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Thread: Smuggler's Guide to Selling Faction Points v3.0 by: Dreven (Updated for Pub 13.1 --- 2/24/05)

DrevenStrobe
Thu Dec 30, 2004 10:35 pm
#14

Thanks Wes...


/hi5!



Dreven Strobe (Colonel) Tristyn Strobe
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Maxil
Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:48 am
#15

Ok so if I have a customer, and let's say I'm at 0 FP, I have to buy 500, turn around, /del it, rinse and repeat untill we've reached the agreement? I've never gotten into brokering but considering it...



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DrevenStrobe
Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:09 am
#16






Maxil wrote:
Ok so if I have a customer, and let's say I'm at 0 FP, I have to buy 500, turn around, /del it, rinse and repeat untill we've reached the agreement? I've never gotten into brokering but considering it...





You can't start at 0 FP, considering you have to keep 200 minimum.


So, if you start from exactly 200, it would break down like this.


200


Buy 125 (or if you're Rebel, 138)


325 (338)


Buy 125 (138)


450 (476)


Buy 125 (138)


575 (614)


/del 200 (250)


You have lost236 (295) (assuming you're a Colonel)


Start the process all over again with 339 (319).





Dreven Strobe (Colonel) Tristyn Strobe
TKM / Master Pistoleer / Master Smuggler / Master Merchant
Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP Starsider Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP
Smuggler 'til the end...and then some.
"Everything I tell you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."
Eulbobo
Wed Jan 05, 2005 5:39 am
#17

Nothing, missread

Message Edited by Eulbobo on 01-05-2005 04:39 AM



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Emperor_Prosek
Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:17 pm
#18

Is my math way off or is the cost of a single FP 85.5 credits? as a Master Smuggler Rebel Col.

Zandergeef
Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:21 pm
#19






Emperor_Prosek wrote:
Is my math way off or is the cost of a single FP 85.5 credits? as a Master Smuggler Rebel Col.





It says 85.5 for master smuggler rebel colonels and 94.4 for master smugglerimperial colonels up there.



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Emperor_Prosek
Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:18 am
#20

Emperor_Prosek wrote:
Is my math way off or is the cost of a single FP 85.5 credits? as a Master Smuggler Rebel Col.


It says 85.5 for master smuggler rebel colonels and 94.4 for master smuggler imperial colonels up there.

Doh! sry should have RTFP

DrevenStrobe
Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:08 pm
#21

Just a bump



Dreven Strobe (Colonel) Tristyn Strobe
TKM / Master Pistoleer / Master Smuggler / Master Merchant
Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP Starsider Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP
Smuggler 'til the end...and then some.
"Everything I tell you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."
Ternque01
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:06 pm
#22

This is where I learned how to sell faction. I was quite good at it too before I dropped Smuggler.

Friendly bizzumpity.



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Stawei_Idow
Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:44 am
#23

the way to figure out how much a faction point costs (your cost) is:
(10000 [credits] / [number of faction points you get {125 or 138}]) X [your delegate ratio]
then you add in however many cr/pt you want as profit.

so for:
reb sergeant - 10000 / 138 = 72.463 X 2.86 = 207.244cr/pt
imp major - 10000 / 125 = 80 X 1.33 = 106.4cr/pt

so now you know the actual steps to calculate it, just use this formula instead:
rebels - 72.463768115942028985507246376812 X [delegate ratio]
imperials - 80 X [delegate ratio]

you dont really need that many decimal places but thats what windows calculator figures to, and the more places you have the more accurate your real cost. although when i figured the cost of 10000 points at both amounts, there was only a 23.xxxx credit difference.

or you can use the faction point calculator from the smuggler sticky. you need to have the .net framework installed for it to work though.

you probably wont find anyone to pay 207cr/pt but, hey, some people are desperate, if you are the only smuggler they can find they may pay whatever.




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DrevenStrobe
Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:21 am
#24

I wasted a whole day at work typing this up...and, I really wish people would #$(&ing read it!



Dreven Strobe (Colonel) Tristyn Strobe
TKM / Master Pistoleer / Master Smuggler / Master Merchant
Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP Starsider Imp FP Broker: 130c/FP
Smuggler 'til the end...and then some.
"Everything I tell you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."
LaughingWolf
Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:46 pm
#25

Was one of the first thing I read when I got my Master Smuggler box. Very well done, btw, in case I didn't say so before.



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Kilrtom-WookieCoat
Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:37 pm
#26


That cap will all be a thing of the past in the very near future =) Time to get rolling on MS brokerage services



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