Scout Archive

Don't want to sound mean or callous but, "them's the breaks." I'd say critter resources are at about the level they should be. The problem you're describing is not related to the amount that can be harvested, but the amount that is being harvested-or just being put on the open market, most folks deal with a limited number of people. It will correct itself as some people will think, "Hey those scouts/rangers are cleaning up selling this stuff... I'll join them." A little bit afterward, organics are all over the place, people drop scout/ranger, resources become rare...

Also don't entirely blame the scout/ranger community. I had some one ask me for corellian dom. meat, offered 70 CPU straight off the bat. Told him we'll discuss price after I get the size stack he was after. After all was said and done sold it for around 20 CPU, humbabas are like durni. I never went further than 2K from a guild outpost and got plenty for the order. Any other person I would've went with the initial price, but I just couldn't stick it to the guy. He was expecting a big ordeal, lots of bitching and moaning about trying to get that meat, so I took it as a sort of challenge.

Hydra

Watch the trade forum for some time. Most people on lowca sell their resources when the shift is over and everyone is in need for it, so the price can be increased more

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JackSparrrow wrote:

But I do think some of the problem might be because of Lowca's low population. Just looking at new messages on server forumns..we have about the lowest.

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And?

The supply and demand principle will work with three (3) people. If the server population is low, well then docs shouldn't be making 1K run schematics every day to keep up with demand. Low server population means low consumer population, which also mean low producer population. It goes in cycles and has a system of checks and balances.

Hydra

As a former BE from Lowca, I can empathize with all of you trying to kick people into harvesting for you. Way back when, I remember offering 40 CPU (this before the inflation REALLY started kicking in) for that 900/900 OQ/PE Naboo meat and only managing to get around 9k of it - and half of it was stuff I got with my own pistol.

I eventually dropped BE, but I still kept an eye out for good resource shifts, with the idea that now that I had a good combat prof I'd reap it in. But, eventually, just like all the other players I see now, I realized that it was simply too much work to be worth the extra credits. I could double my mission money by collecting every single scrap of meat from a rancor lair after 5 minutes of clicking through stacked corpses - or I just strafe shot it dead in 15 seconds and move to the next one. It's not even really worth my time to run the 60 meters to collect the meat from the 7-9 dead rancors (again stacked on top of each other) around the lair.

Unless they come up with an auto-harvest option for your droid, I doubt I'll start collecting meat again, no matter what price is offered. I wouldn't mind an extra minute or two waiting for it to zip from corpse to corpse collecting, as long as I didn't have to put up with trying to find the full and empty ones.