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Thread: Price Check On Tissues--Please Help!
FernGully wrote:The BE component of this is by far the most time-consuming and expensive to make.
Please explain how?
Yes the meat is harder to get, than berries or fruit and as such will cost about 15cpu or 20 cpu in bulk amounts, but that is it. The Brandy at this pricing requires 2 identical Alcohol (10 cereal + Factory time)plus a cask (requiring 2 trim from a tailor + 150 gemstones + Factory Time) and The nutrients from you BE first have to be run through the Factory with 10 water to make additives. That's 4 runs of the factory, total.
How is your BE component more time consuming? You run your factory once you double your money, we run it 4 times to make 2.6 times our outlay.
With a Master BE friend to make me the schematics from my ingredients I make my own tissues, however before we met I did not mind paying 2k per decent BSN.
In future please do not comment on what you have no clue about.
Message Edited by jagcruzader on 05-07-2004 09:05 PM
jagcruzader wrote:
Please explain how?
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In future please do not comment on what you have no clue about.
Message Edited by jagcruzader on 05-07-2004 09:05 PM
FlyMoe wrote:[snip]I think some of you are selling your tissues too cheaply. Might be because you're on a different server, but if I were some of you, I would definitely raise my prices.
I was told yesterday by a chef in my town (different guild) that he dropped chef because the BEs wanted too much for their tissues.
I charge 5 cpu for harvester gathered resources and 25 cpu for hand gathered, which results in about 15k for lights, 25k for mediums and 30-35k for heavies. I think this is probably a bit low for my server since I seldom don't have a chef jump at my prices.
Centurion wrote:
FlyMoe wrote:
[snip]I think some of you are selling your tissues too cheaply. Might be because you're on a different server, but if I were some of you, I would definitely raise my prices.
I was told yesterday by a chef in my town (different guild) that he dropped chef because the BEs wanted too much for their tissues.
I charge 5 cpu for harvester gathered resources and 25 cpu for hand gathered, which results in about 15k for lights, 25k for mediums and 30-35k for heavies. I think this is probably a bit low for my server since I seldom don't have a chef jump at my prices.
wow another pricing thread with flames in it... imagine that...
Here is the deal.... for all you chefs that are not BE's and don't understand our cost.
First flora, you know the price... b/c you use it... It can get very pricey for high quality stuff. BSN's take 60k of flora per factory run. That is a TON of resources for 1000 nutrients. Now grant a large chunk can be split to creature resources, but to be honest, its cheaper to pay even outrageous prices for flora than it is to pay for the extra meat. B/c each run REQUIRES 20k or Creature FOOD, ie MEAT/MILK/EGGS. Find me 20k milk in a single stack and I will probaby wet myself. Regardless even on the extremely cheap side, meat costs aroud 10cpu... Though good meat, especialy in those kind of stacks costs closer to 20-30cpu.
On top of that, our factory run for BSN's takes more than 2 full days of RL time. That means 1 lot is taken up for 2 days making nutrients instead of harvesting flora.
I just wanted that info out there. Prices reflect primarily that. And don't tell me your brandy prices reflect high nutrient prices b/c honestly... LOL even when we charged nothing for our nutrients, you still gouged the people of most servers with be'd brandy prices.
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Now that that is out of the way... my prices... I have found a very suitable price scheme on Radiant. I try to keep a vendor stocked, but honestly it ain't easy...
I charge 25k for a crate of MicroNutrient Suppliments, or Light Suppliments
I charge 35k for a crate of BSN's or medium nutrients
I charge 45k for Intelligent Nano Nutrients, or heavy Nutrients
Those prices seem to be right in the middle... anyless and they are bought minutes after being announced... higher and they sit in stock for a week of so. At those prices its easy to sell full runs to chefs....
But I will be candid, BSN's aren't where money is at... hahaha they lie somewhere else.
Flymoe,
I agree with you on having to buy the meat. Anything over 25cpu for it makes it hard to sell. And Running around trying to get it myself is definitely time consuming. The problem I am having is that no matter how much meat I get, I still need more.
I don't think there are enough people trying to provide meat to the BE's. It is a vicious cycle.
Anyway, being consistent has allowed me to get several special orders from people. This applies to creatures and tissues.
As long as I can get it in a day or two, nobody seems to mind.
jagcruzader wrote:
FernGully wrote:
The BE component of this is by far the most time-consuming and expensive to make.
Please explain how?
Yes the meat is harder to get, than berries or fruit and as such will cost about 15cpu or 20 cpu in bulk amounts, but that is it. The Brandy at this pricing requires 2 identical Alcohol (10 cereal + Factory time)plus a cask (requiring 2 trim from a tailor + 150 gemstones + Factory Time) and The nutrients from you BE first have to be run through the Factory with 10 water to make additives. That's 4 runs of the factory, total.
How is your BE component more time consuming? You run your factory once you double your money, we run it 4 times to make 2.6 times our outlay.
With a Master BE friend to make me the schematics from my ingredients I make my own tissues, however before we met I did not mind paying 2k per decent BSN.
In future please do not comment on what you have no clue about.
Message Edited by jagcruzader on 05-07-2004 09:05 PM