If Ves wanted to design a truly effective growth-oriented training ch, then he had to bestow it with an additional advantage.
The benefits he had in mind were the sa as the ones he envisioned for his spirit fruits.
For example, piloting his training ch could slowly activate and draw out a ch cadet's spiritual potential. Piloting his training ch could also increase a ch cadet's talent in a specific fighting skill.
These were benefits that were unique and incomparable to any other product on the market! No other ch designer should be able to impart their ch designs with these fantastic features or else the ch market would have already been dominated by these innovations!
The difficulty of implenting them was much higher as a consequence. Ves had no idea where to begin and he might need to spend a lot more ti in order to develop the essential chanisms.
All of that could still wait as Ves wasn't in a hurry to begin the actual design process. It was already enough for him to co up with the ch concepts and determine whether they were worth pursuing.
Ves and Gloriana eventually picked up their daughter after she had her fun playing in the park. They returned to their grand stateroom together with Lucky and Clixie and enjoyed a private al before they continued their discussion on the next design round.
"ow~"
Lucky squinted his eyes in pleasure as Ves scratched the cat's head.
"Miaow miaow."
Clixie cuddling with Aurelia as usual. The cat and little girl looked exceptionally cute as they laid together on a couch.
"Kixie!"
"Miaow!"
"In addition to designing a training ch, I am thinking about designing a second-class version of one of my old products." Ves told his wife.
"Hm?" Gloriana frowned a bit as she paused in brushing the leather of her expensive handbag. "Which ones do you have in mind?"
"I am not certain yet. I have several viable choices, though the Desolate Soldier is the most obvious choice."
"I don't necessarily think that is the most optimal choice, Ves."
"Why not?"
"First, let ask you this. Where will you sell the new ch? The Yeina Star Cluster or the Red Ocean? You can't sell this product to both markets without putting in additional effort because the production circumstances are much different."
The materials available for producing chs were always different from region to region. This was especially the case when the regions were separated by hundreds of thousands of light-years!
On top of that, the production standards and the production equipnt could vary in different regions.
This was why each ch design had to be customized to the region they were produced and sold at. If not, producing the sa ch in a different location might multiply the production cost by two or three tis!
While it was possible for ch designers like Ves to quickly design a localized variant of an existing ch design, it wasn't enough to make a hasty attempt this ti.
They had to design a ch for a specific region from the ground up if they wanted to enter the second-class ch markets in a proper fashion. That ant they needed to decide where to market their upcoming ch designs right from the beginning!
Ves thought about it for a mont and decided that the added design burden was worth the effort.
"We can't ignore either ch market, Gloriana. I have been receiving regular reports that our business operations in the Yeina Star Cluster have steadily stagnated since we left the place. While our third-class chs are still useful to the custor base, the lack of excitent and montum will severely damage the continuation of the LMC if this goes on. We need to revive our third-class chs as well as tap the second-class ch market in our forr ho region."
He revealed several new ambitions to his wife. Gloriana did not miss the crucial points of his answer.
"Designing third-class chs costs ti. Designing second-class chs costs ti as well. If we split up our design ti even further, it will take years to get anything done. Are you sure it is worthwhile to stay involved in the third-class ch market? The LMC still sells millions of Desolate Soldiers and Ferocious Piranhas a month, but how much profit do we earn for all of that effort?"
"Around 5000 MTA credits a month last I heard." Ves recalled. "I know it doesn't sound like a lot due to the extrely low earnings per sale, but the competition in the third-class ch market is much less threatening towards us, so it is an extrely reliable source of revenue. In addition to that, our current monthly sales volu is hardly the limit that we can reach. Our success in the old galaxy is almost entirely propped up by two third-class ch models. One of them is a spaceborn rifleman ch while the other is a spaceborn light skirmisher. That only covers two of a dozen essential archetypes! If we complete our catalog of third-class ch designs with additional products such as a space knight, a swordsman ch and an artillery ch, we can easily multiply our current earnings figures!"
The Living ch Corporation hardly participated in the third-class ch market at all at the mont! The ch company was missing far too many opportunities over the years because its lead designers were too preoccupied with designing clan-exclusive chs all this ti!
Ves vowed to rectify that by designing as many comrcial chs as possible in the design round.
Gloriana still didn't agree with his decision. "Even if designing additional third-class chs is profitable, think about the opportunity costs. We will have to commit a lot of ti and effort on designing these third-class chs. There is hardly any benefit to working them anymore considering that we have largely moved on to designing second-class chs. Whatever lessons that we learn from designing lesser chs will not provide that much help in the projects that actually matter to our clan. Aside from that, second-class chs are much more profitable in general. The price levels are too far apart and the profit of selling a single second-class ch easily exceeds that of many third-class chs!"
