All this U.A. stuff

[jebrighton]

I am beginning to wonder if any good money can be made with these U.A. metals and minerals. I only collect about 3 on a good day and get minerals 4 to 1 over metals. I have one good blueprint for a product that sells for over 800 at Joes but the batch size is only 18. I have to be very lucky to find the metals needed and it would take a long time to even make 10 batches and that is only about 144K. Am I missing something here?

[MarcSp]

Well, you're ahead of me in this field, (I haven't even got a blueprint yet)
but I wouldn't be too quick to dump stuff off to Joes.
There is still more to come in this area, so that stuff may become very valuable in the future.
CS is supremely cheap, this is something I'd be hoarding for now.

[pikolinianita]

I bet there is Terovite Gas blueprint somewhere, or even Rhodenon

[sidewinder fang]

Or you could just sell the AU metals and minerals instead, I hear they're going for 200K each now

[king david]

you could sell them to me

[XPLODE]

you could sell them to me

It's a trap!

[jcheung]

I have one good blueprint for a product that sells for over 800 at Joes but the batch size is only 18.

do i dare ask what you have been selling to joe's?

[Coops]

I am beginning to wonder if any good money can be made with these U.A. metals and minerals. I only collect about 3 on a good day and get minerals 4 to 1 over metals. I have one good blueprint for a product that sells for over 800 at Joes but the batch size is only 18. I have to be very lucky to find the metals needed and it would take a long time to even make 10 batches and that is only about 144K. Am I missing something here?

Perhaps this thread : viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1154 makes the point that of course its worth it. But like anything in CE what you get out of something is closely tied to what you put in.

There are currently just over 7,000 UA Minerals & Metals in players ships holds. That's since the initial release. Some players are working very hard to collect the resources and research the Patterns. (Lets not confuse new players with Patterns and Blueprints guys). We have players dabbling like yourself with a 'Few Patterns' and some with close to 50.

The forge and researching patterns is NOT an overnight thing and is something to work at over time. The spoils have begun to be realised by a few players hence posts like the one I linked.

But to answer your initial question - Not everything in CE is about making money. The forge is not there to make players rich it's there to fill a niche. That may not be for you, but you may have to look beyond a single Pattern and think bigger.

Coops

[jebrighton]

My main point is there is not enough out there to do anything useful. If I mine for 45 minutes and get only 2 of these items, what good is it. Heck, I get that many crystals sometimes. Now, if I got 10-15, I could get excited about them.

[Coops]

The UA resources are treated in the same loot tree as Crystals, the fact you haven't found that many is NOT the fault of the game, its luck. If 7,000 + of these have fallen into players laps so far I fail to see there is a Major issue here.

They are on the same game mechanic as the other 'goodies' that drop just mixed in with them like any new add we place in the loot system utilising that system. Players obviously ARE finding them so perhaps you need to talk to them.

Coops