Yarinor
Lone Star Joint Venture
Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.11.21 11:18:00 -
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 Originally by: Lord Fitz
BPOs only have any effect at all on invention profitability, if the market for the item is less than what can be produced by all BPOs, in which case, the BPO itself is unlikely to be profitable (and many T2 BPOs simply aren't). Prices are determined by the lowest price people are willing to invent for, and in many cases, that's an on-paper loss.
With the amount T2 BPOs have been devaluing of late (due to reduced material and invention costs), it's likely that if you sold a T2 BPO a year ago, and spent the year inventing you would be far better off than if you held onto it and spent the year building from it. Basically, they're great big money pits whose value is determined not by their very small profits (compared to profits from other similar sized investments) but by their rarity (and there are over 10,000 of them).
Most importantly, if something is not profitable, don't whinge about it, just don't do it. The reason it's unprofitable is because there are 500 people out there who are still doing it and undercutting each other despite there being no profit.
The problem I see with the eve economy atm is there is at least SOME "My minerals/datacores are cheap cuz I got them from buy orders" perhaps even some "my lab slots are free cuz I used a corp lab".
This puts basicly everything below the profitable to build margin.
Then add on top of that the fact that many people are too lazy to put up their own buy orders which gives traders items for cheap, and why would a trader care if the T2 mod he just bought for + the build cost sells for 60% of buildcost? He still made a profit. Obviously this puts manufacturers/inventors at a disadvantage, but there's nothing really to do about it.
The only way to fix it, as I see it, is to blow more stuff up so more stuff needs to be produced. We haven't seen any major wars recently, which also explains why mineral prices are at the insurance fraud level. (However, IT seems to be messing a bit around with PL atm, so maybe that can evolve a bit.
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