I always wondered what the point was for putting replicatable items on the exchange, priced higher than what it costs to replicate them...
Is it just a way of asking for an EC handout? It's the only thing that makes sense. Why would anyone pay 100EC for one unit of synthale when they can get it from their replicator for 20EC.
Now if I get synthale as part of a loot drop, I will post it on the exchange for 19 EC/unit. It didn't cost me anything to get it, so I don't mind letting it go for less than what it costs to replicate. I'd be making a tiny profit while saving my fellow player a tiny bit. But to charge more than it costs to replicate seems unethical to me...
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i made my first 50 million .. back in the days
when Star Trek online was still young
i just ran back and forth between vendor and exchange
Now items earned thru Duty Officer missions like Ferasan Napala Leaves, Unrefined Ketracel, or those types of items I certainly have no issue if people want 2500-5000 or more for some of them. Lockbox items people should also try to get the best price they can for them.
I'm just saying it's far easier to make 750,000 or more just spending 15 minutes doing Tour the Galaxy if you have Fleet Impulse Engines or Omega or Borg Impulse.
Although I will say I am greatly thankful to the KIND SOULS who post there Data Chips from the Academy or New Romulus they can't use so someone else can earn the accolade.
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My comment was simply pointing out people who do that while in my opinion perhaps are less morally based; why waste your time when you can make 750,000 energy credits or more doing Tour the Galaxy in 15 minutes. How much money will you make selling a 20, 50, 100, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1500 item for 2x-25x the price you paid if limited to 40 items and how long will it take to sell? Be lucky if you made 50,000 - 100,000 after spending hours when you could have done Tour the Galaxy in 15 minutes and made 750,000 or more.
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Frankly I make 30-200mil ec a day depending what I'm up to how long I have and how the day goes... I can't be bothered to run to a vendor to fill a project. If my buying a few things at double the vendor price helps some new player out so be it.
I can't imagine anyone who has been working the exchange for ages hasn't found more lucrative angles.
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Also, a few replicator items are (or used to be) faction-specific. Bloodwine and gagh are not plentiful on Earth Spacedock.
sides it's all about convenience.... if your looking for something and your at the exchange... look for it there than close out and open a new window and then go back... "time is money, friend"
Tour, eh?
smh.
The opportunity cost of a 5 minute detour to get to the vendor and back far surpasses the slightly marked up cost of buying them off the exchange; after all, the mark up is the what someone else's time is worth to them. Going by the asking prices, there seem to be a whole lot of folks who value their time significantly less than I value mine.
I did this too. It was ridiculous, and profitable.
Was talking more in a generic sense. If I need something for any project doff base whatever if I have to run to a vendor I don't bother, stacks of little piddly TRIBBLE isn't worth running around over was my point.
Same is true of white duty officers which projects do take... do I bother running to the Sol Acc to break doffs down to white or what have you... or do I just open the exchange and buy a bunch. EC isn't a big deal to some of us and if I can save 10 min just hitting buy a few times where I'm already standing I do.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'