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Jarnis McPieksu wrote:

Kosmoto Gothwen wrote:

First off glad this is all getting looked at.

I wanted to show some real numbers to the profitability of this:
Cobalt 100 x 24 x 7 = 16,800 = approx 128,100,000isk/wk
Platinum 100 x 24 x 7 = 16,800 = approx 106,476,552isk/wk
128,100,000isk + 106,476,552isk = 234,576,522isk/wk

Produces Platinum Technite which refines into
Platinum Technite 10/hr x 24hrs x 7days = 1,680units = approx 176,566,303.20isk/wk
Platinum 95/hr x 24hrs x 7days = 15,960 = approx 101,184,644.40isk/wk
Output value per wk = 277,750,947.60isk

Approx Large Tower fuel cost = 147,840,000isk/wk
Approx Medium Tower fuel cost = 73,920,000isk/wk

Profits
Large Tower = 277,750,947.60 - 147,840,000 = 129,910,947.60isk/wk
Medium Tower = 277,750,947.60 - 147,840,000 = 203,830,947.60isk/wk

So the above isk values are based on current Jita avg sell prices via eve-central. (Not worth nit picking isk prices when dealing with this size of numbers, and values fluctuate). Also I'm assuming your doing this on a single tower, it's doable but to get both resources on a single moon isn't likely, so you probably end up with multiple POS's or shipping one of the resources in, either way it would cut into the profit margin. As you can see at currently inflated market values it would be marginally profitable to do this reaction but if PlatTech went down it wouldn't be worth doing any more. Even at these numbers the risk is moderately high considering you have a billion isk POS set up (including fuel) to do this.

No.

Your math is broken. Assuming the weekly input and output values and fuel costs are correct (I can't be bothered to verify right now), it would cost. 235M (input cost)+74M (fuel cost, med tower running one of these reactions. large could do two at twice the fuel cost, no real change for this)= 309M per week to produce stuff that sells for 278M. For a fat loss of 31M per week.

You could also simplify the math by not counting any output Platinum and just price in 5 units/cycle and just shave off 100M per week from input and output. It won't change the total; 209M costs, 178M sale price of output.

The only way this dev blog makes any sense is that it is actually a bait-and-switch. They have every intention of using the normal alchemy ratios instead of 20/1 but won't disclose that just yet. At 5/1 ratio you would get 4 times as much platinum technite with the same inputs, making this very profitable at current prices, which obviously wouldn't last for very long.