Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Do you support sliced weapons on vendors?
Aajax wrote:
Well they usually charge extosionate prices for them anyway....Like T21's with about 520 max sliced go for 1.6 million on most vendors that sell sliced items. So for a pretty normal slice i can buy 80 Rifles. And get them all sliced and end up with about 10 520max rifles for 1.6mill.... I saw a vendor with 212max nym VK's for 380k each....Normal price is 7500 on the vendor.... I could buy 50 VK's for that and get myself about 8 of them for 380k lol... Now just detract the 5k per slice % and you will still end up with about 5x more of the same high damage/speed weapon for the silly price AS charge...
Before you flame - NOT ALL WS do it.
Same with anyone who sells stuff on a vendor. If an ite, sells for 1 million on the forums. They put it for 1.5 mill on the vendor...strange eh!
First of all, if someone is charging exhorbitant (think that's the word you were looking for) prices for sliced weapons, by all means don't buy from them and find someone more reasonably priced or buy a crate of T-21's and get them sliced. I sell 33% and better T-21's (543 max and up)for 300-400k but I sell poor dmg or speed slices for less than the unsliced cost so it evens out. Furthermore, we sell unsliced as well so there's no room to complain about our sliced prices, if you don't like them just buy unsliced and get them sliced on your own.
As for the VK's, those are obviously Nym's enhanced VK's, so you're never going to find them for 7.5k credits, because the smith has to pay someone for the High Powered Vibro Motors. I pay 100k each for the HPVM's, and half of them speed slice which renders them fairly worthless, so if you saw a pair of 212 max for 380k and you thought it was a ripoff then you don't know what you are talking about. You can slice a million unenhanced vk's and you'll never hit 212 max because normal vk's top out at about 198 with a 35 slice (based on 147 max). Instead of complaining about the high price of enhanced vks, why don't you just go to Lok and loot some yourself and take them to a WS to craft. He'll probably want a share of the motors to compensate for his time and materials but you could probably get as many as you are willing to loot this way.
Message Edited by StrandedonEarth on 03-23-2005 09:32 PM
Message Edited by boceifus2000 on 03-24-2005 06:58 AM