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your grasping at straws now, anyone who owns a T2BPO has multiplied their "opportunity cost" many times over since the lottery or hasn't played Eve in over half a decade.

Or you could actually take the time to figure out the context of my statement and realize that we are talking about a POS which is full of blueprints being researched.

Eh, no. The opportunity cost doesn't go away — they still have the opportunity to just turn that BPO into liquid cash. Moreover, many current BPO holders were not around for (or did not win) the lottery and had to buy them later.

If you mean the congestion charge, it gets sunk. Think of it as a tax on being able to infinitely expand your POS capability. Any other fees set by the corp go to the corp.

e: here.

seriously if that were the case there would be dozens up on the market for every module and ship in the game at any given time. but there aren't, why? because its more profitable to copy and manufacture from them instead. None of this doesn't change the fact that T2Bpo's are an outdated and broken mechanic that pulls a vast sum of ISK into the hands of a very few players at the expense of the entire marketplace.

ISK sink = you're paying the workers in your facility. and for repairs, and for retooling the lines as needed. Or something.

I'd expect/hope that POS costs are lower as a baseline, as you're paying for fuel as well. But it can work out. (paying for the faster production time)

Need more blogs. Any real discussion on this isn't possible until we have the whole picture.

ok, all this is interesting but: 1) no standing needed for pos? really? ah i see, this is due to another part of update, miners will need poses to refine their ore(btw ofwar with miner corp is so sweet for high sec gankers) 2) better copy time for every bpo? t2bpo's owners will like it though it would be quite hard for those who invents to compete with older players in t2 production. 3) to build smth i need to take its bpo to a pos: great time for all large highsec\low sec corporations they just need to declare offwar come and take my money(just don't tell me stories about mighty, nearly invincible high-sec pos, cause it's not a killing machine even with a gunner online)

so what do we have? you'll need to take a bpo to the pos every time you want to manufacture\copy\invent\me\pe it(great job!), its always in danger while you producing smth; you cant lock it down so you're alone or you can trust smb and see what happens, and yes for all this you pay just 400kk per month, so isnt this awsome?

though now i believe i can see future, cause i started to learn skills for a carrier this autumn and almost ready for nullsec journey

thank you again for the patch and let the era of highsec pos'o'war begin

On top of the fuel costs? POS users have to pay twice otherwise... once to keep the tower running, and a second time to pay those additional scaling costs? Will this be compensated by lowering the initial fuel costs the POS eats up? Or by giving them extremely great scaling conditions? Otherwise POS users may not be able to compete with prices of station users.





On another topic:

Being unable to anchor BPOs at a POS also gives a low punch to all corporations having their BPOs anchored in stations without
any production or research/copy slots.



I do hope POS will see big upgrades in the future making anchoring BPOs possible, making them compete price wise and so on, otherwise those who go through putting up a POS, putting assets at risk, will always be worse off, than those just sticking to stations.

perhaps they should remove that limitation as well and just have "missions", no level 1 to 5 anymore :P

You really don't see how printing blueprints faster than you can use them is an opportunity for expanding you capacity to manufacture if you employ more slots/alts?

And no, you will not have any idle time.

Let's take an example where copying is 10% faster than manufacturing - 9 hours to make a 10 run BPC and 10 hours to produce 10 items from said BPC. Here's a quick time flow: http://dl.eve-files.com/media/1404/runs.jpg

You have 10 blueprint copiers? A new manufacturing alt can be spawned at the end of pictured cycle.

That's an example of just 10% difference. With, for example, 20% it's even faster to employ new alts.