Weaponsmith Archive

Hi

Kind of new to the proffession and having a hard time figuering out what resources are rare and what is not, some of the resources I need have not been ín shift for 100 days + .. is this normal ?? My biggest fear atm, is that one of these rareresources are in shift now and I am to much of rookie to know about it, and will failt to gather enough tosurvive the long periods when its not in shift.

Also a more stupid question I guess but when a nice resource appears how do you manage to gather it all. Perhaps I dont know how much is normal to have in stock. I know that it all comes down to how much you produce but in a normal case. is 500k of a specifc resource enough to survive a longer period of time ?.

Atm several nice resources are currently in shift and I have 14 Heavy harvester working on it, but I find it hard to know when to stop and shift myharvesters to another resource, and how to concentrate my resource gathering.

Any tips would be appricated.

Not to rub your nose in poo, but my server, Bria, has been getting hit with some NICE stuff lately. I can barely keep up.

You should go to swgcraft.com and in the downloads section find Fooman's WS tool. It will help you immensely. It will be your silent partner that does all the thinking while you earn all the money in your WSbusiness.

After a while you get a feel for what's "rare." Like for the longest time Bria was without Ryll gems. Then they spawned like 3 times in2 months. Good Mythra copper for Jawas hasn't spawned in a looong time. The stuff we're getting for the past few monthseither has good CD or high OQ but not BOTH.

I command 30 lots. I character holds the houses, factories,and the other two have harvesters and 1 round naboo hous each (residency in a city). That basically leaves me with 18 lots to use as I please. I normally pick up on a resource within 1-2 days of spawn and toss 3 or 4 heavies on it for a week depending on %. In that time I pull around 300-400k units. It'smore then plantyfor personal use until something better comes along. That is in times like now where there are six different resources spawning now that are better than what I have. In idler times when there's maybe 2 or 3 I will toss six down on a resource. Then I will sell off the extra 300k or so.

The good thing about Weaponsmithing is 100k of something will last you eons longer than it will for say an architect.

Hehe, yeah it's rather shocking going from architect to weaponsmith. When I go to do a factory run of ABPHs or Vibro Knucklers, I double check my math when figuring how many units of resources to put in the factory. It always looks like too small a number. 500 steel? As a large scale architect, I could fairly easily use 500 THOUSANDsteel in a decent factory run.

Thank you all for your awnser, I will look both that tool and thepost up

Hopefully I will manage to sort things out .