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the usuall how to charge question i can tell you work in progress but i've recently considered overhead prices.

if you asume all resources are 3cpu except petrol 4 at 5 cpu and herbivore meat at 5 cpu. you get the following results:

basic stim :180 credits
adv bio stim : 252 credits
adv bio /adv chem : 376 credits

the general idea is that you have a base price for basic stims or adv bio stim and multiply your price by your cost . if you use adv bio multiply 1.4 and if you add adv chem multiply the result by 1.5. this wouldat least get you consistant profit margin.

there are also a few formulas based on exponential functions that say that for everynumber of points over base the stim is worth a certain percent more

price_per_use= base_price_per_use * (1+percent_markup/100)^((power-base_power)/power_step)

ones i liked are :

15*2^((power-200)/100) which means for every 100 points over 200 the price per charge is doubled

30*1.5^((power-300)/50) which mean for every 50 points the price is 50% more expensive

archon formula is also pretty good :
N=((power-180)/20) ; cpu= 13+N*(N+1)/2 for power< 300
N=((power-300)/20); cpu=34+N*(N+1)/2 for power >= 300

cpu is rounded down to the closest integer.

acording to my first formula 2097 per stim, the second is 2371 per stim , archon formula give 1564 per stim.

what i like about the exponential formula is that they make sence and adjusting the parameters aspecially the base_price_per_use acording to your server multiply by the exponential function you like for scaling and you get a consistant scale.