
Kismeteer
GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.10.26 19:02:56 -
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CCP Ytterbium wrote:EvilweaselSA wrote: Copy time or cost probably should be changed - I think copy time is the big outlier here. You have some idea of how many of these structures you expect will exist but my guess is a few dozen at most in the first year. You shouldn't be able to make many more bpcs than structures intended to be deployed. You need a bpc market of course - not every null alliance can be expected to put up 700b to get their foot in the door - but you've got to have it so the bpcs any one bpo can produce are some fraction of expected demand. With a base build time of 30 days, I'd set copy time to at least 30 days and probably much more - unlike supercapitals, there is no need for you to copy this bpo to produce with it safely. You can produce in-station off the bpo itself so copy time can be a freebie for when the bpo is not in use and can be longer than the production time, even several multiples of it without it being a big problem for the market.
The bpo cost of these is 10x what a titan bpo costs, the bpc copy time is ~1/6th of a titan bpo copy time, and most titan bpcs are pretty cheap. Leviathans are the only one where the bpo isn't glutted but even those run only 1-2b each.
I'd probably make it a several month base copy time so that you get people buying the bpos initially so they can get a leg up on deploying them and use of the bpo is tilted more towards manufacturing than copying. At a minimum producing them and copying them should be roughly the same time or at a minimum at the ratio of t2 bpos. Copying in 1/6th of the time to build it seems way, way off.
Fair point, duly noted, we'll iterate on copy time. Thanks!
http://imgur.com/a/XJHbH Created a pair of graphs (and log versions) to show how badly out of wack the new blueprints are with a cart of other large scale items. I can provide the source spreadsheet as well if people want it. You can work backwards to make these numbers match up with the rest of the universe.
These numbers are cost of BPO / Blueprint time in seconds to build, copy or ME/TE. |