Merchant Archive

If you want to make a lot of money, the most profitable setup in the game right nowhas nothing to do with weapons, armor, food, entertainers, doctors, architects, or anything like that. Collect and sell raw materials. I have been running arawmaterial merchant with a partner for several months now and the money you can make if you know what you are doing is obscene. Just know what other crafters need, advertise your vendor (having Master Merchant for the reduced costs and global advertising is a necessity) and KEEP IT WELL STOCKED. I am telling you, you can make millions of credits in a short time.

Shhhhh, don't tell everyone! They'll all start and I'll be run out of business by the competition. I'm making about a million a day lately

I live off selling you guys power

24 fusions, and growing

Specialty resource merchants are the wave of the future. Examples:

Energy Merchant

Metals Merchant

Resource Merchants tailored to manufacturers of stim packs

Resource Merchants tailored to architects

I am telling you, this is the most profitable business in the game, and it takes almost no skill to do it.

Yeah, I find it irritating or tempting depending on my mood.

The only skill points you might consider dedicating to it are the business and surveying tree, and you can do without those if you are willing to spend a little more time surveying for new resources and have a well placed vendor grandfathered. Otherwise, with bus 4 you can reclaim merchant skills almost instantly to replace/ re-advertise your vendors using accumulated experience and not have to grind at all, survey is kind of nice to keep for the range if you can afford the points.

So for zero (except when activly surveying) skillpoints you can run one of the most profitable businesses in the game and max out your character for combat. And the devs don't consider that unbalanced!

There is an open possibility to put the ability to control effective combat droids into artisan based elite professions that might balance that out. Unfortunately nobody on the forums has shown any interest :-(

Heck I am looking at dropping my Survey skill and I will still be in this business. For power, I have hired a PA member to survey spots. All my mineral harvesters I am running as dropped and leave them there. There is always a decent high concentration at each spot. I could make money off a 10% concentration of resources.