Shipwright Archive
Thread: pricing flux
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Reijh
Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:29 pm
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Pricing on shipd needs to be cleared up I agree, a ship that takes 80k in resources to make the chasis shouldnt be selling for 55k but hey if ya wanna give em away by all means have at it and when ya run outta resources and dont have the money to stock back upw ith what ya originally had noones fault but your own. Basically every shipwright Ive talked to sells the chasis blueprints alone for 6-8 cpu that makes the beloved 80k ships 480k creds i knocke dit just a notch and went with 450k on those high level ones.....why? because it take me a minute to suck up those 80k in resources and takes 3 days to go harvest them back up now if i crank out 10 ships in one day figure that up vs how long its gonna take me to regenrate my supplies.As far as components ppl are paying anywhere up to 60cpu for good resources made components im not going that high but they're not 10cpu either and if ya want to have shipwright and actually make it worth your time Id recommend sticking around these prices if not its gonna be the same thing weve been experiencing the past several days make a ship, get 5 mass tells "I need this",make another item 5 more tells"I need this". Make it worth your while to be a shipwright.
RemoMoxey
Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:32 pm
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Reijh wrote:
Pricing on shipd needs to be cleared up I agree, a ship that takes 80k in resources to make the chasis shouldnt be selling for 55k but hey if ya wanna give em away by all means have at it and when ya run outta resources and dont have the money to stock back upw ith what ya originally had noones fault but your own. Basically every shipwright Ive talked to sells the chasis blueprints alone for 6-8 cpu that makes the beloved 80k ships 480k creds i knocke dit just a notch and went with 450k on those high level ones.....why? because it take me a minute to suck up those 80k in resources and takes 3 days to go harvest them back up now if i crank out 10 ships in one day figure that up vs how long its gonna take me to regenrate my supplies.As far as components ppl are paying anywhere up to 60cpu for good resources made components im not going that high but they're not 10cpu either and if ya want to have shipwright and actually make it worth your time Id recommend sticking around these prices if not its gonna be the same thing weve been experiencing the past several days make a ship, get 5 mass tells "I need this",make another item 5 more tells"I need this". Make it worth your while to be a shipwright.
Don't worry about it. I'm a master shipwright and have only sold about 10 chassis so far. I'm in it for the long haul, the people you speak of just want to make a quick buck. In another month or so shipwrights will be like architects, the good ones will still be around
ravingbantha
Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:40 pm
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I agree, I saw this happening real quick. I have had customers complain when they send me a tell asking how much do I charge, and when I tell them they sey "well so-and-so sells for half that" and I sometimes have to hold back from saying that so-and-so probably used crap materials and will not be around in a few weeks. That's gonna be a big problem we face, people think that SW is gonna be so easy. From what I have seen so far it's gonna be one of the most difficult anf therefore the most fun.
What we have is a class that uses a ton of good resources. Add to the fact that about 85% of the stuff that can be made MUST be made by hand, will make for a very interesting class.
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