Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: BE Stim D Prices
Arrakabukk wrote:
How much could I sell a crate of 25 stacks of stim Ds? (player stim Ds not pet ones)
What's the power and charges on them?
Given that I've sold individual InstaStim - Ds for 10k on Ahazi (these are 1122 power, 21 charge made with pre CU ABECs for the relatively high charges), if you can approach those levels, I'd say you could charge a quarter of a million and they'd sell. Level 80 types have money to burn, and need that kind of power available to them.
I've just started a batch of 1106 power, 33 charge InstaStim - Ds in the factory, using 25 C 10 P pre CU ABECs I had lying around.
Message Edited by Zanti-the-Bothan on 05-06-2005 05:16 PM
Jailbird11275 wrote:Why are people charging silly prices for stims now? I've seen people charge 10k, 15k and upwards just for a stim D. Made with exactly the same resource before CU they'd be selling for 3k, 4k and 5k MAX !And people spend ages trying to convince others that docs aren't greedy.
I think part of it has to due with people trying to figure out where to price items due to a lack of competition. It doesn't help that stims didn't convert over well and that some people have pre-CU schematics while others don't. I expect the market will shake itself out over the next month or so, until then, expect to continue to see silly prices.
Resource costs on the new Stims are:
Stim-D = 3380 cr
Stim-C = 1080 cr
Stim-B = 820 cr
Stim-A = 480 cr
(10cpu high quality resources/50cpu high quality creature resources - that's the going rate on Scylla at least)
Now add the cost for factory, storage, shop, vendor etc. and you'll see that 8K, heck even 10Kisn't greedy at all. Personally I'm selling Stim-D's for 6K, Stim-C's for 4K, Stim-B's for 3K and Stim-A's for 1K.
Jailbird11275 wrote:
Why are people charging silly prices for stims now? I've seen people charge 10k, 15k and upwards just for a stim D. Made with exactly the same resource before CU they'd be selling for 3k, 4k and 5k MAX !
And people spend ages trying to convince others that docs aren't greedy.
I'll be honest, I'm trying to find out what the market will bear. No one has a scatter pistol pointed at them at the bazaar forcing them to buy my stuff. I sold the first InstaStim - D I put up on the bazaar for 5k in less than two hours. So I figured I'd raise the price. They're still buying them. When they don't sell, I'll discount them.
The thing is, before the CU, non-medics couldn't use StimDs or Es at all. Heck, you had to have a lot of the old med use line before you could use a StimC. This is a new product aimed at an entirely new market: level 60 and above non-medical players, who at this point in the game, are usually well to do.
Also, the higher charge version are made with pre CU components that have been drastically nerfed post CU. Charges on ABECs and power on ALS have been significantly changed, and not for the better. I'm asking less for my StimDs that are made with post CU components, even though the resources used in them are identical to those used prior to the CU. Given the low resource requirement for ALS this is particularly noteworthy.