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Arronicus wrote:

Rivr Luzade wrote:

Arronicus wrote:

CCP Greyscale wrote:

Research costs scale based on time; base cost is for level 1, and higher levels cost-scale based on what multiple of level 1 time they take. This means that you have significant decisions to make about whether or not (and where!) to research high-end blueprints to high levels.

Hold on just a moment there, you're telling me that researching a blueprint that costs roughly a billion isk (capital component bpo) to ME 10 over the course of ~100 days for ~100mil, whereas another blueprint that costs roughly 1.1bil (carrier blueprint) to ME 10 over the course of ~300 days, for ~7-50 billion isk, is intended?

Probably not. Judging by CCP Nullarbor's last 2 posts, it is the case on Sisi because there's not enough jobs running, and that it will be significantly lower on TQ. Remains to be seen how that pans out.

I sure hope that I don't need to pay ~12B to research a BS BPO to max levels. ^^

Thing is, most bpos require a reasonable amount of isk to research to max levels. I can check a BS later, but I'd be willing to bet it's under 120mil, it's just actual capital ship bpos which have their research costs set to insane values that noone would ever pay. But let's suppose for a moment, that costs ARE actually working as intended for carrier bpos, that means an archon BPO costs around 4 billion isk to research from ME 9 to ME 10. ME 9 to ME 10, when you are producing out of a single upgraded amarr station, or out of a POS, is a savings of 2 components on that Archon (7 if you have no ME bonus from pos or station). So, at lets say 12mil per component, we're looking at a savings of 24 mil per run. 7 1/4 days per run puts us at 4 per month, or 48 per year. That's 1152m per year.

Return on investment under current figures puts researching an archon from ME 9 to ME 10 at 3 1/2 years just to break even. Clearly something is broken, or max researched capital bpos are supposed to be the new Tech 2 bpos.