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.

Well now

Here goes.

Lets say we will build and sell and imaginery tech 2 shuttle that has a material need of 2000 tritanium with perfect ME level. and also lets imagine that trit costs 1 isks.

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilus Syrus