Ranger Archive

• Tracking

I don't track for credits, peroid. I don't track for strangers, peroid. I'm not about to listen to "found anything yet?" questions every ten seconds I only track for, myself and my friends.Tracking has come in pretty useful when my guild goes hunting

• Contract Harvesting

Much of my time is taken up with my weaponsmith buisness (Egan) so I don't often get big stacks of hide/meat/bone.I mostly harvest for friends.Sometimes when there are standing offers from chefs or armorsmiths I'll get collect a couple stacks for some nice cash. But I keep the cpu out of the stratosphere.. 5 to 25 cpu normally depending on the quality and meat type.

• Concealing

I'm never charged and never been asked. I'll occasionally conceal my group for the heck of it.

• Setting up camps for events

Free! I love dropping my HTFB for people

• Other services that I didn't mention?

I like helping people... nice people that is. So, I doubt I'd charge for most things.

• Tracking

I generally don't get asked to do this very much anymore. Although now that more Jedi are doing their trials I do get the occational request. I figure if Jedi aren't rare anymore they can at least be broke I usually don't ask for anything under 1,000,000 per hour- so far no takers lol.

I track for fun as part of guild hunts or when I am out harvesting resources for cash.

• Contract Harvesting

This is where I make the bulk of my money. Harvesting for guild members is free. I have a couple doctors that I keep on my list of people who pay decently.

I used to contract harvest a lot before the hologrinding nightmare... most of my contacts decided to drop doctor. Irequest that the interested party send me an email with the type of resource they want, the quantity required, and the price in CPU they are offering. Then I look what what is required to get that amount of resource and either accept the contract with a no guarentees clause(RL can always crop up unexpectedly) or ask for a better CPU.

Example:

A doctor wants 10k of Lokian Avain Meatand is offerring50 cpu. Lokian Avian Meat isn't all that difficult to gather so 50 cpu is good. (note: I never request less cpu) On the other hand if something like Talusian Avain Meat is requested... there will be some price and/or quantity negotiation.

• Concealing

Never charged for it. In fact... I could probably count on one hand the number of times I have used it.

• Setting up camps for events

Never been asked. I would probably do it for free seeing as it is adding to someone's enjoyment of the game and it doesn't cost me a lot to do. However, now that I have dropped some boxesof ranger to persue a career in medicine I'd probably decline because I can't craft the camps anymore.

• Other services that I didn't mention?

This should probably go under tracking but... tracking rares and other creatures for CH's. I am also a CH so I will usually take the rare for myself unless I already have one or I am not interested. I keep a list of CH's who I have talked to that are interested in certain creatures. If I see ababy creature on my listthen I send a tell or email. I made a 200k tip by stumbling upon a Toxic Merek Battlelord that one CH wanted.

In summary... it's more about the enjoyment of hunting for me than it is the money. The few contracts I still get are enough to finance anything I want to do in game.

Cheers,

Aitwexoeth

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:

I have had a request that there be a thread on what y'all charge for your services. I know all servers have different economies, so if you could list you server along with the prices for the following items, that would be great .

• Tracking - This may be either hourly charges or success/failure charges.
• Contract Harvesting - Strictly CPU or so you have a time/buff/expenses surcharge?
• Concealing - Can anyone justify charging for this skill?
• Setting up camps for events - I recently did a wedding reception, so I know this has been requested before.
• Other services that I didn't mention?

Please guys, this is not about who is charging more than who, it is meant to be a guide to help some newer Rangers get an idea of what to charge for services. No flames please .

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