Architect Archive
Thread: Consequences?
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Leviathan81
Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:49 am
#1
Hi,
I was wondering how other architects are going to handle this last publish (I guess you all know what change I mean...)
Are you going to just accept it and go on like before?
Will you drop the profession?
I have been thinking about raising all my prices by a few %, to make up for at least some of the lost business.
Think this is only fair, considering the customers now get undestructible items...
So, what do you think?
I was wondering how other architects are going to handle this last publish (I guess you all know what change I mean...)
Are you going to just accept it and go on like before?
Will you drop the profession?
I have been thinking about raising all my prices by a few %, to make up for at least some of the lost business.
Think this is only fair, considering the customers now get undestructible items...
So, what do you think?
Niklesnitz
Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:03 am
#2
I figure many archs will raise their price like you have stated since there is no longer decay. But I think things need to be looked at. Just about every player that has money are long time people that have raised cash and had money to burn. They would buy structures easily enough when they needed them like when they lost them or wanted a few extras. Now that they don't decay, it will be new business only and many of the old people who have money aren't going to need much more.
What I'm getting at is with recent nerfs to mission payouts and the introduction of more money sinks, some players are finding it harder to make money, especially the new players where most of our future business comes from.
Leviathan81
Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:37 am
#3
You definitively have a good point there, but what else can we do?
CoretDenvin
Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:32 am
#4
I still don't think this new patch is going to affect our sales that much.
First, none of us really have accurate tools to tell us what percentage of our home sales are repeat buyers and whats new business. But from an educated guessing standpoint, definitely less then 1% of my home sales are from repeat buyers who accidentatly ran out of maintenance on their home and it went poof.
Most of my repeat business is from players who own one style of home and want to change to a different style (small to large, large to small, etc).
I think alot of the architects on this forum that are screaming about how this is going to kill our business are simply over reacting. I for one am for the changes - I've never lost a building due to maintenance issues but having it direct draw from the bank is definitely easier then having to worry about what houses have maintenance.
This game isn't just about 1 profession. Sometimes 1 profession has to give a little for the community to take. This is definitely one of those times in my opinion. If I lose a couple hundred K in sales over the long run but save money from not losing a house that might have ran out of maintenance - thats well worth it in my book.
First, none of us really have accurate tools to tell us what percentage of our home sales are repeat buyers and whats new business. But from an educated guessing standpoint, definitely less then 1% of my home sales are from repeat buyers who accidentatly ran out of maintenance on their home and it went poof.
Most of my repeat business is from players who own one style of home and want to change to a different style (small to large, large to small, etc).
I think alot of the architects on this forum that are screaming about how this is going to kill our business are simply over reacting. I for one am for the changes - I've never lost a building due to maintenance issues but having it direct draw from the bank is definitely easier then having to worry about what houses have maintenance.
This game isn't just about 1 profession. Sometimes 1 profession has to give a little for the community to take. This is definitely one of those times in my opinion. If I lose a couple hundred K in sales over the long run but save money from not losing a house that might have ran out of maintenance - thats well worth it in my book.
Pawlin
Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:52 am
#5
CoretDenvin wrote:
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First, none of us really have accurate tools to tell us what percentage of our home sales are repeat buyers and whats new business. But from an educated guessing standpoint, definitely less then 1% of my home sales are from repeat buyers who accidentatly ran out of maintenance on their home and it went poof.
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What do you base that 1% guess on?
I don't think we have accurate information on it either. Another guy guessed it was 50%. You guess 1%. I think its somewhere in between. I personally do most of my business from vendor sales and I don't really pay much attention to buying patterns. A new customer to me may be replacing a dead harvester that they had bought from someone else. My repeat customer may be repeatedly replacing dead harvesters. I don't know. I don't ask. They dont' tell me. /shrug
Niklesnitz
Wed Jan 26, 2005 5:06 pm
#6
I don't really know either. There is a handful of people that buy from me repeatedly. I know this because of the emails, I see their names often enough to remember them. Also, there are some people I interact daily with that I know only buy from me. But the bulk of my business I do not know what these people's buying habits are.
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