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Haulie Berry
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Posted - 2013.03.09 02:13:00 -
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Something wasn't the way it was yesterday.
I deserve compensation for this. |
Haulie Berry
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Posted - 2013.03.11 15:39:00 -
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March rabbit wrote:Tippia wrote:By the way, here's an interesting question for you: why on earth should anyone be reimbursed when they haven't lost anything? question wasn't for me but i will try: have you heard about opportunity cost? Someone could put these SP used for Mining Barge V (or whatever skills needed to fly Orca) into something more useful. But they were not given by this opportunity. So it can be said they actually lost opportunity to train something more useful.
They didn't lose the opportunity to train something more valuable when they chose to train the skill. They CHOSE to train it then.
Opportunity cost is something that exists at the point in time when you are making the decision. You don't have retroactive opportunity cost - what you have now is a sunk cost. |
Haulie Berry
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Posted - 2013.03.11 16:09:00 -
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And while we're at it, why should orca pilots be special, exactly?
If the only reason I trained BS to 5 was to fly capital ships, should I have those SPs reimbursed?
If I only trained assault ships or covert ops so I could fly HACs or Recons, what about those? What about people who trained Logi/Hac and their prerequisite skills to fly a command ship? Indie 5 for freighters?
And why stop there, even?
Should CCP reimburse me for all the time I wasted while waiting for scans to complete in the old scan system? Had I done those scans under the new system, they would have taken, what, maybe 5% as long to complete at the outside?
The rules are always subject to change - you don't get a cookie every time such a change devalues one of your sunk costs. If you're not incorporating such a possibility into your decision making process, that's a personal problem. |
Haulie Berry
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Posted - 2013.03.11 16:24:00 -
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Whitehound wrote:Haulie Berry wrote:If the only reason I trained BS to 5 was to fly capital ships, should I have those SPs reimbursed? You need to answer this for yourself.
I don't, really, because it was a rhetorical question.
Decisions are intended to have a cost in Eve. Being able to hit ctrl-Z on long-past decisions for trivial reasons is the antithesis of that. |
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