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Thread: The last time I step out of the warmth
Fodder650 wrote:
Yeah I mean whats 60CPU when your only pulling 60-250 per creature rightHardly worth while.
Actually i havent sold any of it myself since as an Armorsmith i want to stockpile for myself
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin
As for Endor. Go after Gurrecks they drop from 50-130 per. And after non-screecher Mantigrues that dont have plaque strike. As a CH with one as a pet i love that attack. I have a master doc who goes out with us to help with that. Or to a TKM/Ranger it would be childs play. After 4 screecher missions i had 700 mind wounds i couldnt do anything about. Thats why we get paid so much thought risk and time investment.
Fodder650 wrote:
Actually as an armorsmith i will have to disagree with you on this quite strongly. Any decent armorsmith will have spent months collecting a lot of rare resources and paying through the nose for them. That 78CPU is for sliced comp. I charge 28k for an ubese jacket unsliced 75% kin. Im using befa woolyhide (went for 50-100CPU) Calo polymer (you saw the auction this morning on its value) as well as some super metals. I have 4 million invested in non-organics so far for my business. I have made 3 million from it in the last 3 weeks. Its very profitable even from an ubese standpoint. If i wasnt a ranger i would have a hard time staying an armorsmith for the prices of organics.
As for Endor. Go after Gurrecks they drop from 50-130 per. And after non-screecher Mantigrues that dont have plaque strike. As a CH with one as a pet i love that attack. I have a master doc who goes out with us to help with that. Or to a TKM/Ranger it would be childs play. After 4 screecher missions i had 700 mind wounds i couldnt do anything about. Thats why we get paid so much thought risk and time investment.
But can't you make the same argument for my skillset -- I can harvest as much as I do because I have spent a lot of time exploring the various planets and figuring out where things spawn etc... (I actually had a player ask three times last night if I really hunt without running missions lol).
That + the investment of time spent actually harvesting the stuff adds up to be an extremely highwhen you think in terms of opportunity costs. So, just as AS's and other crafters can argue that they are justified at marking up their wares because they have spent so much time and capital collecting resources, I think that I can make just as valid an argument when it comes tomy product - just my investment is measured in time rather than credits, and that's a pretty precious commodity (well, not so precious that I can't waste it posting to the forums lol).
The difference is that armorsmithshardly everget called price-gougers for offering stuff for sale at85 cpu (or even 78 cpu), whereas I routinely get called a price gouger for tryingto sell anything for morethan 10 cpu. It gets really, really old after awhile.
And, honestly, when you think about all the things I want to do vs. the time investment required to make any sort of income harvesting organics, I'm not really coming out ahead either. Yep, sure, at the end of the night, I might after 500k - 1m more credits worth of stuff, but I'm also out the 3-6 hours that it took me to hunt -- time I could have spent leveling FS skills (well, nm that for now, as the good stuff is on endor and dath atm), hanging out with friends, or offline to watch movies or read books, etc....
But I get called a price gouger.
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin
Message Edited by Iseult on 09-15-2004 12:47 PM