Khyle
Gallente
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Posted - 2006.12.04 23:01:00 -
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Edited by: Khyle on 04/12/2006 23:12:31
As no BPO GOD but more or less small private owner, my 0.2 isk.
I own 3 T2 BPOs, including one ship, but no big ticket items(like HACs).
Each BPO nets me about 100-150 Million Isk a month. Yes, thats without doing any work at all, so if you consider that unfair, you may be right, but im not your worst enemy :). I buy the minerals and components for the modules in bulk every 3 months and sell only BPCs of the ships instead of manufacturing(too much m3 in components to be convenient, plus flying the ships around). Copying pays quite nicely as people pay premium to be able to produce at home instead of flying finished ships around.
Thats 300-450 Million isk a month.
So why i am telling you that? I got 16 research agents on one account. All they did the last years was giving me these 3 BPOs with the mentioned income(ok, plus one i sold for a nice amount).
For simplicity lets consider all of them being Starship engineering(doesnt change the datacores/day), producing 250 RPs a day on average, thats 4000 RPs a day, or roughly 2.6 datacores a day, 80 per month.
So, on one side, if i stick to them for a year longer, maybe i get another few BPOs which probably will net me a few hundred million isk per month.
Or i sell 80 Datacores per month. To be profitable compared to the other option lets consider i want to make 240 Million isk per month, starting right now(while i need to wait for BPOs).
240/80 = 3, so with a price of 3 Million isk per Datacore, i make the same profit i would expect from a few BPOs if i got some in the next year, starting right now. Not bad. Even going overtop with 500 Mill a month thats still only 6 Million per datacore. But people will undercut each other a lot, as its so easy and essentially effortless to produce datacores.
Personally i wont do that, still hoping for the big ticket item :).
But it is viable, f.e. bringing alts up to 5 research agents just for farming and selling datacores. And people really will do it. If you watch all the undercutting going on for available BPOs, you can imagine there will be loads of people doing the same with datacores. Its easy, it has no risks and its absolutely safe, PLUS there is no work involved at all once you have it going(you just make an afk-roundtrip once a week to collect the datacores). If eve taught me one thing its that even the smallest profit margin business is swarmed like hell if its safe and freely available. Just that you consider it too tiresome to cater to your own t2 needs via invention will does not mean that theres nobody who will do it. If you dont believe that, you obviously belong to the wrong demographics, the one trying to be self-sufficient and probably living in 0.0  .
Even if you would consider me unlucky in the lottery(not that many BPOs with lots of agents) there will be loads of unlucky people willing to sell datacores.
Add to that that quite a lot of people have old agents they want to get rid off in favor of better ones, f.e. level 3 ones with big piles of RPs, in my case even a level 2 one which had Starship Research at 3 at the very beginning, which was nerfed down to 2.
So where does "wont go lower than 20 Million" come from? And even 10 Million could cut HAC prices in half.
The question is: Why did i spend so much time answering to such a stupid post. Whatever 
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