our phat space loot

On Shadowfire, I'm seeing a huge variety in prices. And everything is selling. I'd say average price for tier-2 ships is 100k. A friend of mine is master shipwright with FS crafting skills using 900+ OQ materials. He's selling tier-2 chassis for 125k, tier 3 (Y-wing longprobe, etc) for 300k. And these are still flying off the shelves as fast as he can restock. There are also some very very low priced vendors on my server. I saw 1 reputable crafter selling all ships for 1 cpu. So instead of 125k, his are 15k. He's not a master yet - just grinding SW by actually crafting stuff. I'm sure he's using grinding materials and no experimentation, and I doubt the completed ships will have enough mass to hold every type of component, but still - 1 cpu is amazing.

I'm actually encouraging my friend to charge more though. With his crafting skills (and great crafting stations, tools, food, drink), he'll be one of the best ship crafters on the server. He also spent many millions on the best resources about a day after the beta started. Spent 6-10 cpu on millions of units of the best resources needed for high level ships. I'm encouraging him to charge at least 30 cpu for a ship made with those resources. I personally doubt they'll be worth that much, but some people have too much money and like to spend it on the best.

Until then, he's just working 24/7 trying to keep stock on the shelves...

The experimentation on Mass doesn't increase it that much. For the tier 0 ships its significant only because they are so freaking low in mass to begin with. After that the difference isn't worth thousands of credits

Well 1 cpu is just nuts you can sell the resources for at least 2x that and that doesn't include your time of the cost of mastering the profession. 3-5 cpu is a minimum people should be charging for the chassis.

I believe you. If I had to spend money on any of this, I'd buy the 1 cpu ships. But people will still pay incredible amounts of money for small differences in quality. My friend made many millions credits today selling at (what I consider to be) reasonable prices. Anyone who planned ahead and was prepared to grind shipwright quickly is probably making bank today.

Word of advice to other shipwrights who want quick cash - make friends with merchants. I had my spambots advertising for my friend, and he's also a master merchant with his own spambots. All that advertising really paid off. He had so many customers that he had trouble keeping ships on the shelves. He logged out for a 1/2 hour break and logged back in 6 million credits richer. Was nice to see someone who had no previous source of significant income strike it rich with a master shipwright / master merchant combo...

Sma is making very nice quality parts, which is why they're doing such good business. her chassis could stand to be a bit less expensive though. The thing with the chassi, almost everyones is the same as far as mass and hp, very little difference, but the prices are all over the board.

1cpu is crazy. So is 100k for a novice ship. Somewhere inbetween lies the answer.

Tell Sma to concentrate on weapons and shields. That is the area where I've seen shipwrights best able to outdo looted parts.

My chassis sell for about 5cpu and that is fair considering the cost of becoming a master in Shipwright. Anything underthat and I could sell the resources for more than the ship.

I haven't reached the saturation point yet on Starsider and frankly a lot of people don't even have the game yet espeically overseas. And the positive buzz about the expansion so far is probably goign to up the number of copies sold over the next few weeks.