Xtraneous
Sam's Space Guys
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Posted - 2014.04.29 05:22:00 -
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Capital ship hull BPCs - apologies if this question has been asked and answered already.
A large part of my income comes from selling copies of Cap ship hulls (freighters, dreads, supers, rorqs etc) - after this change the copy time will be much shorter, so I can produce many more copies. Unavoidably there will be many more copies produced than market demand requires and the price of copies will crash.
For example:
Currently a Charon BPO sells for approx 2bil and copies (that takes approx 28 days) sell for 50mil, generating a 2.5% return on investment per month (not including the cost of a copy slot). Investing in super BPOs for the bpc market is very low return, but also low risk and effort - a great way to use an excess of ISK.
After the change there will be so many Charon BPCs available the price will likely fall to equal the cost of a copy slot. This will lead to a glut of Charon BPOs on the market, so their price will fall to NPC or probably lower. As has been mentioned the price of Jump Freighter bpcs will crash as a flow on effect.
In my particular circumstance, my BPO collection worth hundreds of billions accumulated over years will no longer generate any meaningfull return. In addition it will be very hard to sell the BPOs, and certainly not for a premium that recognizes the time spent researching them.
To summarise the problem:
- At the current copy times there are enough capital ship BPOs being copied to meet market demand for copies. Reducing copy times will crash the price of capital bpcs and bpos.
There are a few possible solutions to this problem:
- Leave long copy times for capital ship class blueprints
- Allow NPCs to buy back researched BPOs at (or just under) the NPC price. You'd loose the value of any research but get back (most of) your initial investment. Perhaps this could be facilitated throught the contract system and batch processed at down time?
- Suck it up and become a producer, spend hours managing buy orders and hauling minerals.
I don't even mind if selling cap ship bpcs isn't a profitable option in the future, but I'll be unable to use my ISK in another venture because it will be tied up in capital BPOs that everyone will be trying to sell all at once....
Also, thx for the small T2 BPO buff :)
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