ArcticFox
Dirty Deeds Corp.
Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2007.03.29 23:09:00 -
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Edited by: ArcticFox on 29/03/2007 23:12:27
 Originally by: Dahin
Originally by: Troubadour
Edited by: Troubadour on 29/03/2007 21:55:16
It's a pyrrhic victory for the coalition at best. They may not take as much damage ISK-wise as BoB and the allies during this battle, but they aren't in a position to replace those losses as quick nor do they have as much in reserve as BoB and friends.
Losing a titan hurts for bob, but not at much as losing 25+ dreads/carriers for the coalition.
Also, at about 3 bil to buy and fit a dread, losing 25 of them is 75bil, as much as the cost of a titan.
You have a very high opinion on the bob+friends, especially when they're into their biggest fight after 3+ months of fighting constantly.
As for the coalition, I don't know much about the rest, but looking at the corpwallet, my 50-man corporation can replace solo by purchasing dreads off the insane market prices in the amount of:
2.5b a dread
300m t2 fittings
450m insurance
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3.750m in total
- 1.75 insurance
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2bil each
Right about now, cashflow says we can replace TOMMOROW about 50 dreads of that type.
Alliance-production dreads/fittings pretty much cuts cost down to 25+% (because insurance stays the same) and that amounts to 60+ of those babies.
Many people were preparing for this war, and at least we were isk-prepared.
And as for the picture in the grand scale, we prolly lost 1 or two dreads tonight (because we fielded like 3).
Now compare this to the rest of the people in all those alliances all people call "carebears" (and they are mostly right) and you will understand what 20-30 dreads means down for em.
On average, each corporation lost like 1 dread...
Now consider my corp uber-rich, and say the rest are like 50% as rich as we are.
That means they can replace tommorow 30 dreads each and they lost on average 1.
Sure, that is a reserve and such losses cannot be sustained on a daily basis, but neither can bob put a titan in production every single day.
Now I will not even start to speculate what RA and rest can replace... (sweet jesus lay off my plex will ya? :P)
And you tink BoB corps don't have equally impressive cash flows? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying destroying a Titan would be meaningless just because BoB has money, far from it.
But you can't go claiming a ship worth multiple tens of billions destroyed while in production for a rich alliance is a huge blow, and then say losing 50 capital ships (which you yourself have priced at 2 bil a pop after insurance) for a total of 100 bil doesn't matter. That's one whopping double-standard.
I think it's fair to say that quite probably everyone lost a ****ton of isk in this fight and touting your coalition's corp wallet to prove victory in a war against an alliance famed as one of the richest in the game is pretty meaningless.
The coalition probably knew what was going to happen and planned for it, so did BoB. You guys did what you came to do, so did BoB. Would BoB be better off without losing a titan in production? Yes, of course. Would the coalition be better off with 100 bil worth of cap ships not blown up (even if they were intentionally sacrificed)? Honestly, is that even a question that I need to answer?
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