User talk:Gryphq

Hiyas Gryphq, My name is topheron.

I've got a spreadsheet of the prices of all the items in the game.

It's unfortunately NOT as easy as "ecologists get 50% reduction in terraforming category items", (though they do).

Many things in spore are 'procedural generated'. So it's natural to presume that all the prices (and availability) of items are just set by rules. That isn't the case. It looks as though each item CAN be priced at a different percentage discount than other items in the same category. Most of the time you can say that one philosophy will have a 50% discount on a particular type of item, and that other philosophies will have you paying various percentages more, but it looks as though they played fast and loose with the rules, adjusting things as the designers wished, not according to a fixed way of doing things.

Now, the consequence abilities modify the prices, but their effects are explained in that section.

I thought it might be convenient to know how much you would pay for particular items, but with a variety of consequence abilities, the spreadsheet was getting pretty complex. I thought maybe putting the main price in black, and the 'Arms Dealer' consequence ability price in a smaller font in red, the 'gentle generalist' consequence ability in blue, the 'social suave' consequence ability in green, but the table gets pretty difficult to put together, let alone verify that the actual prices correspond to what they should be by the rules.

Anyway, I'm new to this wiki stuff. So I didn't know a better way to contact you than to create this page.

You can email me at topheron@yahoo.com, and I'll email you back my spreadsheet of prices.

I've thought of a couple of things I'd like to do. I'd like to convert it to html and put it as a page on the web page, but I'm thinking it might make more sense to have the table of prices be a two-page printable pdf file that people can download.

I got all the prices, but I moved too quickly (!) and bought the super happy ray before I found out EXACTLY how much the Shamen and Diplomat pay. So, other than that I've verified the base price of every item, and updated the wiki pages appropriately.

Topheron 01:41, 15 October 2008 (UTC)