Another thing to keep in mind about crafting. Crafting itself is going to be a slow burn to hell. No matter how lucky you may be, over time it will eat your ped card to zero. If you want to profit from it, you must be VERY good at it AND make stuff people want to buy. In other words, doing the explosive projectile prints may give you leaps and jumps here and there but in the end you will find your skills are up but your ped card at zero.
Now, to craft stuff people want, you need the materials, so have to stockpile those. That can tie up hundreds of peds in materials. Remember what Ant said about patience and waiting for a deal. Those deals come but generally in huge quantities. You got your lyst at 101 percent? Good deal!! But you had to buy 800 ped of it to get it at that deal. Now that money is tied up. You want to craft Basic Bobble Heads, but the market is currently down on them a bit, so you have to hoard them away in your storage until the market comes back up on them to sell them. In the meantime you are going to craft widgets because the market is UP on them, but oh wait, those need curmudgeon dust.. time to goto slug's shop and see if he dropped any
. Now that's another ingredient you have invested and tucked away for future use.
For a very beginner, you can do with a hundred ped or so and run the EP I print and be fine but once you get into serious crafting it's going to take a lot of ped.
I liken this to those who want to be traders. I often ask them, do you have 1000 ped or so to tie up? Because you will end up with hundreds of small piles of crap you bought, waiting for one of them to get big enough to sell, then start the process over. If you got reliable people to buy from you in person, that helps but those can be hard to find that are not already 'committed' to someone else.
Also, prints are labeled level I Level 2 etc do NOT let that fool you. Some of those prints are genuinely a real pain in the ass and advance very slowly. typically the prints for the stuff people want.... gee go figure. To get a print from 1.0 qr to 100 qr you may literally put 25k to ive heard 150k clicks onto it.
Lets do some raw math. According to MA there is a 95 percent return. Let's pretend this is truthful.
25k clicks on an EP I at .02 ped a click is 500 ped cycled. your projected loss is 25 ped. IF you happen to hit everything at the 'right time'. Ive lost more than that on ONE run of those prints... yes things go bad at times. Now if you happened to craft something with a 115 percent markup, you might be able to get some of this back... and if you are good, maybe even enough to pay for your run. But you have to wait for it to sell at the Auction House etc etc, ie... money tied up.
We are not trying to discourage you but just to let you know that crafting is NOT for the feint of heart. Yes it's easy to do but is difficult to do profitably. Mining you can see some patterns in once you learn the quirks there and work them to your advantage, hunting you can kind of 'pattern' mobs that are hot. Crafting, not so much.
I do want to say this though, Crafting, we got a butt ton of machines all over the Hub, one in each tower, and one in the main crater. If you are having a bad run on a machine MOVE!!!! Don't sit there dumping even more ped into a crap run, go try a different machine. From my experience YES it CAN make a big difference which machine you use. Picking which is hot or not, well..... that's part of what you need to learn
Good luck and if there is any help you need, please do not hesitate for a second to ask me in game or in forum.
sluggo
