I can only agree with you, the texure prices are going higher and higher which is to he quality's expense. Here are my suggestions to help the texture market:
To Nabi:
-Set qi for textures so less people have them and want to buy. Maybe more or less qi depending on which texture (less for the head, more for the ground).
-Make some textures only buyable with tcs (ground, trails, flame particle)
-Restock more often the texture items and less often the texture packs
To the artists:
-Lower your prices, this way you will not only help with solving the problem, you will get more costumers
-Wait until you reach a certain level before you start a shop, master your program (GIMP, PhotoShop etc), same reason as above.
-(This suggestion I would like to see fulfilled) Create an artist organization that would help set the texture prices of its members and would have a minimum experience level requiered (not to high but only to assure the artis is in fact an artist). The costumers of the members would have a quality/price guarantee and there would be a board with price aproximations (X head : Y tcs, X head with shading : Z tcs) of course only suggestions.
To Nabi:
-Set qi for textures so less people have them and want to buy. Maybe more or less qi depending on which texture (less for the head, more for the ground).
-Make some textures only buyable with tcs (ground, trails, flame particle)
-Restock more often the texture items and less often the texture packs
To the artists:
-Lower your prices, this way you will not only help with solving the problem, you will get more costumers
-Wait until you reach a certain level before you start a shop, master your program (GIMP, PhotoShop etc), same reason as above.
-(This suggestion I would like to see fulfilled) Create an artist organization that would help set the texture prices of its members and would have a minimum experience level requiered (not to high but only to assure the artis is in fact an artist). The costumers of the members would have a quality/price guarantee and there would be a board with price aproximations (X head : Y tcs, X head with shading : Z tcs) of course only suggestions.
Originally Posted by Muffindo
I can only agree with you, the texure prices are going higher and higher which is to he quality's expense. Here are my suggestions to help the texture market:
To Nabi:
-Set qi for textures so less people have them and want to buy. Maybe more or less qi depending on which texture (less for the head, more for the ground).
-Make some textures only buyable with tcs (ground, trails, flame particle)
-Restock more often the texture items and less often the texture packs
This seems unrealistic to me as Nabi proposes to complete the sets within the higher promo packs. This is their way to get $ so that they can manage their team, and keep on upgrading Toribash for PC and working on Toribash for Wii.
As far as I'm concerned, I got my textures by paying them with money. I'm a working grown-up and I had the opportunity to spend my money in this. Some may find it silly, but at the time I began to put money in the game (last august) promos were not that large (I mean getting 5 or 6 full set of items + stuff + texture set completion). But when I put money in the game I was also considering myself as an active support for Nabi's work. That was my way of telling them keep up the good work.
Originally Posted by Muffindo
To the artists:
-Lower your prices, this way you will not only help with solving the problem, you will get more costumers
-Wait until you reach a certain level before you start a shop, master your program (GIMP, PhotoShop etc), same reason as above.
Artists that will keep an eye on the current post already have a certain amount of skill in those softwares. New comers won't even notice this thread exists.
Originally Posted by Muffindo
-(This suggestion I would like to see fulfilled) Create an artist organization that would help set the texture prices of its members and would have a minimum experience level requiered (not to high but only to assure the artis is in fact an artist). The costumers of the members would have a quality/price guarantee and there would be a board with price aproximations (X head : Y tcs, X head with shading : Z tcs) of course only suggestions.
This organisation already exists. I guess it was/is the purpose of Toribash Texture Mob and TTM junior.
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Originally Posted by avwave
great idea monobi...
Nobody should resell things that are expertly done and customized to a players requirements. I finally figured out where most of the tc's are spent and its on TEXTURE RESALE. So a good texture is resold to different accounts and somehow tc is generated through each resale. Whats up with that? You make someone a good texture set so that they can sell it again? (with a marked up price no doubt)
Maybe we should put some restriction on texture re-sale.
For each re-sale the seller should give 1/5th of the original price to the texture maker it was bought from.If some profit is made off it's re-sale ,split half of it with the texture maker.
A rule similar to this would make people think more before buying a set & if they plan to re-sell it ,they would'nt spend an astronomically high price for it.
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Muffindo: As has been stated, it's rather unlikely that Nabi will restrict the sale of texture items, for the reason that Nabi is a company and needs money to continue its work. As far as the organization suggested goes, the TTM exists for this reason and is working on implementing some of the pricing ideas you suggested.
In regards to texture resale, I am loathe to implementing a rule that entirely prevents the resale of textures. Artists are, of course, free to adopt a policy similar to Monobi's that prevents resale, as long as this policy is explicity stated and visible on the shop. I completely agree that resale of textures for profit is a rather ugly business practice, but not much can be done about it because the purchase of a texture transfers the right of ownership to the buyer, unless the artist explicitly states a policy like what I mentioned earlier.
In regards to texture resale, I am loathe to implementing a rule that entirely prevents the resale of textures. Artists are, of course, free to adopt a policy similar to Monobi's that prevents resale, as long as this policy is explicity stated and visible on the shop. I completely agree that resale of textures for profit is a rather ugly business practice, but not much can be done about it because the purchase of a texture transfers the right of ownership to the buyer, unless the artist explicitly states a policy like what I mentioned earlier.
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And people wonder why some of us don't do textures so much
I think the most of us do textures for requests. But when watching the request board i see some threads:
- 20k anime head request
- 2k head request
I'd choose the 1st one.
I think this is why the prizes are that high. When an artist saw that he'll think: Why should i make a head for 2k when i can earn 18k more for the same work.
There have to be a company where the Texturists can help the others, tell them valuable prices.
Also i like the donate to hampa idea and @Skulfuk: You could get the tc back. Make some really rare, epic items with no qi and maybe only 20 of that. of course ppl can only buy them with tc. (500k or so), eg an elf color which glows like toxic and pure.
20x500k= 10.000.000
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