EQ2 Crafting - Reliance on other players isn't going to work

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I want to make the newest item available to me after my level up. But
I need an item I cannot make.

Browsing the market there a few people selling them ... for 15sp.
Seems excessive to me. I browse for the item that I want to make to
see it selling for as low as 5sp.

The inter-dependancy on other players in order to craft is not going
to work.

Cheers,

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Fazza <gjf_fazza@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:46jor012vuli6v28vrehs1phq7fbtidmi0@4ax.com:

> I want to make the newest item available to me after my level up. But
> I need an item I cannot make.
>
> Browsing the market there a few people selling them ... for 15sp.
> Seems excessive to me. I browse for the item that I want to make to
> see it selling for as low as 5sp.
>
> The inter-dependancy on other players in order to craft is not going
> to work.
>

That scenario will not become commonplace. There is a great amount of flux
in the crafted items market right now as it is in its infancy. The market
will stabalize.

What *won't* work is trying to come to any viable conclusions on the market
trends of a given game's economy after only a month.

--
Rumble

"The floggings will continue until morale improves."
-- Blackbeard

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ChrisB wrote:
> Fazza wrote:

>> The inter-dependancy on other players in order to craft is not going
>> to work.

> Why not? inter-dependancy on other people/companies works in real
> life.

Yes -- at least until the item you want isn't profitable to make
or the item you want is too costly to buy and allow you to be
profitable. That's where EQ2 is *right now.*

> Also, I haven't played eq2 yet, but why can't you either
> accquire it yourself or from the trade societies?

"Acquire it yourself" means buy it from someone else -- you
CAN'T make it yourself, at least after obtaining a decent
level. The tradeskill merchants don't sell everything. EQ2
*forces* player interaction, especially on tradeskills. You
can go out and kill things perfectly well without some classes
(like scouts, for instance) or even solo. You can NOT
"solo" tradeskills, at least after you need components from
other players skilled 11+...

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On the calendar, in the box marked 12/12/2004 5:59 AM ^ Fazza scratched:

> I want to make the newest item available to me after my level up. But
> I need an item I cannot make.
>
> Browsing the market there a few people selling them ... for 15sp.
> Seems excessive to me. I browse for the item that I want to make to
> see it selling for as low as 5sp.
>
> The inter-dependancy on other players in order to craft is not going
> to work.
>
> Cheers,
>

Don't give it up completely yet. A lot of folks are forming
relationships with others as cross-suppliers for just this reason.
People will figure out soon enough that trying to market your interim
pieces as if this were the EQ1 bazaar isn't going to work.

Make some noise in the crafting channel and see if there are people out
there willing to do some trading. If I recall correctly, you should
have some items that others will need for their finished products. It
is, after all, a *trade* craft. ;-)

Inyidd
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