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Happy:
Please be advised the prices in the SW Guides are no longer accurate.  
SW did some major re-economizing.  
Approximately 50% of the items are now only available with gold--including most wearables.  

The changes have not been well received...Just read the official forums.  
http://forum.smallworlds.com/showthread.php?t=19664

A few minutes ago Mitch (one of the co-founders) posted the following.  It is in the thread linked above.


--- Quote ---We have always tried to err on the side of generosity in pricing our items & in providing token earning opportunities. However the current pricing structure wasn't sustainable for us in terms of generating sufficient revenue to pay basic costs. That wasn't going to work for anyone in the long term. Whatever we did to make things more sustainable was going to be temporarily uncomfortable because the fact is we made tokens a little too powerful. We needed to make a slight adjustment.

I think we could have been a little more skillful in introducing some of these changes. Sorry about that guys. I think there is room for some tweaking too to make some things fairer. There is some good suggestions in this thread & in these forums which we will consider. Bear with us please. We'll look at this at the beginning of next week once we get back from the weekend.
--- End quote ---

Astro:
Thanks for the update Happy, I haven't been in SW yet.

Oh boy...I don't even want to look.   :nocool:

Happy:
The blogs are current with photos added for June.

I have not yet updated the guides. 
I may am trying to think of a way to update them--yet preserve the history.  I may end up editing each image and putting a thin red line through the token price where applicable.  Please bear with me as this will be a time consuming process to check each item in stores--one by one edit and upload and post the images. 

If you have any suggestions on how this can be done differently or more efficiently please let me know. 

 :bighug:

Astro:
Happy, I agree with you.  I for one like to take a look back and see the way things used to be.  Your idea of putting a line through things seems like a good fix, although time consuming.  Unless you were to just leave things as is, and then maybe just post a listing of new prices in gold most likely, but refer to "older guide" for specific pictures of items?  idk.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction with regards to the Token Amnesty and your Guides here.  I used your Guides ... well as a "guide", as far as how many tokens I needed to buy particular items, that are now only sold for gold in Mysterios.   :hug:

Happy:
I just started looking at some of the items.  It is interesting to see some of what is and is not gold only.
Example:
Dance floors and lava lamps =gold only  
The things we took for granted in beta.

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