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Qorinn Eselle
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Posted - 2014.04.29 13:25:00 -
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The economic logic behind the installation cost calculation eludes me. Making the installation cost for a manufacturing job correlate directly to the sell price of the completed item in a given region doesn't make much sense.
The cost to manufacture an individual BMW has nothing to do with the final sticker price at the dealership, let alone an average of sticker prices in a particular region over a given time. If anything, there might be pressure on the sell price created by rising manufacturing costs, but not the other way around.
I would love to hear Dr EyjoGGÇÖs perspective on this.
IGÇÖm glad to hear that youGÇÖre GÇ£aware of the risk of price manipulation,GÇ¥ and that youGÇÖre GÇ£confident this system is robust in this regard.GÇ¥ It would be nice to get more details on how you plan to combat this, because it is inevitable that GÇ£someoneGÇ¥ will try.  |
Qorinn Eselle
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Posted - 2014.04.29 14:14:00 -
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CCP Greyscale wrote:
It's not per-region, it's a global ballpark price value. What it does for us is it gives a pretty safe way for more expensive things to generally cost more to build than less expensive things, which seemed like a pretty reasonable outcome.
However it's calculated -- manufacturing cost as a direct function of price seems like it's going to create problems with supply/demand equilibrium and the efficiency of markets.
Regardless, this train has left the station, so I guess we'll just have to see how it plays out.
CCP Greyscale wrote:
We're not going to go into details on exactly how we're dealing with manipulation issues; the reason we're pretty confident is that we already use this system to price FW LP payouts and we've not seen a repeat of the price manipulation issues that system previously had since we put the new system in place. If there was manipulation to be done, we assume it would already be happening in FW.
Fair enough, I completely understand.  |
Qorinn Eselle
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Posted - 2014.04.29 15:54:00 -
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Would it be possible for Dr EyjoG or one of his minions to follow up with a brief dev blog, explaining the economic logic behind this new system and their thoughts on these changes? Not asking for details, models or predictions, of course.
Some reassuring words from the head of the central bank in this time of uncertainty would be nice. Their silence on all of this has been deafening (and a tad alarming).
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