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Well, I am not a Medieval armor expert, I just kinda know chain mail. If a mail shirt is made with enough links, in most places on the torso of the shirt you really won't be able to see through it easily because gravity will hold the links closed. if I can find my shirt and I have not expanded past the size that I made it for I will try to take some pictures and post them. That way I can get proper pictures of what I was trying to point out earlier. I appreciate you taking the time to even consider doing this.
Age of Armour is the expert, not seen him around for yonks
...the one factor Europe has over the US is better transportation alternatives than the car. So it's quite possible to live in a smaller town with lower costs but still be able to get around.
The town I was in while on an educational exchange programme in Germany back in the early 70s, Ötigheim, was barely 4,000 population but we had a number of trains stopping there in each direction each day. tTeh town was small enough to walk or cycle around, had good markets, shops a dance club, and a Kino (cinema) . Karlsrhue was the "big city" to the north about a 30 min trip away. If I remember correct, the fare was something like 5 DM each way. Today the fare is 3.50€. Given 50 years of inflation still quite reasonable.
Tacoma.
Not neccassarily true at all. I live 7 miles outside a major city and my rents are higher than the city and puplic transport is terribly. Its also very expensive to travel on public transport in the majority of the UK.
...true the UK is rather expensive pretty much anywhere you go, which is why it is only on my list of places I'd like to visit, but not necessarily live the rest of my retirement years in.
The states were pretty much like that too, more expensive in the burbs and less so in the city until a couple decades ago when in a number of major cities (like here in Portland) started gentrifying inner neighbourhoods and engaging in a lot of upscale development which resulted in a "reverse migration" from that of the 1950s and 60s when everyone was leaving the central environs for a quieter and in some cases, cleaner, safer life.
The rail transport system in eh UK has experienced, to put it mildly, a few issues since it was privatised in the 1990s, with such matters as higher and higher fares, poor quality service, and poor reliability (sometimes trains simply wouldn't show up when they were scheduled to).
The 70's and 80's were fine even here, but the homemade depression at the beginning of the 90's triggered the downfall of public transportation here in Finland, only the ~10 biggest cities have a fuctioning public transport, elsewhere it 's private cars if you don't want to arrive at the workplace soaking wet, smelly and frozen to the core... Gasoline prizes are at $9USD/gallon, but when there's no choice, there's no choice.
Housing... Depends on what you are aiming at, I bought myself a house built after WWII that had not been spoiled with renovations, and paid it off in 10 years with around $400USD montly payments, rent usually starts at around $800USD per month outside the capitol and bigger cities.
Yo, Richard! And just like that, an old man character shows up in the store. Thank you Daz3D and Kooki99. But does Richard come with a texture set that bursts the blood vessels in the tip of the nose to get that red-nosed older accumulated alcoholic look? Doesn't appear so from the description, but Richard does have some aging blemishes.
Correction - it appears that linking the red nose to alcohol is a myth - https://www.gbhoh.com/drinkers-nose-is-alcoholic-nose-really-from-drinking/
The rail transport system in eh UK has experienced, to put it mildly, a few issues since it was privatised in the 1990s, with such matters as higher and higher fares, poor quality service, and poor reliability (sometimes trains simply wouldn't show up when they were scheduled to).
The UK rail system tries it's best but is sometimes beset with unexpected problems, such as the Met office buying cheap foreign weather rather than using traditional British made weather, hence our trains get stopped by 'the wrong kind of snow'. Also freak environmental conditions sometimes arise such as 'leaves on the line' which could not possibly have been forseen. :-)
Jaleel White is a handsome dude.
Agreed. Teens grow up.
When younger, Jaleel White used costume, posture, makeup, and expression to make himself appear lankier and more awkward than he actually was. But the Steve Urkel character he successfully played was not handsome.
Just as Hollywood can make someone less attractive, they can make someone more attractive. Here is a before and after for Clark Gable. For Jaleel White's Urkel, they did a reverse Gable.
So my point remains that in addition to the Hollywood post-fixer-upper leading actors and actresses, I want additional 'flawed' character actors and actresses. I read somewhere that the contract for Vivian Vance included a clause to keep her weight up to look less attractive (not confirming it).
EDIT - the internet says the Vivian Vance weight story is a legend spawned by a joke contract Lucy shared with her. But the production did use costume, etc. to make Vivian Vance less attractive, according to the internet. http://golucilleball.blogspot.com/2012/06/vivian-vances-weight.html
Strangely Second Life Marketplace sells a lot of male content (322348 items found in Men's Apparel category, it's 10 times the whole Daz3D Shop).
