Liisa
Freelancing Corp
Confederation of Independent Corporations
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Posted - 2006.12.20 13:38:00 -
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 Originally by: Lady Noir
Datacores? Free.
T1 BPC? Free.
Decryptor? Free.
T1 meta item? depends on what your building, even if it's a hac it's still only 4-5m tops.
Data interface? Expensive, but it lasts forever, use as much as you want.
Now you do the math.
This is like saying all minerals are free if you mine them. They are worth the value of the market.
I will try to explain this to you, though I doubt I will manage to get the point across to you. Let us start with a simple statement: Time is Money.
This means that if you spend 100 manhours to find something, it is worth 100 hours worth of, say, mining scordite in a highsec system (around 5 million/hour). It is NOT free. You could have spent that time mining and making money, so that something is worth around 500 million isk.
Research points are also not free. You have to get your standings up in order to use the best agents and need to wait for the points to come in. The general, accepted, value of research points currently stands at around 5 thousand isk. This means that people normally expect around 7 million for their datacores. Since nobody is really buying them the price is currently depressed at around 5 million.
A T1 BPC is not free. You could sell it on the market and get isk for it. It is worth what you could have sold it for.
Data interface: A big investment. You have to pay off the investment. Remember what I said above about time not being free.
So, you need to subtract what you could have made selling all those little goodies and the amount of time you could have been making isk from your profit before you can say something is worthwhile. If it takes you 100 hours to make a 4 run bpc which yields a profit of 500 million isk, you have not really made a great profit. Many people who have the skills to invent make an average of 20 million isk per hour ratting.
If you are just doing this for the novelty value, sure, go ahead. But I have to admit I believe KiaEddz more than you because he has given us numbers and estimates about the amount of time he and his corp has invested. With this we can get an idea on how hard and expensive invention is. This means we can form an idea on how worthwhile it is.
You have just said that everything is fine. You have not brought up numbers or even estimates telling us how quickly invention is going. All you have said is that you will soon have an interface. Tell us how long it took. How many hours you worked. If you do not do that, we will just think you are sprouting a lot of hot air and think that you are an idiot.
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