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No, this is common..

Two days ago I sliced 74 pieces of armor

72 Encumberance Slices
2 Effectiveness Slices

Yesterday I sliced 10 peices of armor

10 Effectiveness Slices

I also sliced 7 weapons

All of them were 31+ Damage slices

Something is up.

Man, I wish I had enough money to afford stuff like that...I don't know how you all do it, but I wish I had millions to put down on a weapon. I gave up on trying to buy a scythe to replace the one I've ground to a nub. I just can't see putting down several million for a replacement when I spent 400K for this one. I think the economy is so out of wack. While I can raise some funds doing janta missions, but it takes me a couple days grinding to raise anything close to the millions I'd need for a nice hammer or scythe. I can't imagine what starships are going to go for.

Playing beta was nice, but I'm kind of resigned myself to never being able to afford a good ship. Heck, the way things on my server are, I doubt I'll be able to afford anything better than the starter ship. I don't know how things are on your servers, but everything is out of control on mine. Doc buffs went from about 10K for the best buffs to upwards of 50K. I saw one guy charging 22K for 1500 point buffs the other day...and he had business...yet everyone laughs at me when I quote them at anything above 2K a slice.

The thing that amazes me about this game is how on one hand the environment is so excellent, yet it sucks so much on the other hand. It's like being on on the couch with a beautiful woman who is looking sultry and inviting, and your friends keep coming over to hang out and don't leave....so close yet so far away...

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MrSensitive wrote:

I love the analogy.

How can a smuggler/ master swords be pressed for money though?

Get a solo group ,slice a terminal, take 45k missions and wipe em in a minute.

I know you won't always get the almost 50k missions on the first slice but it is pretty easy to make around2 mil in a buff session, just don't slow down and wait for allt he chumps that want you to slice their CDEF pistol for 2k.

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Simple solution for that.

If I'm running missions, I have a /notslicing macro that I run before I start. It removes my Master Smuggler tag and makes me anonymous.

/setCurrentSkillTitle;
/pause 1;
/anon;

If I'm standing in line for buffs in Cnet, and feel like doing a little slicing, I'll run another macro /slicing, that displays my title and makes me searchable again.

/setCurrentSkillTitle combat_smuggler_master;
/pause 1;
/anon;

Both of these are set up as aliases, so I just have to type in the /notslicing or /slicing to run them. Other than that, I don't spam for customers or anything. But the /notslicing definitely saves me a ton of headaches while I'm on Dant killing Mokks and Jantas.

And it definitely helps if you can find an "Increased Job Market" city to run missions out of on Dant. In the Mining Outpost, a lvl 99 Mokk mission will pay 25-27k unsliced. In a "Job Market" city, this increases to 31-33k unsliced. Add a slice...that's what takes it to 45-47k. Usually, I try to get one sliced and one unsliced mission, since getting 2 sliced missions usually eats up a lot of time, waiting on the terminal timer and such.

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lurdanta wrote:
Man, I wish I had enough money to afford stuff like that...I don't know how you all do it, but I wish I had millions to put down on a weapon. I gave up on trying to buy a scythe to replace the one I've ground to a nub. I just can't see putting down several million for a replacement when I spent 400K for this one. I think the economy is so out of wack. While I can raise some funds doing janta missions, but it takes me a couple days grinding to raise anything close to the millions I'd need for a nice hammer or scythe. I can't imagine what starships are going to go for.

Playing beta was nice, but I'm kind of resigned myself to never being able to afford a good ship. Heck, the way things on my server are, I doubt I'll be able to afford anything better than the starter ship. I don't know how things are on your servers, but everything is out of control on mine. Doc buffs went from about 10K for the best buffs to upwards of 50K. I saw one guy charging 22K for 1500 point buffs the other day...and he had business...yet everyone laughs at me when I quote them at anything above 2K a slice.

The thing that amazes me about this game is how on one hand the environment is so excellent, yet it sucks so much on the other hand. It's like being on on the couch with a beautiful woman who is looking sultry and inviting, and your friends keep coming over to hang out and don't leave....so close yet so far away...

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Hey there, i'm on corbantis too. I used to be a master smuggler dropped it to pursue a melee defense stacking PvP player. But i'm done with that and going back to RP a smuggler/ CH. When i finally give up my swordsman prof, i have a damage scythe 30% dam slice with a max pup does about 495 dam max. I will be seeling it for 1 million so save up and i'll sell you mine

But your right. I can't believe people will pay 20k+ for a buff that last 3 hours but wont pay 5-10k a slice for a weapon or armor that should last days even weeks. I have made the same mention of how expensive ships will be and parts. I'm just glad my guild will have 3 shipwrights working together to provide our guild with better ships and ship parts. The best part of it is even though i'm a rebel..i can still be a freelance pilot!!!

My biggest dissapointment with slicing when i was a master were those under 20% slices i would get..mostly on armor...i wante to scream

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Therault wrote:

Or go to Dath, join a solo grp and do enraged rancors for 57k a mission(sliced).

Menjari Seul

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But Mokks and Jantas drop crystals...which can then be sold for more creds.

BTW: Anybody know the going rate for crystals? I looted 2 the other night: 1 clear, 1 red.

Message Edited by Therault on 10-22-2004 01:34 PM