Ackbar Research & Development Corp.

[Sithheadhunter]

After many years working on Black Projects, Ackbar Research & Development Corp has surfaced from the depths to the light of day as Publicly traded company whose services are finally available to both the public and private sectors within the Empire.

The vaunted and mysterious board of directors are pleased to present to the public their two newest subsidiaries;
Galactic Geological Survey
Bespin Contract Drilling

Galactic Geological Survey, Inc. (GGS) is a commercially privately-owned scientific agency operating under legal permit and the authority of the Imperial government.
The scientists of the GGS study the landscape of the of various planets of the galaxy, its natural resources, and the natural cycling of therein.
The organization has four major science disciplines concerning:

Biology - Flora & Fauna Resources
Energy - Wind, Solar, Nuclear
Geology - Minerals, Gas, Chemicals
Hydrology - Water

The GGS is a research-for-profit , fact-finding organization with no regulatory responsibility.

The GGS science focus is directed at six topical "Mission Areas", namely;
(1) Current Resource availability, (2) Quality resource criteria establishment and selection, (3) Survey and locate high-yield concentrations, (4) Sampling, (5) Quality Verification, and (6) Mass Resource Recovery

Following approved plans , permits, mining contract agreements, and payment for survey services post GGS's 6 prime directives, customers then decide whether to self-operate or utilize a contractor.

Bespin Contract Drilling, Inc. (BCD) is our premium integrated on-planet drilling services provider fielding best in class, state of the art, programmable, Hi-Capacity, multidirectional static & mobile drilling rig units in singular or complex formations.

Our company has sourced leaders in the Industrial Mining Architectural industry and utilized leading edge technology to launch an organization that is playing a critical role in reducing the galaxy's dependency on below average materials, or veteran only acquired resource packs.

Our equipment is designed and crewed to effectively address our clients’ most demanding drilling campaigns, accelerate their cash flows and reduce their operations and crafting production costs.

At Bespin Contract Drilling, Inc., we are committed to the responsible development of our precious & vital Galactic resources.

Rig design, and resource delivery tracking and logistics; is based on minimizing Crafter work-loads and reducing cycle times. Rig up and down does not require the use of your own maintenance funds!

All rigs can be configured to add in multiple administrators across existing wellheads on any mined resource – 99% efficiency on release of rig within 13 hours of despawn.

In short, BCD harvesting rigs provide a compelling value proposition to our customers, well above legacy survey/sample, personal rated equipment, and bulky inefficient "Heavies". The fine control of key drilling parameters offered by BCD drilling systems footprints and unique management program, allows same-class wells to be drilled with the same quantity of resources for half up to 5x less direct user maintenance costs! The combination of the BCD HCMH “Efficiency by Design” mining process, more efficient mobilization and unique BCD management and Admin control allows our customers to drill more resources per field per rig per spawn.


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[StepoKedur]

Wonderfully written post matey

[Sithheadhunter]

Bump
Thanks Stepo.

I'm glad the post reads as well written, but it is an advertisement for products and services. Anybody who would like information or even to visit and discuss this please get with me. I am in need of work and very open to negotiations.

[Laschana]

I have to agree, it's a fantastic ad!!

[Royan]

This is merely my opinion, but as nice as the post is from a lore/rp perspective, it's incredibly difficult to read as an actual ad for ingame services - you have to filter out 75%+ of it to get the relevant information. When you originally posted this I saw it and couldn't be bothered with going through that process and I'm someone who potentially could be interested in farming out this sort of thing.

[Sithheadhunter]

Thank you for your opinion Royan. It is much appreciated and I can definitely see what you are saying.
Please let me assure you that everything within the ad when taken in context, is 100% relevant to the services I am proposing to render unto the masses.

Please carefully read through and anything you feel is irrelevant; Get in touch with me, and I will be happy to clarify some of the more verbose statements. As far as fluff...It's an advertisement my friend. It's what I do, it's how I make my money. Or at least how I try to.

Thanks for the critique sir.

