Meisterjager Jagermeister
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Posted - 2015.03.17 16:08:00 -
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TLDR at bottom.
Warbarge upgrades of any type require warbarge components, the primary source for these being the warbarge factory which produces components at a fixed rate over time.
Logic would dictate that if you increase the rate of component production you decrease the wait time between warbarge and system level upgrades. However, in practice it would seem the OPPOSITE is true.
Take my current situation for example:
My warbarge is at level 4 and my factory is at level 3 and I am considering which I should upgrade first. Assuming I have depleted my component reserve, I start with 0 components.
To upgrade my warbarge to level 5 requires 6385 components (cmp hereafter). At level 3 my factory produces 400 cmp per day; so it will take 16 days to produce the needed amount, over two weeks, which is a bit longer than I would like to wait. If I upgrade my factory to level 4 I can produce 500 cmp per day and cut down that wait by 4 days. I find this favorable.
However, to upgrade my factory from level 3 to level 4 requires 25334 cmp  That is 4 times the amount needed to upgrade my warbarge as a whole to five; 63 days wait time!!! To reduce warbarge upgrade wait time by 4 days I have to ADD TWO MONTHS to that wait time; 75 days in all , in which time my warbarge remains stagnant.
Moreover, it means two months for the factory to feed itself enough cmp to increase output by a measley 100 cmp per day; a rate at which it will take 254 DAYS before the factory has produced enough additional cmp for that investment to have payed for itself.
Thus it has become clear to me that upgrading the component factory from level 3 to 4 is not worth the time investment until such time as the warbarge and all its other systems have been upgraded to the point at which their next level requires a wait time greater than the required component production wait time plus 63 days. That is a looooooooooooong time off. And if you regularly acquire experimental gear or use any other system that may consume cmp to procure benefits; even longer. And then factor in cool down time management.
Any wait that long is no longer worth the effort, the warbarge as well.
(And then there is component factory upgrade from 4 to 5 )
---TLDR: Warbarge component factory upgrade cost is borked  Don't bother with Factory level 4 unless you get very lucky salvage or spend piles of aur. Why CCP, why?
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