Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Do many people sell their pets for prices based on Bio-eng. Calculator?
A sweet little bit of coding if you ask me!
Oh god no. That program was made for someone who really needs cash bad, is the only BE on their server, or is on a server with a really high priced economy.
I base my prices on what I gathered from being a noob. (target market for me) I wanted a non-ch pet, and didn't have a lot of dough. I expected to pay 5 to 10k without feeling ripped off and knowing that I didn't get an Ub3R pet. Since my BE character has loads of dough and is not hurting for cash, I charge 5-6k per pet on the bazaar. that way I don't need a vendor, I sell lots of pets that I grind instead of destroying them. For upper end pets, I'll just ask more for them. But remember, only CH's can use those, and they can tame their own very nice ones that are hard to beat and won't put a high value on your pets, so 50-100k is out of the question.
BE pets need to be unique to tamable wild pets. Not in resists, armor or HAM, but to have different abilities or skins.
Wokka-wokka
hehe. 5k for a pet? Any pet I make worth selling is worth more than the reward from 1 mission. I haven't tried this calculator though. I might, but typically I think its best to price out your market on your server and price according to how you value your time. If it takes you an hour to get 5 good samples and make a pet, well, you could have made a lot more than 5K in that hour, either doing missions or making food enhancements or BE clothes. Maybe you would sell them that low if you want something to do with all the starport trash if you are grinding the DNA line, but if you grind it, I think you miss out on a lot of "DNA exploring" you could be doing to test how different things mix togther while you climb it instead.
Anyway, my 2 cents is that 2 cents is not enough.
I'm still a little concerned that the default prices are a tad too high (for Ahazi at least).
The veryhigh end pets will be priced under 200k (with most falling around the 100k mark), andafter seeing so many BE's post on these forums that they were selling 13k AR1 pets with 60 resists for 500k-1m, I figured it was ok as a starting point and people could adjust it, up or down, to suit themselves and their pricing.
BE Calc wasn't meant to be a pricing guide, but it is meant to be a fair way to calculate/factor all the stats of a critter into the price of a pet. If you think it's too high, let me know what changes you made in the "Options" (or "cut & paste" the INI contents) and if enough people feel that pricing isfair, I'll update the INI with those changes. If I get a "six of one, half dozen of the other" on it, I'll leave it as is and let each individual work their own price system out.
Edit: Thanks for the feedback!
XxEvilFirexX wrote:
http://swg.warcry.com/index.php/content/be_calculator
Some of the prices i get from it seem really high, see if you think they are fair
Message Edited by meroc on 02-27-2004 01:45 PM
meroc wrote:
I'm still a little concerned that the default prices are a tad too high (for Ahazi at least).
The veryhigh end pets will be priced under 200k (with most falling around the 100k mark), andafter seeing so many BE's post on these forums that they were selling 13k AR1 pets with 60 resists for 500k-1m, I figured it was ok as a starting point and people could adjust it, up or down, to suit themselves and their pricing.
BE Calc wasn't meant to be a pricing guide, but it is meant to be a fair way to calculate/factor all the stats of a critter into the price of a pet. If you think it's too high, let me know what changes you made in the "Options" (or "cut & paste" the INI contents) and if enough people feel that pricing isfair, I'll update the INI with those changes. If I get a "six of one, half dozen of the other" on it, I'll leave it as is and let each individual work their own price system out.
Edit: Thanks for the feedback!
Message Edited by meroc on 02-27-2004 01:45 PM
After putting one of my pets in to the calculator I think it's a little low actaully so consider this the other side of the coin.
