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Rebellion Against Big Irreversible Dinks
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Posted - 2009.11.30 20:11:00 -
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This was the usage given general sales numbers of ships over a space of a month about 2 months ago, from most used, to least used.
Silicates - Platinum - Evaporate Deposits - Chromium - Cadmium - Promethium - Hydrocarbons - Dysprosium - Vanadium - Technetium - Mercury - Hafnium - Cobalt - Atmospheric Gases - Neodymium - Caesium - Titanium - Tungsten - Thulium - Scandium
This is after Dominion, same quantity of ships, again from most used to least used.
Evaporate Deposits - Silicates - Platinum - Chromium - Atmospheric Gases - Hydrocarbons - Cadmium - Technetium - Titanium - Vanadium - Cobalt - Mercury - Tungsten - Neodymium - Scandium - Promethium - Hafnium - Dysprosium - Caesium - Thulium
This is the list of increased usage from largest increase to smallest.
Scandium - Tungsten - Atmospheric Gases - Titanium - Evaporate Deposits - Silicates - Cobalt - Technetium - Platinum - Chromium - Hydrocarbons - Neodymium - Vanadium - Mercury - Cadmium - Hafnium - Caesium - Dysprosium - Promethium - Thulium
What got me was why Tungsten was on the list of getting a bigger increase of usage, and something like Cadmium and Caesium wasn't, considering those two make up Galantee ships (Armor tankers) and Ore ships I expected their usage to go up, more then Titanium which is shield tanker. So I went digging into my sheet.
For the most part almost ALL T2 ships have same usage of components. All the interceptors, Maruadas, Cover-ops, HACs etc all use exactly the same number of each component. Which is fine because price variances are because of material variances and popularity. This is why an Amarr HAC is priced different from Caldari HAC.. The increases and decreases on components that make up those ships all went up and down by similar values. Like a Assault frigate for either 1500% or 1250% increase in armor plates.. This is true all the way up until you get to Command Ships.
For some reason, Command Ships use different amounts of components according to what they are really designed to do. Clearly CCP being considerate to how the ship would be used. Or an example of CCP getting lazy the more ships they add to the game. For example, why does a Paladin use the same number of armor plates and shield emitters as a Golem for example. Clearly CCP got lazy or at least at some point thought WHY?!?!!
So Command Ships appear to be the legacy of more in-depth consideration for component usage, however all that is changing. CCP is now taking CS to the SAME level as every other CS type. Meaning The Amarr Fleet CS (Damnation) uses the same number of components as the Caldari Fleet CS (Vulture). I wasn't too interested in decreases in component usage as that would be a sign of reduction in usage. Only increases.
This limited it down to Processor, Sensor, Capacitor, Armor.
What's interesting about this is not so much the 1000%+ for armor plates, but the 570%+ for the Absolution's Processors and 180%+ for Sensors. Since the Absoultion is more popular Amarr CS, expect the price of these to go WAY up, as it also received the lowest amount of "Reductions" apart from Reactors, which it received the average amount, (9%).
While my original question as to why Tungsten is still heavily used is not really answered, I find this info pretty revealing.
As a Absolution Pilot I think I might go and get me some now, while they are just 200mil instead of 500mil :)
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