Hovercraft for 10k Silver

99% a mod won't read it.

You just mentioned 1000 gold twice. You might want to edit your original post.

It's actually not a bad idea to have options of buying content, when reasonable anyway. Since the devs established a gold to silver exchange rate - 1 gold to 10 silver - an option to buy silver-only content with gold would be very convenient for some players, especially those that prefer silver for marketplace.

But let's face it, it's obvious that gold-only content will probably never have an option for silver buyouts. It's pretty well known that silver can be abused and exploited - not without reason mind you, new players lose half their starting silver from just buying basic color materials.

Anyway, the point is having options matter. It gives more freedom to the user which in turn makes them happier. Happier players are more likely to play longer (generating more ad rev) or to buy gold directly. Who knows? Maybe having gold options for silver-only purchase might actually encourage and incentivize players to buy gold.

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But I digress to the topic on hand. It's pointless to suggest price changes for game content controlled unilaterally by the devs. They might set these prices based on development factors - like how much time it took to create, how many resources it uses up, and maybe even some statistics based off of previous content costs and how many times such content was bought. There could even be irrational factors involved that affect price.

In fact, these statistics could even be why we've seen price increases on content. If the devs see that a lot of players are buying something, they might think it's a good idea to raise the price in order to make more revenue. But of course, this is when economics start coming into play - by increasing price on an infinite supply curve, demand shifts down indicating that less will be bought. However, if they shift prices too far - which I think they've already done - you'll start to see revenue loss in the long run based on opportunity costs.

But just for fun, I wanted to see how much price has actually increased. I used Nara's post on the old forums to find out that in March 2013, that all the materials used to cost 3700 silver and 1765 gold in total. I tallied up the current costs of the materials he had (I excluded slime, wrapping paper, dark wood, super bouncy and cloud because he didn't list them - which also means only 5 new materials got released since last year) and came up with 1500 silver and 3230 gold in total. Let's fancy that up a bit:


So we see silver costs decreased, but gold costs increased. But wait. Silver has a value to gold remember? So that's 1765 + 370 = 2135 gold for March 2013 and 3230 + 150 = 3380 gold for April 2014. So it's clear that the costs have increased. By how much? 3380 / 2135 = 1.583 or 58.3%. So, in one year, Kogama increased the average cost of materials by 58.3%.

Surprisingly though... blueprint costs have stayed the same. It is only the cost of being more creative that has been increased (seriously, wtf...) But anyway, the fact is, this only further points to that suggesting price changes is futile with these devs.

In fact, you're better off suggesting new ways to buy content than demanding that they change prices. Businesses and devs are alike - they want money to keep working. Suggesting or encouraging ways for them to make more money? Of course they're going to give you a few minutes of time.

• Buying content in bundles could be an option. Bundled content often comes at a discount because it's more expensive than single pieces of content, but it gives devs more short term revenue because of it. It's also more convenient.
• Premium membership that unlocks all future content. Think Kickstarters and Early Access - you're backing the devs with a larger than normal donation that gives them more upfront revenue to use. The freebies are just there to incentivize people to do it.
• Membership that buys out a player's worth in ad rev. Of course adblockers are free, but giving an option to see the website cleaner (or without holes in it) would be a nice way to give back to loyal players.

TL;DR - More options of buying content is a good idea. Suggesting specific price changes for content is useless.

There's also free gold on new-test.
But eh,6 dollars won't hurt me.

P.S. you can always ask me for the HC's i will accept your fr to add cars.

Guys
This idea is cOLD
gosh
i already got hovercar