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Thread: Make a million credits from spice
A ‘how to’ for making lots of money from the spice trade as of around the time of the JTL release.
But first, a story. Started in swg a few of months ago. Not a power player, but steadily working my way up towards Master Smuggler as the only possible career choice. Constantly broke but RPing a bit and generally having fun. Had browsed through many, many posts on the futility of the spice trade so I worked on slicing thinking this was a ticket to riches. It wasn’t. Not enough trade, too much standing around, can make money quicker killing small, helpless fluffy animals and ittook ages to pay off the money I borrowed to buy the tools and resources to get up to Slicer.
Someone wanted a crate of Muon for PvP, so I worked up to Fence. Made various spices. More fun RPing but still no money.
Friend of mine is a master doctor. He had a factory. I borrowed it, made a couple of crates of Muon and stuck them on Coronet bazaar. They sold within the hour. So I made some more. Sold them overnight. A few days of this and I can afford some medium harvesters.
Wohoo. Mass production time. Still selling at 6k per crate, four or five crates per night, more at the weekends. Formed a partnership with the doctor. Both of us used loading Coronet, Dath, Dant, sometimes even Endor and Yavin with 6k muon and pixie crates. A factory and six miners, all going flat out and still selling as fast as I can manufacture. Rock and roll lifestyle kicks in. Had armour custom made. Rebalanced my stats and became a buff junkie. Bought cases of brandy to run in parallel with the muon. Bought some new guns.
Then… spotted someone else undercutting me with a muon crate on Coronet.
Checked through the list and found several more.
By the end of this weekend a quick browse of the galaxy bazaars and found more muon and pixie than an army of psychotic buff junkie TKAs could possibly drink in a month. My income stopped dead. All my money has been blown on shiny stuff. I am in contract to a shipwright to supply him with ferrous but I cannot afford to fuel the harvesters. I am going to get kneecapped, my YT is now a pipe dream and I have spent my few remaining credits on drink and pretty female lizards. I am older, wiser, drunk, bitter and more cynical, but I promised a ‘how to’. So.
HOW TO MAKE A MILLION CREDITS FROM SPICES:
It turns out to be a really simple trick.
1) Be the only bazaar–stocking volume spice producer in your galaxy.
2) Sustain this for two weeks.
Ah well. Us newbies are here to learn. It was fun while it lasted. A triumph for the dynamic economy. Boom and bust and all that.
Back to the fluffy animals...
Gajarga
> as long as my Master title us up and I'm searchable. Folks come to me for slicing when I'm FISHING.
Lol. Thanks for the encouragement. Once I make Slicer,Fence, Master Smuggler, this time next year I'll be a millionaire...
Gajarga.
I have a ton of flowers (too poor of a quality to make any chef food from) and radioactives sitting around, so I know they did something. I was by no means even close to being the first smuggler on Bloodfin, but I still remember when pixie sold better than muon and my first crates went for 30K each. Then we were pissed when the mass-suppliers cut the market to 9K, which we'd drool over today. But the revamp will fix everything, right! *poke* *poke*
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