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I am inclined to agree with the difficulty of doing low level tradeskills in the present day, especially Research.
Seven years ago, none of us had much cash and Research pages were sold to vendors, or if sold player to player, for a few gold or a plat or two.
I have revived some old characters I started seven years ago recently and have been trying to work on their Research, but I am finding that without significant hunting solely for pages and pieces (working on a Mage and a Necro), I simply cannot afford to do the Research with what those characters can earn. Items that I could find on an NPC vendor for 3 plat are being sold in the Bazaar for 300, and some of the rare Words I recall saving to sell to Researchers seven years ago for huge totals in excess of 10 plat are going for a thousand now.
It does come down to supply and demand, since people are interested in Research now that there is the high level Research available, but the low level players are the ones paying for it. A young Necro was begging anybody to sell her a Word she needed for her 24 pet for less than the 1400 the only copy available in the Bazaar was going for.
Actually trying to practice Research is even worse for those who do not have high level characters bankrolling the Researcher. Competing with people who literally can spend tens of thousands of plat without noticing it to raise Research skill while the lower level Researchers are hunting for the few plat the lower level mobs drop (and they do drop huge amounts of money commpared to what many of us saw at those levels, but not enough to afford the prices lower level Research components are selling for) is not even realistic.
And what does the low level Researcher do? He lives hand to mouth trying to afford his spells and hopes he can luck out and get enough drops to hire somebody else to make his spells for him, since he probably will not be able to maintain his Research skill beyond level 20 or so to make his own.
Seven years ago, none of us had much cash and Research pages were sold to vendors, or if sold player to player, for a few gold or a plat or two.
I have revived some old characters I started seven years ago recently and have been trying to work on their Research, but I am finding that without significant hunting solely for pages and pieces (working on a Mage and a Necro), I simply cannot afford to do the Research with what those characters can earn. Items that I could find on an NPC vendor for 3 plat are being sold in the Bazaar for 300, and some of the rare Words I recall saving to sell to Researchers seven years ago for huge totals in excess of 10 plat are going for a thousand now.
It does come down to supply and demand, since people are interested in Research now that there is the high level Research available, but the low level players are the ones paying for it. A young Necro was begging anybody to sell her a Word she needed for her 24 pet for less than the 1400 the only copy available in the Bazaar was going for.
Actually trying to practice Research is even worse for those who do not have high level characters bankrolling the Researcher. Competing with people who literally can spend tens of thousands of plat without noticing it to raise Research skill while the lower level Researchers are hunting for the few plat the lower level mobs drop (and they do drop huge amounts of money commpared to what many of us saw at those levels, but not enough to afford the prices lower level Research components are selling for) is not even realistic.
And what does the low level Researcher do? He lives hand to mouth trying to afford his spells and hopes he can luck out and get enough drops to hire somebody else to make his spells for him, since he probably will not be able to maintain his Research skill beyond level 20 or so to make his own.
of the 85th order of Brave New World on AB (VS refugee) 
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