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How I Draw Crystal / Facet Tutorial!

Crystal and Facet are really beautiful genes however they’re pretty complex when it comes to replicating the gene to look game accurate. Here’s a little tutorial illustrating how I draw the genes myself, numbers and their corresponding picture will have little explanations below the cut:

So everyone keeps yelling and screaming, we need more coders! But get this, coders cost money. Lots of it. Coding in general is one of the most wanted jobs around, meaning that if you’re not willing to give them the money they need they’ll just turn around and get a better offer. 

So how much does a coder cost? This is a rough estimate taken from a few sites (In other words, give or take a few $1000s) but the cost of a web coder, per year, with 2 years experience is  $75,000 Let me put that in lingo you guys can understand. That’s 7,500,000 gems/ 4,125,000,000T/ 3750 Breed Change: Coatl scrolls/ or about 214 light sprites. (See bottom for footnotes.) This amount makes kickstarter items look like leafy moths.

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"Buuuuuuuuut we don’t need one with experience, let’s hire a new grad!"

Ok fine, even though slightly messy coding is partly why we’re in this mess let’s go ahead and hire someone fresh out of school.  That’ll be $55,000 a year please.

5,500,000 gems/ 3,025,000,000 T/  2750 coatl scrolls/~157 light sprites.*

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"But we don’t need them to work full-time! How about a part time grad?"

I’m pretty sure we wanted to hire the extra coder so things go faster but ok. Sure. Let’s have a 1/4 time new grad coder. If we assume somehow everything just fits in to place moneywise that’s  $13,750 a year.

At 1,375,000 gems/ 756,250,000 T/ 687 coatl scrolls (With 1000 gems left over)/~39 light sprites Which isn’t too shabby expect for the fact we have just missed out on the 2 things we wanted out of a coder, that being speed and less chances of bugs.

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So before you yell “Coder!” remember this post, and remember that this isn’t even touching the cost of keeping their server up or artists.

*The gem prices are simplified in this 100 gems = $1. As gems can be earned via daily site activities and from just logging on 100 gems < $1.

* The Light sprite is going to be considered at it’s current lowest marketplace value of 35000 gems for this.