Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: T21s for 3k
Message Edited by supersparc on 07-04-2004 11:12 AM
Crafting should be done for the love of creating something. That was why I became a WS, I am quitting it again after 6 months because of the lace of social interaction (besides trying the explain what is possible and what is not to customers), but topics like this make part of me wand to stick with WS just so show that a T21 do not have to cost 40-50K.
Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
It is posts like this that make me wand to stay WS out of spite. I really thing weaponsmiths as (and the game as a whole) would benefit if the prices dropped to something like 10 cpu. If you wand to feed you greed by amassing virtual credit in a virtual bank account then surly a TKD/Doctor template would achieve that alt faster then any crafter.
Crafting should be done for the love of creating something. That was why I became a WS, I am quitting it again after 6 months because of the lace of social interaction (besides trying the explain what is possible and what is not to customers), but topics like this make part of me wand to stick with WS just so show that a T21 do not have to cost 40-50K.
Tell you what, I'll sell my weapons cheap and 'craft for the love of the profession' when Ph4t L3wt3Rs give away +20 Weapon Experimentation tapes for the 'love of l3wting'.
Personally I don't care if a WS wants to do a blow out sale because they are retiring or trying to get rid of obsolete inventory. No biggie, the weapons will be used up in no time, or the people buying them will want to upgrade to better weapons eventually. But there's nothing wrong with wanting to make money off your trade either.
Slim Vargo, Corbantis
Tarnak_Archvold wrote:
It is posts like this that make me wand to stay WS out of spite. I really thing weaponsmiths as (and the game as a whole) would benefit if the prices dropped to something like 10 cpu. If you wand to feed you greed by amassing virtual credit in a virtual bank account then surly a TKD/Doctor template would achieve that alt faster then any crafter.
Crafting should be done for the love of creating something. That was why I became a WS, I am quitting it again after 6 months because of the lace of social interaction (besides trying the explain what is possible and what is not to customers), but topics like this make part of me wand to stick with WS just so show that a T21 do not have to cost 40-50K.
T-21s may notHAVE to cost 40-50k. Though, krayt tissues don't HAVE to cost 200-300k a piece. Doc buffs don't HAVE to cost 25k. Avian meat doesn't HAVE to cost 400cpu.
As someone mentioned above, greed stems from multiple directions - funny to see how the 'greedy weaponsmith' sentiment has faded off in light of uber loot sales. 10cpu for weapons? Good for everyone? Shall I tell that to 40 million credits spent to obtain +2 experimentation? 27 million for a +10 tape, which was probably obtained by an afk borgle cave looter? His AFK macro is worth 4 months of profit where I worked my butt off?
Consider perhaps that market force and need for personal time just MIGHT drive the pricing? It does for me. I don't worry about how much money I can score off people each sale. I want fully stocked vendors, available with everything for everyone at a fair enough price.
Problem?
If I price at 10cpu, I'd be bought out and my stuff would be resold at 300-400% markup. My vendor would need constant restocking, I'd do nothing but run factory runs all day trying to keep my vendor stocked for RESELLERS (a profit driven group)while my true customers are wondering why my vendors are always empty.
I price so that I am not targetted by resellers for mass purchases, and yet cheap enough to be considered a solid deal (against other weaponsmiths with similar benchmarks in weapons). "Greed" for a "virtual account" has nothing to do with it. Keeping a nice group of solidly loyal customers and never having an empty vendor, andcontrolling sale volume by adjusting price so that maybe I do have time to do something for fun once in a while - means I have to price above your magical 10cpu.
Perhaps you'd take that on board instead of laying prejudicial broad strokes and acting like you are God's Gift to the weapon consumer and insinuating we are all trying to gouge. I somehow doubt if suddenly Avian meat stopped going for 400cpu that the doctors will suddenly lower buff prices. I doubt if we dropped prices to 10cpu that suddenly Krayt hunters don't try to hock off tissues at extortionate rates.
The irony of it all is all of these prices are derived from the very people who pay these prices. I don't want to have to tellGun_User_1 to makeXYZ krayt rifle it costs X hundred thousand credits, but if that is what I have to pay Gun_User_2 to get such ingredients.
They mark up on themselves.
HAND.