[Royan]

Sure, it's mostly relevant but it's super repetitive yet doesn't give many specifics on your service. I don't know your prices, I don't know the amount of harvesters I can purchase, I don't know if either of those are different based on the resource, etc

I'll go through the post:

After many years working on Black Projects, Ackbar Research & Development Corp has surfaced from the depths to the light of day as Publicly traded company whose services are finally available to both the public and private sectors within the Empire.
Takeaway: I’m offering a service

The vaunted and mysterious board of directors are pleased to present to the public their two newest subsidiaries;
Takeaway: Fluff

Galactic Geological Survey
Bespin Contract Drilling
Takeaway: The service is surveying and obtaining resources

Galactic Geological Survey, Inc. (GGS) is a commercially privately-owned scientific agency operating under legal permit and the authority of the Imperial government.
Takeaway: Fluff

The scientists of the GGS study the landscape of the of various planets of the galaxy, its natural resources, and the natural cycling of therein.
Takeaway: The service is surveying and obtaining resources

The organization has four major science disciplines concerning:
Biology - Flora & Fauna Resources
Energy - Wind, Solar, Nuclear
Geology - Minerals, Gas, Chemicals
Hydrology – Water
Takeaway: I'm open to surveying/harvesting these types of resources

The GGS is a research-for-profit , fact-finding organization with no regulatory responsibility.
Takeaway: Fluff

The GGS science focus is directed at six topical "Mission Areas", namely;
(1) Current Resource availability, (2) Quality resource criteria establishment and selection, (3) Survey and locate high-yield concentrations, (4) Sampling, (5) Quality Verification, and (6) Mass Resource Recovery
Takeaway: The service is surveying and obtaining resources

Following approved plans , permits, mining contract agreements, and payment for survey services post GGS's 6 prime directives, customers then decide whether to self-operate or utilize a contractor.
Takeaway: The service is surveying and obtaining resources

Bespin Contract Drilling, Inc. (BCD) is our premium integrated on-planet drilling services provider fielding best in class, state of the art, programmable, Hi-Capacity, multidirectional static & mobile drilling rig units in singular or complex formations.
Takeaway: We use good harvesters – no specific info

Our company has sourced leaders in the Industrial Mining Architectural industry and utilized leading edge technology to launch an organization that is playing a critical role in reducing the galaxy's dependency on below average materials, or veteran only acquired resource packs.
Takeaway: Fluff

Our equipment is designed and crewed to effectively address our clients’ most demanding drilling campaigns, accelerate their cash flows and reduce their operations and crafting production costs.
Takeaway: We’re cheap, no specifics

At Bespin Contract Drilling, Inc., we are committed to the responsible development of our precious & vital Galactic resources.
Takeaway: Fluff

Rig design, and resource delivery tracking and logistics; is based on minimizing Crafter work-loads and reducing cycle times. Rig up and down does not require the use of your own maintenance funds!
Takeaway: The service is surveying and obtaining resources

All rigs can be configured to add in multiple administrators across existing wellheads on any mined resource – 99% efficiency on release of rig within 13 hours of despawn.
Takeaway: You can request multiple characters to be added to the harvesters

In short, BCD harvesting rigs provide a compelling value proposition to our customers, well above legacy survey/sample, personal rated equipment, and bulky inefficient "Heavies". The fine control of key drilling parameters offered by BCD drilling systems footprints and unique management program, allows same-class wells to be drilled with the same quantity of resources for half up to 5x less direct user maintenance costs! The combination of the BCD HCMH “Efficiency by Design” mining process, more efficient mobilization and unique BCD management and Admin control allows our customers to drill more resources per field per rig per spawn.
Takeaway: We use medium harvesters for cost efficiency


Contact
Fill out the form below if you would like more information about our products and services:
*Please submit via posting, PM, in-game tell, or mail
Name: *
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What products or services are you interested in?:

Your ad isn't effective (in my opinion) because it's asking so much of the consumer - You're asking them to read through a 2 page ad (500+ words, 250 words/page is an average), sift through the lore/rp, and yet you leave them with fundamental questions about your service. Conciseness is a key aspect of advertising - people only have so much attention span and even less that they want to donate to ads.

[Sithheadhunter]

Respectfully sir,
Thank you for taking the time to go through our advertisement in its entirety, and for outlining all of your points so clearly.
Here at Ackbar Research & Development Corp., we value the consumer opinion above all else.
Your letter has been forwarded to our Customer Feedback & Suggestions department and you can expect feedback within 6-8 standard galactic weeks.

Thank you for considering our services, and as the advertisement states, any and all questions about specifics, can be directed to the sales team in charge of your local Ackbar Research & Development advertisement campaign.

Have a nice day.

[Sithheadhunter]

*Out of RP*
Thanks for the advice Royan..Idk man as you can see I wrote that one morning 4:30 am .. I had almost no money and I needed some cash, and I was pretty much done playing for the night and that was my last breath of Star Wars for the evening...Still need the money btw hahaha..
I am just one guy with 2 buddies helping me out. We are trying to get started and at this point its all I really know how to do to make some money to get good loot farming equipment and get my guys powerful. I have no one helping me and my buddies are relying on me to keep them playing if you catch my drift.

