CCP Fear wrote:But I am interested in any sort of general feedback on what the situation is with T2 rigs from all angles. The salvage (difficulty, is it worth doing, is it too much of a nice?)
Our PvP fleets generally stop and salvage all T2 wrecks because the possible ISK to be made there is nice. I'm not sure what proportion of T2 rigs comes from player wrecks, but if the prices drop by much, we'd likely stop bothering (we do not salvage T1 wrecks in general, say).
Quote:to Mag. sites (are they worth doing?)
In exploration, mag sites are probably the most profitable mini-profession ones. Doesn't make them very profitable, though. I have so far never done them for the money, always because I was bored and didn't have anything else to do.
Quote:production and invention.
There's an interesting problem there: T2 rig demand is so low that the invention chance really hurts possible profits and the rig prices, so we generally shy away from it. High capital invention, high risk, low profit is just not a good combination. Should T2 rigs become more commonplace, this would change already, so even a small change might have a larger-than-expected effect.
Quote:Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions are welcome!
Some thoughs.
As with T1 salvage, the differences in prices for the different salvage materials is extreme. Intact armor plates are traded at over 30m ISK each, while Lorentz Fluid struggles to hit 4k ISK. Excessive rig prices are based on a few extremely rare T2 salvage goods. If you want to reduce T2 rig prices, making those more common might already be the key (though see above for the averse effect when salvaging in PvP).
But more importantly, some of this is heavily based on basic rig balance. Some rigs are absolutely useless, making the salvage for them useless. A major factor here that drives prices up for some specific salvage materials is that there are only a handful of rigs that really are worthwhile to use. And some of that imbalance is even T2 rig specific - for example, the probing rigs for a covops frigate are
worse in T2 than in T1 because you can't fit two of them, and one T2 rig is worse than two T1. Looking at some of the calibration costs might be a worthwhile "small change" rebalancing effort.
Be careful with the price rebalances now, though, as a general rig rebalance is on "the list" somewhere, and that will drastically affect rig prices again.