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Thread: What's the best resource to make money?
Phenix1050
Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:46 am
#14
oh yeah-- and what JB said. Keep your expenses down and you'll more than pay for your lifestyle on just 3 sets of misisons a day. luck or no luck, you can make money as a Ranger pretty easily.
DureenaBadKarma
Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:57 pm
#15
I guess I'm partway on both.
I love beinga Ranger, even though only been here since November'ish. I always keep an ear to the ground on what good resources are around so I can get some for guildies and some to sell.. but I tend to hunt on planets I enjoy or planets I've not been to much and want to learn about. And I won't go grind out missions if I want to learn. I'll get out and start examining things and seeing who drops what, where they spawn, how much they give, can I kill them before they see me or do I use other tactics.. and now I love finding out which critters like to fight each other! And just finding cool stuff as I do it like unlisted POI's and broken down structures and such.
I came for the fun, and stay for the fun, but I do enjoy making the money too. And if I get bored of killing for a resource I sell what I've got and go do something else. Theminuteit gets like a job in RL is theminute I change and do something else.
On a side note, all my Ranger training came to the fore tonight.
Guild party, trying out the new event toys and there is a race droid. The guild leader announces that it is a "Crawl Race"!! Well by the time I'd stopped laughing and pressed the arrow key, I completed the 32m course in 1/3 time of the rest of the group. Easiest 50k creds I ever got! 
SickSix
Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:37 pm
#16
"What's the best resource to make money?"
9 krayt tissues with 173dmg/-.6spd
i'll let you know how much money that brings in tommorrow night 
WildBil2Me
Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:57 pm
#17
HaHa
I mostly dislike hunting for profit. Thought I've been known to do it as necessary, I think for th emost part I enjoy hunting and being a ranger for different reasons.
If its any sign... I have a credit chip from JTL worth close to 300k. I just don't bother with creds for the most part when I play. I know what I want and how much I need to get it. My house is decorated mostly with looted loot (that was looted by coincidence not via grinding).
To me being a Ranger is making what you need or trading for it when you need it.
Over the course of a month or so I tend to raise enough cash via incidental skirmishes with NPCs to cover me food needs, and I take good care of my T21 (my armor is still new 'cause I never use buffs). That's the way of the Ranger ... at least for me.
I mostly dislike hunting for profit. Thought I've been known to do it as necessary, I think for th emost part I enjoy hunting and being a ranger for different reasons.
If its any sign... I have a credit chip from JTL worth close to 300k. I just don't bother with creds for the most part when I play. I know what I want and how much I need to get it. My house is decorated mostly with looted loot (that was looted by coincidence not via grinding).
To me being a Ranger is making what you need or trading for it when you need it.
Over the course of a month or so I tend to raise enough cash via incidental skirmishes with NPCs to cover me food needs, and I take good care of my T21 (my armor is still new 'cause I never use buffs). That's the way of the Ranger ... at least for me.
SickSix
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:15 pm
#18
WildBil2Me wrote:
HaHa
I mostly dislike hunting for profit. Thought I've been known to do it as necessary, I think for th emost part I enjoy hunting and being a ranger for different reasons.
If its any sign... I have a credit chip from JTL worth close to 300k. I just don't bother with creds for the most part when I play. I know what I want and how much I need to get it. My house is decorated mostly with looted loot (that was looted by coincidence not via grinding).
To me being a Ranger is making what you need or trading for it when you need it.
Over the course of a month or so I tend to raise enough cash via incidental skirmishes with NPCs to cover me food needs, and I take good care of my T21 (my armor is still new 'cause I never use buffs). That's the way of the Ranger ... at least for me.
i agree. dont get me wrong. but some money is needed in this game. and when your trying to help newbish guildies, and fund an artisan alt, i end up giving away all my cash lol
and after my auction is over, i'll have enough money to not worry about doing things for money for a long time. i can just play, and grind my frontiering tree lol
Washell
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:40 pm
#19
I get the barter method, fits perfectly with ranger. I do not get the above. It's a matter of supply and demand. Supply is limited, demand is high which causes the 100cpu price. He's willing to pay it, you're offering him a 900k profit in addition to the profit he's already making for work you're doing. And, to top it off, the creature harvesters like you are still blamed for inflating the prices. I'd say take the 900kand buy some nice paintings in anticipation of the hunting cabin
Puck_Starfire wrote:
Buyer: I really need this resource and I'm willing to pay 100 cpu for it.
