Shipwright Archive

Very true, you can do that. Thats acculy what merchants are sopose to do ibeleave. My feeling is that i provide my wares at a cost i feel is good. it covers my costs and gives me all the play money i need for my 3 toons.

So if someone out there wishes to buy out my stock, go for it. ill make more... If you feel this will solve the low ball issue by buying out low priced stuff and reselling it at higherprices then do it. I dont beleave it will work.

Either way, I build ships for fun, and for the credits. Now, this is a game, and I dont feel i need to hord money in the game. so I look at what it costs to make the items i make. (cost of power, and maintence for my harivesters) and add some time in effort to make the product. And this is how a generate my price. I could make them higher, to make more proffit as demand goes up and such. but I dont feel that is nessisary. It does't cost me more to make more ships. for the resoures costs stays the same (acculy if i put more harvesterds down i think it would go down, if u go into units of resrousesper credit cost) So i keep my prices a resenbable (if maybe low) price knowing that other people that just started the game can acculy afford the Xwing, or Tie oppressor that they get there eye's on.

But my biggest reason why i dont feel i should or charge 6cpu or 10cpu is what would u do with the credits? to make 2million credits in 3 days for me is good, I can't spend it that fast. but to make 30million credits a week? what do you do with it all?

Maybe im missing somthing, i know people say jedi is an expensive grind. buying cystals, pearls and foods. maybe thats what they use the money for. I do have a jedi, he's not knight or anything, im enjoying the slow lvl up (wierd i know, how do you enjoy a slow lvl up) but i enjoy the difficulies in making this jedi. Yes i did go out and buy a few pearls and such, but i felt the need for them is low (pvp only) so the cost didn't really matter. and yes food is expenseive, it cost me 100k for a crate of good brandy (crate of 25, 21 use, 437 power, for 42mins) but i dont go through a crate that fast, and it ends up being the cost of 1 Xwing for me to buy anouther.

Now if im hurting the other shipwrights on the server that need to make millions a week them i'm sorry that i can make my product for a cheeper price that yours. if you hate it, you can always buy out my stock and re-sell it for your price.

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I like those prices I'm going to need to lower my prices to 6-7 cpu, to compete with the pilot handmedown sales.

One thing I have also noticed about shipwrights who severely undercut others. I've been taking strolls around Bria looking at shops, and one trend is quite clear. Quality of those cheaper ships is well below what I would expect. We're talking undermass by as much as 2-5k in most cases. For example I saw Tie Advances with as much as 61-62k mass last night on one vender, which I suppose is why they were being sold for 2 cpu.

I'm wondering how many of that persons customers will understand how limited they will be in a hull such as that. Go to Kessel in that anyone? LOL. You need as much mass as possible, especially toward the upper tier where you take on the fastest, and the meanest of missions. So no only are these shipwrights doing themselves a disservice, they're doing their customers a disservice as well.

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