Price Point Suggestions on Current and Potential Market Items to Drive Gem Sales

[Shadowfax84]

Discussed Changes to the Market to Improve your Gem Sales and Player Happiness. Note not all of these are reductions in price, a group of us honestly sat here for 3 hours descussing what the Price Point on these items should be as effort drive your sales; please, please, please take what we have offered up to heart.

(Suggested PP in Gems on Items unless otherwise stated.)

Starting with the Resources Tab Needs the whole thing needs scrapped.

Architect Tab - PP on Friary (1800) / Deerstalker (1200) / Artisan Wells(45) / Improved Store House (1000) / Endless Copper Mine (15k gems) and up quantity to 6x maybe? {{{ Make Floaters Unlimited and Giftable}}}

Black Market - Vet Gen (4500), BHG (995), Geo (400), Explorer (1250), Love Potion (95), Drill Plan (75), Exo Basket (50), Red Fly eliminate or drop to (75), Chocolate Rabbit (75 or 50), Fairy light (5) or sell Stack of 50x for (450) , Fairy Fire (3), Hot Lemon Tea (50), (Dirty Tool Box / HArd Plank Haul / Marble Menhir / Iron Monger Need to upgrade yeild amount to 3k each or eliminate), Chant of Focus (33). Counterfeit Membership 1000 coin, Guild Member Certificate (200), Building Que keep at 3k per but offer ability to buy all 3 for (7500) {{{{{ PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE ALL GODS ADD THE MED PACK AS A PURCHASABLE GEM ITEM (95) Limit to 1/day and Giftable}}}}} {{{{{ After Easter maybe add MMA to Market with 1-3x limit maybe make increasing gem cost for each one bought. 1st (6999), 2nd (9999) and 3rd (14,999).}}}}}

Wholesale tab - Starter pack (35), Old Wooden Floor (19), Landslide Leftovers (19), Toolbox (25), (Cheese Sandwich Scrap), Brew Barrel (25), Coal (25), Marble (25), Deck of Titanuim (75 or [most likely though scrapped]), Fresh Hardwood (35) up to 1k, Hardwood Planks (70) up to 1k, Eliminate the Exo Log(***)/Plank(200) and Granite(300) { cause it doesnt matter what you price them at you cant price them low enought to actually sell them the granite may sell if you lower to 300 gems though.}, Displaced Settlers (250-300)
Add a Bronze Sword (35) for 1k

Adventures tab pretty easy - Any that cost gems gets a 50% cut across the board, add MSE (295) and RBN (495) [MSE PP is based on Nuke Changes If they stay as is maybe make keep price even with RBN] And maybe add Fairytale Adventures for Gems CLT/SLT/HLT/BLT (500), Maybe add Follow-Ups ML (195) and OF (125)

Deposits Tab- Decrease Pickaxe by 15 gems each so small incentive to buy them compared to parrots and iron depos. Also, on all deposits excluding Gold / Iron Depos, and Omniseeds, yeild amounts should increase 2x

Decorations is fine as is.

Epic Tab - Sandman Powder (50 Beans), Maybe add more QM Gens and another Major Gen for purchase. Can even add a Major Gen for Gems in Black Market tab. Also should reduce purchase time on both Catapults by 50% and maybe make them gem purchasable in Black Market tab.

Suggested add ons to increase gem sales.
1st - Instant Gen Travel for 10 gems per use.
2nd - New Skins for Garrisons, Barraks, Mayor House ( Flags, banners, pirate flags, color change, Bombfire, rockets going off Knights riding around in circle, Fireworks, People gathering around, Ballons being let loose, etc make them 15-25 per depending on extravagence.

Best Suggestion so far though is this {{{{{ Write a code, and run a report. The 10 items with the lowest number of sales get either a 10% reduction in price if single item, or 10% increase in amount gained if a resource. This script can run prior to every patch, also it can be run on each server individually. Also it could In addition make it so the top 10 sellers go up in price or down in amount. BEST part? it makes players look at the gem store every single update!}}}}}

Thanks Shadowfax84

[Wimpy]

You guys put some real thought into this. BB needs to do something to increase gem sales to keep the game viable. I have not purchased gems in over 15 months. I bought a lot when building my island after beta. Now I don't see anything I need/want to add that costs gems. I might have to spend a few to get some extra eggs.

Thanks for you hard work.

[Dirkjon]

Sorry, but you guys miss the point of gem sales.........Gem sales are not designed to make the players happy, they're designed to make UBI money....to pay the devs and support staff. I don't have a problem with that as I enjoy the game and don't mind spending money to support it.

[ZBest]

Balance in the Gem Shop?!?!?

What's next? Stuff for sale for coins?

/end sarcasm

[psaltery]

you might be able to convince them to do an occasional sale on a particular item/building...maybe a monthly deal? im concerned that cutting prices like that, at this point in the game, would cause an uproar from ppl who have already bought those items...demanding a refund of the difference.

[dman_dustin]

you might be able to convince them to do an occasional sale on a particular item/building...maybe a monthly deal? im concerned that cutting prices like that, at this point in the game, would cause an uproar from ppl who have already bought those items...demanding a refund of the difference.

But what about those that bought Explorers and Geologists, would they then owe Ubisoft Gems?

There's no logic to this argument anyway. Things initially cost a lot, but then their price is lowered. No consumer that bought an item for $600 has any right to complain or demand a refund when the price is lowered to $450, so then why it would it be different here.

On top of that, any and all items can technically be gotten for free. An Endless Copper Mine requires you to wait 4 years, but you can eventually buy it, with your free gems. Buying gems, is just an incentive to buy things sooner at a faster rate.

So even if there could be complaining, it really wouldn't be justified by any means.

[Scuzz]

I like the idea of varying prices on the main gem items and you would never be able to price the resources to be less than coin purchase but a sliding scale on gem/times bought would bring player input into it more

[Troll-Phu]

a event box with books would make you guys a KILLING!!!!!

[Draconus2004]

And we see a deposit, that costs far more then a golden parrot or omniseed, that gives ****.

[Raubhautz]

Same theme as in most of these threads: No input, response from BB/Ubisoft.