Weaponsmith Archive

Formulas do not work. Period. There is no point in trying to come up with one, because they don't work.

First off, you typed 1000 instead of 100.

Second, the values are completely out of whack and no sane, competent weaponsmith would sell at what this formula gives.

/agree

The best way to price weapons is to look around and see how other MWS are pricing their weapons, and then price yours accordingly.

Slim Vargo, Corbantis

If you must have a formula just use 50cpu rate as the base. This would be for a 10 point smith that has relatively good resources. Basing it off the damage of the weapon will probably never work since you will be loosing money on alot of weapons and overcharging on others.

If your a non master using inferior resources then there is no formula that will work, since the weapons have very little value. For me as a 12 point smith, who stocks every weapon in the game with the best resources ever to spawn on our server I charge around 75cpu for most weapons, but more on the gas guzzler's like T21's and Jawa Ion Rifles.

As has been posted many times. People are not just paying for the weapon you are selling. Honestly price is one of the last things people even check on a weapon. They want availability, quality and easy access to your vendors. Remember those rules of business and you will do well. Try to lowball all the smiths on your server and they will just laugh as you burn out in a month or run out of your good resources by underpricing.

Good luck on your pricing scheme, hope you figure one out that works.

Armani -- Corbantis

Armani's Designer Weapons - Naboo, Theed -3995 5347 - Tatooine, Bestine -1875 -3940

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ImaTwilek wrote:

For most of the firearms that use ABPH I count it as 1K for each ABPH they require. Add 500 for every adv scope, and adv stock, then add 5K for every AP level.

eg

D18 = 1 ABPH(1000)+ 1 Adv scope(500) = 1500

DX2 = 4 ABPH(4000) + 1 Adv scope(500) + AP1(5000) = 9500

Laser carbine = 3 ABPH(3000) + 1 Adv scope(500) + AP2(10000) = 13500

T21= 10 ABPH(10000) + 1 Adv scope(500) + Avd Stock(500) + AP3(15000)= 26000

Of course, if you have enough resources, especially the rare Ryll, Green Diamond, Rainbow, Atlantium Carbonate Ore, Crism Siliclastic Ore, etc. This was my original plan, but i settled on comparing around and chose the average between the high and low.

Heavy weapons, special heavy weapons, and melee, you'll have to just maintain a price list.

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heh btw whit your formula you will be selling Rocket launcers for umm 20k I bet that all commandos and merchants would be doing buyout on them as soon you stock. be it only 10 or 100