Selling stations and units to alliance members

Quote from rescuenut93

First off I know this in a way could be abused. What do you all think about alliance members being allowed to buy units off another player for the exact price it is worth, regardless if it was bought by credits or coins. Same as stations, Whatever the stations is worth when bought and extentions bought to be added up and sold to another member who wants it.

Now the thing I've been thinking about is what would happen to the units in said station. Either transfer units to another station or sell it all as a whole.

This has a lot more variables, for example, if I have 30 stations, will it be bought for 100k?
So, this is an interesting idea but I really doubt it will be added for a bunch of reasons

I agree with PortugueseDC, while it is a good idea in theory, there's just too many variables. Especially given that the prices climb based on number of stations. I see it being very complicated to make work, and honestly, think it'd be easier to just build your own.

Sure, that sounds good, because you're getting the money back that you paid for it, but, here's a monkey wrench into that situation:

I have 24 stations built, my next one with a Rescue Engine or Quint will be around 314,000. To build it like yours, it'd be over 200k more, however if I bought yours, I could "cheat" the system by emptying it and then moving (for free) to another location more desirable for me, while saving a significant amount of money.

While I'm not 100% sure about the reason for increasing costs, I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that otherwise, as players build up, the game would get too easy (I can turn in half a million a day easily, compared to 100 or less when I started, and I'm not even that far ahead). Alternatively, if you made the cost effective to what the buyer would have to pay, then players with less than 25 stations can continue to buy and sell at 100k and make hundreds of thousands in profits on it that way.

Because of increasing costs, unless that is something the developers wish to subvert, it gets too complicated to have this type of play

Quote from rescuenut93

Example. One station I have was bought for 100K.

It has 8 bays.

1 - Free from the start
2 - 10K
3 - 50K
4 - 100K or 20 Coins
5 - 100K or 20 Coins
6 - 100K or 20 Coins
7 - 100K or 20 Coins
8 - 100K or 20 Coins

Total cost for Fire Station = 660K

Now, If I were to sell the units along with it as a wholesale,

Battalion Command - 10K
Battalion Command - 10K
Rescue Engine - 19K
Rescue Engine - 19
Type 2 Engine - 5K
Quint - 19K
Tanker - 17,300K
Mobile Air - 11,680K

Total cost on Units = 110,980K

Now to add the Fire Station and Units all together would come to = 770,980K

Which would make the buyer already set with a complete fire station and bays with units of the buyer so desires to keep them and the seller rich.

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Isn't that the same as the player who wants the station buying it him self?
Except for crews and everything, also training for like HAZMAT should be taken in consideration, like I said, too many variables

Quote from rescuenut93

I see where you're coming from here. Like I said, Just an idea.

I understand, also I don't know that many people that want to sell their stations

Quote from PortuguesDC

I understand, also I don't know that many people that want to sell their stations

Absolutely. I never paid much thought to this, but I know I wouldn't sell any of mine. I can see this being a feature that would be abused by players who wanted to be merchants, not disptachers

Quote from newfoundking

Absolutely. I never paid much thought to this, but I know I wouldn't sell any of mine. I can see this being a feature that would be abused by players who wanted to be merchants, not disptachers

Well, I wouldn't mind to sell them because I'm starting my New Project at Portugal, which is kinda far from NY

Quote from PortuguesDC

Well, I wouldn't mind to sell them because I'm starting my New Project at Portugal, which is kinda far from NY

Do like I did, build one station, expand it out, and start moving houses one at a time. My experience is no charge for empty stations to be moved. Especially good for those smaller NY houses with one and two units!

Quote from rescuenut93

So I understand you correctly, It doesn't any coins to move an empty fire station to another location?

I'm shocked

I think that's the case, yes. I did it with an ambulance station. Moved it with units, was 10 coins, moved it without units, it was free. I don't have the money to test with a fire station now, but I will when I have the credits!

Quote from newfoundking

I think that's the case, yes. I did it with an ambulance station. Moved it with units, was 10 coins, moved it without units, it was free. I don't have the money to test with a fire station now, but I will when I have the credits!

Well, I was testing this, after deleting my Fly-Car and sending the ambulance somewhere else to test this, while I was waiting for the ambulance to arrive at the other station I decided to take a look at a building I had moved
It has 1 fly-car, 5 ambulances and 1 Mass Casualty and I could move it for free

In Conclusion you can move for free buildings you have paid coins before to move (you didn't make clear that it was the same building)

Gtocha okay, thanks for the clarification. Now that I think about it, I did move it for coins before. You got it on the head