Bio Engineer Archive

Just recently I attained MBE after 2 months of hard work (well worth it). All along I have been creating creatures and pricing them in a range that I felt was fair (i.e. 5000 for decoration and up to 50K for Medium level creatures).

However, now I'm able to create the better creatures and I'm wondering if I'm pricing them fairly:

1st:

Skin: Kimogila CL58
H: 11484 A: 11196 M: 11125
Light Armor

K:55 En:40 B:45 H:45 C:45 El:Vuln A:8 S:8

To Hit: 0.5 Damage: 510-520

S1: Crippling Strike
S2: Dizzy Strike

RA: NO

MY Sale Price: 145K

2nd:

Skin: Dalyrake CL48
H:10335 A:10443 M:10407
Light Armor

K:60 En:33 B:88 H:88 C:88 El:V A:V S:V

AS: 2.16 TH: 0.46 D: 340-350

S1: -
S2: Stunning Strike
RA: NO

My Sale Price: 120K

Are these over/under/properly priced. I'm on Kettemore, but these should be serverwide I would expect.

Regards,

Hi. My MBE is on Kettemore as well. Here are some examples of my pricing.

1. Lvl 10 6k/3k/2k 15% Kinetic Non CH pets. 50k. (disclaimer about uncertin future due to nerf)

2. Lvl 12-25, AR0 50-60% kinetic/energy 20-50k depending on damage and specials.

3. 25-35 AR0 50-60% Kinetic/Energy 50-75k depending on damage and specials.

4. 30-35 AR1 60% Kinetic 11k/9k/9k 400 dam. strong poison/requested special 250k - Will scale price down on these as low as 125 depending on damage/HAM/specials

5. I have one pet on special order for 11k HAM, => 50% on all resists, AR1 with ranged. Quoted him 400k. Not happy with my results yet, either blast or heat is giving me the slip.

6. Working on AR1 lvl 23-24, but so far, I am not happy with the drop in HAM I am getting. No price yet as I dont know the number of generations I will need or what will be the ultimate DNA. But, I imagine at least as much as the AR1 35s.

Take into account, I don't do tissues at all. So, I dont subsidize my creatures cost that way. Some BE's sell for quite a bit less, or at least say they do, but so far, all my customers have been happy to pay what I ask. I can only assume this is because they are not finding it elswhere.

Don't sell your time short =) GL

Howdy,

Hmm, two comments, I'm on your sever, and the only creature I've charged 100k for was one that required 5x BMBQ samples to make, and the customer wanted something very very specific (I then crit failed on the combine and got nothing, rofl). Most of the creatures I make that are armored and have "interesting stats" I charge 60k-70k for. I realize my prices are below average however, and I've seen prices like yours in malls on Bria.

The other comment is that the stats look nice, but the CL is kind of in no-man's land. Most folks want CL 65-70, or CL ~35, or one of the lower CL's (25,20,10). I've personally had a lot of trouble selling CL 40-60, so when I create a creature in that range, I usually say "doh!" and either price it at a discount (50k) or sample it and try to get the CL up or down depending on what I want, generally by fiddling with the slot 5 (damage) dna.

Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 03-05-2004 11:41 AM

The prices that I targeted were from BioCalc less 10-30k per. Traditionally I have sold my high end (Pre MBE) pets for up to 50K. This is the first time I've created what I felt was the high end creatures. I would love to make the statement that "I can't keep these in stock" (I've read others make that claim) but unfortunately that just isn't the case. I currently have about 40 pets of varying levels...I keep a some decoration pets (5K) on hand. With all the changes that have taken place, and me not wanting to get into Non-CH pets, I'm not sure what is selling or not selling. Thank you for the advice.

Cyl