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| Bongo #1351691 2 months ago |
But they don't want to use their fancy mathematics to get the machine anyways. |
| FeralSocks018 #1351698 2 months ago |
Competition from whom?
They can't make any cider without the apples, regardless off the efficiency of their machine. The Apple family has both the ingredients and the means to produce cider, whereas Flim and Flam have just the means. Regardless of the outcome of their competition, there's no way the brothers could sustain a business in a scenario in which they've alienated there only possible supplier. Keep in mind that the stakes of the competition was the right to sell cider, not the apples themselves. Had they so chosen, the Apples could have simply refused to do business with Flim and Flam, forcing them to either relocate or pay top dollar for the apples. |
| CodenameOne #1351707 2 months ago |
Every time I see posts like these I am reminded that the Apple family are just scumbag business ponies that somehow were competent enough to formulate a monopoly on Apples in their town.
I bet their prices are fucking ridiculous, too. |
| Anonymous #1351713 2 months ago |
My bad. I had forgotten that Flim and Flam mentioned that they'd be able to find apples somewhere else, meaning that Sweet Apple Acres doesn't actually have a monopoly. And even if they did hold a monopoly, you'd be totally right. I'm a retard. |
| Anonymous #1351724 2 months ago |
They sell at prices that Ponyville can afford. They don't seem to make much profit, rather they just make enough to cover their expenses. They don't even seem to have much savings to deal with the disasters that happen regularly due to living next to the Everfree. They rely on Zap Apple sales, a seeming luxery good, and cider to keep them afloat. |
| ClownDicks #1351761 2 months ago |
All this talk of monopolies makes me imagine a darker, noir-type version of Ponyville where the Apples are the wealthy family that pretty much controls the whole city. Like, "murder some poor bastard in broad daylight and get away with it"-level control. |
| FeralSocks018 #1351807 2 months ago |
And then Detective Dick Gently shows up. |
| NonAnon #1351851 2 months ago |
Most monopolists would take advantage of the fact the the town was literally built for their farm... |
| Niggoslav_Krawczyk #1351905 2 months ago |
Appleoosa/Appaloosa ring a bell?
anyway Filthy Rich seems like he's probably the local monopolizer. And Diamond Tiara is like a more evil version of Alouette from Recettear. Anyway Noirnyville seems like it could work too. Only three ponies are rich enough to have pledged to rebuild Town Hall. Filthy, Applejack, and...Rarity. Noir-wise I imagine Rarity would be Monroe-esque, like Madonna in Dick Tracy, with the ruthless fashionista bent of Bette Midler, Applejack would be like the Rourkes from Sin City, a giant family in a variety of positions but with the farm as their central location of action, and Filthy Rich would be like Max Schreck from Batman Returns. ....Mmmm....Ninja-suit Pinkie and Dashie as Catwoman (The Cakes send her to renegotiate with Filthy and she's 'accidentally' thrown from the roof. Everyone believes it was filthy but it was really Diamond.) and Batman (Dash's parents were killed by Hoops in a random mugging. Suit is a combo of ninja+Mare-do-well outfit) Fund this! Fatpony/Fezhead/whatever would be a nicer version of Penguin with Silver Spoon as his moll. Dunno who Fluttershy would be. Maybe Goldie, with Flitter as the 'sister' who wants to avenge her. Angel as Marv? Lulzy. Twilight could fit any number of roles, from crazy Twi being a redeemable Joker or a Mad Hatter, who only went mad after believing friendship was impossible to make last forever after the doom and gloom drove all her friends away into their own reclusive lives, to being one of the actual detectives. Hell, she could be BOTH! Wat a TWEEEST. (Too many years on the force seeing too many horrific crimes drives her nuts) Gilda would make an awesome Zsasz. One too many pranks, one too many laughing at her expense, and she offed the last pony who did it to her. And she's had a plethora of 'kill triggers' ever since. Beneath her feathers she's heavily scarred, one scratch per pony. Dash hates her the most because while Dash's trauma made her the greatest hero of the city, Gilda's made her the most sadistic villain. Chrysalis would make a great clayface (in fact I've seen a pic of that), a pony who used special black market products Rarity sold to keep herself young, instead it makes her malleable and able to assume the form of anyone else. She starts a cult of ponies who share her vision of eternal youth and they worship the black market cosmetics made from Rarity's factory runoffs. They must feed on the emotions of others because their organs have basically turned to jelly from overuse. The changelings have a weird love/hate relationship with Rarity, worshipping her both as a god and a devil for their condition and all its benefits and flaws. I don't really have anyone exact for Trixie, having her as Zatanna feels pretty weird due to Zatanna's relations. Maybe she'd have to be a mash-up. Celestia, Luna, and Discord would have all been stonified by a mysterious earth pony who can't die and is a 'magical null.' (Ras). He just wore them down and beat them with a magical amulet made from a cockatrice and sheer determination. He could probably be someone who was dismayed by pony treatment of other animals like mules and sheep and buffalo, and became a well-intentioned extremist because of it, not realising what would happen if the most important magical beings in Equestria were sealed away, or that there were functional traditional reasons for this. Sheriff Silverstar would make a good Gordon btw. Perhaps Braeburn stops receiving letters from his cousin and goes to visit, and is disgusted by how the main branch of the Apple family has become, so he returns and offers to become the new sheriff if Silverstar will go clean up Ponyville and Canterlot. Hell yeah, this is totally building itself! |
| Everypony #1351974 2 months ago |
Eeeeenope |
| Anonymous #1352409 2 months ago |
CodenameOne@1351707 said: Oh God, what? The fuck you smoking? Oh wow. |
| majob #1352425 2 months ago |
The Apples are terrible businessmen. Own only supply of Apples in Ponyville. Produce high demand food and beverage products. I guess the Oranges smarted the fuck up and made the money and left their cousins in the sticks. |
| Anonymous #1352789 2 months ago |
The Apple family are simply the worst businessponies in Ponyville. They underprice/underproduce their products, resulting in shortages(Cider Squeezy 6000); they let another local pony take a middleman position on another product line, cutting themselves out of a huge chunk of profits(zap apple jam); they don't research their markets before opening them (Grand Galloping Gala); they refuse to adopt agricultural or production innovations and insist on outdated 'traditions,'(Cider Squeezy 6000); they don't hire enough help-- or any help, from the look of it (Applebucking Season); They have an openly hostile attitude towards any social tier other than their own, and refuse to adapt their social approach out of misplaced pride (Grand Galloping Gala, and most other episodes); They don't even ATTEMPT to barter or negotiate prices or profit splits (Cider Squeezy 6000), they're even terrible at pest control --the caterpillars in Baby Cakes, the parasprites, the "thieving vermints" in Cutie Chronicles (in the time she spent chasing down a couple of squirrels to retrieve three lousy apples, the rest of the orchard could have been picked clean.) |