Amari Jackson
Zacharia Explorations Group
Black Crescent Inc.
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Posted - 2014.04.28 23:43:00 -
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Sizeof Void wrote:Querns wrote:...unnecessary amounts of research and wasting your time ... Actually, you know this isn't true. There is a widely held perception that BPOs, and thus BPCs, with higher ME/PE are worth more, and this perception creates reality. You can see this in the BPC contract market, where players routinely pay more for BPCs with ME/PE values far exceeding "perfect".
While I can appreciate the frustration in seeing all of that time come to naught, if we are going to be honest, the value in over researched BPOs in Marketing.
Marketing.
Granted, over researched BPOs are one of the few ways of actually marketing *anything* in this game (buy my rifter! which is the exactly the same as...er...that rifter...except .01 isk cheaper! ... ), but not everyone who over-researched a BPO did so with the intent to sell. And if players did so with the intent to build, that was an opportunity cost that those players either did knowingly or in ignorance.
For example, let's say someone researches...I dunno...a Raven to ME 40 instead of ME 10.
Well, using some quickie math via eve-cost.eu, the guy who stopped at ME 10 would have made 4 billion profit in the time it would have taken someone to do ME 75. (lots of assumptions here). That was the opportunity cost: 4 billion isk. 
As for the buyers of over-researched BPCs...after the change, not much will really change for them. They still get to pay isk for people's BPCs, adjusted to your production costs from job scaling.
Plus, who do you refund? The owner of the BPO may not have necessarily have researched it personally.
The owner of the BPO who may have bought it off the market (contracts) and never spent a single second researching it?
Owner #1 : hey! I spent all of this ISK for a ME 200 BPO, and now it's ME 10 or something??? And I have a notice about some kind of research points? The heck? Wait...did I just get a two for one deal? I have a well researched BPO already, now I can apply these research points to *other* blueprints? I win! LOL!!!
The owner who got it via ganking?
Owner #2 : "LOL! I ganked this guy last week now I have all of these free research points I can spend! All it cost me was a catalyst because fool was transporting the BPO in an untanked bestower!"
The researcher? who may not even *own* the BPO anymore?
The Corp who may have the BPO on lock down???
My 2cents.
-Amari |