Rifleman Archive

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SmoothOperator wrote:
I already have my secondaries at full blast and as a zabrak 1400 is only a dream without buffs.
Guess I´ll have to find a better weapon and a good chef.

Thanks for the (helpful) posts

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I always carry a couple bottles of Vasarian Brandy with me. Always.

Two shots and specials are FREE for the next 45 minutes. =)

Message Edited by BadKarma777 on 02-26-2004 07:51 PM

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SmoothOperator wrote:

And getting a buff every time I want to shoot something just isn´t practical.

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HARP00N wrote:

They died, lost nothing, you lost 3000 credits.

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hmm usually they lose fp and you gain some... so if you gain 30 per kill at the current exchange rate for fp thats: 30x110 = 3300 credits worth gained

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HARP00N wrote

thats my problem with the profession. It pisses me off that you must be very rich and a hardcore gamer with no life outside the game so you can afford tons of buffs constantly. you see someone, you hti yourself with 3000 credits worth of buffs, you kill them (and even thats not guaranteed)... then they run out after a while. They died, lost nothing, you lost 3000 credits.

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Your only problem, HARP00N,is that you don't listen to anything you've been told in the threads about making money. I play 1-2hrs per night. I am a master rifleman. When I need money I head out to Yavin 4 and run klilnik missions. Now lets do the math here:

1 set of doc buffs in Coronet: 10k
20 doses of Vasarian Brand +441 Mind/Focus/WillPwr, 49 fillingfor 39min: 20k - 30k
Round trip to Yavin 4 from Coronet: 8k

Total set up cost 40-50k. This could be less since the case of brandy is good for 10 sets of hits for a total of 6.5 gameplay hours, so you don't have to buy a case for every session in my example.

Now, I getmy doc buffs and I hop on shuttle to Yavin 4, take 2 missions for klinik lars at 12k payout each.I make sure to spend 1 minute at the terminal and get missions in the same direction. I get on my bike and drive over to a lair about 700m away. I dismount. I take 2 hits of brandy (start 39 min timer now). I pull out a T21 / Laser sliced for damage and equipped with 33% max damage / 16 % min damage mod. I spam Advanced Strafe at the lair. The lair goes down in about 30-45 seconds. Hop back on the bike, drive to the next lair and repeat.

You've just earned a total 24k! Time involved5 minutes tops.
Drive back to outpost and get another 2 missions. Repeat.

You've just earned a total of 48k! Hey your buffs are paid for and you still have 29 minutes left over on your Vasarian.

Repeat 5 more times until vasarian runs out - you've earned 120k of profit. That'snearly 300% return on investment in 40 minutes of gameplay. You do this 7 nights in a row and you'll have around 800k. You are rich and you've only spent 1hr / day playing the game. You're now set to go off and duel 266 people at 3k per buff as you say in your post, which, believe me, will take you longer than 7 hrs of gameplay to accomplish. By the way, if you're taking vasarian brandy, duel one person with it and let it run out, then you're wasting a buff. If you duel for 5 minutes, you still have 30 minutes of vasarian left. GO RUN SOME MISSIONS!

It is trivial to earn money in this game as a master rifleman. That's the incentive of mastering an elite profession, the reward you get for all the hard work you put in while getting to the top. So quit wasting time whining about being poor and work a little for it. Next thing we know Patch 8 will introduce a bloody welfare system for lazy newbies.