Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: BE Pricing? Can we just discuss it sensibly among ourselves a minute please?
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Albion_DeCrappa
Wed Jun 30, 2004 9:41 am
#40
Ahhh... now there is a major difference. For my time has value beyond belief.
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If I may ask, why does it have so much value? Just something I don't understand. I see people rushing home from work on the freeway happily cutting people off in an attempt to get home faster I am assuming. And I wonder why people value their time so much. Are you afraid of dieing, or not having enough time to do something else? I guess I just don't understand. I look at it like this. I donate 10 hours of my time to a soup kitchen. The next day it doesn't matter whether I spent the day in the soup kitchen or I spent the day riding my mountain bike. Yesterday is over and it's only value is memory. So I guess the value in time is how that time spent is remembered. Is it not? Unless of course you're worried about having a bigger SUV then your neighbor (I.E. making money).
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You also have to remember that people like me do not put much effort into advertising out product. So the only sales I am taking away from the SUV hunters (I.E. Achievers) are the sales they may get from my fellow guildies. If someone stumbles by my vendor because they saw it in my sig here big deal, that happens maybe once a week. I would worry to much about me. 
Like someone else said, it's just a game, we're not supposed to be cut throat here.
ArthurDentOnBria
Thu Jul 01, 2004 2:42 pm
#41
Lozareth,
Believe me, you and I don't have much in common when it comes to our views on things, and I sure wouldn't want my name associated with anything you are doing, that's for sure.
I do think that chef prices, particularly Bivoli and Brandy, are way overpriced relative to BE additives, but are they overpriced relative to other goods (armor, weapons, droids, installations)? That I'm not so sure about. Bria is a high cost server and everything costs alot (aside for BE additives, which we BE's were apparently to stupid to price reasonably).
Personally, I think that selling Brandy at 75k/crate is doing nothing but harm. If a chef is going to try to make brandy for that or less, they sure aren't going to pay anything for additives, so that just depresses the market all the more. What we've in effect done is made bio engineer a pre-requisit for being a chef. So cool, tons of 12-point bio chefs on Bria, none of them buying from bio engineers. As a bio engineer, you'd really prefer to see the opposite. You'd like to see high priced chef food, and additive prices that are proportionally high.
Personally, I just mainly trade additives for food, and sell opportunistically to a few chefs directly where I've been able to create mutually agreeable relationships and friendships.
Believe me, you and I don't have much in common when it comes to our views on things, and I sure wouldn't want my name associated with anything you are doing, that's for sure.
I do think that chef prices, particularly Bivoli and Brandy, are way overpriced relative to BE additives, but are they overpriced relative to other goods (armor, weapons, droids, installations)? That I'm not so sure about. Bria is a high cost server and everything costs alot (aside for BE additives, which we BE's were apparently to stupid to price reasonably).
Personally, I think that selling Brandy at 75k/crate is doing nothing but harm. If a chef is going to try to make brandy for that or less, they sure aren't going to pay anything for additives, so that just depresses the market all the more. What we've in effect done is made bio engineer a pre-requisit for being a chef. So cool, tons of 12-point bio chefs on Bria, none of them buying from bio engineers. As a bio engineer, you'd really prefer to see the opposite. You'd like to see high priced chef food, and additive prices that are proportionally high.
Personally, I just mainly trade additives for food, and sell opportunistically to a few chefs directly where I've been able to create mutually agreeable relationships and friendships.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 07-01-2004 03:17 PM
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