95% of items cost less than L$500 ( $1.56 )
Maybe it's like someone somewhere wrote "Men make pictures of what they want to see, women of what they want to be"... Narrows down the market quite a bit for items, hair and clothing made for men.
The amount of women's apparel is many times men at the Second Life Marketplace. Not strange at all, seemingly.
"Strange" compared to Poser / Daz in 20 years. (Second Life was released in 2003).
Of course expensive items sell less than cheap items, it's certainly not profitable to sell $150 or $500 male outfits at Turbosquid.
If you sell a $150 item you earn $150 if you sell 1 copy. If you sell a $1.50 item you need to sell 100 copies to earn that much. So selling expensive items can actually be much more profitable than selling cheap ones, especially if the market is small.
But how many customers will really do that everyday and every months ?
For example I decide to spend $600 every month, my priority will be $1.50 items instead of $150 items.
I don't think it's only a matter of price, SL have probably more users than Daz.
Items don't sell thousands of copies every month though.
There are still a lot more people who can afford that $1.50 item rather than the $150 item.
Golden Rules in Retail: "Angle to interest" and "stack in deep and sell it cheap."
Yes, but are there 100x more people who will buy it? If there are only 10x more people who do, you may have sold more copies but you've actually lost revenue.
There's way more to pricing a product than just saying "if it's cheap more people can afford it".
The SL vendor created about 500 or 1000 male items, the quantity helps.
The male content doesn't sell that much because there are not enough of Daz users.
If there were 35 millions of users like The Sims, it would be more profitable even if only 1% of users purchase the male content.
Rich people playing Secondlife like to own expensive items to display their status, much like they might buy expensive cars/houses/ wristwatches etc in real life. I am not aware that this happens with DAZ users. I don't see people making renders with super 'rare' content as a statement of how wealthy they are. So while there is a market for 'luxury' items at high prices in Secondlife, that doesn't really work in DAZ.
Depends on what said item is, actually.
As someone who worked years in retail, I can tell you, it's a much easier to sell something if it is "less expensive" ("cheap" doesn't exist in retail--at least to the customer). Quality over quantity, as the saying goes. People want quality, but not at the price quality costs, so they end up settling for quantity. At my old job, we had up-market and down-market cookware. All-Clad was the best in my store; it was $699 for a basic set, and very good quality. Went on sale twice a year--if that. You'd be able to sell a few over the years without a sale, but more when it did. Though, there was this really-really-really horrible cookware set that had the same pieces for $39.99 on certain sales (I think it was $100 SRP). When the sale dates hit, those crappy doorbuster pans were flying off the selves. while the All-Clad was collecting dust. The catch would be, those people buying those $39.99 cookware set were in the next year buying a whole new set. Then you'd be able to talk them up to Calphalon or Cuisinart.
As posters and artists have stated in this thread, if the customer base wants more menswear of quality, then start buying it when it comes out rather than waiting before it goes on a super sale.
@Mada, just have to say, love your clothing (own over a hundred of your products!). And as someone pointed out, more texture packs would be a brilliant idea to solve the problem. Here's a business question for you... why does it seem like more male product sets have the extra textures sold with the original product why females don't? dForce Corsican Raider Outfit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Males comes with the textures, while dForce Corsican Raider Outfit for Genesis 8 and 8.1 Females does not.
What I know from The Sims community is many people spend a lot of money in the game without using the content, it's the "Collecting" addiction.
I'm sure there are Daz users who purchase content that they never or rarely use. Some promo images are too beautiful to resist.
Yeah it may be cheaper if you live in the city than the burbs, but how well do you get along with crime which is typically on even given year 300% higher than in the burbs. I'd gladly pay extra for being safe. At one time I had 3 jobs to be able to afford it but it was worth it knowing my family was same. There is only one side of the city here where there is less crime and the crime rate is about 100% more than it is here in the burbs. If I wanted to buy a house here in the burbs I'd pay at min $110,000. In the city the avg going rate is around $35,000-$50,000, why, crime
How many people do you think would be in this hobby if an item was 150$? How many small businesses, like book cover and comic creators would find this to be a viable investment?
The same thing that keeps being said about motivating PAs by buying early applies to the customers. 1.99 items and the likes are that motivation.
The ability to afford a large amount of items is the only reason I'm in this, and I'm sure it's the same for many others. If I could afford 5 items a month, I wouldn't be here in the first place, no matter how enjoyable it is.
Sure, I'll buy an item on release when I like it enough, but the only reason I'm doing that are the other 50 items I got cheap which allow me to make the scenes that I want with it.