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Thread: Maybe Sponsor a Union for SHipwrights? Ahazi!
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casho
Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:28 pm
#1
just so I am getting it straight 5cpu charged for each unit used its fair price right? Maybe we should start a shipwright union on the Servers, have them all in One Guild, or a "sub-guild" of sorts, organised to keep the market stable, seems people are getting screwed by that one person who dumps ship blueprints for 5 credits all the time.
repoism
Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:49 am
#2
same response i did to banky's post. im all for an ahazi coalition of shipwrights. but how are you going to get a resource miner's coalaition so we can keep ship prices stable. now that aint gonna happen
MonkeyLite
Fri Nov 05, 2004 2:28 pm
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repoism wrote:
same response i did to banky's post. im all for an ahazi coalition of shipwrights. but how are you going to get a resource miner's coalaition so we can keep ship prices stable. now that aint gonna happen
crush the miners cpu inflation and all the crafting professions will fall in line..... hopefully
rols_cerentz
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:25 pm
#4
Man, Ahazi sounds like the absolute worst server to play on.
I have read post after post about how messed up the ship market and resource market is on that server.
What's the big deal? Doesn't anyone mine their own resources?
I am a casual player myself and I always have enough harvesters out there, even with my Medium house and Yacht taking up lots, to keep enough resources coming in to make a handful of ships each day...
I charge 2.5 CPU for my ships and, once people locate my vendor, they should start selling pretty well, with everyone charging anywhere from 5 to 15CPU for chassis...
With that rate, I will be making more then enough income to support my other in-game habits.
I have read post after post about how messed up the ship market and resource market is on that server.
What's the big deal? Doesn't anyone mine their own resources?
I am a casual player myself and I always have enough harvesters out there, even with my Medium house and Yacht taking up lots, to keep enough resources coming in to make a handful of ships each day...
I charge 2.5 CPU for my ships and, once people locate my vendor, they should start selling pretty well, with everyone charging anywhere from 5 to 15CPU for chassis...
With that rate, I will be making more then enough income to support my other in-game habits.
casho
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:49 pm
#5
I have 18 harvesters running, all heavy, mineral, chemical, gas and radioactiive, with all five running I have some resources I have more then enough of, and others I cannot get enough of. I can make ten ships a day, but some resources come up short. i don't charge for what I have. But I will not let products go for less then 5 cpu per unit to build it. I am sorry but I spend more time collecting the harvesters guts then I do anything else. I need iron and carbonate ore. I have surplus of everything else. but 2.5 credits per unit item created is a little cheap. These are not cigerette lighters people are buying, they are tools which they will have for a long period of time. How can you pay 3 million for a d10 pistol and 15k for s starship. Not saying is only for the rich and pwerful, but people sell themselves short all the time, will never be stabalized prices unless 99.9% of the people come on board and set the prices, not matter where you go at an absolute bottom line and wholesale line. Thats it. I am sorry for the rant, but we have to find common ground, and to let spaceships blueprints that take 38000 units to make go for 50k is just insane (not sure on my math people)
casho
Fri Nov 05, 2004 3:53 pm
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I should proof read first, very confusing post and sorry about the last rant, typeed quickly at work. The "five" was five of six particular resources you need. What matters is we have a bottom line, refuse to pay 6 cpu for resources and someone will have to drop their prices, send them a tell, talk with em, talk em down. Cannot sell something for less then what it cost you to manufacture. If I have th resources I will sell for 3cpu, I am sorry but my time is what is worth something to me, let me know if I can help anyone.
Deadtech
Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:21 pm
#7
I haer ya man, I love being a shipwright but for the ammount of time I spend daily doing harvie runs off my 10 harvestors I just am not making a decent profit vs cost of labor and cost of goods. 3 cpu blows even if you mine your own resources. I have all my stuff for 10 cpu. granted sales are slow but at least i'm making a good profit vs each product. I'm all for a union of sorts on Ahazi or at least a meeting of shipwrights to come to some kind of agreement about pricing. I did the same thing on Flurry with the smugglers. Bringing the old standby of 100 creds per % to a flat 10k per slice per item and that worked out fine. We had about 3 days of griefing from the community but is subsided with quickness. Now the question is who's going to be the union rep?
RobertPalpatine
Fri Nov 05, 2004 6:37 pm
#8
if you want to start a shipwright union on ahazi contact me on my shipwright Sienar. i have made it clear i sell chassis for 10cpu and components 10k per pilot level. i have myself and another shipwright in my shop now. i could see about getting more shipwrights spots in my city's mall area. if we could make eden prairie the one stop shop for ships we could control the market and set our prices. last count i had 6 shipwrights in my guild including our very own shipwright correspondent.
SinaxEuko
Sat Nov 06, 2004 1:00 pm
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Depending on how easy/hard the resource was for me to acquire, I'm currently charging anywhere from 4-6cpu. Once I get to master, I would expect those prices to increase slightly to account for the extra knowledge of what to experiment on and the extra experimentation points. I'm not selling most components yet, but I had planned on somethingsimilar to the 10k per pilot level required approach on those as well.
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