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Thread: Doctors stop this runaway inflation !!!
Mascalzone wrote:
Two weeks ago the top for a buff was 12k, last week 15k, this week 18k !!!
You got the cap of 2500 for the buff, then stop this !!!
Smugglers do not ask 9k for a slice...
Crap like this is the reason I never buff anyone but guildmates and friends. You want cheap buffs go find a Doc who has plenty of money that doesn't care about money (gl with that btw). People gripe about the prices, people gripe about the quality of buffs, and people gripe because the duration is shorter on one than the other. I tell you what. You grind out Doctor (yeah I know its not that hard if you really grind it but giving up your "uber" combat template is hard), go dig up all the resources (good luck with that since you gave up your combat skills for doc), put together the packs and buff people for in Coronet for 6k for few hours. Then come back and start belly aching about how bad inflation is. I haven't been a doctor very long but I've been one long enough to understand the headache it is to sell buffs.
Ok, specific numbers aside...
Does everyone agree that we should charge more for buffs on the Advanced Planets?
At least 2-3k more than the base prices on the normal planets?
Seems only logical seeing as mission payouts are a lot more.
I gave up being a buff whore quite a while ago. The reason being i can make more money buffing myself and killing janta then i could selling buffs, and secondly the total lack of respect that docs get. We are treated like whores, who's only job is to run after the combat chars and tend to there whims.
50k a buff is fine for one day but will not hurt the big combat guys. What we need to do is STRIKE. A full 24 hours with all docs not selling a single buff. That would get the combat chars attention and maybe, just maybe they might be a lot politer.
Flynn_Nomad wrote:Ok, specific numbers aside...
Does everyone agree that we should charge more for buffs on the Advanced Planets?
At least 2-3k more than the base prices on the normal planets?
Seems only logical seeing as mission payouts are a lot more.
I don't charge based on what someone is or isn't going to do when they are buffed. Nor do I ask them what they are going to do after I buff them.
I charge based on my costs and what I feel is a reasonable and fair markup on those costs.
tell you what
1. When i can pay 5-10 CPU for good avian meat like every other resource, on my server even the best herbivor meat only goes for at most 25 cpu. when i can pay that price range instead of the insane amount of 200cpu for bad avian meat and insane prices for the good stuff, we have a spawn of avian meat a while back that was 800 in all stats, in shift it was selling for 500 cpu. thats crazy.
2. When i dont have to have some BE bivoli to buff people. I hate this stuff, its really not worth the price, on my server its 150K ( more with alot of the cheifs ) for a crate of 25 thats three uses per stack. and that extra 25 wound treatment gives me about an extra 300 - 400 points that really isnt worth the price honestly.
3. When people offer to pay me a fair price for my other services like rezing, wound healing, curing poison/desease, things like that. Reguardless of what you think, docs are underpaid for all of there services, yes including buffs, but even more so on the rest of the stuff. Almost noone tips when you heal them when they ask you to, and many dont even say thank you, most just run off.
4. When docs are no longer mistreated. I know ive gotten atleast 10 invites to go to the corvet that were all only because i was a doc, none of these groups offered to pay me, yet they all expected me to stay in the back, not fight, not get any loot and heal them all. Why would i go on something like that, at first i thought it was only the first group that wanted me to, but i got many more invites like it, then i thought it was just me, but no, other docs on my server have gotten the same. Also whenever people stop thinking docs are here to only serve them, i cant tell you the number of time that ive gotten a tell from somone i dont even know that has espected me to travel a long way to come rez them, and when i said no they bad mouthed me for so long that i had to /addignore them
Cohen001 wrote:What we need to do is STRIKE. A full 24 hours with all docs not selling a single buff. That would get the combat chars attention and maybe, just maybe they might be a lot politer.
Unfortunately, I think the result of such a strike would be that those who overcharge now would use it at an opportunity to spend a day selling buffs for a million per buff...
Pherigan wrote:
Market/supply and demand. If the price is too high, people won't pay it. If the value isn't what they want, they'll go somewhere else. The buff economy on each server adjusts to resource shifts and availability of personnel.
This would be true if buff prices fell when resources were plentiful, but that isn't the case. They rise, but not fall.
That is not an adjustment in accordance with resource shifts, that is an adjustment based on what some doctors think they can get away with, and then the rest following suit until the "going rate" has been re-established at a higher level.
Songe wrote:
There is no such thing as overpricing as long as people are willing to pay that price.
More BS.
Just because they are paying a certain price, does not automatically make it willingly. They pay it because they have no choice.
What happens when anyone tries to tell someone in this game that their price is too high? Simple, they get told to piss off. No one who is selling anything actually LISTENS when customers complain about price, they just tell them if they don't like it go somewhere else.
Which means the customers end up having to pay whatever the seller says...or else do without - so they pay - but that sure as hell doesn't mean it was willingly.