Talk:Capitol/@comment-11967298-20130712122227/@comment-3991817-20130712141438

I understand peoples' disappointment with the profitability of the Independence Day 2013 buildings dropping considerably, but I don't agree that there should be any other way of creating a building's page when it is first released.

The template and its calculations have worked for 254 buildings and it also works for these 4 buildings. The problem is not that we assumed the wrong values, because the real values were unknown and there was no direct reason to think they would be different from the values we assumed based on past experience. The problem is that the developers gave the buildings a price making it look like that was the sole value all other values for the buildings would be deducted from.

During most other special events the buildings are bought with points/resources/whatever but they don't also have a price. Therefore we know beforehand that those buildings use a basecost value everything else is based on. The fact that the Indep.Day2013 buildings' values were based on a basecost value was unknown to everybody until the first person was able to buy one of the buildings and see the upgrade and/or repair costs.