Hey all,
We’ve just begun construction of our shop in this new universe and hope to be up and running by next week hopefully. Our goal in this universe is a little different. Before we wanted to try to create an effective machine by forecasting demand and crafting en masse to lower overhead. We’ve been watching from a distance and we noticed that some shopowners have changed their mentality when they’re not as pressured by competition. These are the three things we will be more focused on after playing more this time around:
Empowering Players
While we are planning on selling a variety of tools, machines, brews, and foods we would like to do our very best to create some baselines. Things have been a little over the place as many of you have seen and voiced. We are hoping to create a better standard for various items as we had achieved previously. The goal is not to be the best, but to empower players throughout their time playing the game.
Giving Back
With great power comes great responsibility. The Gemporium was a large collaborative project and we are extremely thankful for that. Without the support from the community, we couldn’t have done it. It was never our intention to hoard gold in hopes of being number 1 and it still won’t be (nothing wrong with those who do have this goal). Since gold is kinda, well… useless in the real world, we would like to partner with various individuals over time to help them with their larger builds. We had been hoping to do this around this time for the early access universe but did not foresee release coming this quickly.
Better Transparency
I know my name is Sly, but it is not because I think that I am mischeivous. (Yes I know some of you guys have mentioned that you don’t trust me before and I’m sorry for whatever may caused that). Anyway, I recorded sales weekly and kept them internal hoping to one day create some mock quarterly report for fun. That didn’t happen… I would still like to better share COGS, Revenue, Net Profit, Total Overhead, etc with you guys as I think they are fun metrics to work with. This time around we’ll be documenting these and posting them in a channel on our discord. I’m also hoping to have at least one person with little connection to the Gemporium take a quick peek at the numbers so they can assure that I’m not fudging the books. See the link below to join.
For those of you who would like to join our discord server feel free to. We have a few bot functions being worked on that we hope to streamline the trade process. We know there are a bunch of guilds and groups out there already and we’re sorry for creating another server that might clutter up your dash. The original intent was to create a safe space for people who worked with us previously and supported us as there is the occasional player who completely dislike what we do and bad mouths. Once joining you will get updates when things are re-stocked, just in case you’ve been waiting for a Gemporium special 
. After being active in the channel or upon request we will give players access to the members channels which will include specialized bounties that we create (with the Boundless UI to make it super immersive :P) for more objective oriented play, for those looking for some extra stuff to do in game.* Click the link below to join the server!
