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I only ask because I am not.

I think that is a big part of the problem with everyone complaining about how pricing is such a big issue. Every Shipwright simply isn't selling anymore and now every shipwright is looking for a scapegoat. So, they go after those with prices lower then some arbitrary number they decide they have to sell for and make wild claims that those people are ruining sales for them.

The real problem is the decay of starship chassis. If the decay rate was higher and there was something in place to actually affect the performance of a starship as it's hit points drop, I am positive that the sales of chassis would increase considerably. The performance drop could be based upon a static number, not a percentage of the full hitpoints of the chassis, this would also alter the experimentation being performed to chassis as hitpoints would suddenly carry more weight.

Then, those of us that can afford to sell chassis at the 2.5 Credits Per Unit Price and those that can't sell them for less then 10 Credits Per Unit will start selling starship chassis once again. With the lower price sellers selling out more swiftly and most likely taking longer to restock, because those that charge that little typically mine all the resources themselves.

I believe the best thing for us shipwrights to overcome this issue of being unable to sell starships is to come together, not to set some arbitrary price controls, but to put our heads together and come up with an easy to implement system that the Devs might be able to use to assist us in selling more chassis.

My idea is rather simple, have a static hitpoint to performance modifier for each chassis or level of chassis and subsequent performance decreases based upon the chassis hitpoints. This would force players to get rid of 'used' up chassis, instead of selling them on the open market and repalce them with newer 'fresher' starships.

With such a rapid increase in starship chassis purchases, there would have to be something done to help bring down the prices, at least slightly. Perhaps fewer resources would need to be used for starship chassis, thus decreasing the cost to build and not to forget the XP gained for crafting chassis. That way, pilots won't feel so raked over the coals as they would have to replace their ships more often. Honestly, I see the prices of 100k for a baseline Y-Wing as being a coal raking price, it's not something a poor schmore like myself could afford.

Anyway, please offer up your own constructive ideas about how this issue can be resolved. I only ask for helpful suggestions, turning this into a discussion about price points under the current system isn't going to help anyone sell anymore chassis, especially since I have only sold one single Y-Wing, priced at 37,500 credits and my vendor is filled with those, while others in the same mall have Y-Wings priced at 100k and also aren't selling anything...

How about some tips folks.

What cpu to you charge for these chasis you're selling so quickly?

What is the price range of your RE loot.

Like many of you, I'm doing this by trial and error, so any input would be appreciated.

• Chassis I sell for 5.5 cpu (same range as the other vendors in the mall I'm in)


• Consumables 20 cpu (chaff packs, missile packs, paint/texture kits)


• Components I sell almost entirely as custom orders, 20 cpu also


• Don't RE parts for sale, only for Firespray disk parts.

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Bolitho wrote:
How about some tips folks.

What cpu to you charge for these chasis you're selling so quickly?

What is the price range of your RE loot.

Like many of you, I'm doing this by trial and error, so any input would be appreciated.

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5 cpu for all ships, and I've gotten a few emails about my good prices

I currently buy RE loot for 1000 credits per level, and sell them for cost plus 25%, but I'm going to be changing this to 1500 for level 1 and 2 and 5000 for all else, then sell them for cost plus 25%

While i'm not making millions a day, I do have pretty consistent sales of a ship or two per day, and now that I added RE, I'm selling all of that I can get my hands on. With that in mind, my previous pricing was good up to level III, but then the cost got too prohibitive, something like 130K for level X stuff, under my new system that will be 62.5 much more in line with crafted stuff.

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Bolitho wrote:
How about some tips folks.

What cpu to you charge for these chasis you're selling so quickly?

What is the price range of your RE loot.

Like many of you, I'm doing this by trial and error, so any input would be appreciated.

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I sell my hulls for 5cpu, except for the novice level ships, which I sell for 20k each. Parts I struggled with initially, but came up with an encompassing pricing model that matches my looted parts/crafted parts equal in terms of final price. I buy my looted parts for 1k (lvl 1-2 parts), and 7k for the lvl 3 and above parts. So I sell all cert levl 1 parts (crafted and looted) for 12k. Cert level 2 (crafted and looted)parts for 14k, cert level 3 parts for 45k, etc. Yes there is a big jump between lvl 2 and 3, but it works out very good. If you're going to consider a combined pricing model like I run, you have to factor in the cost of purchasing hundreds of looted parts which might sit a long while, along withthe actual cost of resources you purchased for crafted parts. My parts sell very well, so my customers seem to be happy with it.