In February 2017, Dakota published an article on terraform prices. As it has been some time since then, I decided to do a refresh of it. In the previous article, terraforms were broken down into three categories; custom, prospect, and alliance.
Custom terraforms are ones where the buyer can choose the distribution, such as a 7 food / 3 stone distribution. Prospect terraforms are terraforms that use the starting distribution of a race, such as the human's all 5s distribution. Alliance terraforms are terraforms for alliance-mates.
As before, this is for a standard terraform, a rushed terraform will often cost more.
10 Terraformers were surveyed, and the price of a scrap was taken as being 36.5 mil.
Compared to the last survey, there has been a significant increase in the average price of a custom terraform; from 30.9 mil to 38.4. However, the most common price was 36.5, just 1.5 mil above the previous mode, with 70% of respondents giving a price of 1 scrap. Most prices were given in terms of scraps, with those who didn't give a price in scraps saying that they would take a scrap as payment. This is perhaps the largest change, as in 2017 all prices were given in gold.
A scrap was also the most common price given for prospect terraforms, though there was a bit more divergence with one player offering a 10 million gold rebate for scraps. The shift to scraps has led to a 13.3 million gold increase in the price of prospect terraforms.
Alliance terraforms were by far the cheapest, with an average price of 15.6 million, however this is over three times the average in 2017. Most players either offered them for the same price or for free to alliance-mates. Players often said that prices for alliance-mates would vary based on how long their buyer had been in their alliance, as well as their size.
Author: Eowan
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