Tailor Archive

I got my first custom order yesterday, and boy did it feel good! A fellow artisan asked for an all white suit with 2 sockets on every piece of clothing. I made him uniform boots, crafter pants, muscle shirt, cold weather jacket, workman belt, a swoop helmet, and workman gloves. All in all I think it looked pretty good.. not quite my personal taste, but he seemed to like it. I sold it all for 20k, which was his offer - I quoted 12k, which turned out to be less than I would've costed if I'd put them on my vendor. That brings me on to my next question...

I'm currently pricing my stuff as ((resources * 2) * complexity) + (sockets * 50), does this seem fair to you experienced guys and gals?

There's a price calculator at http://zachary.org/swg/ which I have looked at and I *think* is similar to my equation, but I'm not totally sure (I forgot that hide prices might be more than normal resources when I worked mine out)

On chimaera most resources go for 2cpu, which is what the resources*2 part of my equation is for. I did ponder charging more for sockets, just so that a customer who doesn't really want them won't buy up clothing that a socket seeking customer would want.. maybe 50 is too low..

oh, and I also harvest all my own resources. You could use average server costs like I do, or try and work it out yourself:

First work out how much power costs by measuring how much power you collect over an hour, and then divide it by the maintenance cost.

For example: Say it collects 50 units of power in an hour, and it costs 25 credits an hour to maintain - thats 2cpu.

To work out how much a resource costs, measure how much resources the harvester collects in an hour. Add the cost of an hours power to the maintenance cost, and then divide the resource by that cost.

For example: A harvester collects 90 units an hour, maintenance is 30 credits an hour, and it uses 3 units of power an hour. 90 / (30 + (3*2)) = 2.5cpu

For clothes, you will also have to take into account the cost of powering and maintaining a factory. I guess that'd be similar to working out the harvesting costs, but I currently don't use a factory so have no idea how they work (yet)

Did that make any sense?

There's an updated calculator (in the link directory) which also includes the new wearables (Zachary's is out of date).

Do you mean Zephyria's Calculator? That link doesn't seem to work for me. :s

I was alerted to the fact that Zephyria's calc is offline so I took it out of the link directory. But fear not. The new and improved tailor calculator (and I don't remember who submitted it, but it's GREAT) is updated for the new schematics (Ithorian and otherwise) and your prices can be sorted by name, tier, or price. I have used it for all my prices, I think with a 15 c/p/u base, and then played around with multipliers, factory costs, etc.

(((∑ unnamed resources)+ (2 x (∑ named resources)) x (complexity x schematic data size))+ (component costs)

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  Inorganic




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  Chemical




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  Inert Petrochemical (x1)




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  Lubricating Oil (x2)




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  Racipeorjaian (x3)

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  Polymer (x2)




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  Durousrakate (x3)


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  Ipij (x3)

• Fiberplast (x1)




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  Lokian Fiberplast (x2)




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  Meiati (x3)

If the calculated price is between 0 and999, I round up to the next third decimal: 485 becomes 500 and so does 445 (Rounding down, yuk! Me no Likey ).

If the calculated price is between 1,000 and 9,999, I round up to the nextthird decimal: 2345 becomes 2400.

If the calculated price is between 10,000 and 99,999, I round up to the next fourth decimal:

10,200 becomes 11,000.

(((25 fiberplast + 10 polymer) + (2 x 10 wooly hide)) x (14 complexity x 3 schematic size))+ (1 metal fasteners + 1 fiberplast panel)

I calculate the cost for the components in the same manner,soforMetal Fasteners I charge 200/unit and for Fiberplast Panels I charge 100/unit (these prices are rounded up, naturally )

(((25 + 10) + (2 x 10)) x (14 x 3))+ (200 + 100) = 2610

Because of all the brackets, here a more simplified version (not everybody is good at calculus ):

(35 + 20) x42) + (200 + 100) = 2610

Message Edited by Falech on 01-24-2005 11:52 PM