Gearbox Market Baskets as of 7 August 2006
Sunset Express updates these prices every few days. We will honor these prices or the prices at The Goods, as you prefer.
Design and Production Fee in GoodScript
| Commodity | Sell | Value in GS |
| brass | 2 | 257.631 |
| charcoal | 5 | 119.528 |
| iron | 20 | 1,901.029 |
| Total | 1 | 2,278.188 |
Gearbox Price (a representative 7 Medium Gears plus 7 Small Gears, actual prices will vary)
| Commodity | Sell | Value in GS |
| brass | 14 | 1,713.684 |
| charcoal | 35 | 816.618 |
| iron | 140 | 9,898.042 |
| Total | 1 | 12,428.344 |
- Per Small Gear
- Per Medium Gear
- We ignore Beeswax and Labor.
- Constraints (No additional cost, you just can't build the gearbox)
- 15 Shafts (15)
- 30 Gears, including spacers
Sunset Express designs will rarely include a Large Gear, and we do not inventory them. If one is required for an Empty Hand Tower, for example, the price can vary quite a bit depending whether a Large Gear can be purchased somewhere, or if we have to fire up the Master's Casting Box.
Quarry Market Basket - Turnkey Contracts Only
| Commodity | Sell | Value in GS |
| boards | 100 | 1,400.415 |
| pulley | 2 | 458.037 |
| rope | 15 | 476.180 |
| slate | 85 | 3,042.851 |
| grilled carrot | 25 | 617.158 |
| tadpoles | 20 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 5,994.641 |
Attuning to a particular Marble takes 10 Slate, with a perception of 1 or more, which can be provided by a Grilled Carrot. Prospecting uses an average of 35 Slate (there is a 15 Slate contingency) and 24 more Grilled Carrots. Building the Quarry itself requires an additional 25 Slate.
Gearbox Assembly Table Market Basket - Turnkey Contacts Only
| Commodity | Sell | Value in GS |
| boards | 280 | 3,622.432 |
| nails | 56 | 813.001 |
| Total | 2 | 4,435.433 |
The Gearbox Assembly Table has a 16x17 footprint, and it must be built in a compound.
Gearboxes - Terms and Conditions
Sunset Express will contract for the following services.
Design Verification - No Fee
Sunset Express will design a specified Gearbox and verify it on a Gear Assembly Table. We will tell you the number of Shafts, Medium Gears, and Small Gears required for a well designed gearbox. You are encouraged to shop around or build the gearbox yourself if you can match our design and have the necessary materials. There is no fee for this service.
- If we think the gearbox specification for a Raelli Oven or a Fountain is too expensive, we will ask you to rebuild the construction site to obtain a more reasonable specification.
- If we think the gearbox specification is satisfactory, any additional verifications for the same site will be subject to a Design Fee.
- Except when there is no other option, the gearboxes for an Empty Hand Tower for example, a Sunset Express gearbox will never use a large gear.
Design Huristics and Examples - No Fee
- Sunset Express has substantially contributed to the wiki guide for Gearbox Design.
- Tamutnefret and Teao have provided an excellent list of all of the useful Gearbox Ratios.
- MarvL has provided an extensive list of assembled gearbox examples.
- If you simply don't understand something in this documentation, we'd be happy to help you with the concepts.
Gear Box Assembly - Self Service
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Gearbox Assembly Table is not expensive. Only 280 Boards and 56 Nails, so you should have one in your own compound.
- Sunset Express has provided two public Gearbox Assembly Tables for your convenience in our compound at 1400, 2000, on the River just west of The Goods.
Gear Train Details - Design Market Basket
If you prefer to build your own gearbox, to avoid delivery fees for example, but can't match our verified design, we'll provide the gear train for a Market Basket fee of approximately 2000 GoodScript. In other words, using our design will save you money, even after the payment of our design fee.
Build a Gearbox - Gearbox Price Market Basket
If you authorize Sunset Express to build the specified gearbox, we'll provide the entire gearbox at the Market Basket price of the materials, plus the quantities in the Design Market basket. In effect, this approach discounts the Design Fee by about 10%. A typical fee for a three-output gearbox specification is 12,500 GoodScript.
Deliver a Gearbox - Urgent Delivery Fee
We will expedite the delivery of your gearbox and other items, to a maximum weight or bulk of 300 debens, for the Market Basket delivery price.
- Sunset Express contributed substantially to the Spiral Search guide for finding new Marble Quarries.