"You're not thinking about the complete picture, Gloriana. First, you are right that our third-class projects will draw ti away from our second-class projects, but we can mitigate this as much as possible by handing over much of the work to our design teams. We employ hundreds of assistants. Why not make use of them? While it is a bit questionable for them to take up responsibility for our second-class ch designs, they are more than qualified to design decent third-class chs. We just have to supervise their work and design a couple of key elents to make sure the work properly reflects our design philosophies."
Gloriana thought about the competences of their large number of assistants and reluctantly agreed that they were up to the task.
Of course, much of that was because she didn't care about third-class ch designs anymore.
She stopped caring about them when Ves finally moved on to designing chs at her level.
"Okay, I'll give you that. A few of our assistants are talented and promising enough to do a good job with this. Handing over a large amount of responsibilities to them will also help their developnt. None of them have advanced to Journeyn all of these years, and that is rather shaful. Given the probabilities and our recruitnt standards, one or two of them should have advanced to Journeyman by now. Perhaps giving them more room to design a aningful ch that can potentially affect the lives of many people will give them the impetus they need to beco a high-ranking ch designer."
He agreed with her. Although the Larkinson Clan could always hire external Journeyn whenever possible, it was not a good idea to rely so heavily on outside talents all of the ti.
The Apprentices who already pledged their loyalty to the Larkinson Clan were much more loyal and dependable.
In addition to that, Ves didn't think it would be good for their Design Departnt if not a single assistant ch designer was able to leap into the ranks of lead designers. The morale of the Apprentice ch Designers would take a blow as they all lost confidence in the Larkinson Clan's ability and commitnt to support their developnt.
As a growth-oriented ch designer, Ves found this to be intolerable!
After a bit of discussion, Ves and Gloriana tentatively agreed that it would be worthwhile to design third-class chs even if the potential earnings per ch model was low.
As long as it didn't require much of their personal effort to complete these easy projects, the benefits outweighed the costs.
"Do you want to design third-class chs for the Red Ocean as well?"
Ves frowned. "I'm… not so sure about that. We can't sell them in Krakatoa since this is a middle zone. We will have to market them in the lower zones, none of which we are familiar with. We also can't do it ourselves since we don't have any foundation over there. We will have to partner up with third-party manufacturers and hope for the best."
"Why bother, then? I can understand why you want to continue the LMC's success in the Yeina Star Cluster, but it is much harder to get started in the Red Ocean due to the difficult market circumstances here. The third-class ch market in this dwarf galaxy is a lot more troubleso to enter."
"Maybe you're right, but we should still try at least once. If it works, then great. If it doesn't work, then we can skip this course of action next ti. It doesn't really matter since we can still offload much of the workload to our assistants."
"Not if we burden them with too many ch design projects. Our assistants will need to spend at least 50 percent more ti to design two different localized versions of a single ch."
"Then we will just start off with fewer third-class products than before. We don't need to offer up a complete collection of ch models right at the start."
The two talked about what sort of third-class ch designs they wished to introduce to both ch markets.
"We should design more modern editions of the Desolate Soldier, the Ferocious Piranha, the Doom Guard and the Aurora Titan. I intend to reimagine them all so that they can offer comprehensively better value than before."
His wife understood the desire to refresh the first three ch models. Each of them enjoyed a lot of comrcial success and updating their designs would definitely invigorate the LMC's flagging sales!
However, Gloriana did not quite agree with all of his choices.
"Are you certain about the Aurora Titan? It has never achieved much success. Its total sales are negligible compared to our bestsellers."
"That's because I made too many abnormal decisions while not offering enough value. I intend to change the concept of the Aurora Titan so that it adopts a more familiar configuration. If we design it as a more conventional heavy knight, it will probably receive a lot more appreciation."
This was still a risky decision because the current Aurora Titan model had never achieved critical success. Ves and the LMC needed to generate demand for the updated edition from scratch!
"I recall you also have the Crystal Lord. Do you want to design a Mark III version of this third-class ch model?"
Ves shook his head. "No. Not yet at least. I don't think I am ready yet. The Crystal Lord makes use of third-class luminar technology, which I have beco a lot more familiar with over the years. That said, there are too many limitations to chs at this performance level and I am not confident I can deliver a significantly stronger design than the current Crystal Lord Mark II."
He still intended to revisit this ch line, but not before he updated his other lines.
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