Attonasi
Aranas de Guerra
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Posted - 2007.12.19 04:56:00 -
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I guess I should also post a bit about the production and cost side since our group has built and sold Widows, Panthers, and Redeemers. We have BPO's, produce our own bpc's, and manufacture all of the components from material we buy from the market. We have maxed invention skills for these three races on our industrial toons and of course maxed building skills. They are also mining datacores from the appropriate agents. We account for these costs as we could just scrap the project and sell the BPC's and datacores. I have a degree in business that I don't use in RL, but somehow find a way to apply to eve, go figure.
We planned for this release for the last month and stocked up on a lot of materials and components before the release and consequently have a lot of components we bought cheap and are worth a lot of money now. If nothing else we participated in some impromptu futures trading.
To explicitly answer the question we are going to lose money on the ships. The materials that build the ships could all be sold for more at the current market prices than the finished product. We made money because of the inflation in material cost. I believe that component/material costs will drop over the next months to more suitable levels and there will be a corresponding drop in T2 ship prices that will negate the current inflationary period cause by the component price spike. All of the crap and whining about how ships are too expensive and people are losing money building them will be forgotten and eve will move on.
I think the price spike in materials drove the production costs of these ships up higher than their value and that is the scenario playing out now. When the cerebus came out there were no discussions about whether or not it was better than a caracal or even a Navy issue caracal. The differences in power were equivalent to the difference in skill req's and build costs. I think Golems are better, but not that much better, and in order to justify that cost the differences should be more like comparing stabbers and vagabonds.
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