Prekaz
The Gentlemen's Corporation
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Posted - 2012.04.17 19:34:00 -
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Brewlar Kuvakei wrote:T2BPO is living proof that success in EVE online has more to do with who you know than what you do. As long as certain players/corps keep getting gifted bonus items such as T2BPO CCP will never be able to claim this game a true sand box.
Most of your whining seems to revolve around a largely fictitious rendition of one scandal that happened five years ago and involved a relatively small number of not-particularly-lucrative BPOs which, IIRC, were recycled into the lottery at the resolution of the incident.
That's how flimsy your position is - you can't actually make any salient point, so the only option remaining to you is to continually repeat the same decidedly false statement in the apparent hope that doing so will somehow alter reality.
I have seen preschoolers throw tantrums over their blankies with more dignity than this. |
Prekaz
The Gentlemen's Corporation
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Posted - 2012.04.27 17:10:00 -
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Fango Mango wrote:
That sounds very interesting . . .
What if we created a new type of BPC through invention.
It turns a BPO into a max run BPC that can have ME/PE research done on it.
So I could take a Vexor BPO, add datacores, and Invent (with chance of failure of course) a Special 15 Run Ishtar BPC that I could then perform ME/PE research on.
These BPCs would always have a higher cost than T2 BPOs (Material Cost + effort to run the jobs), but it would cut down on the advantages of T2 BPOs (especially in the ship markets).
-FM
This, for the record, would not actually positively affect the profit margin of inventing Ishtars.
You would cut down the "BPO advantage..." and you would also **** your own bottom line.
Otherwise known as "cutting off your nose to spite your face". It's almost like nobody ever even looks at what they think they are "competing" against. You want Ishtars? Fine.
IIRC, there were only 10 of every ship BPO seeded. Let's assume that they are all still alive and kicking and being actively produced from under optimal conditions. With perfect skills, a +4% time implant, using a normal manu line (advanced ship manu lines have an additional wastage factor that cuts into margin) and 34 PE, it takes 1 day, 3.5 hours to produce an Ishtar from a BPO. So in a 720 hour month, a BPO can produce 26 ishtars.
So if they're all still in use, under those ideal conditions, and all of the ishtars are being delivered to market, that's 260 ishtars a month, maximum resulting from BPOs.
The average daily volume of Ishtars sold in Jita for the last year is 43.6, which means that under the absolute best conditions possible, every BPO that ever was can supply about 6 days worth of volume per month for this particular ship. When you add in the other hubs, it is far less than that.
Now at this point, anyone with the most basic grasp of arithmetic would say, "Hmm. I guess I really don't have to compete against those guys because they will run out of units long before the market demand is satisfied," and go about their business and make a shitton of isk doing so.
BPO whiners don't do that, though. Instead they fuss over the "BPO Advantage" and come up with "smart" ideas like the above that would actually cut into their own profits.
Increasing ME/PE from invention would simply mean that the price would drop to suit, but it's even worse than that: Since limitless Ishtars can now be produced at 15ME, THAT will be where the new price point will be set.
That means every inventor will HAVE to do that research to be profitable/competitive. By "allowing" ME/PE research to be done on invented BPCs, you are, in fact, FORCING ME/PE research to be done on the BPCs.
Know what that means?
That means you just came up with an idea that will completely **** your own isk-per-slothour by exponentially increasing the amount of lab time required for every Ishtar made.
I swear, no group needs more protection from itself than S&I. |