Shipwright Archive
Thread: Free stuff for your PA?
I'm part of PA on Chilastra called -Grey Cell- and I conditionally take orders from PA members at no cost. The condition being strictly my discretion. This prevents players from joining the guild, taking advantage of the service, and subsequently quitting. For new players that have made no contribution to the PA, I typically discount them 10% (depends on my mood).
So, how can I do this? Easy. First, there are members in the guild that are occasionally willing to drop harvesters on resources. This comes in quite handy when a really rare spawn of a resource occurs. Second, they provided me with all my experimentation tapes, which would have been otherwise inordinately expensive (i.e., upwards of 60M credits). Third, all the crafters in the PA offer the same service, and while this might not be a big deal for my shipwright/DE,my alt can take advantage of these services: armor, weapons, slicing, food, stims, etc.
The bottom line is the whole should be greater than the sum of the parts. United we stand, divided we fall. And all that happy horse poop.
My deal with guild is I pretty much make em stuff at cost...whatever I bought a resource ( rarely buy resoruces tho )....or about what it took / how rare the resources I used were
or they can bring me the resources needed to make whatever they need and i'll assemble free np
only thing exempted from that policy is anything with space resources in it...I dont sell that at discount to anyone...unless they bring me the resources....I'm not gonna make 16 mining trips to space to make a full POB ship set and not be well compensated =)
Jagged-F3l wrote:
Being a nuetral Shipwright for quite awhile I decided to take the leap to a guild the is fairly new so I was having trouble as to how I should feel about, discounts and such. But these ideas of what others do is perfect.
In return I have received very nice CAs from my guildies, happy to get some of my server best components for free.
Don't get me wrong, I do understand people who charge their guildies, but my goal is that all pilots in my PA be Master Alliance Pilots and this is helping thins alot.
I used to craft everything for my PA free of charge. That was only because they provided me with all the organics and inorganics I needed to make everything.
If I was to join a PA now, with all my old resources, I couldn't do that. Some of the stuff I use is valued at 25 cpu and recently, the I saw the ore I used auction off for 60 cpu.....