Architect Archive

Is there a Average Price Website? I don't know if I'm the first to come up with this Idea, but if there was a website where you could enter in your prices and see an average of all prices entered, along with a high and low price for each item for each galaxy, would you enter your prices?

Would you use this site as a reference of what to charge?

Best place to look for prices is on your server section, not in here. Things differ greatly server to server.

Most architects are trying to get together and develop sane prices. Intrepid server has a list of target prices if you want to look at them. Note, right now we are only trying to get .6 of the target price and are trying to move up to full price over time.

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Intrepid&message.id=14741

Here is our target price list:

Small house 25k

Medium house 150k

Large house 280k

PA hall 1000k

Factory 100k

Medium ore harvester 40k

Medium chem/gas harvester 95k

Medium water 35k

Solar gen 45k

Heavy chem 200k

Heavy vaporator 60k

Heavy gas 200k

Heavy mineral 250k

Fusion 250k

These are the prices we would like to see our structures at ONCE THE ECONOMY STABILIZES. Do not expect to pay anything like this right now. Expect to pay slightly more than you have been. We will be GRADUALLY raising the multiplier.

Cool, thanks thats a good bench mark to use.

Woah on Bria prices are about 1/2 to 2/3of those prices

''Most architects are trying to get together and develop sane prices.''

Read, Most Architects are getting together to try and fix prices at aninsane level to rip their customers off.

Those prices are plain greedy and I hope players have the sense to shop around so that these architects never reach their goal.

While those prices are a little high, you must relate the resources used to other professions. That has been covered elsewhere here.

In short, that is not unreasonable considering the amount of time required and what you can buy resources for on the open market.

Also, there are TONS of people running around with large piles of creds and nothing to spend them on because some architects sell for less than it costs them to make something.

Those prices are extortionate.

I cant speak for other profesions because I have no experience of them , but if they are overcharging (which they must be ) it is no excuse for my fellow Architects to do the same. I would hope that there is a voice of sanity on other profession boards too.

If you are buying resources at a price that forces you to sell at anything like those prices then stop - and either shop around or mine your own, because if you dont then you are not going to do much buisness in the future.

Finally , I dont belive anyone sells at a loss, just some people are fair and others not. I hope the people who are not , enjoy running round with TONS of credits and nothing to spend them on.

All you saying those prices are too high need to look at weaponsmiths and armorsmiths. Those guys make an AVERAGE of 100 credits per resource for their items. Architects are arguing with each other over selling for 5 credits per resource (currently most items go for 2-3 cr/resource as an architect).

And that makes it ok for Architects to do likewise ?

Like I said - the other professions too have fair traders, and I hope they are also voicing their opinions.

Its true that weaponsmith cost is high compared to resource amount, but you have to realize they actually have to have very very very high quality resources and very very very good experimentation skill to come up with the weapons we all know the good master smiths do.

In architecture, its more quantity than quality. I agree that right now prices are rather lower than they should be in most respects though