Jethrow Toralen
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
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Posted - 2014.05.01 21:22:00 -
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From the rookier reaches: I was very negative about the reproc changes, positive about the research changes, and am ambivalent about these industry changes. Some concerns that economic power will be further concentrated and that the changes, ahem, add *too much* interest (ie players at the lower end - not the ones set up optimally - but younger highsec accts, perhaps only in NPC corps, must keep tabs on so many variables just to make sure they are not running at a loss that it becomes unfun - players who are trying to be rational about their manufacturing that is, there seem always ppl who sell at a loss)
An earlier poster gave a current manufacturing cost for the Abaddon of <10k compared to the devblog example of 4-10mill. I looked at a Catalyst for comparison which go for about 1.1mill on the market and they cost about 1.5k to make now, which would rise to 22-55k, working on 2-5%. The margin on entry level manufacturing is not very big, so 2-5% is quite a bit.
I am expecting that manufacturers will be less able to pass the increased costs onto buyers of lower end stuff, than for more expensive items. So perhaps those that have the resources will move to higher value items, where even with the same margin, the profit for a button click is much greater in isk per hr.
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Ok, well let me try and alleviate that concern by again saying no design decision that I've been party to has been changed in any way by considerations involving ISK sinks. The reasoning for why we've gone down this road was laid out at the start of the blog, and that's the truth. It's of course up to you whether you choose to believe me or not :)
I'm a believer... for now ;) (Still not over the Recall voting). Pace, other posters who say 'Inflation!', the increase in manufacturing costs seems appreciable and deflationary. Inflation does not seem to be much of a problem, except for PLEX, so hopefully the reproc changes will move ppl into blitzing missions and generating isk that way, and the increasing cost of PLEX will return some isk to the money supply from the wealthy in EVE who are themselves functioning like temporary giant isk sinks. (Only if they are using the PLEX for something other than accumulating more isk of course) |