Darth Skorpius
Deep Stage
THE-FEDERATION
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Posted - 2010.04.05 11:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Celia Therone
Originally by: Kerfira
Originally by: Celia Therone
CCP had far more data and far more experience when they announced that T3 cruisers would cost, what was it, 200 million isk each? Now, after some truly monumental changes like the one that cut datacore prices by 99%(!), the hulls alone are running at about 200 million.
So after a few tweaks the ship costs what they said it would cost. Nice!
CCP claimed T3 cruisers (hull+5 subsystems) would cost about 200 million isk.
Currently hull alone costs 200 million isk. The 5 subsystems that you have to fit to turn it into a t3 ship cost around another 170 million.
Total price is therefore around 370 million for an unfit t3 cruiser.
You can confirm this is ballpark correct by going to contracts in game and looking for ships (although most ships are sold with rigs and often fittings). Or you can go to Jita and look up the prices yourself.
So over a year later and multiple huge drop rate boosts have resulted in a price for T3 cruisers almost double that predicted by CCP before launch. You know, back when players on the test servers had priced things out and predicted that T3 cruisers would cost far more than CCP said it was aiming for.
So, frankly, when you say that CCP has better numbers and more experience than the player base I am thoroughly unconvinced. They also have tight schedules, different priorities and a seeming reluctance to listen to economic feedback from their testers.
ccp can say they want somethign to cost x isk but if the people producing that item want to charge y isk, ccp cant do anything abotu that, they can only alter loot tables and success rates to lower the costs of making that item in an atempt to get players to lower thier prices, but it is still up to the players.
so frankly, you should be moaning at the playerbase, not ccp as it is the playerbase that controls prices in a player driven market
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