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Lord Fitz
Antares Fleet Yards
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.30 04:36:00 -
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The margins on things are dropping, there's a risk you buy a BPO for 41b this year, selling at the current rates would make 20b/year, but the prices drop and you only make 10b instead, and go to sell it to find it's only worth 20b, losing you 11b. Even a hulk BPO only makes about 12.5b/year now.
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Lord Fitz
Antares Fleet Yards
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.30 13:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Alain DeMorgan
i.e. if you have a Nighthawk BPO your build costs are largely immune to any price changes in invention inputs or changes in invention rates, so you have a somewhat more predictable maximum cost to replace them. Additionally you don't have to deal with market fluctuations on the final product.
Your build cost is more stable, but your profit is falling, build cost has increased due to invention and demand on advanced materials at the same time due to the invention cost which is dropping over time the sale price of most things is decreasing. So invention is hitting BPO owners at both ends as designed. They don't need to remove the BPOs eventually they aren't going to be worth that much isk, only convenience for a very few people who don't really have a hope of using all they produce anyway. One effect that we have seen of the more recent changes is that some crappier ship BPOs are probably worth more as invention is balancing things out on invention+build cost, rather than before when it was a supply+demand=price formula, the supply now increases to meet demand.
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Lord Fitz
Antares Fleet Yards
SMASH Alliance
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Posted - 2008.03.31 16:34:00 -
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Edited by: Lord Fitz on 31/03/2008 16:34:50
Originally by: Roguehalo
i.e. people buy them partly for the sheer satisfaction of owning them.
In reality since it became clear that invention would continue to get cheaper that's the only explanation why a rational person would spend many years of profit on one. That or a hope that invention would be nerfed or something. Mind you as the value of many years profit drops people may start to think that they have settled on a new bottom and can't get any lower.
Also if you have ridiculous amounts of isk, such a limited edition trophy isn't that silly, I mean what else would you spend it on, and so long as you're not moving it, you can't really lose it.
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