If you want to talk about specifics its going to be more of a per customer basis and see how it goes. I will be glad to negotiate something and maybe you can teach me some things about what you perceive a good resource company would be or do. I'm open for anything sir.

[Royan]

Don't worry about it, I may have come off a bit overly critical and that wasn't necessarily my intention but I did want to give my input into what might help you get rolling a bit easier.

For now, there aren't any resources spawned I'm interested in. However, as a tip I'd take a look at http://galaxyharvester.net to set up an account. Most of the emu servers (including this one) use that site to keep track of resource spawns/despawns and it acts as a historical database for what is considered good for any given crafting schematic. Since you're going in as a very broad-based resource collector, you should spend a decent chunk of time setting up alerts for resource spawns. I don't know if you have any crafting background/knowledge, but as a base recommendation I'd take a look at the most popular types of items (composite armor, ph, t21, buff packs, poisons/diseases, etc) and set your alerts for relatively close to the server best spawns. Alternatively you could simply choose the default profession-based SB alerts, but I tend to find those to be a bit spammy already with only a couple crafting professions. In any case, it helps tremendously to know when a good resource spawns and be able to market with that in mind rather than relying on crafters to come to you.

[Sithheadhunter]

For now, there aren't any resources spawned I'm interested in. [u]However, as a tip I'd take a look at http://galaxyharvester.net to set up an account.[/u]....... DONE!!!
Most of the emu servers (including this one) use that site to keep track of resource spawns/despawns and it acts as a historical database for what is considered good for any given crafting schematic.
Since you're going in as a very broad-based resource collector, you should spend a decent chunk of time setting up alerts for resource spawns.........DONE!!!

I don't know if you have any crafting background/knowledge, but as a base recommendation I'd take a look at the most popular types of items (composite armor, ph, t21, buff packs, poisons/diseases, etc) and set your alerts for relatively close to the server best spawns.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the shed , but I can color.

Alternatively you could simply choose the default profession-based SB alerts, but I tend to find those to be a bit spammy already with only a couple crafting professions.

In any case, it helps tremendously to know when a good resource spawns and be able to market with that in mind rather than relying on crafters to come to you.

Thank you for the advice. I am very familiar with resource reqs, and varying schematic stat quality weights.
I will continue to apply your advice Royan, and will take any more you have to give freely.
With all that in mind, I believe our conversation now makes my advertisement even more valid. Thank you sir!

[Neaux]

I used to do this quite a bit when i started , I hope you have very good luck I was happy to work with a few individuals who were very fair and helpful . They would simply send a mail requesting a resource and how much they would like and i would acknowledge it . I did take a few moments on GH to help people identify good spawns for their professions and would just give them a simple heads up.
Good luck !

[Turin]

Iam always after keen and eager resource collectors to work with. I have a few people who do odd orders for me ATM, but always handy to have more. Especially someone who will keep me updated also.

Merrie was my original resource collector she was fantastic

[Sithheadhunter]

Wow!. Thank you for your reply Merrie.
I have heard a lot about you from many different people. I aspire to be as much of a joy to play with as you seemed to have been, and hopefully influence the player base as deeply as you so obviously have.
I will definitely be giving people heads up. I am very much into the resource side of things, and combine that with a slight hoarding tendency and hopefully I can benefit the server

Mr. Turin, I do not know what your main char is, but I will be glad to send you emails as SB and almost SB spawns come up.
If you notice something has come up and don't want to mess with the hassle, I am here for you sir.
Just shoot me a PM or ig tell.

As always thank you for keeping an eye out on me big buddy.

[Turin]

I haven't collected my own resources in a very long time just don't have the time.

Turin is my main character but I do most of my resource and selling deals on my crafter inziladun .

Feel free to contact him I will let you know going rate I usually purchase for and send some work your way.

Best regards
Turin Ryak

[Brianklein33]

Having done business with Ackbar on many occasions, I will not be going to anyone else.

One awesome dude.

[Sithheadhunter]

/Bump

[Taiceu]

Having done business with Ackbar on many occasions, I will not be going to anyone else.

One awesome dude.

I used this service at one point...and was great..and even able to increase my order without any hassle..,just a confirmation away and it was sorted out within a day.
Awesome job Snub ^_^

[Sithheadhunter]

/Bump

With the Trade War going on ARDC has decided to once again service the public.
We are Experiencing a fresh ramp-up growth phase, but will be providing the same quality service we have been long known for.
Let me know what you need and we will work out price.

Thank you.