Bio Engineer Archive

I'm just waiting on hearing back from one of the people testing it and if there is nothing major,I'll take one more pass over it and put it up on the site. Considering how much work itit turned out to be, I've decided to release it as donationware via PayPal (it's optional, so"poor" BE's can still use it )

I've been using it to price my tissues, as well aspets, and am pretty happy with it. As with version 1.0, everything is adjustable, so if you think it's too dear/cheap, it's only because you didn't take the time to set up the prices for your server

• First major release with tissue pricing added.
  
• Added a help file.
  
• Rearranged the main page so I could add more buttons to it.
  
• I think I've fixed the issue with thecomma/fullstop decimal place error for Euro users. Please PM me if it is still not working for your region.
  
• Added the option to switch between displaying the creatures stats, or how the price was calculated.

Here is a sample of the Price List it can generate (this is per tissue, it can do per crate as well):

Tissue Price List per Tissue

I'm a big fan of BE Calc 1.3, and I'll definitely be looking to use this too.

However, the only problem I see with it is that a lot of people will tend to use the default settings, either through laziness, or because they don't feel like they know enough to play with all the options. Therefore as more people use it, the tendency will be for the prices charged to slide towards those default prices. This means getting those prices right is critical.

Which is why I'm hoping that the prices you quoted in your example aren't the default prices! If I was only getting 489 cr for each PetStimB and 839 for my BSpecs, I wouldn't even bother getting out of bed! Please tell me that was just an example, and the default prices are a lot higher!

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gamesmeister wrote:
Please tell me that was just an example, and the default prices are a lot higher!

Asp

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Awesome piece of software!

If I might, I am not sure if you've already done this with v2 over v1.3.1 but lock the resize on the window if you're not going to allow the controls to resize.

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gamesmeister wrote:

I'm a big fan of BE Calc 1.3, and I'll definitely be looking to use this too.

Thanks for saying so! Always nice to hear people find it useful.

However, the only problem I see with it is that a lot of people will tend to use the default settings, either through laziness, or because they don't feel like they know enough to play with all the options. Therefore as more people use it, the tendency will be for the prices charged to slide towards those default prices. This means getting those prices right is critical.

I agree. I started a few threads some weeks ago asking for general feedback on resource pricing. The first listed what resources we use. In the second thread I listed what the prices will be and sought feedback from people on if they thought the prices were fair. Some said too high, some said too low, so it must be pretty close I guess. There were a few items that people said should be 100 cpu (some of the specilist meats), but if people really are paying that much I think they can edit the resource price themselves. Mostly meat runs between 10-20cpu and flora 5-15 (Tal fungus for example is 15).

Which is why I'm hoping that the prices you quoted in your example aren't the default prices! If I was only getting 489 cr for each PetStimB and 839 for my BSpecs, I wouldn't even bother getting out of bed! Please tell me that was just an example, and the default prices are a lot higher!

There is a seperate Alternate Pet Stim Pricing section that works of the standard BE pricing for PS which is:

Power times Charges divided by Factor

Using the Alt system,a PS of 800/30 with a factor of 10 will cost2400 per unit or 120,000 per crate.

I've just heard back from Arthur, so I'm off to tidy up some of the things he reported, so hopefully either later tonight (Aussie time) or Friday (tomorrow for me) I'll upload it.

Asp

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