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Thread: BE food tissue pricing formula (testing)
I was originally trying to price my tissues in a very similar way. Basically something like
# meat * 25cr/u + # flora * 5cr/u + fudge factor = price of tissue
The fudge factor was just basically to assure that it would be worth my time to product rather than simply selling the resources off.
Once you've established this "base" for a crate of food, you can slide that number up or down depending on the strength. So say up or down 5k/crate for every 10 points of strength, something like that.
I think I came to price of 30k/crate or so for +85 BSN. But then I abandoned this price scheme when I realized that each of my crates was increasing the profit of the chef I was working with by 200k or more/crate, which just made it rediculous to proceed with such pricing.
Now I only barter tissues for food. There's just no point in getting used like that.
My example is really simple........ Ressources*15
This ends at 1200per food enhancer or 30k per crate.... And gives you some playground for higher meat prices.
Maybe its a bit too cheap, because i always sold out.... but who cares.
Im selling 160 crates (or 4 full sets of 1000 identical enhancers) every day.
Tygi / gorath
Tyg-Exodus wrote:
My example is really simple........ Ressources*15
I use the following breakdown to price my components.
Flora Resources - 2cr
Creature Meat - 7cr
Creature Hide or Bone - 5cr
Milk or Crustation (Spelling?) - 10 cr
So for a multinutrient suppliment it would be;
2*20 + 2*15 + 7*15 = 175 credits
At this price they sell very well, I know some people have charged alot more for additives, like 500 credits each.
I have been selling my 86% for about 1600cpu, but will soon have to raise these prices aswell since the meat prices have skyrocketed in the last few days. I would actually make more moneymyself if i i just resell the meat instead of creating additives with it.
Tdogg17 wrote:
I use the following breakdown to price my components.
Flora Resources - 2cr
Creature Meat - 7cr
Creature Hide or Bone - 5cr
Milk or Crustation (Spelling?) - 10 cr
So for a multinutrient suppliment it would be;
2*20 + 2*15 + 7*15 = 175 credits
At this price they sell very well, I know some people have charged alot more for additives, like 500 credits each.
I can take your resourcesand sell them for more than whatsome of yousell your final product for. I began selling medium nutrient at 800 per (loosely 20cpu for meat and 7cpu for flora) but I know chefs that will pay that much for the raw meat. So I've upped it to 40cpu for meat and 10cpu for flora....1400 each. The chefs had no problem doing 35k per crate. Even though 20k per crate seemed doable to me, when you factor in how high the demand is...that is too low. And meat costs are going up...
Some things that people don't think about:
Taking 1 lot for a factory should compete with a large harvester and what you could use that same lot to sell resources for.
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
[snip]I think I came to price of 30k/crate or so for +85 BSN. But then I abandoned this price scheme when I realized that each of my crates was increasing the profit of the chef I was working with by 200k or more/crate, which just made it rediculous to proceed with such pricing.Now I only barter tissues for food. There's just no point in getting used like that.
I wonder if you could sell the crate of tissues for a percentage of the profit that the crate of food would get. Granted as a chef pointed out on one of the other threads it takes quite a few more factory runs to get the final product but I think that would just dampen down the percentage.
Bartering for the food/drink you need to hunt large quantities of meat would work too, of course.
Message Edited by Centurion on 02-26-2004 12:52 PM
If I could find crates of BSR for 2k per tissue or less I would be a happy camper. Anyone willing to point me to a vendor?
Centurion wrote:
I wonder if you could sell the crate of tissues for a percentage of the profit that the crate of food would get. Granted as a chef pointed out on one of the other threads it takes quite a few more factory runs to get the final product but I think that would just dampen down the percentage.
Bartering for the food/drink you need to hunt large quantities of meat would work too, of course.
Yea, it's still a real dicey issue. I really do want to work with a chef, I think that is rewarding, and the chef I'm working with now is great, a super guy who mainly makes food for his PA, but I'm supplying him in much larger quantities then I ever thought I could. At first I just figured I'd supply him with 3-4 crates a week, something like that, and get a crate back from him (we're very very casual about this arrangement), and from that I could gradually stockpile a "lifetime supply" of food for myself and my friends. But now the quantities are getting larger and larger. I just bought about 1.5mil worth of meat this week and am starting to really crank the stuff out. So now for me I'm not even sure what to do with all the food I'll be getting. I'll be getting much more than I can reasonably use myself, or even give away to friends, but I'm not going to sell it and compete with the chef (we're on the same planet) and storage space is a huge issue for me. So I dunno. Even with a real nice, reasonable, appreciative chef I feel real reluctant to put a stake in the ground and say "this is how much I'm charging for a crate" just because it's such a touchy balancing act.
One thing kind of cool about the arrangement though is that now we're starting to get some hunters that want in. In other words they give me meat, I make larger quantities of tissues, I get more food back in return, then the hunter gets a cut of that. We'll see how it all works out.
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 02-26-2004 09:48 AM