EVE Search - Playboy Enterprises, Heff and the the Economic Warmongers

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Sweet Fresca	Posted - 2003.07.25 02:47:00 - [1] This could certainly turn into a debate about how CCP should prevent corps like Playboy from exploiting. For one thing, that post from Hellmar I believe is incorrect. A BP can only be researched to save 5% minerals. 5%!! That is nothing. That brings the cost of a 6 mil ISK cruiser down by 300K. That is hardly economic dominance. Besides, Playboy sells researched copies. It only takes 2 short cycles to nearly reach the maximum mineral savings. It is NOT a stretch to say that Playboy has cost EVE corps more in damages than Moo, m3g4, and all the other pirate corps put together. One thing you dissenters aren't seeing - yes it would not be so bad if there was only around 10 profit margins, but only if there were plenty of customers. You know what? Customers are few and far between because they all have cheap copies. They have killed demand in the cruiser market because everyone that wants to buy cruisers just gets the BP and "rolls their own".
Sweet Fresca	Posted - 2003.07.25 02:47:00 - [2] This could certainly turn into a debate about how CCP should prevent corps like Playboy from exploiting. For one thing, that post from Hellmar I believe is incorrect. A BP can only be researched to save 5% minerals. 5%!! That is nothing. That brings the cost of a 6 mil ISK cruiser down by 300K. That is hardly economic dominance. Besides, Playboy sells researched copies. It only takes 2 short cycles to nearly reach the maximum mineral savings. It is NOT a stretch to say that Playboy has cost EVE corps more in damages than Moo, m3g4, and all the other pirate corps put together. One thing you dissenters aren't seeing - yes it would not be so bad if there was only around 10 profit margins, but only if there were plenty of customers. You know what? Customers are few and far between because they all have cheap copies. They have killed demand in the cruiser market because everyone that wants to buy cruisers just gets the BP and "rolls their own".
Sweet Fresca	Posted - 2003.07.25 06:35:00 - [3] Edited by: Sweet Fresca on 25/07/2003 06:36:22 I am afraid Neptunus is correct. Production efficiency will save you 20% of the mineral cost (that has nothing to do with researching the BP). Mineral efficiency research can save you around 5%. So researching the original is not a big deal. Researching is very quick and most BP copies I have seen on the market are already pretty much fully researched. The developer's claim that copies are not "competitive" is wrong.
Sweet Fresca	Posted - 2003.07.25 06:35:00 - [4] Edited by: Sweet Fresca on 25/07/2003 06:36:22 I am afraid Neptunus is correct. Production efficiency will save you 20% of the mineral cost (that has nothing to do with researching the BP). Mineral efficiency research can save you around 5%. So researching the original is not a big deal. Researching is very quick and most BP copies I have seen on the market are already pretty much fully researched. The developer's claim that copies are not "competitive" is wrong.

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