Moac Tor
Cyber Core
Stain Confederation
499
   |
Posted - 2016.04.15 00:58:44 -
[1] - Quote
March rabbit wrote:Hawke Frost wrote:Aiwha wrote:Tavari Minrathos wrote:Because extractors and PLEX are both bought with RL currency they have a direct correlation in price.
Because you can only make 3 injectors a month with optimal training, selling 3 injectors needs to have profit over the cost of 3 extractors+PLEX.
At current Jita Value of ~645m per injector, ~1b per plex, ~240m per extractor, being a SP farm makes ~245m per month over expenses.
If you have a character that you do not need to train anymore and they already do something in hisec ( and maybe low sec) then yes SP farming is currently profitable. I say hisec because you need at least +4s to get 3 extractors worth of SP a month. (i think, math could be a bit off) YEah, I have a JF alt account that I'm planning on doing this with. I don't have to pay to maintain the sub, AND I make a little something on the side. Not bad. The second more people start to catch up on that the more competition you'll get which will affect the price and thus profitability. Still, it's worth it for accounts that don't need training anymore. I doubt CCP envisioned this, they're not very good at predicting the outcome of their choices. You know what is funny? Players KNEW months before skill injectors came. Many of them already prepared SP farms. Looking at sell orders for skill injectors some farms are pretty huge. When i was reading about it months ago i was pretty sure this would be gamed right from the start.... And still farming of SP is pretty profitable.
It was suggested in the injector threadnought that SP farms would create an avenue for players to passively make ISK and thus pay for their account. What I think has been a surprise is quite how much demand there has been for injectors. I didn't realise the extent of players that would be so desperate for SP that they'd pay more than double the subscription fee to receive instant SP.
There is a lag in supply of around 2 1/2 months for SP farms to start to yield SP, and then another month or so before they break even. As a result I expect a lot of injectors will hit the market in the next month or so as people catch on, and then price should theoretically drop to more normal levels. This period is equivalent to a gold rush particularly with the war fuelling demand and dropping PLEX prices.
Modulated ECM Effects
An Alternative to Skill Trading
|