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Tau Cabalander
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Posted - 2012.05.04 06:19:00 -
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Kara Books wrote:Just want to point out, the most profitable Industrialists are all in lowsec/nulsec where the minerals are 20-50% cheeper then highsec, in other words, Inventors stand no chance while even the worst T2 BPO is outright lucrative which is killing inventors left and right.
How many people actually invent as a main source of income in eve?
5?
10?
1?
Indeed I do think 78% of all tech 2 items are created from BPO's this sounds about right to me.
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nulsec
I have many tens of billions of ISK as an inventor. I don't own any T2 BPO. I don't want to own any T2 BPO.
I'm a hisec dweller. When I lived in w-space for 2.5 years I had hisec alts doing invention.
My corpmate Proton Power is also a serious inventor. He just got 100 billion ISK loan from MD to support his ever growing invention. He doesn't own any T2 BPO either, though he has rented them in the past.
In fact, I think everyone in my corp is currently doing invention, though not all on such a large scale.
I like that T2 BPO keeps prices low on the junk inventors don't want to make because the trade volume is so low. |
Tau Cabalander
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Posted - 2012.05.24 23:30:00 -
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Lucy Ferrr wrote:This really is true. When I really found out about T2 BPOs in about my 2nd month in eve I really thought about quitting. I even let my account lapse for awhile. Finally I decided I loved eve more than I hated T2 BPOs even if they were a very nasty and public black mark on CCP/Eve Online. I came back. Two of my real life friends went the other road. When they found out they could never compete with a giant chunk of the older T2 producers they let their accounts lapse and did not come back.
Why can I and others compete and earn billions doing invention and you and your friends can' t compete? Do you refuse to make profitable items people want? |
Tau Cabalander
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Posted - 2012.09.05 18:20:00 -
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You do realize that buffing invention to increase yield is self-defeating, as it would lower margins even more.
The problem is not invention or T2 BPOs. It's people that value their effort very little, typically with the argument that EVE is a game so they don't care how much they earn, or even if they take a loss, as long as they are having fun.
Building ships is an example of this, because everyone and their grandmother thinks building ships is "cool", regardless of if they are profitable or not (because hundreds of others had the same idea, and are 0.01 ISK-ing each other into oblivion).
Every new industrialist also wants to get into the market, often without doing any market research.
I earn billions of ISK by finding out what the market wants, then supplying it. However, this takes both time and effort, which many are not willing to invest in.
There is LOTS of opportunity for earnings on the current markets. Don't expect ISK to just magically appear in your wallet without putting in some effort. |
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