Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: How much does everyone make a day
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Well that depends on how much you charge mostly doesnt it.
200k+ per weapon thats a small turnover
5k+ per weapon thats huge..
I make more than enough to pay for everything I use and watch my money climb.. The rest is classified.
Weaponsmiths all ready cop a bad rap for being the richest people on the server, having a post whereby Weaponsmiths can verify to the general public how much money they make is just crazy.
Lets just say Im selling anywhere from 30-40 weapons per day, a lot of which are mulitples to Slicers, and I make enough money to buy what resources I cant harvest, with change left over.
Biggins77,
On my server there are about 100 weaponsmiths and the new holo grind has made that even worse. I have horded every quality material I could find, buy, harvest, or barter. I believe I make the best weapon I can.The huge number of resources I must have at my disposal because of the myriad of different resources needed to make the weapons. I must maintain two buildings for storage and all the harvesters I can throw down. I purchase the power to operate these harvesters from local vendors. My weapons sell nicely and I find myself very busy on a daily basis. The large number of smiths already on the server have driven prices down quite abit.
So all that being said; It costs me about 120k a week to own and operate my business with 5 vendors stocked on two different planets. I must sell about 20 low end weapons to make this number and melee weapons are almost a break even transaction. I can not speak for other weaponsmiths and surely not for other servers but I am not a multi-millionair. If I had it to do all over again I would have went with armorsmith. There are alot fewer of them on the server, they need 20X less different resources to collect, and they make a killing on each peice they sell. I have personally watched them go from nothing to 10 million plus credits in a week and work a hell of a lot less for it. <--- not a flame, just advice
Sincerely,
there are undercutters on every server. lol i have another store right next to mine that sells stuff for cheaper then me but the numbers he has arent the same. i do have to say i am very lucky with my dantoonie location. it is 5 meters outside the imp outpost. back in the day you could build houses that close to the imp outpost. they have since changed that. and i have been collecting krayt tissue for a long time now and have a house full of them. inow have a krayt weapons vendor in 2 of my stores and the krayt weapons sell very well. i do see more and more weaponsmiths everyday but a majority of them will nto stick with it. they are at a severe disadvantage with resources. i have had several people on my server claim to be the next great weaponsmith then quit because they cant keep up with anything.half way decent irolun gas hasnt spawned on my server for about 3 months now, and by half way decnet i mean oq of 700 which is still not good at all.
as far as the armor smiths go there is a huge difference between the number of armorsmiths then weaponsmiths. i was goin to take up armor but you have to make to many differt things to make 1 suit of armor. i cant be bothered with multiple factory runs. and to me making strong weapons beats making armor any day of the week.
I usually sell 30-40 weapons a day or so, making 200-500k on average depending on whether i just stocked 100 scout blasters or 50 t-21's. Some days I get big spikes, when some guild will come in and buy all my rifles or something, 750k-1mil on those days.
I don't have the time to make a ton of weapons and ergo a ton of cash, gets too tedious. I price in the 3, 6, 9, 12, 16, 24k range (Laser carbines are 9k unsliced) , based on the number of powerhandlers/resources/parts in an item and Imainly sell unsliced gear, my sliced stuff i scale based on slice: A35% dam slice gets a 100% increase in price typically, while 35% speed slice puts the weapon up around 33% more.
I run 10 harvs, 4 facs,4 houses, 4 vendors and 2 generators.
I think I like the metrics that people have used, so I'll follow that suit.
I sell 30-75 weapons per day, not including special orders. My outfit currently runs:
Permanently: 4 Vendors, 2 Medium houses, 20 harvesters, 3 factories.
Contract Basis: 4 additional harvesters, 2 factories.
My permanent structures I do monthly maintenance on, the mobiles I do weekly. I clear a profit that generally lets me bid on what things I feel I need, and buy what I want. I tend to be conservative in my outlays so that I never dip below a certain mark, though I dipped into that cash reserve this week when I overhauled half y harvester fleet to Rate 13s, and bought 20K of an antique resource spawn.
It's a healthy business, though I'm at the point of looking for apprentices because I can smell the edges of burnout in the air .
I probably gross about 100K a day, but if I count in my 'grind' costs and the costs sunk into my resource collection, I'm probably around 10 million in the hole vs. if I had just sold the resources. Being a weaponsmith requires a huge initial investment in both time and money. But I'm a weaponsmith because I enjoy crafting more than combat, and IMO experimentation counts for more in WS than any other profession. If I wanted to be 'rich', I could just sell all my extinct resources and walk away with millions...of worthless digital credits, lol.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis