Character Bazaar

I'm an excellent leader, and I'm for sale!

Eveboard


3 remaps available
No Kill Rights
Positive Wallet

• Can fly Gallente Command Ship (Armor and Skirmish bonus')
• Can fit T2 links for all boosting disciplines except mining

• Armored Warfare V
• Armored Warfare Specialist V
• Information Warfare V
• Information Warfare Specialist V
• Siege Warfare V
• Siege Warfare Specialist V
• Skirmish Warfare V
• Skirmish Warfare Specialist V
• Warfare Link Specialist V
• Cybernetics V
• Gallente Battlecruiser V
• Command Ships IV - Approximately 2 weeks from Command Ships V

It would cost more than 17.5 billion to make this character using skill injectors - and that's just speaking of the leadership and command ship skills.

15 billion and I'm yours

7b

Every day you wake up is a good day! Especially if that's the day you buy me!

retracted

Most people don't look at what it would cost to build a character when assessing value. The look at how much they could get if they milked it dry and sold the extractors. By my math your char. has an extracted value of just under 7 billion. This is assuming one buys the extractors and resells the injectors at Jita. Taxes included in this calculation.

I understand now. You people are saying that my character is only worth his salvage value as opposed to his replacement value. I disagree – you don’t go to a car dealership and offer them the salvage value of their vehicle.

Salvage value is also not something that would typically apply to characters, as salvage value relates to depreciation of an asset, but a character would typically only appreciate in value. At least this one should anyway because the account is going to remain active, meaning the character will continue to train, thus increasing his overall effectiveness, and overall worth.

So though I now understand what you people are saying for his value, I reject your reality and substitute my own :-). The replacement value of my character is more than 17 b, which means that it would cost more than 17 b to make the relevant parts of this character. Someone – somewhere – is going to want this character for use and not just resale. I’m going to hold out for that person.

So – no - I disagree that my character is only worth 7 or 8 b. I believe he’s worth 17, and I’m asking 15 b.
Thanks for helping me understand your people’s logic though. Personally – I think you’re just trying to undervalue characters so you can resell for a stupid amount of profit, because I know you’re smart enough to understand salvage value.

I don't understand why the salvage value dictates the value of characters. The value of a character is what it would cost to make that same character yourself.

• You offer me 5 billion because that's what I can get for selling my skills via extractors.
• I say no.
• You say you'll make one yourself because I'm overpriced.
• You spend more than the 15 billion I'm asking for in order to create this same character.

I don't think it's CCP that's causing the prices of characters to drop, but rather the players themselves by following this flawed logic.

Ha - thanks Derp!

Back to the top.

You are basing your math on the price of skill injectors to INSTANTLY create a character though.

Up until extractors came out, Characters were based on the cost to create the character based on approximately 2 mil SP per month @ 1 plex for a months subscription.
Approx 10% was added on top of this as profit for the character creator.

@13mil SP, it would take approx 6.5 plex to make your toon from scratch = just over 6.1 bil ISK.
Due to the SP you have, this is almost exactly what you would get from stripping the toon.
Once a character hits over about 15mil SP, the price difference between 'Then' and 'Now' increases dramatically (in favour of the seller).
Some toons that would have sold for X Bil before extractors are now worth 1.5 times their previous price or more.
You just happen to be in the SP range where Old price = new price (approximately)

(take this as a free bump)

Well good thing none of you bought him because I now have a use for him again. No longer actively trying to sell, but am always willing to listen to reasonable offers. You know - something close to his replacement cost...