Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Do any of you smiths Just tinker?
Zetter wrote:
Thanks for all responses on this it is interesting to see the view points being split. However just to stir the debate a little I will add that im only running two harvester and will have some time to devote over the next couple of months to finding those perfect resources maybe 2 per week or so. I have consulted the help pages on this so I have an idea on what I need as far as quality goes.
Also on a bit of a side issue dont you think the collecting of resources has become a little easier with JTLS as travel is free and having that miner on Endor is not the crippeling burden it was as Ijust jump im my trusty A wing and fly over for free! Dont take my previous post the wrong way im not dabbeling to a minor extent im just going to be a very slow accumulator of quality resources. I do have patience though as I have been a master ranger lol.
two harvestors is not going to cut it. I do ONLY custom orders. I have no vendor and never will. I hate the idea of spending all my spare time crafting and harvesting just so i can supply a vendor that requires constant attention.
The key to successfully pull off what your trying to do, is simply to be good at what you do. I make some of the best weapons on our server, but I never have and never will stock a vendor with loads of normal weapons, for two reasons. The first reason i won't run a normal weapons vendor is that it will simply take up too much of my time doing something that I don't enjoy(I enjoy making custom weapons, I dont' enjoy making factory runs). The second reason is that personally I feel normal weapons are a waste of the top end resources that I use. I spent a significant amount of time and money to get my resource collection and my tapes, etc... and to blow through that for weapons that are only base damage is just very irritating to me, and it feels like a complete waste of my time and effort to collect. I have resources that date back to the original release of the game and could not imagine putting them into normal weapons even if it does slightly increase their stats.
if you only have two lots to work with on your characters then you will need the help of your guildies to succeed(or do cross server exchanges, though they can potentially be risky). It's not so much that you can't get all the different resources you need, because they usually only spawn one or two ata time, however when they do spawn you will want to gather as much as you can while it's here. you could collect some resources with just your two harvies but it won't last long if your planning on doing much crafting. And if your not planning on doing that much crafting then you probably should consider working with a custom order smith instead of becoming one yourself.
I started working on Weaponsmith around December of 2003, and mastered it mid-January. However, I was already harvesting resources for the profession, and had been since August with an alt. It took me a good 6 months from the time I mastered WS to the point that I had a stockpile of quality resources to make 90% of my schematics that could compare with the other MWS's on the server. (It took that long for a decent spawn of Ostrine Carbonate Ore to come up, so I could make ABPHs. I still to this day do not make munitions, deciding long ago that it was going to be too much trouble.) During this time, I had an active fleet of 9 heavy mineral harvesters tied to my account (mobile, to follow the spawns, plus an assortment of heavy chems, gas, flora farms and Fusions to substitute in as needed, depending on the spawn,) plus 3 medium houses, 6 factories, 12 static BER10 medium harvesters and 6 BER9 wind harvesters that I had access to via lot-swaps with friends.
In short, it took 6 months of INTENSIVE harvesting, hunting for the best of the best resources, before I could equal the established MWS's on the server (especially due to the infrequent spawn rate of some of the most important resources that make up advanced components. I'm still stretching my stockpile of Irolunn Gas that spawned on Lowca over a year ago.) Not to take the wind out of your sails, but you are going to be very disappointed with your results if you pursue harvesting resources in the manner you are describing.
-Cael
Message Edited by Caelestra on 01-05-2005 07:39 PM