Shadowsword
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Tau Ceti Federation
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Posted - 2007.02.21 23:29:00 -
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 Originally by: Nials Corva
The work involved with invention can never, even theoretically, be less than the work involved in a BPO. The risk can never be less. The manufacturing cost can never be less for any non-stupidly trivial scenario.
This is exactly what I said when I stated that a BPo holder would have a higher margin per module/ship sold. "But" said BPO Holder can't build faster than it's BPO, while an inventor can put 5 or 10 invented BPC in production at the same time. Less margin, but more productivity, provided that he put some effort.
Originally by: Nials Corva
There is no possible circumstance in which T2 production from a BPC via invention can ever compete with production from a BPO. Hell, there's no way that a BPC from invention can ever be used for anything except a curbing of excessive profits on a BPO.
It's competition that dirve prices down, so saying that invention can't compete while stating that it will curb the profits on some BPOs is strange...
Originally by: Nials Corva
No matter how many BPCs there are on the market, the best that can happen is that prices hold steady at the Invention production costs, meaning that invention will make almost no profit and the BPO holders will still be rolling in cash. Is it reasonable that the absolute best case scenario is that the T2 market will survive, but only the current BPO holders will ever have a hope of making any profit?
The only reason why invention isn't profitable now is because, before the last patch, the 90-runs and 40-runs were SO profitable, that inventors were ready to pay just about anything to invent things as soon as possible, because they suspected their profits woudln't stay high forever. If anything, the market prices would fall down from the suddenly enormous oversupply. Datacores will fall down in price, because now one will buy them now, and things will balance themselve out...
If you want an example, I know someone who bought an Esoteric interface for almost 5 billions. He used it to invent 90-runs Invul fields II Bpcs, and in about 2 weeks of efforts, milked 630 runs out of it. Margin per invented module: about 15 millions. Profit: 9.45 billion.
Do you know many T2 BPOs that gives you 4.2 billions profit per week?
Of course, things have changed now, but the mechanic stay the same: more efforts put into an interface = more profit, while with a BPO it's few efforts = fixed profit...
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