Me: I can get you the resource, but you don't have to pay me 100cpu. How about 10cpu?
I'm making 76k profit if they take me up on my offer. Now if they want to pay 100cpu instead and give me a 976k profit, I won't turn them down.
SickSix
Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:53 pm
#20
Washell wrote:
I get the barter method, fits perfectly with ranger. I do not get the above. It's a matter of supply and demand. Supply is limited, demand is high which causes the 100cpu price. He's willing to pay it, you're offering him a 900k profit in addition to the profit he's already making for work you're doing. And, to top it off, the creature harvesters like you are still blamed for inflating the prices. I'd say take the 900kand buy some nice paintings in anticipation of the hunting cabin
Puck_Starfire wrote:
Buyer: I really need this resource and I'm willing to pay 100 cpu for it.
Me: I can get you the resource, but you don't have to pay me 100cpu. How about 10cpu?
I'm making 76k profit if they take me up on my offer. Now if they want to pay 100cpu instead and give me a 976k profit, I won't turn them down.
true Washell, but i think, maybe he's saying if we dont ask for such a high price, then the buyer wont charge so much for the finished product? If that's what Puck is trying to do, i get it, and it makes sense. Some stuff is just really really expensive.
I almost wish, that post CU everything was set back to DAY1 so we could rebuild our servers inflated economies.
Tarnak_Archvold
Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:03 pm
#21
I do not se anything wrong in a ranger pursuing wealth, this is not D&D after all. Personally I play my ranger as someone who choose become a master the environment, not because he love nature, but because you need to know you enemy. If I had the option, I would gladly hunt a few spices in to extinction.
As for selling for a profit, why is that wrong. We do not set the price of creature resources after all. In the end the price for creature resources are set by the buyers of the products. Generally no crafter likes to have an empty vendor, so if they sell out to quickly they will generally raise that prices until they can keep up with demand. That sets thair sell price. Then they buy creature resources for as much as they need to keep up with that sails level. That is why doctors pay so darn much for good averian meat (even at 300 cpu they will still have a huge profit).
Selling our resources for less will not decrees the prices, of the finished product. As the product price has nothing to do with production cost, and all to do with demand. That is why I support selling resources for as much as we possible can.
That being said I always give my friends and fellow guild members whatever resources they need free of charge. And what credit I got I have from space. I am not a master yet as so far I have mostly been hunting for training, and enjoying it. Once I her the last has box of trapping, and the last 2 half boxes of rifleman I should be set for getting large amounts of hides for my alt's vendors.
As for selling for a profit, why is that wrong. We do not set the price of creature resources after all. In the end the price for creature resources are set by the buyers of the products. Generally no crafter likes to have an empty vendor, so if they sell out to quickly they will generally raise that prices until they can keep up with demand. That sets thair sell price. Then they buy creature resources for as much as they need to keep up with that sails level. That is why doctors pay so darn much for good averian meat (even at 300 cpu they will still have a huge profit).
Selling our resources for less will not decrees the prices, of the finished product. As the product price has nothing to do with production cost, and all to do with demand. That is why I support selling resources for as much as we possible can.
That being said I always give my friends and fellow guild members whatever resources they need free of charge. And what credit I got I have from space. I am not a master yet as so far I have mostly been hunting for training, and enjoying it. Once I her the last has box of trapping, and the last 2 half boxes of rifleman I should be set for getting large amounts of hides for my alt's vendors.
DesktopSaki
Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:32 am
#22
The money steers where I hunt--sometimes. Hey, money is helpful. I like having it, there's nothing wrong with having it. I know my house will never burn down. But I also like helping out my mates and friends. So if Endor is paying best and I'm agreeable to that, I go to Endor. Dathomir? Sounds good to me. Yavin? Nah, not up to Yavin. I'd rather go hunt Tat Wooly for my tailor friend.
But I'm not one of those people who became a Ranger for money.
I play Ranger for fun. In my very first days, someone showed me how to harvest because I wanted to get my own stuff for crafting, and, well, I never did becomea crafter. But I was almost a Master Ranger before I started making anything off of it. It just hadn't occurred to me I could. I never read the trade forums, my guildmates never mentioned the idea, so when I got my first contract, I was thinking, "Hmmm. This is really, really excellent meat here. Is 4 cpu too much, guys?" (Ended up it was going for 30 cpu, which was a freaking huge surprise to me.)
