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Thread: How will everyone Price their new enhanced Creatures???
bounty13 wrote:
How will everyone Price their new enhanced Creatures???
Highly.
I don't think the CL pricing would realy be the best way. Making a lvl 20 clone doesn't require the same effort of making a lvl 70 clone. Basing it off of a linear formula like that, just doesn't take the extra time and effort, not to mention the specials and such that it takes to make the higher lvl clones.
If I do sell any, it will be based off the stats, specials, armor or not, and what type of DNA I used. If I used all high lvl and very high quality DNA, its gonna cost significantly more than a mid lvl, good stats, and only Above average and High Quality DNA.
Coming from a CH master, here's how I would decide what I would pay.
Armor/resists. This is the most important thing of all and would be 75% of my decision basis for what I would pay.
Specials. This is next on the list and about 20% of my decision basis
HAM more is better, but armor/resists = HAM also, and is prefferred.
CL is in two classes, 34 and under or 34 and over. Under means you can pull two, over means it's a solo pet. That would figure in highly, high resists/armor in a 34 or under pet is worth a TON of cash to any master CH. That's as far as CL figures into pricing for a CH really.
Speed. if the pet can keep up with a mount (prefferably cat speed) it's worth 5% or more.
Size, smaller the better for me, I would not buy a large pet. Preferences differ though and shouldn't be a big price issue.
So I suppose the best pricing formulawould be to price on armor/resists, subtract for vulnerabilities. Modify that price up for good specials like dizzy/kd/stun/ and up for high speed, and up for under but close to CL34.
Maybe HAM sould figure in as well but it really doesn't enter into my buying or taming decision, creatures with level 50 HAM and no armor/resist go down fast and suck stims like a hoover. Give me less HAM and higher armor/resists every time.
That's what CH's will be thinking when considering a buy.
Another thing, it'llneed to be as good or better than a tameable creature of same CL in any case to be worth a lot, keeping in mind that sales for things like a level 45 toxic merek battlelord to CH's is a good business.
I sold tamed ones for 45-75k all day as fast as I can get them usually, to CH's that could go tame their own.
CavemanGamer wrote:
however, I wouldn't get my hopes up about getting super rich, there are still "free" babies out there for CH's to pick up if you start to get too greedy.
Not anymore there aren't. The CL34 pairs of pets are dead in th game, no good wild ones exist.
The market for CL34 pets that can be pulled in a pair is wide open. The guys who figure out how to get a CL34 with ar1 and or good kinetic resist could probably name his price.
The high end creatures didn't get nerfed hard at all, they are still free and what master CH's will be using. As an MCH I am really really going to miss a viable pair or pets, and that is the first thing I'll be looking to get, and probably what I would pay most for.
But we'll probably have to slog through a few weeks of 10,000 kimogillas wandering the streets of cities before folks get serious about it, or scream so loud that BE's get nerfed in a few weeks.
well, I'm not a BE anymore, but I'd suggest coming up with a price per CL, or something like that.
As a smuggler, it's common to charge 100 x % slice, so 20% = 2k and30% = 3k.
you could do the same thing with creatures based on levels.
however, I wouldn't get my hopes up about getting super rich, there are still "free" babies out there for CH's to pick up if you start to get too greedy.