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« on: 10 Feb 2014, 18:00:50 »
First of all, let me say that I love the whole idea of chunky, and you guys have done a great job at it.
However, I think the prices of wilderness plots get exorbitantly high within a fairly short amount of time.
I had a chat with Duelcon about the prices, and he explained to me the motivation of the admins behind it. I do understand that there has to be some sort of mechanism to keep large growth of people's plot sizes in check, and to prevent a large number of inactive wilderness buildings to ensure this world will be a very long-lasting one.
But, I did do a few calculations, based on the number of plots I've bought so far. The plotprizes increase exponentially, although there is a slight decrease in the amount of exponential growth. To explain it to people:
You buy plot A for a certain price.
Plot B will cost the price of plot A, with a fixed price increase +20%
Plot C will cost the price of plot B, with the price increase of the previous plots +19%
So basically, the price with every plot will increase, but the percentual increase will be gradually lower, so the price increase between plots will flatten eventually.
This is a nice system, and although I'm not exactly a mathematical genius (far from that) I do know enough to do some rough estimations.
Keeping into account the decreased percentual growth in plot price increasement, by the time you have bought 20 plots in a best-case scenario, each plot will be at least 80k per plot. Keeping into account that I am planning to buy 49 plots for my building, the equivalent of 112x112 blocks, that would mean that eventually I'm gonna need a multitude of millions to buy all plots needed.
If we then take this into comparison to the income I had in V5, it took me 6 months to get about 2 million noobz. I totally understand that you don't want the world to fill up quickly, and that you want people to actually work for getting a decent sized area. But taking over half a year just to get enough terrain to get a 100x100 building seems ridiculous to me. And that's only for getting the terrain. After that I'd have to start on the actual building itself.
So in the end, my suggestion/idea/request/question is, is there ANY chance at all that the prices of wilderness plots will be lowered? Cause I highly doubt any person would have the patience to spend half a year to get enough terrain for a decent sized project.
I'm a bit disappointed to be honest. In the builder's streams during the development of this version I specifically asked the admins if it would still be possible to go for big projects this version, and I even used my example of a 400x400 building, which would've been my original project for this version (So I already had to tone that down to a 100x100 building) and I was guaranteed that it was not your intention to discourage big projects and it would very well be possible, so it would be a very nice gesture to see you live up to this promise, which kept me waiting for V6 during it's many months of development.