Dglider's Brick-making Service.

[Dglider]

Ok so here's the deal.

1. People want custom bricks.
2. I can make custom bricks.
3. I would rather be doing other things.
4. I have a paypal account.

SO- if you would like me to make you a brick, here are my
-Rates-

$3.00/hr - Brick(low priority)
       I make the brick whenever I'm feeling bored.  If I'd rather play minesweeper I'll be doing that.
$7.80/hr - Brick(high priority)
       I'll work on the brick when I CAN.  Mandatory events and real life stuff still take precedence.
$8.80/hr - Teachings
       I'l teach you to make the brick yourself.  This requires that your computer is beefy enough to run some sort of screen-viewing software such as teamviewer or skype.  And that you can run blender.

-Past Stuff-
I've done all of this stuff:
Brick_Extra65
Brick_ModTer_8xCornerCFix
Brick_QuarterRoad
Brick_QuarterRoadXtraRamps
Brick_Door_Plain_Diagonal
Old brickmaking tutorial(inefficient)

I've also made some other stuff, such as a tunnel brick that adapts to the tunnel bricks around it.  So you can just use 1 brick to make a tunnel without having to fill up your inventory with other stuff.  But I never released that since the bricks were just placeholders at best.

-Contact-
You can contact me through BL forums or email.
My email is: dgliderglide@gmail.com

Your message should contain:
Your Name, ingame or otherwise.  Whatever you want me to call you.
Your email.
What you're requesting, brick(low priority), brick(high priority), or Teachings.
If you're requesting a brick.
     Describe the brick/bricks.  Include pictures or drawings if possible.

-Payment-
We're using Paypal here.  You do not need an account to pay, but you do need some sort of credit card.  Paypal accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.  I'll send an invoice to your email, which has a button you can click to pay.  It's pretty standard stuff.  Once I have recieved the funds, I'll send you the brick.  Either through a mediafire link, or an attachment.

If we're working with something big, such as a large complicated brickpack, I'll ask that you pay some upfront.  More to confirm that you can pay than anything else.

-Refunds-
If you catch me after I have received the funds but before I have sent the brick, I will refund most of your money.  Paypal takes $0.30+%2.9 from every transaction I receive.  During a refund they give back the %2.9, but you'll still be out 30 cents.

If I have already sent the brick, it's no refunds.

-Not Refunds-
If you cannot pay, please don't bother requesting anything.  Even if I end up making the brick I won't be giving it to you until I get paid.

Anyhow- that's it.  gl hf

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$3.00/hr to make a single brick?

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[sir dooble]

Sorry, why would you charge per hour for making bricks?

How on earth are we to know whether a brick should take an hour or more to make? Are we just to trust you?
Because in that same description you explain how you might just spend your time playing Minesweeper.
Why would we pay you for an hours work when you might slack off, or you might claim it took you longer?

If you're going to charge money for making bricks then charge a price per brick.
If something will obviously take more time then discuss that with the person.

[Mr Furdle]

Nice one, but you should charge per brick rather than per hour.
I do still think PAYING people to do stuff on blockland is kinda a dumb idea. It's just going to turn into a circus of people demanding money for a project, where nothing would get done, but I see you're pretty good at this so granted I guess you deserve a little bit of cash :)

[Dglider]

Sorry, why would you charge per hour for making bricks?

How on earth are we to know whether a brick should take an hour or more to make? Are we just to trust you?
Because in that same description you explain how you might just spend your time playing Minesweeper.
Why would we pay you for an hours work when you might slack off, or you might claim it took you longer?

If you're going to charge money for making bricks then charge a price per brick.
If something will obviously take more time then discuss that with the person.

The time it takes to make each brick varies greatly depending on the type of brick.  A 6x6 cube takes less than 5 minutes.  Most of the time will be spent packaging it up and making an icon.

However, a textured pyramid may take the better an hour since I have to:
Make the base model
Make the mesh model(remove any extra unneeded faces)
Make the collision model(basic shapes, anything super-fancy won't work)
Export & convert the mesh model to blb
Export & convert the collision model to .dts
Write the script to load it
Test ingame
Fix errors, missing faces etc.
Add textures, usually by trial and error.
Write the brick-grid collision
Test again
Fix errors, possibly redo entire sections.
Make icons
Test
Package it up all pretty like
Post online or whatever

That 6x6 cube would take:
Write .blb file by hand since it's literally like, two lines.
Write script to load ingame
Test
Make Icon
Test again
Package it up all pretty-like.
Post online or whatever.
Yes, if you want me to make you a brick, you'll have to trust me on the time it took.  I'm not going to charge you for the time I spend playing minesweeper or watching Youtube.

[Dre5567]

so we pay you 3 per hour just to wait for you to stop loving around and make the brick?

[heedicalking]

then charge based on assumed difficulty. don't charge per hour, because then when you come out saying "oh it took SIX HOURS sorry but you have to deal with it!!!" people are gonna be pissed. I don't think you really understand how pay per hour works. usually when you pay per hour, you know how many hours it will take. when you hire a bodyguard, prostitute, teacher, or rent a room, you know how much you'll be paying because you determine that BEFORE you hire the service.

hell maybe even be willing to make some of your client's requests for free, because your prices just piss me off.

[Pah1023]

then charge based on assumed difficulty. don't charge per hour, because then when you come out saying "oh it took SIX HOURS sorry but you have to deal with it!!!" people are gonna be pissed. I don't think you really understand how pay per hour works. usually when you pay per hour, you know how many hours it will take. when you hire a bodyguard, prostitute, teacher, or rent a room, you know how much you'll be paying because you determine that BEFORE you hire the service.

hell maybe even be willing to make some of your client's requests for free, because your prices just piss me off.

I agree with heed with this, three dollars for something that may only take 15 minutes is a bit ridiculous.
If it was something that would take up to about 3-4 days, I can see where a pay by hour would work, but making a brick should be a price left up to be negotiated over the estimated difficulty, and priority.

[Cassord²]

this sounds like a scam.

[Subpixel]

lol, your bricks aren't even that good. They're alright, but they're not worth buying or anything.

[sir dooble]

I understand how commissions can have varying complexity.

But it's ridiculous to charge per hour if you cant give a prediction of how long each thing will take.
It's not acceptable to leave us trusting you on how long you've spent on something, especially when you're offering a payment option based on the premise that you might not always be bothered to do the commission when you have it.


If you charge by difficulty as Heed suggests then that's fine. Anyone coming in with something difficult can understand it will be harder to make, and will pay for that. But at least then we know we aren't being ripped off by you possibly telling lies.
In this situation we can decide a price before the job is done. And if we don't accept your price at least then we can cancel the order.
That is better than your system where you can take an order and assume it will take 1-2 hours, but then find it harder than anticipated and charge us for 3-4 hours work, which we weren't expecting.
We would rather pay for difficulty in advance, than be told afterwards to pay more because it was more difficult than anticipated.

If you want an ordered system too, then use a price per brick system, and then charge more should the request be a taxing one. Then you can tell the commissioner prior to starting work and come up with an agreement.

[Aduioa]

*Walks into store*
*Wants to buy candy*
*Is charged based on how long it took for the transaction to finish*

[JakeBlade]

*Walks into store*
*Wants to buy candy*
*Is charged based on how long it took for the transaction to finish*

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