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Thread: SW Skill Tapes

Mariki
Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:55 am
#1
Why are be being treated differently from every other profession in this game?

First it was no full factory support which I could actually justify because of flip flopping in the SW people but this skill tape inequities are too much.

What other professions do they break up their products into separate skill tapes??

Weaponsmiths have weapon experiment tapes, armorsmiths have armor experiment tapes, etc, etc etc.

We have engine experiment, weapon systems experiment, chassis experiment, advanced systems experiment. This is nuts. On top of all this we are crafters and can't get our own.

This hit home after spending a fortune on engine tapes only to go to make a weapon and realise just how we are getting the raw end with these skill tapes.

Its not like we are rolling in the credits or anything. When was it decided to stick it to the SWs?

And do you see what these combat lunitics are charging for skill tapes? I saw a +10 chassis exp tape selling for 12 mil credits yesterday. What are they thinking? I don't even make chassis cause there is no profit in them. And where the hell is our crafting apron?



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Drakulos
Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:01 am
#2

35M for + 20 in Engine, Weapons and Chassis so far. and im told the rest of the CAs will be dropping eventually. Yet, I cannot charge more for the parts otherwise the rest of the Shipwrights on the server will get all the sales since they charging 10cpu per part vs my 30cpu per part. LOL.


I still sell 1M per day, but honestly I would have been happy with 1 CA like the rest instead of this that puts us at the most expensive profession if you count resource consumption and tape costs.






Drakulos / Drakonos / Drakonus
T'Doshan Industries - SHOP
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+ 2 Chassis, Engines and Weapon Systems Specialist.
Rated A+ by Imperial and Rebel Galactic Business Bureaus
Apotheon, Naboo ( 0% TAX sales ) ( -230, -4145 )
Heswindu
Mon Aug 08, 2005 10:31 am
#3
Just out of curiosity, are engines/chassis/weapon systems the only SW CAs that can be obtained atm?





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IIscandar
Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:14 pm
#4
I'll pay 250k per point no more. Well.. unless they have a thermal detonator...
Ashtirael
Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:34 pm
#5




IIscandar wrote:
I'll pay 250k per point no more. Well.. unless they have a thermal detonator...




Fortunately, with chassis, it isnt a huge deal since mass is the main thing and that is quickly maxed even witha regular shipwright.


But with engine and weapons? Come ON. Give us a break. The tapes are needed to stay competitive at any level.


While you may only want to pay 250k a point, due to the number of SW's on my server, the price goes up and up.


Only thing I'm glad about is that I only craft for myself and not for others.


Still, at the very least each of these tapes should help with those of their branches, weapons with shields, engines with boosters, and chassis with armor. Then, cause poor, poor reactors, droid interfacesand caps were left out, make a separate one for them.


Lol, guess this qualifies as a shipwright suggestion, huh?


*Walks over to that post to paste it there*
Slysix
Mon Aug 08, 2005 5:52 pm
#6
The prices are going up not because of the number shipwrights on you server...They're going up because someone is usually artifically diving up the price.

Goraf
Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:31 pm
#7
The chassis tape DOES help with armor, but yes, we need all the experimentation types covered...



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Drakulos
Tue Aug 09, 2005 12:39 am
#8
Si.




Drakulos / Drakonos / Drakonus
T'Doshan Industries - SHOP
LEGENDARY Shipwright Brand [tm]
+ 2 Chassis, Engines and Weapon Systems Specialist.
Rated A+ by Imperial and Rebel Galactic Business Bureaus
Apotheon, Naboo ( 0% TAX sales ) ( -230, -4145 )
Phizuol
Wed Aug 10, 2005 9:29 am
#9
So there is never going to be a Ship Armor skill tape? That's covered by Chassis? Am I understanding that correctly?



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Goraf
Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:33 am
#10
Yes, if you have +20 in chassis tapes, you have 12 experimentation points for armor.

We just have nothing for shields, reactors, capacitors, droid interfaces, or boosters.



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Yivvits
Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:59 am
#11

I was really ticked off when I saw they added these. At least before it all came down to how good your resources were and how you used the points you had. That seemed almost perfect to me. Now, they add these tapes. I just hate this method of advancing past master crafting professions that they use (i.e. CA's).


So, unless you have a combat alt and don't mind spending 6 hours a day looting, have 10 guildies that can afk loot aakuans, or millionsupon millions of creditsyou're pretty much screwed. On our server there are basically 2-3 people who are selling 90% of all CA/AA's and they are priced at about 1mil per point. Totally fixed market. Sad - just sad.


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Morathai
Thu Aug 11, 2005 12:20 am
#12
this worked good for me...


Set up city on talus.

Start pilots guild.

Install mission terminal.

Guildies run aakuan missions for tapes.(spare time spent with my alt and a friend killing dark jedi)

SW takes merchant tree.

SW sells tapes for guildes and keeps SW tapes as per deal.

Guildes get nice ship parts and cash.


Everyone wins.


Otherwise i would be screwed...I feel your pain everyone. Even with this system it still takes forever to get all the tapes needed. But i am getting somewhere at least......


I also now have like over 500 looted ship parts for RE ahhh they just keep coming!!!! everyday more bags offered to vendor.....anyone else frustrated that it takes a immense juggling act to sort parts. (sorry off topic) would probably help if inventory number wasnt so strict. 80 items goes fast.



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mickolakis
Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:29 am
#13

Arechassis experimantation tapes not much use then?


I looted a +18 chassis experimantation +10 double LS accuracy CA the other day. I'drather a shipwright use it than a Jedi (not that I have anything against 'em you understand), but it seems a waste that a Jedi would only be interested in the +10 LS aspect of it and waste the +18 chassis skill.


I put it on the trade forums for a price check without mentioning the LS skill but there was no interest.





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