Overpricing a tutor merely REDUCES the probability of a tutor been hired away. If an overpriced tutor is hired away, it just shows that someone else is willing to keep at an even higher price. Also, market price is determined by the forces of demand and supply of tutors and cash. A guideline is just that, a guideline. With the introduction of Cat Cafe and 2x Cash Promo and beta wars, expect an influx of cash to push up the market prices further. If everyone follows the guideline of kcs/2, and when there's no more such tutors available in market and players have lots of cash to buy tutors to build TB, market price will just go up. It's plain economics. For players that feel that hirers should not hire their overpriced tutors and sell, I'll like to ask, if the tutor is already overpriced, will the hirer be able to sell? For players who go to wars, it's one's risk to hold underpriced tutors. This risk can be reduced by making sure one has no underpriced tutors and by communicating with tutors not to upgrade during your war. As overpriced tutors tend not be hired away, it's fair to wait till the war is over to hire. Not many players will range hire overpriced tutors. For players who demand and expect "respect" from others to hire your tutors, pls don't blame hirers who don't ask. Instead blame like-minded players who don't reply, who say no, who bump the desired tutor themselves/with friends. They are the ones who don't return the respect thus spoiling the market. If you want the tutor badly enough, just hire back, else use the money to find a better tutor. For players in farm wars, allow interested hirers to coordinate a reasonable favorable time for the tutor hire. How many players in farm wars actually hold underpriced tutors? How many players put farm wars on status so that people will not hire their tutors? How many players threaten to farm players who hire their tutors when they are in farm wars? They are already in one and wants more enemies? My conclusion: it's players who demand "respect" that start issues by hitting over tutor hires. There's no such thing as a force volley. Free tutor market is easy to understand and easy to apply in practice. We are all given 250 tutor slots to fill in, can one imagine the hassle needed just to hire a tutor if "respect" is expected, let alone 250? Let market forces determine tutor prices. Don't distort it with ego and power. It only reflects one badly that one need to resort to such means. Thanks for reading my opinion. My comments are always ignored god knows why. Hope I can generate some discussion from my reply. Enjoy the game.
CJ the answer is yes. If someone hires a op tut is because they already have a buyer 95% of time time. And like you said high demand in tuts at this present moment. Guidelines are guidelines def agree there. So tell me why is it wrong to hit someone that hires a tut I consider op? There is no rules on it. So why would It reflect badly on the players that chose to play the game in a different way? Because they don't want to follow the crow? I don't think wanting to want to keep is an ego thing lol, people that had tuts for a long time do get attached to them as you get to know them. All I keep hearing from everyone is a game and free market and so on. But no one has really given me a good reason as to why people can't hit if they want. The is "stupid" isn't a reason in my books lol.
1-5 hits is the same as BL but for a different purpose. I lose money they lose money. Otherwise I wouldn't hit. Again I've only ever hit 2 people In the time I've played. But it does intrigues me as to why people frown upon hitting over tuts. Do any of you have a good reason for it? Or just because someone said it to you and you repeat to someone else and so on? So it's imprinted ?
What about those who hired your tutors and put "Do not hire Tuts" or "Tut not for sale" on their status? I think these people deserve to b hit though just a few times
"Buyer's" market I'd rather call it "i-have-higher-stats-so-i-can-hire-this" market. The powerful gets more power and the weak doesn't grow. Sucks.
@Honey, may I refer you to my post on Page 31. You don't lose money when a tutor is hired away from you. On the other hand, you earn money from a tutor hired. No one forces you to hire back. To hit over a tutor hire, in my opinion, is just a show of power. With your reasoning, everyone will hit over any reasons they deem fit. There will be no order. We can say this is a fighting game. It all boils down to what the player-community want to shape the direction of this social-based game. As a leader of VIP club, is hitting over tutor hires an example and standard you want to set for your members to follow? Remember we all have smaller members who will lose out the most when they are hit by much stronger players over whatever reason. And it's usually over hits that start farm wars and strip farm wars.
We don't hit over a random tut hire ? If you work to save money to clearly OP a tut because you want to keep them and they're hired what's wrong with a hit or two? You buy back and hit to recoup some of the money it's cost you.
@Aiden, hitting a few times to raise cash to hire back is not a strong reason. You can earn more in Cat Cafe or inactive farms. The only intent I can see from hitting over a tut hire is to make the hirer lose money.
I admit hitting to get some money back is one pro but giving them a friendly "warning" that that particular tut isn't for sale doesn't seem like it should be a huge issue.
CjS.. After 43 pages of reading. Your answer makes complete sense. I fully support what you said. After the cat cafe arised.. Its easy to make 1T now and hire lcbc tuts, yet there are not enough lcbcs in the market, thats why there hire price went higher. Any lcbc less than 1,05T is considered up.. You not bumping him/her means u want to sell. Non-VIPs just like any other VIPs, would like to build TB, if u think your tut is not worth hiring back then dont, its simple. Farming and hiting over up tuts wont solve anything. Some may think ur tuts are worth VIP valuable price, others would go that far. Thats why its called a free market. If your so attached to your tuts just bump them to a high price where they wont get hired.
After all everyone should be able to play how they wish and if you take a chance on hiring someone that's 50-100b more then others with the same stats surely you shouldn't complain if someone uses the battle button?
How is it a show of power? I would never hit someone that couldn't hit back. As I would expect retaliation. Everyone has their own mind therefore will play how they want. Again there isn't a reason as to why people have come up with the "don't hit over tuts rule. Which is what intrigues me. And yes CJ it use to be a fighting game. It's not at all. Even the only interesting thing "wars" are more or less non existence now. And I do hire my tuts I want to keep. Everyone that wants to keep will do. And people expect that hence a lot hire them. On the other side you all go by "it's a free tut market" but I bet there is people even you wouldn't hire from.