Crafting Store Closed

Last night, several of the Admirals and I made the decision to close the Store.

If you go to the Store now, you'll see the message telling you why we decided to do such. We're currently out of many of the Particle Traces. These are the Rare data samples that are only procured by completing the Scanning mini-game.

This brings up an important issue. The Crafting Store runs on donations. We need these donations to make the orders and ship them out. Without the donations, we simply can not keep the Store up and running. We do charge Energy Credits for the items in the Store and we try very hard to keep these prices low and affordable to even beginning players.

If we had to buy all the samples that we need to complete orders, items would be much much more expensive and many, such as the Aegis set, would simply be unattainable by the majority of our member base. As it is, we have spent a large portion of the donations collected from the Store on purchasing samples that are seriously overpriced on the Exchange. We simply can't keep that up. We would run the Fleet broke trying to complete all the orders that come into the Store. While the purpose of the Store isn't specifically to generate funds, it does need to be self-sustaining.

My purpose in telling you this isn't to scare you off from using the Store. I love the Store. I think it's one of the nicest and most unique parts of this fleet; it's not something that most other fleet's have. I want all of you to have the ability to use and order from it. The benefits of the Store are two fold. Firstly, it allows those that need gear to buy it easily and cheaply and those that don't like crafting don't have to bother with it. Secondly, it gives those that do enjoy crafting the opportunity to do so and allows them a way to give back to the fleet. But for this to continue, we need help.

You can help in three ways:

First, when you do order from the Store, don't order Very Rare (purple items) unless you really need them. Very Rare items are four times the price of their Rare counterparts. This is due to their requirement of two or three Rare Particle Traces which truly are rare. By ordering Rare items, you lessen our demand on Rare particle traces and save yourself some dough.

Second, donate. When doing missions, take a few extra seconds, run over to that anomaly, scan it and do the mini-game. Once you have a good sized stack of data samples or particle traces, mail them to us (@bfelczer, @NicholasJohn16, or @Zeryon) and we'll take care of depositing them into the Crafting Corps fleet bank.

Third, come to a Data Samples Gathering Party or Cheesy Pop event. Every month, Admiral Bfelczer runs a Data Samples Gathering Party where you can come, help farm particles, listen to music and have a chance to win up to 1,000,000 Energy Credits. As well, @Spark88 has begun hosting 'Cheesy Pop,' where participants listen to the music their embarrassed to admit they love. Those that donate the most win song requests at the next Cheesy Pop event. Keep an eye on the Events page to see when the next one of these is coming up, such as tomorrow's Cheesy Pop event.

Your help and donations are deeply appreciated.

Finally, I'd just like to point out that the members of the Crafting Corp are volunteers. They volunteer their free time to complete and ship these orders. They don't get anything out of this, other than the satisfaction of giving back to the fleet. Please be kind and polite with Crafting Corp members. We complete orders on a first come, first served basis and they cannot make your order any faster than they already are. If you have any questions, feel free to ask @bfelczer, @NicholasJohn16, or @Zeryon. If you need a refund for an order, please contact us as soon as possible.

We will reopen the Store once we have completed all of our pending orders and have a decent stock pile to fill future orders.

Sincerely,
NicholasJohn16
Fleet Admiral

I want to donate particle samples, but with my wifi being almost famously sporadic, side trips to stations from my queued missions can be tricky. Is there a way I can send data samples off to you guys without having to travel to ESD etc to do so?

Also, which ones count as the rare and very rare particle traces, so I know which ones to send off?

Thanks
Peace
Whittier

To mail items, you have to go to a Starbase. All most all of the Starbases have mail consoles. I use Starbase 39 mainly because I feel it loads the fastest and there aren't many people there usually.

There are common Data Samples and rare Particle Traces. There are no Very Rare. The ones that we need the most are the Particle Traces, they have a blue rarity border.

Also, the rare traces that we are in need of most are, in this order: Chronometric, Vertion, and Antithoron.

Next up is Metreon.

As for the rest, we are doing okay on :)

farmeds for 2 hours tonight and got hardely any but will mail them when o recover from my self induced soma from fsrming.

I found a couple of traces yesterday by chance. It's not much but I'll donate them next time I'm online since I don't really use them at this point anyway.

spent 8 hours+ today farming and got loads, its a start to the road back. now im aware of how bad things are im gonna try and get things done more regualar to make sure the store never has tpo close, but we all need to get involved even if its only 1 or 2 a week it all adds up.

I would like to thank Reid (who has sent countless samples), flounder (who sent in 70 or so rares, 9 vert, 8 anti and 8 chrono) and everyone else who has been sending in and participating in the cheesy pop! We have an amazing fleet and you all are doing amazing helping us get the store back up and running :D

More from Kadajmeriell, MeatLoafMan, Mikedaxnv, and Khyfa! Thanks guys!!!

Thank you Lee and Nathan!!!

Thanks to Kahless for donating 100 Particle Traces and 1,491 Data Samples, including 16 Vertion Particle Traces, 5 Chronometric Particle Traces and 6 Antithoron Particle Traces!

Thanks Travis (oop) for all the rare samples!

Only 1 order is left that is needed to be filled :D I completed 3 tonight that called for over 40 chronometric. We are down to only 3 chrono left in the crafting bank. We do have 33 antithoron and 36 vertion.

Here is what is needed for the final 2 orders (so you all can see what we still need in donations):

ORDER 1 (#220)

COMMON SAMPLES:
60 tachyon wave signature (yellow atom)
60 exobilogical data (yellow triangle)
60 photonic technology (yellow flower)
300 unidentified substance (purple triangle)
240 chronometric wave signature (purple atom)
60 technical schematic (purple flower)

RARE SAMPLES/ PARTICLE TRACES:
1 Anyon rare sample
13 chronometric rare sample
1 methogenic rare sample
1 Dekyon rare sample
7 metreon rare sample
1 trianium rare sample
1 antithoron rare sample
1 beta-tachyon rare sample
1 duderon rare sample
30 vertion rare samples

SCHEMATICS:
1 Engine schematic
1 deflector schematic
1 ship shield schematic
2 dual beam bank schematic
4 beam array schematics
7 turret schematic
4 console schematic
3 torpedo schematic

= = = = = = = = = =

SOOOO, we really only need 10 chronometric samples and we will be done with the current orders and will be able to start stockpiling and reopen the store :cheer:

Thanks to @adamclark for the donation!

Thanks to Akrilon and Reid for their continued donations!

Thanks Commander88 for your donations!

Thanks ion.sol for the 4 chronos!!!!

Thanks to bill for his donations!!

Have to say, I'm very impressed by the generosity of our members :)

as a Proud member of the Crafting Corps, I would like to thank everyone for their generosity with donating samples. this just goes to show that even if you may not have an alt in the Crafting Corps Fleet, or even be a member of the group, that you are still all part of the Corps in some way. Thanks Everyone!