- If you are already attuned for a particular type of Rocks Of The Ages, Sunset Express will act as the passive partner (you'll need about 50 Slate), and will provide guidance and training on how to search efficiently. There is no additional fee, other than the original delivery costs, for this service.
- As part of it's delivery/prospecting service, Sunset Express can provide Quarry materials and Slate at Market Basket prices. Note that these items will fit nicely within the 300 deben delivery package limit.
Turnkey Quarry Contracts - Payment in Marble - Limit of 3 Quarries per Customer
Sunset Express will contract to provide all materials for a Quarry with two 3 output gearboxes, help you find a quarry, explain the required techniques, build the Quarry, and help you lift the first several pieces of marble.
Sunset Express regards this service as an investment in a future customer, there is a limit of 3 Turnkey Quarries per customer.
The cost of this service is the total of the Market Baskets for the Quarry, the Gearbox Assembly Table, the materials for two 3 output gearboxes, and delivery to your location. If you wish to reduce the cost of a Turnkey Quarry Contract, you may provide any or all of the required materials, with the exception of the Travel Fees.
For this service, and for this service only, Sunset Express will accept payment in Marble. Your only obligation is approximately 3 hours of your time, and you will have the remainder of the Marble in the Quarry to use as you wish.
Secondhand Gearboxes - Buy Back at 50% of New Value
As Gearboxes don't wear out or degrade, Sunset Express will first attempt to satisfy your specification from available inventories. Regardless of the actual gearbox that's provided, the price will be for the best known design that meets your specification.
- The one and two output gearboxes required for a Marble Quarry can be reused. Sunset Express gearbox designs for a quarry gearbox will always include a few extra small gears, as three outputs can double or triple the odds of reusing the gearbox.
- Sunset Express will buy used three output gearboxes, whether we originally built them or not, at 50% of the cost of an equivalent new gearbox.
- Unless we already have an identical gearbox in our inventory, we're quite willing to purchase any three output gearboxes that you consider to be surplus.
- We won't allow you to raise the price of an expensive second hand gearbox that was sold below it's build cost.
- We will not purchase any gearbox that requires Large Gears.
- We expect that two-for-one swaps for a new gearbox, at Market Basket prices with the odd commodity added to balance the transaction, will be a very common exchange.
- We do not rent gearboxes.
- Sunset Express willing to hold a large inventory of second hand gearboxes simply because the more variety that we have on hand the higher the odds that well have an appropriate gearbox on hand. In other words, Sunset Express is betting that at least half of the second hand gearboxes can be used again.
Our Guarantee
- If you can find a design with fewer shafts and gears than a Sunset Express designed gearbox, without using large gears, and if Sunset Express can verify your gear train, we will buy back the gearbox or refund the price difference. You may use the original or the current Market Basket price, as you prefer, and we will also waive or refund any associated design and delivery fees.
- If the gearbox has not yet been created, Sunset Express will waive the design and delivery fees.
- Sunset Express is aware that there are a few instances on simple gearboxes where several small gears can be used to avoid the use of a medium gear that's not required to acheive the desired ratios. As the total number of shafts (15) and gears (30 including spacers) is the fundamental design limitation on complex gearboxes, Sunset Express regards the use of an excessive number of shafts and small gears as a sloppy design practice that creates bad habits. Sunset Express will happily waive any differential costs, but we will always provide a design that minimizes the total number of shafts, gears (without large gears), and spacers.
Payments
If you wish to provide some or all of the actual gears that are needed for the gearbox, the price of the Payment Market Basket will be reduced accordingly. As script for TM (Travel Minutes) is not yet available, Sunset Express will accept payment for the difference in accordance with the Payment Market Basket that is detailed at
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Payment in Marble - Only for Turnkey Contracts
| Commodity | Sell | Value in GS |
| mud granite | 3 | 20,000.000 |
| oyster shell marble | 9 | 20,000.000 |
| white travertine | 9 | 20,000.000 |
| yellow alabaster | 12 | 20,000.000 |
Sunset Express regards Turnkey contracts as a business development tool. You will need to take 10 Slate and a Grilled Carrot to the SArch and attune to the Rocks Of The Ages of your choice. Sunset Express will provide everything, including the Slate and Grilled Carrots.
Turnkey Contracts, and only Turnkey Contracts, may be paid for with Marble. Our fee for the marble prospecting training, the materials for prospecting and building a Quarry, two 3-output gearboxes, and help with the first several pulls on the quarry, is the first several blocks of marble that are lifted the the Quarry.
Your only investment is your time, and the remainder of the marble in the quarry belongs to you. There is a limit of three Turnkey Quarry Contracts per customer.