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Ryme Intrinseca
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Posted - 2013.09.30 14:55:00 -
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calisk galern wrote:that is true, but amount of lose you're talking about for using the base item is like 100-700 isk....
you won't be losing much, and it's a guarnteed profit either way.
if a person spends millions of isk to buy one of these bpos they would need to die 1000's of times for it to make them a profit.
I wouldn't touch the infantry BPOs for the reason you mention (militia is so cheap) and because of the high fitting costs compared to basic.
However, vehicle module BPOs are a whole different story. They cost thousands of ISK. I recently picked some up because I had some spare AUR and no skills in vehicles, so the BPOs are as good as the best equivalents I can buy for ISK. For (I think) 4,500 AUR my BPO LAV (from a pack) now has three shield damage reduction modules sat on it - has saved me a few times already from rails and AV nades.
Now you might say 'why waste AUR when you could just buy the modules for ISK', but bear in mind this is my throwaway LAV fit. At the start of every match I drive it to the objective and forget about it. Three militia modules is still tens of thousands of ISK, and I wouldn't feel I had the freedom to abandon the vehicle if I'd paid for it. I'd have to go back and recall it, which loses me time and is a risk. So you're not only paying AUR to save yourself ISK but also for the freedom. |
Ryme Intrinseca
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Posted - 2013.09.30 15:29:00 -
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calisk galern wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:calisk galern wrote:that is true, but amount of lose you're talking about for using the base item is like 100-700 isk....
you won't be losing much, and it's a guarnteed profit either way.
if a person spends millions of isk to buy one of these bpos they would need to die 1000's of times for it to make them a profit. I wouldn't touch the infantry BPOs for the reason you mention (militia is so cheap) and because of the high fitting costs compared to standard modules. However, vehicle module BPOs are a whole different story. They cost thousands of ISK, and most players don't have the skill for standard modules. I recently picked some up because I had some spare AUR and the BPOs are as good as the best ISK equivalents I can use. For (I think) 4,500 AUR my BPO LAV (from a pack) now has three shield damage reduction modules sat on it - has saved me a couple of times already. Now you might say 'why waste AUR when you could just buy the modules for ISK', but bear in mind this is my throwaway LAV fit. At the start of every match I drive it to the objective and forget about it. Three militia modules is still tens of thousands of ISK, and I wouldn't feel I had the freedom to abandon the vehicle if I'd paid for it. I'd have to go back and recall it, which loses me time and is a risk. So you're not only paying AUR to save yourself ISK but also for the freedom. i'll agree that is true right now, but let's say in the near future they balance match pay outs and you start gaining 600k-1mil isk from a win, in some new game mode. would that 10k from throw away mods really matter. I have an lav bpo, and that thing will be useful for a long time, but I could see eventually having so much isk that it really doesn't matter as well.
Don't think we'll ever have 1mil ISK for a win. It would be terrible for newbros as vets would be full proto 24/7. |
Ryme Intrinseca
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Posted - 2013.09.30 16:11:00 -
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calisk galern wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:calisk galern wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:calisk galern wrote:that is true, but amount of lose you're talking about for using the base item is like 100-700 isk....
you won't be losing much, and it's a guarnteed profit either way.
if a person spends millions of isk to buy one of these bpos they would need to die 1000's of times for it to make them a profit. I wouldn't touch the infantry BPOs for the reason you mention (militia is so cheap) and because of the high fitting costs compared to standard modules. However, vehicle module BPOs are a whole different story. They cost thousands of ISK, and most players don't have the skill for standard modules. I recently picked some up because I had some spare AUR and the BPOs are as good as the best ISK equivalents I can use. For (I think) 4,500 AUR my BPO LAV (from a pack) now has three shield damage reduction modules sat on it - has saved me a couple of times already. Now you might say 'why waste AUR when you could just buy the modules for ISK', but bear in mind this is my throwaway LAV fit. At the start of every match I drive it to the objective and forget about it. Three militia modules is still tens of thousands of ISK, and I wouldn't feel I had the freedom to abandon the vehicle if I'd paid for it. I'd have to go back and recall it, which loses me time and is a risk. So you're not only paying AUR to save yourself ISK but also for the freedom. i'll agree that is true right now, but let's say in the near future they balance match pay outs and you start gaining 600k-1mil isk from a win, in some new game mode. would that 10k from throw away mods really matter. I have an lav bpo, and that thing will be useful for a long time, but I could see eventually having so much isk that it really doesn't matter as well. Don't think we'll ever have 1mil ISK for a win. It would be terrible for newbros as vets would be full proto 24/7. we get 2 mil isk from a pc win right now, usually you get an extra 400-600k in salvage as well eve operates in 100's of billions of isk, dust operates in millions, unless this gap is changed an open market will always be impossible, and this is likely why we don't have it yet.
I can't see a unified Dust-Eve market happening for years, but if it did happen I think they'd increase the prices on gear as well as the payouts. So my BPOs would be saving me a lot more ISK than they do now. |
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