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Posted - 2009.10.29 10:03:00 -
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 Originally by: Julian Koll
i'll quote myself from another thread
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T2 production is totally profitable as long as you follow those easy steps:
1: Get your own datacores. That lowers the invention costs by an increadible amount.
2: Mine your own minerals. Much lower build costs
3: Build your own components. Even lower build costs
sure, there will be people throwing around fancy words like opportunity cost, but those guys are fools. what counts at the end of the day is the isk in your wallet, nothing else. You're on a good way here. Continue to follow it.
Nevermind the "fancy words". The main theme of this thread is the idea that you could be using/selling your resources more intelligently to make more money. Take your datacores for example: I do the same thing, only I invent to produce t2 frig BPCs. I also do research with Lai Dai agents to get datacores. I could do Caldari Starship Engineering Research to get the Caldari Starship Engineering datacores I need to do the invention, but I don't. Instead I do Hydromagnetic Physics Research. Why? Because Caldari Starship Engineering datacores sell for 200k less than Hydromagetic Physics datacores. I sell off the hydromagnetic physics datacores and buy the Caldari Starship Engineering datacores I need to invent t2 frig BPCs. I end up making 200k more isk per datacore.
To put it simply, you need to ask yourself, "now that I have these minerals/datacores/components (or time, skills, agents, etc...), what can I do with them to make the most money?". If you can make more money selling off your minerals/datacores/components than using them to build stuff, then why don't you just sell them and make more money?
Keep in mind that the equation changes when you consider location and purpose. If you're in a 0.0 corp, moving around large ships can be an issue. In this case, you're right; you might want to obtain all the materials yourself in order to build locally. Also, if you simply want to build stuff becuse this is a videogame and you want to have a bit of fun doing something different regardless of the cost, then by all means do whatever you want regardless of the cost. But don't fool yourself into thinking that you're lowering building costs simply by mining/manufacturing the components yourself. Once you have that ore in your hand, it still has a value and you can still potentially get more money by selling it than by building with it. If you take these things into consideration, then you'll end up having more "isk in your wallet". - By the way, that's why the term 'opportunity cost' is important.
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