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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.02 20:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Greg Huff
Anybody know what the average wait time for an NPC Station Research Slot is right now? (I have no idea) Doubling the number of slots each toon can use would increase the wait time by at least 150% (my conservative guess).
Who cares? Those slots are all being used by useless research anyway, I don't care how much more useless research is done in high sec.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.03 15:53:00 -
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Originally by: Breaker77
Wow, small timer I see. When you get 4 accounts all doing it, then come back and complain.
Contrary to your belief, the number of slots one utilizes really has nothing to do with how big of a 'timer' they are. Go to MD and ask how many slots the average trader uses and how many they have available.
More slots = horizontal scaling
More ISK = vertical scaling
If you have 120 slots running small and medium T1 ammo BPO's for profit well, woopdy do. I would figure that if a player could train to 300 slots like trading does, you'll find that after a short while you really only needed probably 20-30. There are always bigger things to build with your ISK that net more profit and don't require 100 slots. If there isn't, well, you've just won EVE?
The real problem is if you do eliminate the 10 slot restriction, there will be alts that go unsubscribed forever. Less alts = less demand for plex = less money for CCP. So don't expect CCP to change something that has an obvious repercussion of less revenue and zero chance of additional revenue.
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rain9441
Big Head Want Dolly
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Posted - 2010.12.03 17:55:00 -
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I acknowledge exactly what you are talking about. But a typical average player will find that they can progress up the chain of ISK/day by changing what they build rather than simply building more of the same. Just like traders decide to trade in different items rather than more items. Jumping into more ISK intensive markets leads to .. more isk.
Suppose I have 10 slots. I can do X amount of work to get Y amount of pay. If I get another alt and have 20 slots, I can do 2*X amount of work to get 2*Y amount of pay. I've just doubled my profit per day as well as my amount of work necessary to achieve that amount of pay. Alternatively, I could have used my 10 slots more efficiently and gotten 1.2*Y amount of pay for the same X amount of work. Maybe you've capped your slot efficiency, I don't know. But most players have not gotten that far.
If you had 1000 slots, you wouldn't use all 1000. There is going to be some point where players decide they cant use any more slots because the cost of utilizing it is greater than the extra reward they get. My opinion is this number will be less than 30 on average in the set of industry focused players who actually buy minerals as opposed to mine them. When I say on average, I would include time where slots were unused due to capital ISK not being around to support the activities (Which presumably happens a lot when players expand to multiple alts).
Your magic number is 120 apparently :)
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