Tailor Archive

Aynianu's pretty much got it square on.

Tailor's have a key advantage over other crafters in that we don't need to worry a lot about the statistics of items, i.e. how high they are, for schematics (except maybe the Armor Padding but that's rarely made). That makes us a big-turn off for the larger quality resource vendors - The only traders that'd be interested in dealing with Tailors are pretty much rookies or hologrinder resource vendors. Having said that, Tailors would rarely need the amounts that HGRs sell - However, new players can find selling resource to Tailors fairly lucrative at the start because we'd literally buy up most poor organic & chemical resources

That gives us a fair advantage however in that we don't need to pay for daylight robbery. In essence, we will look for the worst cheapest resources. Only problem is that most guilded Tailors will usually get a lot of resources from their guilds either in spare unusable resources or by them actively going out and grabbing it - I asked some of my guild to get a few resources so I could make them guild uniforms back in June - I'm still going through the pile.

As for BE clothing, you'd really have to strike gold to make a killing in them because there isn't an impressive amount of Tailors who'd make a lot of BE clothing (I'd rarely make it myself).

And as for loot schems, there's a saying for quite a few Farstar tailors - Buy low, sell high. That's because the Crafter's Aprons in particular have very little demand (and let's not talk about the demands for the Tailor-type Apron... ) since they were started. As a result, very few Tailors will buy a load of schematics for a worthwhile (let alone inflated) price because it's not worth buying an expensive schematic when no-one will buy the results. This impacts on the demand for HDCs and HDLs - What is a Tailor going to use them for when they don't bother with the loot schems?

Sorry to burst a bubble but for many trying to make a killing from Tailors is like selling ice to the residents of Hoth - The only ones I could imagine making a killing are new players from Tailors (who'd buy cheap) or veteran players from new Tailors(who don't have the stockpiled stuff and older Tailors will).

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Of course there is buisness, but many do not consider it worthwhile to have tailors in mind when stocing vendors, as we basicly use grind resources for everything.

Few rangers for instance will harvest hides for a tailor, a tailor wont pay the 90cpu that ive seen AS buy wooly hides for recently (bought some for my alt infact)

Most my resources i buy cheaply from the bazaar for upto 3 cpu, nothing id pay more for except for hides which id pay upto 10cpu, but usually a lot less, also i try to find the biggest stacks of same resource as possible.

As far as BE tissues go, tailor tissues are not a big seller, especially on our server (as i see your on farstar too), there is few of us tailors around, and most of us probably have a regular BE we get tissues from anyway. Focusing on Tailor tissues would not be wise, but a BE who wishes to produce the full rangeof his wares would sell a fair few i am sure, especially if he attracts a regular tailor who is fairly busy.

Heavy Duty Leathers, Clasps and Crystaline Clothing Treatments are plentifull on bazaar and cheap.

Schematics, are hard to sell, i thought they may be worth more over time as fewer come into the economy, but with so many people having been unable to sell them in the past or just not bothering too, there is excess really, i expect there will be tailors who buy them, but not at the prices many combat people expect for them when they compare the price to weapon schematics and such

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