Currently it is around six teams per hour.

The minimum is based on the distance between the team's home system and the system you're bidding for. The current numbers are 10,000 ISK per jump (this is easily adjustable).

6 teams created each hour, as in 144 each day, over 4000 active simultanously?

The intention here is not to have the distance act as a hard barrier or too much of a penalty. The way we see this is that very good teams will be competed on a global scale, because their value (and thus how much people are willing to pay to get them) is so high that meeting the minimum is no issue. For less good teams, there will be a cut-off point where the minimum price is higher than what you're willing to pay for the team, so that creates more localized market.

I imagine you will pick your build location and then keep hiring in teams on an ongoing basis, so some beneficial effects will always be applied to your system. Having them last longer than a month is not needed in that case. They are spawned so often that there will be quite a few to go around.

Time saving is pretty much irrelevant for most items

Two major concerns:
2) When a team arrives people will likely shift production to their specialties for that system? How is that not likely to produce an oversupply for all involved meaning that using a team actually means less profit and not more? One of my first instincts is going to be seeing if using teams actually hurts a local system.

Seems to me like there will be a big free rider problem here. If anyone can use the teams in a system, then why would I ever buy one? I guess because you are competing globally and it only applies to systems, so there is competition there, but I'm not sure people are going to plink down isk to get a benefit - especially if they can get that benefit from someone else's effort.

I'm not sure how this will play out over time. It seems like this will be a very niche benefit for null sec, where you can control who builds what, but in empire I don't get it. Seems like a private or corp/alliance auction system where only you get the benefits if won might be needed but then that will just allow larger entities from pushing out the smaller ones. Keep it open and you have free riders. We'll see I guess.

I was hoping teams was player generated though. Ie cooperative gameplay. This isn't it IMO.

I can see you don't have a concept of a real life. When my 10 run T2 BPC takes 12 hours or 13 doesn't matter.

I just have one question.


So... Were teams end up is based on who wins the auction, right ?
Well let's say we have a system with 5 stations ( and all have manufacturing ), in witch there are over 100 players ( not accounts ) doing industry . And they are all biding on the same team ( or 60 of the 100 are biding on the same team ).


Then, how can say a corporation of 10 guys, that is doing "some" industry in a dead end system (that everyone forgot about) with no stations - less attractive to X% of the player base - using 1 or 2 towers.


That 10 member corp will have no chance in hell of wining a team auction, unless they are biding 10 times more per character then the 100 players ( say on average 300 characters ) that are living in the "big" system.


There should be a % based system. Say:
- In the first system 300 bids totaling 400mil
- In the other one 9 bids totaling 10mil

With the way i see it now, the 400mil total bid will win every time.

So, make it a % .. like 400mil / 300 bids ( individual bids ) = 1.33 AND 10mil / 9 individual bids = 1.11

Sure with there exact bids the 300 bidders will still win, but let's say they didn't bid 400mil, but 300 ( that's a 1.00 ratio ), or the 9 guys took it up to 50mil ( that would make it 5.56 ). Either way the 9 guys would win that team over.


This would also apply to some random dude living in a C1, that would like to attract say a AS +10% team in that C1, because he only manufactures Assault Frigates .


Just keep this all in mind.

This will be my last post.

How many questions that you do not get a response to are too many from your perspective ?

Invention teams are coming later in a point release, so we haven't nailed down how they will work. They might work similar (or even replace) decryptors.