Selling hardware parts

[PreciseMaybe]

Can you sell hardware parts? if yes how? if no, that would be a good edition to the game

[raki-can]

Unless you're playing a very old version of the game for some reason, it's already there!

Please note that the hardware can only be sold separately for parts designed for personal computers.
Therefore, you must first unlock your Personal Computer.
Then, in order to design the PC parts in the same way as the previous HC parts, click the PC (second from the left) in "Compatible Designs", and a new input field will be displayed.
You can sell it by entering a number greater than or equal to 1 there.
If you specify 0, the part will not be sold separately.

[Progorion]

I already answered this question in this thread, but it disappeared for some reason.

What raki says is a correct answer. The only thing I'd add that in later versions you will be able to sell blueprints (hardware parts) to your opponents, too.

http://www.computertycoon.com/ROADMAP/Roadmap.html

[PreciseMaybe]

Originally posted by raki-can:

Unless you're playing a very old version of the game for some reason, it's already there!

Please note that the hardware can only be sold separately for parts designed for personal computers.
Therefore, you must first unlock your Personal Computer.
Then, in order to design the PC parts in the same way as the previous HC parts, click the PC (second from the left) in "Compatible Designs", and a new input field will be displayed.
You can sell it by entering a number greater than or equal to 1 there.
If you specify 0, the part will not be sold separately.

Thx

[KG79]

I think it should be an option to sell PC parts. When you do not enter a price like 9999$ for an gfx card, it goes automaticly on sale for the public, which you not always want to, especially if you do not have enough PP at that time, as it might generate a shortage on profitable computers. Thanks to god I did not leave the price field on 0, I might have gone bankrupt over night;-D So I would appreciate if there would be a checkbox whether to put the PC part on sale or not, and in the long run that when you sell such products you also have to market them and build up a fan base and reputation. Right now it seems to be a cash cow. Also sales of PC parts should at least influence the PC sales to cheapskaters. If you saturize the market with your PC parts, these folks would not tend to buy PCs unless it's REALLY cheap...

[Progorion]

Originally posted by KG79:

I think it should be an option to sell PC parts. When you do not enter a price like 9999$ for an gfx card, it goes automaticly on sale for the public, which you not always want to, especially if you do not have enough PP at that time, as it might generate a shortage on profitable computers. Thanks to god I did not leave the price field on 0, I might have gone bankrupt over night;-D So I would appreciate if there would be a checkbox whether to put the PC part on sale or not, and in the long run that when you sell such products you also have to market them and build up a fan base and reputation. Right now it seems to be a cash cow. Also sales of PC parts should at least influence the PC sales to cheapskaters. If you saturize the market with your PC parts, these folks would not tend to buy PCs unless it's REALLY cheap...

Hm, have you realized that if you leave the price on 0 then you are actually not selling it? So you couldn't go bankrupt this way. :)

Btw. I'm happy that you are back again! ^^

[KG79]

Originally posted by Progorion:

Hm, have you realized that if you leave the price on 0 then you are actually not selling it? So you couldn't go bankrupt this way. :)

Btw. I'm happy that you are back again! ^^

Hmm seems like I have not realized it... But I was impressed how the DPP exploded;-) Okay, 0 is also fine here. I'd like to keep some premium tech stuff for my own computers, though I assume that at the moment it does not matter. Or is the any impact of the parts market on the computer market and vice versa? I play on hard and it seems everything becomes easy from the moment PCs are invented and the hardware parts flood the market. Although I have really a really high pricing here like 200$ for a crap OS;-D

I was around, but did not follow the forum here often, and unfortunetly had also less time for playing. But good to see all the progress;-)