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I've been making money by hunting good meats for a doctor. Pays pretty well, but I'm looking for other ways. Hunting Bols can get a little boring after a while. I've done a little tracking for creature handlers and such, but never know how much to charge for this. Any help?

I make most of my money selling harvested resources. I was harvesting baz nitch meat for a while, and i had a BE who was paying me 30cpu for that meat. So i grabbed two baz nitch missions, killed the biz natches i saw, harvested em for their meat, destroyed the lair, got my mission reward and then sold the meat.

That i find to be the best case scenario, you can make money both ways. One from the missions and two from the harvested resources.

I have made money other ways though. I have offered my tracking skills to CH's. Sometimes a BH might want you to track down their target. I get my occasional /tell to join a group to track krayts or whatever the critter is they are hunting for the night.

Ranger is definatleya good profession when it comes to making money, and it's not as boring as sitting around crafting items. I have no problem with the crafters, my secondary character is a tailor, so when i feel like crafting i will use that char. Most of the timei'm the type of person that wants some action! thats why i find a thrill in the hunt.

Good luck to ya! Happy Hunting!

I find the best herb. meat drops of all the planets, then hunt the critters that drop the most. For awhile pikets on dant. were the best. They were dropping 125 meat per kill and I was getting 3000 xp per kill. I'd take 2 missions from the imperial outpost (pay 9k creds a piece), then hunt the 2 missions and anything else I could find nearby. At the time I was getting 15cpu.

If that's not enough money for you, find a couple friends and hunt krayt's for all their drops.

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OK shameless plug I admit... but this is something I threw togehter for the scout board, and which a few others were nice enough to contribute to. You've got the Meat suggestions from the begining part down. I recommend setting up a business like mine outlined at the bottom.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=scout&message.id=12489

-WB

Yeah, Rangering is not profitable. My butt.

I have over 1.2 million creds in the bank. I own probably 20 weapons, scattered in my house. My harvestors run 24/7 and keep me in poly and metals. I give away more minerals than I sell. Hides/bone/meat, got a load, I give the stuff away to guildies and friends.

I will run a couple 4k credit missions, harvest, and repeat. I was grinding for pistoleer, try and get 450k in pistol on durni, so I was taking on tortur, solo, the 4k plus is all mine. When bored my commando friend and I run the 5k missions for mutated krahmurra. Run 4 in a set, 10k in your pocket, plus resources. Quite frankly, I don't hunt unless it's on a mission - you get paid for the mission and can sell the harvest, like getting paid twice.

Yeah, I am poor and destitute. The only thing I spend money on is weapons and stims, and I am making deals for stims.

I don't like to do the /ar stuff for CHs, unless they are friends, then I do it for free. Finding baby GSP all over the place too. I won't do it for holo hunters, boring. BHs - keep walking, no thanks, I do not work for y'all.

There was a thread a while back - If you can't make good money as a Ranger, you ain't trying or or just plain dumb.

Not to say we make as much as the artisans, but I am happy. And waiting to buy a swoop bike.

JB

I usually just sell meat, as well as any segments I pick up. Let's just say, on a 3 days harvesting trip, I gathered around 15k in 3 seperate resources. (Note: I don't play too long obviously) I then ended up making 200k off that set of resources merely on good stats alone.

Really is a good idea to try and find a good solid BE or Doctor who always needs meat though, try to keep your business with a few people, but do it when they ask. That way you'll always have a good demand for resources from a business and be able to keep the money coming.

000000000000000000Dyrwen Sy-X
000000000000000000
000000000000000000Imperial Master Ranger.
000000000000000000Meat Manager
000000000000000000Hide Heretic.
000000000000000000Bone Busybody.
000000000000000000
000000000000000000General PAC Man 
000000000000000000Penny Arcade Clan 
000000000000000000

Cant make money???

Im not even a master yet (only 4/2/4/2) and Iam currently on a contract for current cycle avian meat for one customer that will pay me over 1 million.

....besides how else could you make so much money and have this much fun at the same time?

I make most of my money from the following (note - joining a guild made a world of difference for me):

a) Making factory crates of basic camps [1]

b) Selling hides to tailors and armoursmiths [2]

c) Offering my services as a tracker (Now I am tracking 4) [3]

All of this is helped by having a commando wanting to level up in flamethrower - as I do not care about weapons or combat xp and he does not care about scout xp it has good synergy, I help with status effects and he does the damage.

T.

[1] This is a good way to get rid of low quality hide and bone, but be warned you will require a lot of both and if they ever change the rules so that a CH doesn't need to camp to switch pets this market will shrink considerably.

[2] Priority is given to guildies.

[3] AVailable to hire for BH tracking Jedi or Jedi wanting to know ifa 'known' BH is nearby. Discretion guaranteed (hey I'm nuetral - I am just after the money)