Tailor Archive
Thread: To buy or not to buy?
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Ahrimand
Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:18 pm
#1
Im an almost kinda sorta new tailor($ boxes til master)...and I have a question. After I get master, and even now does everyone recommend buying resources or harvesting them yourself. I can easily get harvesters, and I can easily buy materials, what is the best path?
Iwra
Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:09 pm
#2
I always buy them, but thats A) I'm too lazy to mine myself.And B) All my 20 lots use one Tat guildhall, 2 houses and the rest is factories. And i still don't have enough factories... No more room for harvies.
I happen to know a vendor on my server which sells pretty much everything at 1cpu. I think she hates me, always when there is fiberplast for sale, and i have been there, there isn't anything left anymore. :evilsmiley:
lycanthropy
Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:16 pm
#3
i'd prefere to buy, cause im lazy too lol, even if i did have time to harvest, most of my freetime is spent doing orders, or
restocking the vendors. i barely have enough time to check my fusion generator.
ArthurDentOnBria
Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:15 pm
#4
Depends on how much cash you have. In actuality, it probably takes less effort to do what I'd call a "lazy harvest", i.e. put a chemical harvester and a mineral harvester down right outside your front porch (or the nearest spot there is space) and harvest whatever is there, lol. Chances are real good that on a particular shift there will be either a decent vein of fiberplast, or a decent vein of polymer close by, and just any old metal there is there. That right there will meet like 75% of your harvesting needs as a tailor.
Ahrimand
Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:03 pm
#5
Yeah that sounds good. I've been buying all my materials. I just want to hear from others what they think, and buying seems the best.
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
Depends on how much cash you have. In actuality, it probably takes less effort to do what I'd call a "lazy harvest", i.e. put a chemical harvester and a mineral harvester down right outside your front porch (or the nearest spot there is space) and harvest whatever is there, lol. Chances are real good that on a particular shift there will be either a decent vein of fiberplast, or a decent vein of polymer close by, and just any old metal there is there. That right there will meet like 75% of your harvesting needs as a tailor.
NJ62
Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:58 pm
#6
If I want to harvest, what I do is see what plast is on the planet, and then wait until it shifts. On day 1 of the shift, I slap down a bunch of chems on the highest concentration of plast I can find near my house and harvest the whole shift. That will last me for 4 months. Rinse repeat that process for each resource you need. Now if I get low on something, I just spend 1 week mining it, and I'm done. It's SO much easier to only be mining one resource at a time because it's less to keep track of.
hakk
Sun Aug 01, 2004 2:58 am
#7
If you can earn back the credits you spent on buying resources, with a little profit, then it's worth buying. But if not, I think you should harvest. I harvest myself and as N'Jessi said, it only takes about one week to get enough to last for months.
Lexiah
Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:58 am
#8
I buy all my resources, because like others, I am too lazy to survey and harvest.
I have a regular supplier who brings the resources to me and sells them for 2 cpu.
It's great not having to do it! 
NJ62
Sun Aug 01, 2004 6:56 am
#9
Another option is to harvest basics and buy the items you need in small quantity. For example, I would mine my own plast, but I would buy amorphous gemstone because I only needed a little, and it was too much of a hassle to mine it for the 1000 units I needed.
Also, you do want to mine your own specific materials such as thoraneum steel, titanium aluminum, plexite gems, and green diamond gems - you can't guarantee that miners will think to get some of those materials for sale.
Also, you do want to mine your own specific materials such as thoraneum steel, titanium aluminum, plexite gems, and green diamond gems - you can't guarantee that miners will think to get some of those materials for sale.
Songe
Sun Aug 01, 2004 9:29 am
#10
I harvest everything, like N'Jessi, I just watch for the first day of a shift and put a few harvesters there, it will last me forever... I buy the less common stuff like gemstones as I don't use much at all.
The problem with clothes is that, as you can sell them for maybe 5 to 10 cpu, it's not worth it much if you pay anything more than 1 cpu for your resources. For hides, I don't pay more than 3 cpu when I have to get some, but most of them are harvested as well.
Aibyouka
Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:52 am
#11
I harvest all my mineral stuff and I've worked out a nice system for hide and bone as well with combat classes on my server. It helps to keep my costs down too. Since we can use any quality material, except on wookie pillows, laying a harvester down on a nice site for a week pulls in a nice stockpile. Also it saves all the time of running around looking for resource vendors. No middle man. 
Neela Darkstar
Master Tailor/Master Artisian/Master Weaponsmith
co-founder of Darkstar Industries
protector of Squishy the purple wookie pillow
-1019 -3633
1400m NW of Coronet (Valcyn)
Kirranas
Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:42 pm
#12
Well I used to harvest everything even hides but my own demand ment i could not keep up so I buy my hides now and harvest the rest even the power to run them. I invested in the really big harvestors they cant pull a heck of a lot out of the ground, with the 5-6 on a 90% spot I can get 200k out before moving them. In a week I can harvest enough to last for months but what I tend to do is sell of some to cover the costs of the mining. I figure while it is a bit more work the resources cost around 0.2 - 0.5 cpu I can still sell them at 1 cpu and recover my costs.
I guess a lot of it comes down to time, I think people assume it takes of work to mine but its does not. You just have to find a place to locate them, stick enough power and cash in them to run a week and check them after 4 days to empty them. Then pull them up after a week.
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