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Join the RIN channel. Type /chat join RIN and it'll hook you up to the Ranger Information Network. Its active on Kauri and has a fairly good community of Rangers and various folks that deal with Rangers(BE's and Docs mostly). I'm usually on around 6pm EST until midnight or so if I'm not pulling an all nighter at work and would be willing to help you out if you're on. There's a couple hot resources in shift currently and you'll probably catch wind of them after you join RIN or get if we get in contact I'll send you some information to get you going. I'm not sure if they're posted on the Trade board but you can try looking over there if you have to know now. I'm of the school of thought that I don't do missions for what I'm hunting. Yes I may spend a little more time looking around but I'd rather work over a natural spawn that spews about 10-20 critters than grab two missions that might give up 10-15 critters. But I'm never under a contract either, I sell to people that take what I got when I got it. Having to get a 20K minimum stack or 100K units for someone just seems too much like work, and I get enough of that at work.

Well good luck and if you're on later today check to see if I'm on and I'll try to give you a few tips.

Hydra

Here are some money making tips that work for me.

Go to Coronet and look for chefs barking out their wares. Add them to friends and mail offering your services. Do the same when you see a master armorsmith. You may see someone who is selling buff packs - mail him as well - those docs have huge money.

On Chimaera I do this and aim for 1 million per buff. Often only get half that but at least I've the income to enjoy the game.

Change the way you use mission terminals. Forget the payout! It really is a distraction. For example, last night I hunted gualama on Naboo. Each mission paid 2000 credits, But I was earning over 200k per hour because the harvest was the prize. Better example, on Yavin 4 I was hunting mawgax for meat. Missions pay 9200-9400 each. Lair is 65k! Its more efficient to destroy half the lair - assume nothing else will spawn and so abort the mission. I can then go to next lair and get next 1100 units of meat @ 45cpu.

When you are buffed you have 3 hours or so to get as much harvest as possible. Its worth saying that buffed hunting is more profitable than unbuffed. All that careful planning that you needed as a scout is now redundant - you now have the armor and skills to take on the mob and win. Buffed means you can go for the entire herd of bantha by hitting the lair at once and pulling them all on you. Using area attacks you can kill the lot and your droid harvests thm while you fight. The whole process is fast - that means less time for veghash, brandy and ahrisa to run out.

Groups:
When you group you get access to bigger critters and more missions. You take a harvesting penalty of 40% regardless of group size. So if you have a group of three, you have three times the opportunity to harvest less a 40% penalty - in simple terms you are 80% better off as a result of grouping.

Prices:
I always buy the harvest of everyone in the group and I pay exactly the same price as I get. Why? Because a 25k stack of hide gets a better price than a 2k stack. Does this makes sense? No - but that is the market and we may as well work with it.

Essential skills:
Master some combat skill. They all rock - I use sword myself but really in the hands of a thoughtful hunter any weapon can be used.

Useful skills:
Novice medic - sometimes you will be unbuffed and in trouble. Stim b in battle and tendwound in camps can save trips to cloning centre.

Essential tools:
1. Brandy and ahrisa - both should be present and in use all the time - buy by the crate to make inventory efficient. Ahrisa means you can spam specials - that really matters when say a tusken raider or 2 attacks you just as the herd of bantha stampede towards you.
2. Harvesting droid with harvesting bonus - pays for itself in a single buff. Make sure it has no trapping, combat or storage mods as they reduce efficiency.
3. Veghash - never ever harvest without a tummy full of veghash. Particularly if you are using a droid - why waste the double multiplier! Buy veghash by the crate.
4. Composite armor - buy a good suit - remember that ranger level, every minute wasted on healing or combat turn wasted on stim B is gone forever and the income associated with it is lost. And as for bing on your back incapped or cloned - that is a major expense. Composite armor pays for itself fast.

Useful tools:
1. Bio-engineered vests - one of mine is plus 10 for mask scent. The other has combat mods. Worn under armor. Change to combat vest when attacking and back again when prowling.
2. Traps especially p-darts.

Problems: spawn shifts and you can end up having a load of worthless meat/hides on your hands. Worse, you may have bought half of it at premium prices from group-mates. Some people will tip you the money back but you have to be prepared to take the loss and move on. Its part of the risk/reward decision when taking any contract. For me, it encourages me to harvest as fast as possible but I still end up losing an entire buffs.

Hope this helps - remember this is to make money - the strategic game is still there for evenings when you don't need to have cash in your account.

I am sure someone here has said it but watch your servers trade forums. They will give you a good indication of whats in shift and how much the particular docs/armorsmiths are paying for it.

I myself hate taking mission terminal missions. Hate it with a passion. I cant stand to be tethered to a mission terminal when I am always wondering whats over that next mountain. It makes things alot tougher but you can still make a decent profit. For instance there was a recent shift in the Endor wooly hide that an armorsmith asked me to collect. I did maybe 3 missions on it and then wandered the deserts of Endor hunting gurrecks and mantigrue. Did this maybe thru 5-6 buffs and came away with 100k wooly hide and later 5 million in the bank. I think sometimes that natural lairs will outpay a mission lair due to getting 15 or so mantigrues to spawn verses the 5-6 you will get(including babies) from a mission terminal lair.

I know JBMat would say why not get paid twice? I know.. its silly but from my days of grinding thru Rifleman or TK it just burnt me out. Plus this way just is more fun and challenging. Makes me feel more like a hunter.

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Fodder650 wrote:
Yes Bloodfin has an RIN as well. Not many of us on it yet. But we havent advertised it much

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well - I was on it until I got harrassed repeatedly on it - so I'm not any more

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
Bloodfin

Harrased by what? Last night my Chauffeur alt was on and I got... well excited when I heard that lok leather was good. So come on back your our longest continual master ranger on bloodfin that i know of

Message Edited by Iseult on 10-08-2004 02:05 PM

Oh come on you reply like that and we're supposed to walk away from it?! (sigh) Ok i can do the right thing

And Taeko's on RIN every night i have seen