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Antioch Red
Atomic Heroes
#1 - 2014-07-26 18:49:34 UTC
So, in the whole of Fountain there's not a single team that helps with anything to do with ships, specifically or generically. Really, across an entire region ??? So how is this a useful feature again????
Ginger Barbarella
#2 - 2014-07-26 19:38:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Ginger Barbarella
Antioch Red wrote:
So, in the whole of Fountain there's not a single team that helps with anything to do with ships, specifically or generically. Really, across an entire region ??? So how is this a useful feature again????


CCP wants you to (essentially) get together with a bunch of folks, bid on the Teams you'd like to see, and (I guess) they'll be there for 30 days until someone wins the next auction to get them elsewhere.

Edit: there's another thread here called "Teams"'; read it.

"Blow it all on Quafe and strippers." --- Sorlac
Tau Cabalander
Retirement Retreat
Working Stiffs
#3 - 2014-07-26 23:08:58 UTC
Antioch Red wrote:
So, in the whole of Fountain there's not a single team that helps with anything to do with ships, specifically or generically. Really, across an entire region ??? So how is this a useful feature again????

More correctly, nobody in fountain has bothered to bid high enough on a team to get one to move there.

From what I can see, teams are going for around 100m, depending on demand.
Mal Nina
The Red Circle Inc.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#4 - 2014-07-27 00:36:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Mal Nina
I will give some more specifics:

Teams. I manufacture an item that sells for a good amount and requires low amounts of expensive input parts. The best material team I found had a MR 2% generalist and a 3% specific member for a total of 5%. Now 5% on any job will reduce any item that is basically 20 input units down by 1 unit. Now the item being produced happened to have 2 such items that could be reduced for a total savings or around 20K...not much there. Oh but wait ... the team costs 10% to employ. so suddenly I have a 150K in additional charges for each product for a total savings of -130K. Oh now isn't that just awesome. I go through all the hassle of bidding, hiring, paying the transport costs of getting a team that for the privilege of using them costs me an extra 130K for each product I want to bring to market. Sorry... could have saved a few manpower hours at CCP and not bothered doing any specialty teams for that product as they are utterly useless.

Now granted, it did provide great comic relief to see that team sold to someone in NS for 32 mil. Not sure what they are using it for, but if it is being used for the awesome 5% savings in material for what that team did best then yes, It did bring tears to my eyes while I envisioned the corporate finance officer berating the mathematics of his industrial team lead.

Now teams do have their place and can help here and there to make you some money.... just not for me.