Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Issue: 58   Editor: Nyxxinator


Establishment prices going down MikaVerLeth
The Establishment feature was popular when it was re-introduced earlier this round. The memories of safe houses were still there in the heads of the older players. However, the popularity of the feature dropped once it turned out you were only able to build a 500 car garage. Still, contradictory to its popularity, the prices kept going up. This made it impossible for the poorer players to buy their own piece of land.

With the increasing land prices, Sabin decided it was time for a change. The prices of all the unowned pieces of land went down again, after being ridiculously high. Allowing players with less money to get their own piece of land and giving the players that already owned a piece of land the opportunity to make big money by selling and re-buying their land.

“Prices have returned to a normal level for unowned Establishments,” Sabin said in the Game Forum Sticky. “As you spend time owning one, it can gain equity over time. Once it gets sold back to the State (or if you die, etc), the equity is lost and it starts over at a reasonable base price that is inversely proportional to the number of vacant lots,” he explained. Explaining how he had altered the code to keep the land prices reasonable for all in favor of buying.

With land prices down, and bearing the promise of BSF2000 to add additional buildings, Establishment might experience a re-birth and become popular once again.