Okay, add up how much it would cost to invent the item. Once you have that number cut it in half and you'll have an idea of what someone will offer you for them.

At best.

Originally by: Sun Clausewitz

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Gonna take that sell it at half the invention cost as dribble... Makes sense to figure up the invention cost, ammo invents at around 40% right? Gotta count that in.

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Two things to add here: looking from the outside inward a lot of things appear to "make sense". However more often than not once you get inside everything you find out everything you thought is wrong. An example I often use, but may not apply to some reading these forums, is sex. Before you had it, you thought one thing. After you had it, "wow how little did I really know".

There is a failing in thinking that logic can replace experience. Try to avoid that as much as possible and you might avoid analogous experiences to putting you hand on a hot stove.

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Secondly, the word you wanted was "drivel". It means to talk stupidly or carelessly. To demonstrate which one of us was talking drivel I'm going to explain to something you probably don't know:

Invention is not profitable.

I'll wait while people automatically react with, "WTFRU Talking about!!!!"


Invention, alone, is not a profitable exercise. It totally depends on follow through either by the inventor or by someone the inventor sells/hands the invented bpc's too.

"Obviously" is what you are going to say. Well the not so obvious thing is that the real bottleneck to invention is production. It takes far far longer to build what one person can invent. Thus, the supply of invented bpc's far outstrips the possible demand devaluing the market.

Further devaluing comes from the common wisdom that invention is profitable. This makes for more and more people thinking that it is invention, itself, that is the worthwhile activity (when it is not) and thus they all join in the time sink that is invention.

Over supply on inventors, check
Over supply on bpcs, huge f-ing check

Add in that those who are most likely to buy your bpc's already have an inventor character or an inventor buddy on hand, with plenty of datacore farming for themselves, you therefor reduce your secondary market on the item you have gained for free (but free only to you - someone foolishly paid for it.)

Under supply of buyers, even bigger f-ing check.

So, the only way you'll get what it costs in datacores for thos bpcs is if you find some fool who wants the thrill of t2 building and not the profit of t2 building.

So, are we clear on the meaning, usage, and application of the word drivel as opposed to dribble?

Originally by: Akita T

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...take the sales price of items manufactured from your BPC, subtract the manufacture cost of those items from that, divide it by two, and that's how much you can expect to get from your BPCs (at best).

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Really? I had not thought it that bad.

Guess my advice was a bit off... too hopeful I guess.