Plugin Pricer

We both made a hide business plugin omg we should totally bang

 

srry, i dun bang $1.65ers, only $1.70ers. get a lief u poor fuk

 

:'( (Okay enough bullshit)

 

Clockwork for 2.5k. Lol, alright.

 

Awww hell naw foo, I miss NoMoreULX.

 

I actually found out the Advanced ViewData I had price-tested was one of the dev-versions and also broken as shit.

http://gyazo.com/36b43392bd2c9ab7f835de01aaec4149 Here you go

 

Doesn't pricing by Lines of Code encourage lazy copy/paste work to just increase line count?

(EG, Hard coding stuff that could be done as a loop and copy/pasting code that could just be a function.)

All in all doesn't seem like a very reliable way of determining value to me.

 

Exactly. It rewards bad habits.

 

Price Gmod.

 

If you use more more efficient code with less line count then you would use the difficulty multiplier.

 

I wouldn't really lower myself to doing that.

 

Not trying to imply you would, it's just if a community owner was using something like this to value a plugin commission they were paying for, they could very easily end up paying extra for crap.

Philosophical quandaries aside, this is a neat program that seems to give a decent ballpark estimate of a plugin's worth (Given it's not specifically made to be extra lines).

 

Wow, these are too expensive for my blood. Though I understand that a commission price would be more than the price of the actual plugin itself but, wow you'd make a damn killing on something like this...

The only problem I see with something like this is that once someone has asked for a commission they don't know how much it's going to cost until you've finished it, what if they don't have the money or don't want to pay that much?

 

You need to stop taking what the plugin pricer spits out so literally.

Seriously, it's just a tool to give an approximate estimate of your code's worth based on line count. There's a reason there's a difficulty multiplier. I won't ask for $50 when I've made a 1000-line plugin that was as easy to make as drinking water, commission or not. No developer is so stupid to think that code this expensive would sell well, there's a reason why professional software isn't the price of a car, because it probably would be if you used nothing but a tool like this to evaluate its price.

Like regular people, we're equipped with common sense.

 

What you missunderstand I think is that the price is for the commission and not for the plugin itself if it was sold, however there is still the issue that the price calculator is being used to calculate high prices at the moment with 5p a line, why not something lower? Specially when most lines in lua aint exactly THAT long. It's like you're asking for 1 or 2p a word.

 

Did you even read my reply? What I'm trying to say is that we have common sense. We know that the pricer may suggest ridiculous prices, and in such a case we'll figure out a price on our own.

 

As Atebite said, should the plugin reveal to be too expensive for how easy it was to make, I'd bring the multiplier down so that I could make a better price to the commissioner.

Regarding the price, once you have experience you can make a good estimate:


I'm almost halfway through the commission, 85 lines. At the end, it's just going to be around ~200, which is the lowest line count I told my client.

 

want to post the source for your plugin pricer so we can compile it too

 

Why would I do that, ees private <3

 

To prove you aren't secretly uploading every plugin that's price checked for your own benefit is why, you evil scum...

jokes, we're just curious