As many of you know, I've been working on something for Cartel Empire that I've been calling CE Companion. Cute name right?

Since I opened it for beta testing, I've added many more features, tweaked a lot of things, and even added a beautiful white theme (see pictures below).

What can it do?

• Monitor your life, energy, hospital, jail & cooldowns

• Get notifications while you're away from the game

• Know when your job, expedition or cooldown is ready

• Monitor Global, Trade & Cartel chat

• Set custom keyword alerts for words you care about

• See your cartel members and their current status

• Quickly see who is ready for a revive

• Track revive penalties and revive chances

• Track cartel armoury usage including who is using what

• View armoury stock and usage history

• Follow cartel activity

• Keep an eye on wars and recent attacks

• Track your net worth, reputation, battle stats & points over time

• View your inventory and account statistics

• Have quick access to commonly used CE pages

• Add your own custom shortcuts

And then there's the quality-of-life stuff

• Configurable automatic refresh intervals

• Manual refresh whenever you want

• Notifications that continue working in the background

• Fast polling mode if you want alerts as quickly as possible

• Built-in notification testing so you can make sure everything works

• Tools to help with Android battery optimization, which can otherwise interfere with background notifications

• Separate notification controls for events, jobs, cooldowns, chat, etc.

• Choose between ready-only notifications or countdown reminders

• Customizable chat notification keywords

• Multiple themes, including a Tommy/England-inspired theme

• Built-in diagnostic logs if something goes wrong

• Easily copy or send diagnostic logs for troubleshooting

• API keys are stored locally on your device

• Automatic handling of invalid API keys

• Built-in privacy information

• The app is read-only, meaning it monitors CE rather than performing actions on your account

• Quick links to a large number of CE locations, so you can jump straight where you need to go

• Add your own custom links for anything you frequently use

You can find the complete list of all features here

You can basically leave the app running and let it tell you when something actually matters instead of checking CE every 10 minutes.

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I'm considering making CE Companion a paid service.

The rough idea I'm considering is somewhere around 2-5 million per day, depending on how far you've progressed in CE.

The basic idea would be that stronger/more experienced accounts pay more than newer accounts. I haven't decided on the exact tiers or prices yet, which is one of the things I'm trying to figure out with this post.

How would the signup/pricing work?

Because the price would depend on your account's current progression, I would need a way to determine which tier your account belongs to.

The signup process would roughly work like this:

1. Enter your API key

You enter your full CE API key into the app and press Sign Up.

2. CE Companion checks your account

The app makes an API request and retrieves the relevant account information, such as your battle stats and reputation.

3. You're placed into a pricing tier

Based on your current progression, your account is placed into a tier which determines your daily price.

For example, a newer account might fall into a cheaper tier, while a much stronger account would fall into a more expensive one.

4. You see your current price

The app tells you exactly what your current daily price would be before you pay anything.

This is important because your tier isn't necessarily permanent. As you progress in CE, your reputation and battle stats can increase, which could eventually move you into a higher tier.

5. You pay and get access

Once you've paid for the period, access to CE Companion is enabled and you can log in normally.

6. Renewals are reevaluated

When you want to extend your subscription, CE Companion would check your current reputation and battle stats again and reevaluate your tier.

So if you've progressed significantly since your previous payment, your price could increase. Likewise, the price would always be based on your account's current progression rather than what it was when you originally signed up.

I'm still working out the exact implementation and pricing, so nothing here is final. I'm mainly trying to determine whether the concept itself makes sense before I build a whole payment/tier system around it.

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So... would you actually pay for it?

Would you pay 2–5M/day for access to CE Companion?

Would that feel:

• Too expensive?

• Reasonable?

• Cheap?

And if you would pay for it, what would you consider a fair daily price?

I'm also interested in what features you consider must-have versus things you couldn't care less about.

The app is already functional. I'm mainly trying to figure out whether this is something people actually value enough to pay for before I commit to a pricing model and start building the infrastructure around it.

 

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