UO Second Age

So I sit here bored at work, as usual; So i decide to do a few calculations.
I sell flamestrike scrolls quite often and know how much they sell for.
So with someone who has the time, and patience you could buy a tower with out and danger to yourself..
The only things that you would have to consider:

Gathering the resources, making the scrolls, Failures, and selling at maximum profit

How many Flamestrike Scolls would it take to buy a Tower:

Target Amount
433,200gp

Resources:
a blank scroll - 4gp
sulfur ash - 3gp
spider's silk - 3gp

Calculations
300 Flamestrike will sell for 10,800gp
433,200 / 10,800 = 40.111 (rounded to 42)
300 scrolls * 42 repetitions = 12600 scrolls

12600 scrolls * 4gp = 48132 gp
12600 SS * 3gp = 36099 gp
12600 SA * 3gp = 36099 gp

48132 + 36099 + 36099 =120330gp (total)

Time:
12600 * 9 = 113400 (seconds)
113400 / 60 = 1890 (minutes)
1890 / 60 = 31.5 (hours)

Time calculations does not take into account of restocking/organization of materials; or gathering of materials

Break Down
12600 scrolls, SS, SA
Total Cost of all resources : 120330gp

p.s.
God im bored at work -_-

*Edited with corrections to SS & SA prices per unit

Haha, nice! I was just wondering to myself if it was a waste of time crafting items and selling them back to NPC vendors. I was actually thinking about smithing, but I have a scribe as well, and it would probably be less painful to collect regs and scrolls than to mine tons of ore.

I noticed, however, training my blacksmith, that vendors will lower their prices after you've sold them a lot of the same item. So you have to constantly recall between city shops to keep getting their initial offer. So I suspect a lot of time would be involved in the selling of 12,000+ scrolls..

Might just be better to stick with killing things and looting. Even if I do suck at it.

Thats why i stated "selling at maximum profit". I've gathered you can tell a NPC Vendor sell 6 times to get max profit. 6x5=30 so 30 scrolls each npc,; 30 x 10 = 300. 10 NPC

Krats wrote:Resources:
a blank scroll - 4gp
sulfur ash - 4gp
spider's silk - 4gp

A tower with no risk - priceless.

Seriously, I think SA and SS sell for 3 gp each. You might wanna redo your calculations.

If you want another thing to consider.. Tailoring.

Buy spools of thread, make cloth, make fancy shirts, sell them back.

in 3 or 4 hours work, I turned my starting 100g into 5200.

Or sell the FS scrolls to Players at 70 or even 65 gold each and cut that all in half!

But if you want truly zero risk / NPC items to get a tower, your best bet would be to tailor.
And yes, all NPC vendors will lower buying price after so many are bought.
Before this was implemented, I made poison scrolls, and sold them to NPC vendors.

Made almost a million doing that before Derrick changed it