Anyone who levels to 0040 just so they can get the "uber harvesting" isn't necessarily a Ranger in my eyes--they're businessmen, but they so often lack the Ranger spirit. I'll train them and welcome them as a Ranger with open arms, but when it comes down to it, I still know that their heart isn't in it.
agent156
Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:34 am
#23
5 cpu for SW goods? Some wish, lol. SWs get bit hard on blueprints and such. But those are machine harvestable. You can get tens of thousands to millions of units of them with 30 min. to 2 hours of play time invested at cost of about 0.12 to 0.20 cpu. You can't compare creature resources and inorganic. I know I sell a lot of both.
The only doc meats that get to 100 cpu are avian meat. Herb might hit 35 cpu on my server. If you can't pay 100 cpu for good avian meat and make money off buff packs you might ask your self how every one else is doing it. The person I mentioned that bought 500k of avian at a price of 62.5 Mil. (125 cpu), does nothing but sell buff packs. I have to check, but on each of the 5 stats that avian goes into he is pulling 32 charges. 32 charges from 22 units of meat on 4, and 28 units on the health pack. Can you say drop in the bucket?
The only doc meats that get to 100 cpu are avian meat. Herb might hit 35 cpu on my server. If you can't pay 100 cpu for good avian meat and make money off buff packs you might ask your self how every one else is doing it. The person I mentioned that bought 500k of avian at a price of 62.5 Mil. (125 cpu), does nothing but sell buff packs. I have to check, but on each of the 5 stats that avian goes into he is pulling 32 charges. 32 charges from 22 units of meat on 4, and 28 units on the health pack. Can you say drop in the bucket?
Almagill
Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:12 am
#24
There are Rangers who play to make money? Unbelievable... Still, good luck to them I say.
I play to have fun, if I make money, good. If I'm needing money I'm never stuck for opportunities to make it.
I neither look down on players who are motivated by money or particularly look up to those who do. Everyone has their own playstyle, there's more than enough room for them all.
I play to have fun, if I make money, good. If I'm needing money I'm never stuck for opportunities to make it.
I neither look down on players who are motivated by money or particularly look up to those who do. Everyone has their own playstyle, there's more than enough room for them all.
Cryos_Merovingian
Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:14 am
#25
Almagill wrote:
I neither look down on players who are motivated by money or particularly look up to those who do. Everyone has their own playstyle, there's more than enough room for them all.
QFE
Is this thread still going?
Puck_Starfire
Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:23 pm
#26
SickSix wrote:
Washell wrote:I get the barter method, fits perfectly with ranger. I do not get the above. It's a matter of supply and demand. Supply is limited, demand is high which causes the 100cpu price. He's willing to pay it, you're offering him a 900k profit in addition to the profit he's already making for work you're doing. And, to top it off, the creature harvesters like you are still blamed for inflating the prices. I'd say take the 900k and buy some nice paintings in anticipation of the hunting cabin
Puck_Starfire wrote:
Buyer: I really need this resource and I'm willing to pay 100 cpu for it.
Me: I can get you the resource, but you don't have to pay me 100cpu. How about 10cpu?
I'm making 76k profit if they take me up on my offer. Now if they want to pay 100cpu instead and give me a 976k profit, I won't turn them down.true Washell, but i think, maybe he's saying if we dont ask for such a high price, then the buyer wont charge so much for the finished product? If that's what Puck is trying to do, i get it, and it makes sense. Some stuff is just really really expensive.
I almost wish, that post CU everything was set back to DAY1 so we could rebuild our servers inflated economies.
Actually both. First and foremost, I don't need the money and don't really care what "others are charging". I'm not trying to keep up with everyone else. If I feel my effort and time is not worth doing something, I won't. That being said, players get upset when Arkies charge over 2cpu for their goods. Players won't pay Shipwrights 5cpu for their goods. Droids go for well under what they should. So what makes a Ranger like me, who can harvest 10k in an hour, so special that I should be able to charge 100cpu and expect others to pay it? At least this is how it is on my server. And on my server I have a doc. I don't know what prices are on other servers, but I know if I paid 100cpu for meats as a doc, I'd make very little money. I'd be better off buying buffs from med vendors and buffing people than to make my own.
My point is, I don't feel that "I" do that much to ask for 100cpu, especially when players tell my Arkie that 3-4cpu is too high to pay for FINISHED and quality goods. But you're right. The subject of server resets came up in guild chat today. Agreeable, it would be a good thing to do a complete wipe.