Shadow Ravenwolf
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I've been doing exactly this for about a year or two now. I have had a serious dip though in recent months. Influence has become so easy to make that most of my customer base has moved on to financing their own storage SGs.
The concept was sound, but it's just not as lucrative as you may hope.
I'm not going to go into details, but Viv brings up several points that are going to impede you. My operation is a bit different from what you are proposing. A bit more sterile and professional, I am not providing "Apartments."
This may work for you in the short term amonst friends, but in general, the market for these services have fallen into 2 categories. People who see your idea and decide to just make their own bases and those who want everything handed to them for free.
Also, with a 1 time fee, it will need to be high enough to cover the expenses of what you are offering, or you will go broke with the 500:1 Conversion at the Registrar.
Example:
Let's say that you offer each person a modular deal of 1 Enhancement Table, 2 Salvage Racks, and 1 Inspiration Collector. For argument's sake, you have a centralized crafting center with 1 crafting table and 1 Vault.
Enhancement Table - 95,000 Prestige
Salvage Rack - 30,000 Prestige (15k x2)
Inspiration Collector - 75,000
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Total Prestige = 200,000
Influence -> Prestige (500:1) = 100,000,000 Inf per Module
4 Modules per Base = 400 Million Inf
You will also have to take into account the costs of Influence to generate the Prestige for the actual Base. Decide if you will make it several different workshops, or a couple bigger workshops that you divide up.
Let's say you have 4 customers to a base, so you take 2 3x4 Workshops* and break them down into 4 "rooms" for use. You need 2 3x4 Workshops because of the 9 Storage Per Workshop limit.
2 3X4 Workshops is 460,000 Prestige = 230 Million Influence
Divided amongst your customers, 57,500,000 Inf each.
I haven't gotten into Power, Control needs for basic power for the Vault, but right now, you will need a "one-time" payment of 157,500,000 Influence to "Break Even" on this. With Control and Power, round it up to 200 Million Inf from Each of the 4 "customers" for a ballpark total of 800 Million Influence.
Another issue is Base Rent. Running 16 devices that contribute to Upkeep, it's 1600 Prestige per 4 - 6 weeks, depending on how you pay the rent. That's 800,000 Influence for Rent each cycle.
In the grand scheme of things, 800 Million + a recurring 800k is not really that big of a deal. This is also the reason most people have left the "rent from someone else" and just made their own groups.
The above is just a loose example. If storage is the only concern, then those are a decent ballpark figure. If you want to offer travel with Teleporters to all the zones and other perks, then the price just goes up from here. -
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Ahh, so Her is referncing Monet.
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Quote:??Originally Posted by Lobster
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Back Alley Brawler...
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Quote:Hell No!!Originally Posted by Bubbawheat
That just means that they need to re-integrate Freem into a more prominent place in the game. Like... the trainer in the new Galaxy City zone. "Ding! Time to go see Freem!"
Back Alley Brawler has been training Heroes in Galaxy City since... well Forever!!
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Choice #1: Shadow Ravenwolf
No Brainer, My Namesake and first Level 50.
Choice #2: Doc Ravenwolf
While I can't bring myself to play Doc, I'll be damned if I ever put him in a place where I've willingly locked him down while the servers still function. -
Quote:Precisely. Nothing mysterious about it.Originally Posted by Roderick
Probably either from the Calendar (Mouseover or click the "X birthdays" on June 25th) or her Profile page.
Since I'm back in here...
I hope you had an awesome birthday War Witch. I hope you took it to the next level. Hope it was all the rage... The Canad... ok, I'll stop now. -
Creepy Indeed! Well Done. I can't wait til your next video.
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Quote:That's Heavy!!Originally Posted by Demobot
This argument seems awfully familiar. Replace 'Going Rogue' with 'City of Villains' and it's like going back in time.
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Friday Night Double Headers at that time (6pm PDT/9pmEDT) works well with my schedule.
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I still agree with you Heri. Self Destruction should be allowed to be canceled like all the other powers.
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Happy Birthday!!
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I wasn't aware of such a group. "Freeper" has been kicked around several posts and threads the past two days and is just catching on as a nickname for the Free Account player.
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Quote:Confirmed in today's UStream that it is 2 character slots total for the Freepers Account. Not total per server, total per account.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
Default number of slots for a free account is 2.
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Congratulations EMpulse!!
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Finally something I have a good chance of being there for. Friday June 26th,6pm pacific is 9pm eastern, which is right in my wheel house.
I would like to run in both with Shadow since he is vigilante.
Shadow Ravenwolf - Fire/Ice/Pyre (Support Tank)
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06-18-2011 9:35am
Quote:This was at the character select screen, while switching alts, after running for about 2 hours. I had crashed twice earlier with the generic crashbox and I got lucky with the crashbox that tells me that the CoH Beta would love to hear about the crash../piggs/texGui2.pigg: Failed memory allocation
Read failed for file: texture_library/GUI/CREATION/common/Backgrounds/v_background_skyline_normal.texture
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The game ran out of memory and must now exit.
Nothing on my system was running that hasn't been running while gaming for the past year. All of this started with Issue 20 and has affected my play time across 8 computers of varying degrees of strengths and performances. Basically, I have about 2-3 hours of time before the slow memory leak finally siezes the session.
(Posting from work, so no CoHH/HJT. Having this error and a few other crashes happen steadily across 8 different rigs has me thinking it's something in Issue 20 and not any of my machines. I do think that it happens more often on my 32-bit XP-SP3 machines than my 64-bit Win7 machines.) -
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Quote:I fully agree with MB. I pay for my account, not per character. Whether I've logged into "Captain 500 Days" in 2 years or since 2004, makes no difference.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
If you believe that, you should be kicked repeatedly in sensitive areas by people wearing steel-toed and/or spiked footwear.
Just sayin'.
I repeat that the footwear should be steel-toed and/or spiked at a minimum. I won't restrict it to sensitive areas. Anywhere a kick can land to do as much damage to the future of your bloodline will do nicely.
Just Sayin'.
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Happy Birthday!!
...again
(We still need someone to make one more HBD Thread to keep up with the tradition for Early Girl.)