EVE General Discussion

The current build price of a retriever is well over 20m isk in raw minerals since the change in requirements. However, if you reprocess a retriever, it only gives you the old build value of about 7m back. I have perfect refine and am looking at mineral prices in Amarr.

How long till this is planned on being fixed?

you think it would break eve?

At the same time bombs and every other item with extra materials gets "fixed."

It's "extra materials" - this was discussed at length before the patch. Basically, it's lost materials that do not come back in the reprocessing.

There will be no fix as it was intentional. If people thought that this was a bug, do you really think that they would be working through the surplus of Rets @ 18-20M per unit instead of holding them for a reprocess value of 27M?

All - I didn't think this was a bug, and I saw it mentioned once before the patch. Also, I didn't know this affected bombs too... crazy. Anyway, I understand why it wasn't made that way from the very beginning, but after awhile, it just doesn't make sense to have things reprocess so poorly.

A month, 6 months, a year? Surely there must be some point at which they don't think people will be able to "cash in on *free* minerals", right?

Do capital ships still reprocess to their old build requirements? What about the other things (that I can't think of off the top of my head)?

Okay, so instead of just bitching about it, maybe I should ask questions instead.

Does anyone else feel that it should be fixed like I do (even if that is at some point in the future)?

Assuming you do, how long do you think they should wait before making the reprocessed value comparable to the build value?

If you don't, why not?

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as a side question, since I can't log in for a few more hours, is the max insurance payout close to the current mineral value or the old?

Should that change if it isn't (close to) the current mineral value?

I agree it should be adjusted (in time) to be comparable with other reprocessed items... for the sake of continuity if nothing else. It's best to bring it up once in a while so that it doesn't get forgotten about (as so many little things do). If you don't, things accumulate and end up being a whole big mess of things that make little sense after awhile.

Of course, EVE being EVE, this means that they probably can't give you a time frame else they would have people holding out to try and manipulate the market at that time.

Start buying the old ones that are selling below new cost, invent Mack's, sell Mack's. Once the old stockpiles of Retrievers has been burned through, prices should adjust back up to the new Retriever build price point.

Caveat: I just pulled all this out of my ass pre-coffee. I have not researched the invent cost of Mack's yet, nor have any idea of the amount of stockpiled Retrievers. I'm sure it a metric ****-ton.

PS: Or, start suicide ganking Ret's to speed up the process. Either way Ret makers are going to have to hope for the pre-change supply to dry up some before it becomes profitable to fire up the furnaces again.

The Devs have said many times that any time something is packaged and stacked, it becomes impossible to trace back to before that time.

Also, you'd have to split the market and a bunch of other annoyances.

Then i have one answer to them, code your database better.