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Ryan Leonard Thorne
Corwan Academy
Kanen Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.28 19:09:00 -
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Of course that would be nice for everyone who does PI. But did anybody think about what will happen to prices if there are more PI goods available on the market? I guess that most people will not put their PI alts to eternal sleep just because they can make some more ISK with only one character.
It seems inevitable to me that changes have to be made on the other end (i.e. material needs for manufacturing) to keep prices at the current level, but then everything that's built with PI stuff would become more expensive. |
Ryan Leonard Thorne
Corwan Academy
Kanen Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.29 08:47:00 -
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nikar galvren wrote:If there are more PI goods produced & sold, then supply & demand indicate that everything that's built with PI stuff would become *less* expensive, as prices would actually drop.
You snipped the important part concerning prices. Of course prices would drop if there's simply more PI goods on the market. But then you end up with nearly the same ISK as before for more goods as before. Compensation by increasing material needs in manufacturing to keep prices nearly at the same level would be needed, and that would mean that everything that's produced with PI goods will be more expensive as you simply need more units per product. So prices for PI goods will remain at nearly the same level, but everything that contains PI goods will become more expensive. As long as there's no new use for PI goods like completely new product BPs that need PI goods or PI goods used as "fuel" for something. Or NPC corps buying them at fixed prices.
De'Veldrin wrote:As I said, I'd like to do some math on this end of the equation. I think there's noi debate that there will be more products available. I think the issue that needs examining is "How much more" and "Is that necessarily a bad thing?"
That "How much more" is very hard to tell as you can't predict what players would do with those new skills. How many would really use them, to what level will they train them? The first skill you want to introduce (+1 planet) gives everybody the chance to increase potential PI output by over 80%. If everybody trains that skill to level 5 you have a potential increase of over 80% in available PI goods. Not at once, but over the time that it takes people to train that skill. So prices would very slowly drop. And then you come to that point where you compare effort to income again because managing 11 planets for so little ISK is annoying.
Don't get that wrong, I'm not against changes to PI in general, but in my opinion this is the wrong way. |
Ryan Leonard Thorne
Corwan Academy
Kanen Federation
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Posted - 2014.07.29 16:18:00 -
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nikar galvren wrote:Honestly, I can't imagine a valid reason why they would want to do that.
Me neither. But you and everybody else will want them to do so if you have to do 80% more clicking around for just 5% more ISK ore even less. Because that is what happens when everybody has the chance to have more planets and get more units of everything per hour.
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