Tailor Archive

So many people stated ease of making money from missions as a reason for inflating their prices, I was just wondering now that this has been "nerfed" will you be dropping your prices accordingly?

How about Armor Smiths?

Weapon Smiths?

What do you think?

My prices have never been high to begin with, so nope. Probably not.

I sell my master stuff for 10-15k, they arnt going to go lower.

I think people should pay higher prices for elite clothes, if we make them cheaper they wouldnt have the same neatness about them.

They lowered destroy missions, but the new explorer terminal hunting missions pay as much as 15-20k to go kill a set number of a type of mob (depends on level of who takes them, but I'm gettling lvl 11 missions as high as 9k, my regular hunting partner with a few more combat boxes was getting them at 17k). These are on the starter planets. Some pay less, but still more than normal destroy missions, just to kill 15 greed yard trash mobs. They may take a little longer, but you can take a destroy mission for the same type of mob as the hunting mission and still make that money, too. If the nerf bat comes swinging at these missions, maybe the economy will change. Overall, though, it looks like we're going to see more money coming in. Dantooine lvl 35 missions jumped from 3-4k to the 10k range, and those are missions I can do (with my tailor) in a 3 person group.

OH for an edit button, make that 15 green yard trash mobs

I raised my prices. I am still quite low.

RbT

Even if mission payouts are lower across the board, including the new mission types, it doesn't really change things much in the short to medium term. The galactic money supply is still way, way, too high. There's still a ton of money out there; it's really only the rate of increase that's getting lowered. So there's probably no great need for most crafters to change prices yet, save perhaps on "entry-level" items aimed at newer players.

No.

I went out and tried the new mission types last night and ended up makingmore thanthree times what I make in an evening of tailoring... and that's only at tier IV marksman! A weapon specialist at the same level as I am in tailoring could easily clear2-10 times as much.

In essence, it's costing me 2/3 of my potential income to sit around making clothes for other players when I could be out running missions for payouts only slightly less bloated than they used to be.

I'm torn between increasing my prices to reflect economic reality and just closing up shop and letting the fighters go naked while I get my share of the fat mission pie. If the incentive to craft is so much lower than the incentive to fight, why bother?

It's not our prices that are inflated. It's your expectations.

Since I never based my money in mission income to begin with I'm not lowering my prices either. But it is interesting to see that those that supposedly do base it on that don't either.

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YukonSam wrote:

If the incentive to craft is so much lower than the incentive to fight, why bother?

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Because you're not crafting to make the most money the fastest... you're crafting to craft. If you don't like crafting for its own sake then indeed, why bother?

- A. Kimusume

I play the game to do what I enjoy, which happens to be making things... and I confess with some reluctance, I prefer to make PRETTY things (point, laugh and snicker if you must, but it's true. I love colors and textures).

But other players are doing what they enjoy too - pointing their boomsticks at animals and people and making them fall down dead - and they're getting compensated at a much, MUCH greater rate than I am for what I enjoy doing.

Until that essential inequity is addressed, I shall continue to charge as much as I can possibly get. I love crafting, but providing welfare for the rich is not my bag, baby.

As long as clothing doesn't decay, and players have no reason other than whimsy to make repeat purchases, I don't see any reason to lower my prices.

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